Racine Schools cut sports anyway

Remember this past April, one week after voters decided to vote down a Racine school referendum, the administration started using children to go door to door and even used 3rd graders to take petitions home to force another spending referendum? They claimed that if the second referendum didn't pass, they would cancel all of the sports and the people of Racine were gullible enough to knuckle under and vote themselves a tax increase.

Now, just a few months later, we learn that even after getting the tax increase and a big increase in state funding, they are canceling 11 sports and activities anyway... Suckers!

This is the same school system that a few months ago spent over $1 million on an outside consultant to ask teachers what their dream classroom would look like.

The Journal Times Online
Freshman girls' volleyball, boys' and girls' junior varsity track and varsity reserve football will be among the sports sidelined in the Racine Unified School District this coming year.

Eleven sports teams - mostly at the junior varsity level - and middle school intramurals will be eliminated as the district makes more than $120,000 in budget cuts to the athletics and activities budget.

Hat tip goes to someone on the radio, I just heard a little piece of the story, it was probably Sykes, but I'm half asleep and don't remember

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