I had my students read and comment on an article about a $60M football stadium being built for a high school in Texas.
Allen High School has a student body of 5,000, with 600 of those students in the marching band. The new stadium will hold around 18,000--the school takes approximately 8,000 fans to every road game.
One of the questions I asked my students was whether they thought we could generate this kind of support for our school. Obviously, the answer was no. I wonder if we could even get 2500 people to our football games. I see a general lack of school spirit around here. I haven't heard of a study on how to generate school spirit, but we definitely are a long way from it.
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