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stopbush

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13. Here in CA, football programs only exist because the parents of the players

Reply to safeinOhio (Reply #8)

Mon Sep 10, 2018, 02:14 PM

Sep 2018

pony up thousands of dollars a year for their kid to be in the program. No public funds at all are used to support these programs. Same thing with the band and cheerleader programs.

I was on the board of the Music Boosters at ANHS for two years. We had to raise over $150,000 a year to support those programs. 90%+ of that money came from parents. That $ was raised to support the kids in the program, not to act as a police force of parents to supervise the people in the stands. That is up to the administration of the school.

Penalizing the kids in the football program because students not in the program are engaging in racist behavior would be just plain wrong.

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Orange County high school football game, students brought racial, Trump signs, chanted "USA" [View all] Demovictory9 Sep 2018 OP

Stupid Ass Brainwashed kids. Cha Sep 2018 #1

It's going to take a long time joshdawg Sep 2018 #6

Yes! That's another important point Cha Sep 2018 #10

Attention, college admissions officers: Remember Aliso Niguel High School, den of racist Trumpanzees dalton99a Sep 2018 #2

Hey hey Maaattcast Sep 2018 #3

Well, then I'm sure we'll hear from the good musl ... I mean people ... denouncing this racism ... mr_lebowski Sep 2018 #5

Thanks for sharing those enlightening perspectives. KY_EnviroGuy Sep 2018 #11

My kids both graduated from this school. Sad to hear things have stopbush Sep 2018 #4

Since it was a school event I would hope that the school administration would at the very least cstanleytech Sep 2018 #7

School should tell the students that safeinOhio Sep 2018 #8

That seems a tad unfair unless there were a number of players involved in organizing it beforehand. cstanleytech Sep 2018 #9

Might be, however safeinOhio Sep 2018 #12

Here in CA, football programs only exist because the parents of the players stopbush Sep 2018 #13

BTW - Olympic Gold Medalist Kyla Ross graduated from ANHS in 2015, stopbush Sep 2018 #14

"No racism" is a pretty big claim. WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2018 #15

ANHS is ranked #1024 in US high schools. It is listed as a stopbush Sep 2018 #16

If there's racism under the surface, there's racism. WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2018 #17