Sports come under fire in local schools

After this weeks outpour of emotion regarding rumors of Salem Keizer School District cutting sports from public schools I thought it would be interesting to see what was going on around the country under the same topic. This search on Edweek.org brought up about a half dozen articles about the subject. Interestingly enough the very first article is about Oregon Schools. It's mostly about closing schools and the impacts they have had throughout Oregon. It is a very sad day when these issues are raised, because I feel they could have been avoided. Long term thinking should have been the focus since schools where institutionalized all those years ago. Maybe during the eighties we should have set aside some of the revenue from the boom years so that we wouldn't be faced with these decisions. I have never been much of a financial planner so maybe I shouldn't say anything but even I know when you have to make the hard choices education should always be first priority.