More Bad Sports

Via Blue Jersey, the culling of extra-curriculars begins:

Many South Jersey schools have cut back on freshman and junior varsity programs for the 2010-11 school year, eliminating teams and cutting assistant coaching positions.

In the Haddon Township school district, for example, 27 of 54 high school and middle school coaching positions have been eliminated, according to athletic director Alan Carr. In addition, all middle school and freshman athletic programs have been cut, while golf was slashed as a varsity sport.

Atrios was the first blogger I read to point out that newspaper on-line comments are just about the worst places on the internet. Read the comments on this article to get a taste of how petty, mean, and cruel the anti-school crowd is becoming.