A few weeks back, I wrote about how the Gering football team had won the last game of their regular season and had qualified for the play-offs. Gering won their first play-off game and so yesterday played another play-off game. This, of course, meant another half-day of school was lost, which is more time that students are not in a classroom.

What I found particularly offensive about these play-off games, is that the administration gave us the choice of staying at school and working or going to the game for which we would have to pay an entrance fee. You may ask what is the problem, well I feel that teachers and staff should be able to go to the game for free. In this case, those teachers that had passes to regular season games could not use them for play-off games.

I certainly was not going to pay to watch a game, so I opted to stay at school. It was not that big of a deal since, even if the game had been available to me for free, I think I would have chosen to stay at school. The point here is that these games and events should be open to school district teachers and staff for free. The reason for this is that the administration always harps on about how important it is for tacters to show there support to students. I might be a bit more inclined to support the Gering sporting event if the events were open to staff members for free.

Of course, the Activities Department has a program whereby a teacher can sign up to participate in at least two school sponsored events and, in return, get an activities pass to most school events. The issue here is that most sporting events I have no interest in and actually find boring. I think the problem is that the big sports are “football” and basketball, which I don’t understand and don’t care to understand. So why would I want to go to events I have no interest in?