“School selection” will ultimately reduce our gold standard

Full disclosure: From our own free will the beautiful woman and I sent all four relatives to the Dallas ISD Schools, the last stop in Hillcrest. The boys played football, baseball and golf; The girls danced at halftime and sang in musicals. They not only came out intact, they loved it, and learned enough in the bargain to qualify for colleges where they played and danced and got off in four years.

In view of our certificate in the public school, you can probably guess which page we take with regard to educational savings accounts, you can use a voucher style program.

Basically, everything that draws from the underfinanced public schools in Texas is a no-go.

Especially when it gets confused with the state religion.

The disturbing edition appeared after a guiding article this week Dave Campbell's Texan football. Greg Tepper, Managing Director, warned that a legislation already by the Texas Senate and another version that the house “could really damage the Texas high school football”. After the reaction in Austin, one would have thought that he had suggested painting the Capitol a lighter pink color.

Only hours after the Bible of Texas football had gone online with his view, governor Greg Abbott rose to X to proclaim the pending legislation, “the” Financing of the Texas High School Football will not be removed. Period.”

No, nobody has back to Duncanvilles Field House and does with their goal post. Not yet. So these things don't work. The governor knows so much.

In a tweet in the week before his latest attitude, Abbott admitted that “the financing for this child is also when the parents transferred their children from the public to private schools.

Less money does not mean anything else.

Quite simple, really.

Long before the prospects for educational savings accounts became almost safe, the coaches of the Texas public high school were already worried about their own. Fiscal problems that arise from schools that try to keep up with inflation have led to positions eliminated and the budgets were locked up. Joe Martin, Managing Director of Texas High School Coaches Association, hears all kinds of horror stories of his 28,000 members.

And now comes esas.

“However you cut it into slices,” said Martin this week.

“Ultimately, this affects athletics, football and everyone else we have.”

House Bill 2 would try to mitigate part of the loss for public schools, which are currently financed with a fundamental allocation of $ 6,160 per student, which is nationwide in the lower 10. HB 2 would come across 6,380 US dollars. If it doesn't sound much, it is not. HB 2 would also offer money especially for visual arts, rural schools and the front yard and a further 1.8 billion US dollars that would go to special education.

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But will profits cover the loss of financing by students who change from public to privately in the coming years? The legislative budget board, in which the financial effects are analyzed, estimates that more than 24,000 public school students go privately in 2027. By 2030, the number could increase to almost 100,000 by 2030.

Multiply 100,000 times 6,380 US dollars and you get a lot of money that has to come from somewhere. An advertising material with a football budget is just as good as everyone else.

The governor fights against perception. In his most recent X -Post, he found that Texas is one of the few states in the footprint of the Southeasters Conference without a “school selection”, as the supporters call Esas. As if parents had no choice yet. Abbott also notes that the system in Arizona or Florida does not seem to have injured the high school football, a somewhat dubious comparison.

I am not sure whether we want to stop the high school football model of another state, and I am sure that we do not want to risk what was built, which is as good as the gold standard.

In contrast to Say Florida, the best programs in public schools are here in Texas. Private schools have their place, as Tepper wrote, but in stadiums that sparkled on the horizon or illuminated the neighborhoods, was laboriously built in the stadiums that sparkled in the stadiums. Half of the appointment is the idea that it is organic. Squads reflect communities that are not always obvious to us in our daily walk.

Only a few things pull us – rich or poor, left or right – like the view of a good high school football game.

Consider the eight state championship games at Jerryworld, which showed a total of 143,630 fans. Florida's nine title games? Lean 29,738. North Crowley-Westlake pulled more.

Before I close, I don't want to let her think that I have something against private schools. Some of our best friends sent their children to them. But they are not a panacea, just as the public schools are not as bad as they may hear. Our experience is that you come out of training what you put in you. We could have dreamed more than anyone else.

One last note: our eldest son, the former quarterback, and his beautiful wife, a former cheerleader, live with our grandchildren a few blocks of houses, from which they went to the high school. You can't miss it. The house with the Hillcrest sign in the courtyard.

Twitter/x: @SherringTondmn

Further high school sports reporting in the Dallas Morning News can be found here.

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