Old Curmudgeon (re: Lee: Kellogg shouldn't slash sports): Reality is that no one in the district wants to cut sports or any of the other dozen plus items that are on the list of things that are going to be dropped. But, the patrons of the district in their wisdom have decided that they don’t want to dig into their pocket books. I don’t agree with that decision, but we have a democracy, district patrons voted not to support all of the programs that they had last year and IMHO “stuff” happens once in a while. As a result of that decision, something had to be cut and the school board decided (with input from a lot of district patrons) that the pain should be shared. Cuts were made to academics, administration AND sports. That $50,000 cut to the sports that you mentioned just happens to be about the price of one more teacher or the cost of new text books for this year’s rotation which also were cut. Am I to assume that you would cut another teacher or other academic “frill” like books to keep those sports you mentioned?

Question: Which would you rather have for $50,000 (the amount Kellogg School District is cutting from high school sports): 1. A teacher? 2. New text books? or 3. wrestling, baseball, softball, girls soccer, cross country, and cheerleading?