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NYgymfan
So I found out today that my school district may cut all funding for my school's gymnastics team next year because of budget problems. They might cut the boy's volleyball team as well.
We asked the school board why they are thinking of doing this, and they said they really have no choice because there isn't enough money to go around, and that these are the "least popular" sports. I spoke for about 5 minutes about how hard-working our girls gymnastics team is and how it is totally not fair to completely pull the money from one team and let all the others go on as usual, when there should be some cuts from all the teams. I get the idea that they just don't get it. They think gym is a sport that we watch during the Olympics and doesn't exist the other 206 weeks until the next Olympics. Its really sad. I know a lot of girls on the team used to do club or rec gym and are good athletes, but just don't have the time to do club gym with all the other things they want to do, including participating in other sports. If they cut the school team there will be no place for these girls to do gym so they will probably just drop the sport for good. So sad...
We asked the school board why they are thinking of doing this, and they said they really have no choice because there isn't enough money to go around, and that these are the "least popular" sports. I spoke for about 5 minutes about how hard-working our girls gymnastics team is and how it is totally not fair to completely pull the money from one team and let all the others go on as usual, when there should be some cuts from all the teams. I get the idea that they just don't get it. They think gym is a sport that we watch during the Olympics and doesn't exist the other 206 weeks until the next Olympics. Its really sad. I know a lot of girls on the team used to do club or rec gym and are good athletes, but just don't have the time to do club gym with all the other things they want to do, including participating in other sports. If they cut the school team there will be no place for these girls to do gym so they will probably just drop the sport for good. So sad...