Bummed Boosters: ‘No Rah-Rah’
May 01, 2020
Appears in May 2020: School Administrator.
Ethical Educator
Scenario:
The high school’s student newspaper staff wants to begin livestreaming home varsity football and basketball games via Facebook so people can watch from any location at no charge.
Several school board members, long active in the athletic boosters, object, contend the remote viewing will depress needed revenue from admission and food/beverage sales at home games.
The athletic director takes no stance, leaving the decision to the superintendent and the board.
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- Shelley Berman, superintendent, Andover, Mass.;
- Meira Levinson, professor of education, Harvard University, and author of Dilemmas of Educational Ethics: Cases and Commentaries;
- Maggie Lopez, retired superintendent in Colorado Springs, Colo.; and
- Glenn "Max" McGee, a former superintendent and regional president of ECRA Group in Schaumburg, Ill.
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