Speak Out: Should a School Scoreboard Cost $80,000?
Winston Churchill High School will install an $80,000 scoreboard this summer, according to a Gazette report.
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When students hit the football field for Winston Churchill High School’s first 2012 home game this fall, they may find themselves dazzled by a multi-thousand dollar addition to their sporting experience.
The school is installing a new scoreboard this summer, funded by the school booster club, at the cost of $80,000, according to a Gazette report. The board, which replaces the school’s current 13-year-old scorekeeping device, boasts an LED screen that will showcase advertising and videos to the crowd, in addition to regular team scores and stats.
According to the Gazette report, the school sees the purchase as an investment that will pay for itself: The board will be used for a field that hosts football, soccer, field hockey and lacrosse teams. Though advertising prices for the new school board have not yet been determined, business currently pay $1,000 for a banner that moves between sporting locals.
“We would not have considered buying the scoreboard had it not had the digital advertising component,” Jim Edwards, booster club president, told the Gazette.
Greg Cohen
1:32 pm on Wednesday, June 20, 2012
If I can see sweet, high-def instant replays of myself scoring monster goals against Churchill then yes. But I can't, so no.
Rena Reese
11:44 am on Friday, June 29, 2012
It has become increasingly cliche and quite tiresome to see CHS under a microscope and readily criticized for things that are the basic ins-and-outs of a school community doing good for it's students. Students, teachers and parents are just the same as those kids attending other stellar area schools such as BCC and Whitman, yet some folks love to stir the pot most when it comes to CHS. How about featuring all the thousands of manpower hours it took to raise those funds by booster families and the tireless dedication of booster board members who made this possible? How about choosing to report with a positive slant on this exciting addition to the Churchill athletics program? It would have been more refreshing than posing a question that was divisive at best.