Sport and Education- Cuts in funding, Lack in participation

                                                                No Pay.. No Play
                                                                    By: R.J Swartz

    In the article a group of over 300 athletic directors met for the annual convention and the topic of athletic budgets cuts was amungst the most popular topics of the convention. The article outlines our discussion on the cost of high school sports from February 20th. This discussion including topics such as $2 billion dollars in funding cut from high schools across the country. As well as high school sports no longer being a given to be played at every high school. This also connect how the "pay to play" strategy affects not only the lack of funding a school has but it also eliminates some families from enabling their kid to play a sport due to their own financial situation. The Indiana athletic directors are worries as well that student oppurtunities will become limited due to the need to require a student too pay to play a varsity sports. They are also concerned that competition levels could decline because they need to cut feeder programs such as junior high or junior varsity sports.

 Along with connecting our conversation from February 13th, about the decline in participation of kids by the age of 13. The text explains how the need to for pay to play money isnt affordable for many families. This can also been attributed to the loss of those junior high and junior varsity teams. Many students will gain interest in other things. The texts also points out that for most high school the athletic budget is very minimal to the schools budget but teachers and staff often turn to reduce funding in athletic funding when threats to their job arise.
    The idea of budget cuts across the country for high school sports is very scary thing for poeple in this major. With the cuts in funding the oppurtunites for student decrease thus less kids will be able to participate, and obviously leans on participation of individuals in sport to survive. The problem many people fail to realize is that save a sport you must work from the ground up to keep the youth involved.