Another gem from the freshman football mailing list . . .
Of the four high schools here in Irvine, only one — Irvine High — has a stadium on campus. There’s a movement afoot, led by local attorney and parent Emmett Raitt, to build a second stadium.
Here’s an excerpt from Emmett’s email suggesting that parents write to the school board about this matter:
The reasons a second stadium are needed include the elimination of Thursday night games, which lowers student attendance at games; it will ease the overcrowding of the Irvine Stadium facility (and particularly the snack bar, a personal favorite of mine); and it will allow all schools to use District facilities for their graduations, which they do not now do.
Hmmm . . . I can’t see how increasing student attendance is going to ease overcrowding, nor do I think the fact that some local fatso thinks there are too many people ahead of him in the snack bar line justifies spending $10 million on a new stadium.
Now here’s the follow-up email that came out from Rick Curtis, the varsity football coach at my son’s school, Northwood High:
I just read where the Huntington Beach district is putting in 2 new stadiums at Huntington Beach HS (8.5 million) and at Westminster (7.5 million). All Capo Valley Unified high schools have stadiums and each have field turf and all weather tracks at their schools.
All Saddleback Valley high schools have stadiums, except El Toro High School. Each high school also has field turf and all weather tracks at their schools (including El Toro High School).
We need to get to the school board meetings and we need to get organized. . . . These are the people that we are competing against and we are way behind in providing state of the art facilities for our student athletes.
All the districts that he mentions in the email are good academically, but they’re not in the same class as the Irvine district, which is the crème de la crème.
So here’s a no-cost solution:
- If you want your kid to get a top-notch education, live in Irvine.
- If you want a quick hot dog while your kid runs around on field turf, move to Saddleback Valley.
- If you want a quick hot dog in a brand new stadium, move to Huntington Beach.
- If you want a quick hot dog and corrupt administrators (allegedly), move to Capo Valley.
Problem solved!