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Why are tax payers subsidizing elite sports? How many billions of dollars have gone into building stadiums for sports teams? As an educator of elementary education, I believe that elite sports actually work against the goal of lifelong fitness for our children. When our children fail to make the elite sport teams: classic soccer, basketball, baseball etc as young teens their participation in exercise decreases. There is no wonder that we are becoming a more obese nation. Elite sports is entertainment. Should we subsidize Brittney Spears? We should finance physical fitness not elite sports. I do not feel public education should support elite sport teams at all. What is the education purpose?

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