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TexasTowelie

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8. I wish that I knew the answers to your questions,
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 01:48 AM
Oct 2016

but I wanted to explain the situation that is happening in that school district in light of other realities that are occurring there. The school district is on the verge of falling under managing control of the state agency where they would lose all local control. It isn't much different as to what occurred in the Detroit Public Schools. While it is an injustice as to what is occurring regarding the football team, the primary mission of any school district is to provide education to the students and extracurricular activities such as football are a distraction from that mission. Therefore, by canceling the football program for the year the school board also eliminates (or at least postpones) having to deal with the social justice issues.

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