Re: Football shouldn't be top priority for vocational school, Sept. 3 letter to the editor:
Why punish student athletes?
I ask this question of the people who say that a football field at a technical high school is a wasted expense.
As a former student athlete in the Hernando County school system, I remember having to study harder and spend more time focusing on school work during football season. I remember my grades actually going up during football season so I could keep my eligibility.
Although, during the season, most time is spent thinking about football, most people don't recognize the time spent studying for tests and the late nights completing homework.
Student athletes at Nature Coast Technical High School deserve to have their own home football field. They deserve to have a stadium to call home and a field to have a homecoming event. High school graduates remember their homecoming week as one of the most fun weeks during school. I believe Nature Coast students deserve the chance to have a similar experience.
I do agree that too much money was spent to build the school. Yet, I don't remember the students being on the School Board that approved its $40-million budget. I also don't believe in punishing the students for what the School Board does.
I just ask that the community understands that these students asking for a football field are just that - students.
-- Michael Roth, Spring Hill
With Scaglione presiding, justice will be served
Editor: Congratulations to Don Scaglione for unseating County Judge Peyton Hyslop. It's about time Hernando County woke up to all the things Hyslop was doing on the bench and said "Enough is enough."
Now we will have a judge who believes in obeying the law and seeing that his judgments are carried out.
Now the sheriff and police will know that when they pick up a criminal, especially drunken drivers, justice will be served. It's about time that drunken drivers will have to pay the penalty for their DUIs.
Again, congratulations to Scaglione, and God bless him in his endeavors.
-- Norma Rosser, Spring Hill
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