First they solicit sponsors for football stadiums. Don't forget selling logos on the football jerseys.
Next, sponsors willing to guarantee two teachers per classroom in high-poverty schools get to rename the schools.
Of course, the whiteboards, or their ilk, are next on the sponsorship list.
"Corporate sponsors could pay to name high school stadiums in Charleston County. Under a policy being vetted by the Charleston County School Board, school athletic facilities could one day be named after corporate sponsors."
"The proposal received a 5-4 vote on first reading at a Charleston County School Board meeting Monday. Board members Kevin Hollinshead, Kate Darby, the Rev. Eric Mack, Priscilla Jeffery and Todd Garrett favored it."
When you get a chance, vote those people out!
The total expenditures of the Charleston County School District are now approaching $1 billion per year. Look around you: what are you getting for that money? Now the district is looking for "new revenue streams" to increase spending.
"If the policy gets final approval next month, district staff would be able to solicit bids for naming rights. The school board then would vote to approve any such arrangement, including details on how the new revenue would be spent."
Maybe we should just give every student in the district $20,000 per year and see what happens then.
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I have no problem with this as long as the revenues go directly to the schools. However, schools like North Charleston High School, destined to share a common-site stadium, deserve the same opportunity (along with its sharing schools) as the schools with stadiums on-campus. High school athletics is hard...very hard...to sustain, especially with all of the non-revenue Varsity and Junior Varsity sports that students...and parents demand be offered. Just price a lacrosse program, for example, and ask an Athletic Director how much revenue that sport is producing in net revenues.
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