Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

it's been asked

it's been brought up twice earlier in this thread.

why would anyone care if PHSN football team got new uniforms? what difference does it make?

Here you go...

1 - North football has only been in existance for what? 4 years? And they already need new uniforms?

2 - Tiger football has more and more boys coming out for the team. Right now there are not enough uniforms to accomodate the players.



By Poppa Tiger

5th year

this is North's 5th year. I'm not sure how long uniforms last anymore? When I was in school, the varsity got new ones every 2or so years and the ''old'' ones were passed to the jv team, and their ''older'' ones were passed to the freshman. Something tells me that doesn't happen any more.

When did central last get new uni's?

As far as not having enough uniforms to go around, SHAME ON THE FOOTBALL COACHES for not making cuts and turning some of those boys loose. Let's be realistic, they probably won't get to play much, if any at all. Why not turn them loose to the cross country, golf and soccer teams?

What's the motivation to keep a huge amount of boys out for the team that have no hope of contribuing other than being practice dummys. Could it be the $190 per head?

Now it's the Coach

First of all if this school board is going to track the low income and learning disabled kids through Central who?’s only chance at life is more than likely physical labor then at least give them the facilities to excel in something. So what if they have more kids than uniforms. The fact is that the North boosters have new parking lots to charge for parking, they have a stadium that is nearly enclosed by the bleachers and they have that huge concession stand to raise money for things like football uniforms.

We should all be reminded that ALL of these assets were and are being paid for by ALL of the tax payers. When the board wanted to build North the sales pitch was how important all of these sport facilities were. They couldn?’t live without them. Now once they got their's, the hell with the rest of the kids. Like them eat cake is being heard over and over the last five years.

When they spent over a million on the Tiger stadium it was like they made the facilities equal and then it was all about education. We can?’t spend the money on the Tiger Stadium because we need to spend it on education. Now the school district is rated as a ?“C?”. Great job guys.

So now it is the coaches fault and the Central Principal?’s fault. I know if you get the football coach to quit then the two schools will be at parity and all will be equal. You already have replaced a respected principal.