The red football field everyone saw on yahoo news........

[Babalonian]

Bab

I'm all for adequate funding for all high school sports and extracurricular activities.  What makes me raise an eyebrow is when they're funding multi million dollar facilities and yet teachers salaries, classroom equipment, and so on isn't properly funded by the same schools.  Of course every 'fix' is a slippery slope and can quickly degenerate into a political discussion which I avoid like the plague. 

Again, I make a decent living designing light poles for these facilities, me making a stink is being a tad hypocritical don't you think?

I agree but I get where you're comming from.  I can and wouldn't mind raising a stink over the condition of LAUSD academics or teachers benefits if they got a huge athletic grant until my face turned blue (and their athletics does need it too).  I'm in the landscape design buisness and we're one of the older companies and have done lots of work for LAUSD before and for sure it would give us some of the work, IE: right now we're doing new/renovating sports fields for two LACCs and on "the in" to be fast-tracked as the landscape designers for a new Metro bus station and a natural-turf football field at one of the above LACCs.

[Ardy123]

One of my neighbors is a teacher there, with them for five years and she makes 46,000 a year. The football coach is new this year, and he makes 100k a year.

And when you all graduate from High School, you will have joined the nfl right?

and we wonder why our education is fluffied up.... look at our priorities.

[Babalonian]

Was google-earthing the new HTC office location to take a gander at where they moved to and noticed a high-school just a mile away to the West.  The fields are so well maintained you can clearly read the numbers, lettering and yard lines on the field at a scale that you can also see downtown Ft. Worth and HTC's new office in the same view.  You know how to spot one in the metropolitan LA area at a public school and at that same scale of distance?  Look for bleachers linning the edges of a giant brown spot or, if it's windy, where the large plumes of dust originate from amongst the seas of concrete and asphault.

[Dichotomy]

Bab,

Good to see we're on the same page    That'd be Keller High School football stadium.  That's not even one of the biggies around here and thus some of my frustration.

In other news HTC's new office is only 9.5 miles from mine    *makes note to see if some of the folks there are interested in lunch some Friday. 

[whiteman]

You know how to spot one in the metropolitan LA area at a public school and at that same scale of distance?  Look for bleachers linning the edges of a giant brown spot or, if it's windy, where the large plumes of dust originate from amongst the seas of concrete and asphault.

I couldn't believe in how bad of shape the fields were in when i was out their last September. You were Cali football mentioned with texas so i was expecting big nice fields. it was the complete opposite.

[icepac]

I've heard that the red field was necessary to shield the spectators from suffering the trauma of having witnessed the effects of the horrible whuppins' that team hands out.

[Tupac]

I've heard that the red field was necessary to shield the spectators from suffering the trauma of having witnessed the effects of the horrible whuppins' that team hands out.

Are we talking about Canyon? They only won 3 games last year. They suck.

[icepac]

Then it must be thier blood that is being hidden from the fans.

[M0nkey_Man]

And when you all graduate from High School, you will have joined the nfl right?

and we wonder why our education is fluffied up.... look at our priorities.

i had a choice between baseball or jrotc, chose the jrotc