I quoted the wrong post. I'm full of FAIL today.

LMAO OK, I get you.

I don't think it's the race card you're playing. I agree with you. Those players should be getting paid. Straight out. There will be those that tell you a "They get a schollie and the perks..." which is only so much horseshit. What good does a Communications/General Studies degree do a player who isn't NBA talent? None.
It's why the NBA shouldn't hold 18 year olds to an age requirement. The best players don't want to be there and if they weren't playing x-sport, they wouldn't be anywhere near a university.

I submit to you that some of the reason for success in a suburban environment is the realistic approach taken to education. The risk/reward ratio of spending time studying, spending money funding good education and programs is recognized and appreciated more.
Like I said before if you could take all that time on the basketball court and transfer it to studying, reading, playing chess, learning other languages, success and scholarships would not only be more easy to come by but also maintain. A student athlete must balance time and effort between academics and athletics to keep their scholarship. The student on academic scholarship must only maintain their grades, which is the primary reason they are there in the first place.

One of America's worst (if not THE worst) school district. Mis-managed, corrupt, nepotism, wasteful, political soapboxing, just awful. And they've burned through more money than Anna Nicole Smith.

My role models have always been men of substance not people in entertainment. So, when the crowd goes one way, I try to go another.

17k kids dropped out??

I just finished the book Backboards and Blackboards, I suggest everyone read it. An interesting note to add for any MU alum or fans, the coach of the college program studied in the book, Toledo, was the coach and is the mentor of MU's current basketball coach.

Anyway, the book basically spells out how these college basketball recruits are ****ed over by the schools their entire life. They play 3 roles, student, social, and athlete, with the latter being the one that they MUST perform best at or else they lose the student role (and basically the social role as well since they won't be BMOC anymore).

They have little to no choice in their courses and what they will actually major in. They were passed through middle and high schools without ever really being taught so that they could spend more time playing basketball and making people money than studying or learning to read beyond a 4th grade level.

A lot of these kids have little choice in the matter since private schools will pay their tuition to go to their 'great' school and waive any fees necessary, as well as help the parents make ends meet sometimes (also true for some public schools as well).

In the end these kids are nothing more than a product for schools to make money off of. They ultimately don't end up making it to the NBA as promised, and are left holding (if lucky) worthless degrees while being unable to read at a satisfactory level.

No lie, in 1990 at southwest highschool we started with a class of over 800, we graduated in 1994 a class of 117.

http://www.dotherightthingforkids.org/our-kcmsd/

Highest Dropout Rate in the Area (It Costs Taxpayers Millions)

Kansas City, Missouri School District (KCMSD) has the high*est dropout rate among area school dis*tricts. Only 53.3% of stu*dents enrolled in the KCMSD as fresh*men grad*u*ated as seniors, accord*ing to an April 2009 study funded by America’s Promise Alliance and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

the state senators do not support O_B_A_M_A_?

where's your pork?



ya could've had all that and more




however, in the long run, socialism ain't worth it!

let the ripping begin.... LMAO

I'll D/L that up on the B&N nook. Another very good compilation about the corruption that is the NCAA is documented in Michener's book Sports In America.

The funny thing about this is I pointed out how the Sprint Center and P&NL is a total waste of money while the school system crumbles and ****tards on here totally look over it. Great Job Kansas City!

The KC school district has been failing for decades. They couldn't ever get a bond issue passed and then when the Springfield judge tried to integrate the schools by setting up magnets just pushed it downhill even further. Ya got a school board micromanaging everything and kids being bussed every which direction as there were no more neighborhood schools. The district was paying the local cab company to pick up students to go to and from school.

The billions of dollars spent to build new schools and renovate others was a total fiasco. In one school, the replacement windows were actually aluminum storm windows and they didn't fit. Buildings that were falling apart, bricks falling off, and steps sinking, etc.

The maintenance department was so inept, they left roofs leaking which caused mold to build up in class rooms. I ran across exposed live wires in hallways, missing handrails, numerous fire hazards, and fire doors that couldn't close.

One thing that needs to happen, and is beyond the districts control, is parental involvement. Until that happens, the district test scores don't stand a chance of improving. They also need to get back to teaching the basics.

One reason why we never considered ever moving back to KC proper was the lack of decent schools. I went through the KC school system through my freshman year at the old Paseo High ('60 - '61). When we moved to Shawnee and attended Shawnee Mission North, I was about a year behind everyone else.

So they were supposed to spend more money on the schools?