What+Are+The+Funding+Differences+Between+Public+vs.+Private+High+School+Sports?

 1. Brady, Erik (2004). To Play Sports, Many US Students Must Pay. USA Today. Retrieved December 4, 2009 from [] This article is about how more schools are starting to have students pay to be able to play sports. More and more schools are having students pay a fee for them to be on the sports team. This article states that schools in 34 states are requiring students to pay a fee to play sports. In Kansas, the number of schools that required students to pay grew from 29 to 55 schools in three years. That’s about 18% of the schools in Kansas. Also the fees to pay the sports aren’t cheap either. This article says that the normal fee is between $75 to $100. If students are in the free or reduced lunch programs, the fee is either dropped but mostly reduced. Sports are something high school students love to do. It gets their minds off school and problems they may be having with home or other problems. But some students may not be able to afford to pay the fee making them unable to pay. Also the number of schools who are enforcing the Pay to Play program are increasing, showing me that more schools are trying to keep the programs for the kids but also use the budget they have on supplies and for the student body.  2. Fahey, Richard (2007). User Fee Increase as School Budget Tightens. Boston Globe. Retrieved December 4, 2009 from [] This article talks about how the fee to play a sport is increasing while the schools budget decreased. Some schools have increased the fee 50% from $50 to $75, making it harder for the students to pay. Since 2005, the number of schools who require students to pay has increased and now all 27 schools in the Northwest region of Boston have some sort of fee. The article also talks about how nearly two thirds of public high schools northwest of Boston enforce students to pay a fee to play a sport but none of the private schools have fees. The private schools do not have fees and they still get the same or better equipment as the public schools do. This article shows that the number of schools having some sort of fee is rising. Not only is the number of schools increasing, the fee is as well. While the budget getting smaller and with the United States still in a recession, schools have to use their budget first on more important things such as books and other recourses for the students. By having a fee, schools do not need to cut sports and can use the budget on the supplies they need for the students.  3. Guire, Brady (2009). The Price to Play: At What Price? While quelled in Shoshone, pay-to-play discussion carries many concerns. Retrieved December 4 from []. This article talks about how parents of students feel about if they had to pay a fee to play a sport. In this article, one family has two children but each plays multiple sports and if the school decides to enforce Pay-to-Play, the father says that he would have to have each child cut a sport. If the father allowed his children to play all the sports and had to pay a fee of $50 a sport, he would be paying $300 for his children to play sports for one year and that does not included the amount for shoes and other equipment the athlete needs to provide himself. This article showed me a different side of the argument. Many students in high school play more than one sport and by playing more than one sport, they would have to pay more money. Also schools require the students provide themselves with their own shoes and other equipment making the fee to pay very large. Not all families can afford to pay all that money for their child one or even multiple sports.  4. Cacabelos, Kevin (2009). High School Sports: Public vs. Private. Retrieved December 4 from [] This article talks about the differences in high school sports between private and public high schools. In this article it talks about how private schools have better equipment because they have more of a budget than public schools because private schools have a high tuition. The private schools use money on referees, courts, field and ice time and then splits up the money throughout the teams evenly. While in public high schools now a days, many sports programs have to raise money on their own if they need new equipment because they have a smaller budget. The article talks about how some public school sports teams have candy sales, car washes and fund raisers to raise money for equipment and shirts and other clothing. This article shows how it is different between public and private high school funding. Public high schools have to raise money on their own if they want new equipment or clothing apparel. While private schools already have enough funding for apparel and can afford to get new equipment.  5. Staples, Andy (2009). High School Sports Struggle as States Slash Budgets. Sports Illustrated. Retrieved December 6 from [] This article talks about how high schools sports are taking the hit because of lower school budgets. When schools need to save money, sports and extracurricular activities are the ones things being cut and who are receiving fewer budgets. The article says that there are ways to help get funding to the sports but it is not always easy in our economy today. Since the economy is bad, people are spending less making it harder to raise money for school activities. The article also talks about how the cutting of activities is more in public high schools than in private because private get funding from the tuition. Some activities that were common in public high schools today are not as common as in private high schools. This article is talking about how funding is different between private and public high schools but also that private high schools don’t have to worry about cutting activities. Private high schools can afford to keep all their sports and other extracurricular activities because they do have the funding to keep them running. The article also talks about how schools try and have fund raisers but that does not always necessarily work because of our economy is suffering, forcing schools to cut activities.