Superintendent Kimball answered:
A renewed levy will still not cover the full cost of sports participation fees. The total cost of one sport/kid/year is $600. Parents will still pay $275/year/sport and the levy will subsidize the remaining $325. Recent State budget cuts necessitate the use of levy fees for basic education rather than sports fees, and the like.reported by Bob Yoder
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It would be helpful if the school district provided a spreadsheet to explain where they got their $600 per student-sport cost expense. Sports requiring special facilities and equipment such as football and swimming have to be more expensive than cross-country or baseball. Bus travel, facilities, coaching staff, length of season and the number of athletes all have to be considered to determine the actual cost of each student in a sport. Also, consider that football does have boosters and charges admission to its games. The district must have a financial break-down of the cost (and revenue) of each sport. It will be interesting to see how much each student really costs.
Good points. The LWSD Administration reads these comments; maybe they can drill down and answer you. Considering how many sports they "subsidize" you'd think they could readily give us a breakdown.
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