Cost of HS football

One could ask the same thing about any costs associated with the band, the cheerleaders, the pep squad, the basketball team, the baseball team, other activities where only a few students are involved.

Of course, the issue goes away if education is separate from government, since education is not one of the three natural functions of government.

 

There is no person - they are natural functions - just like humans have natural functions - breathing, sleeping, etc.

"The state therefore has two natural functions, functions essential to the existence of any peaceful, ordered society: to protect the rights of citizens against violent or fraudulent assault, and to judge in conflicts of right with right. It has a further third function, which is another aspect of the first, that is, to protect its citizens from assault by foreign powers. These three functions are expressed by three powers: the police power, which protects the citizen against domestic violence; the military power, which protects the citizen against violence from abroad; and the courts of law, which judge between rights and rights, as well as sharing with the police power the protection of the citizen against domestic violence.
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But since this institution must possess a monopoly of legal physical force, to give to it in addition any further power is fraught with danger; that monopoly gives to the state so much power that its natural functions should be its maximum functions."

- Frank S. Meyer, In Defense of Freedom: A Conservative Credo, published in 1962

 

That's not the whole story with football. A stadium is used for football, track and field and marching band. The coach does get extra but is usually a teacher too. You have ticket sales for every event. You rent out the stadium for other events. You have a booster club and the students go out and make money for the expenses. They hand out programs at each game and all the small businesses in the area buy advertising on the program. They have an electric sign now that runs commercials to defray costs. It's still a net drain I admit. That's why a lot of rural areas don't have football teams but it isn't all that bad overall. And some years it's more fun than watching overpaid, spoiled pros from all over the country masquerading as "your" team.

 

Some of my earliest, brief little snippets of memory are being at Sinton, Texas, High School football games.

 

Texas. Well, that's a whole different level. And I forgot. Some kids go on to get a scholarship or even play pro. But some don't.

 

Cheerleading

3 uniforms - $800 minimum

gymnastics classes $80-$100/hr yeppers and it’s 2-3 hours per week or more

2-3 pairs of shoes over $300 prob about $500

warm up uniform/sweats $200

Pedi/mani $100 each event

hair job. Over $100 each event