Submitted by JohnnyVanderbilt t3_115jbvt in jerseycity
At least we know the school board is spending the tax increase wisely! 👍🏻
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Yr9012 t1_j94bngb wrote
As a taxpayer and a parent, this news is double insults. Even elementary schools are also included in this program
FYI: excessive screen time is associated with a number of health issues, including depression and obesity, and can also have a negative impact on a child's sleep. Screen time can also adversely affect brain development in young children.
RosaKlebb t1_j92h88u wrote
Damn talk about a hustle I'm surprised that much money was secured even factoring in across multiple levels of schools and all that.
Lotta great sounding stuff on paper and theoreticals whenever people want to make a case for this stuff in schools and go on about esports on a more serious level, but fact of the matter is generally a majority of esports orgs are insanely overvalued and often not even profitable. It's such a tiny fraction of people who go on to actually make anything out of it and generally they're not even the people playing the games.
Even some of the best people playing certain games can barely rake in conventionally good esports and sponsor money, fighting games in general are notorious for not being something that pays awful well even if you win some of the biggest tournaments. A lotta these guys get more from pushing out usual content creator flow or shill lifestyle brand wares.
Definitely worth a go reading this article for insight on this subject. This NYT article is also a good one as well.
No esports aren't going to up and die any time soon but people are getting straight up lied to if they're getting sold this grandiose sales pitch vision that if Little Timmy uses any free extracurricular time playing games during the school day that he'll go on to crush Korea's best at EVO and make mom and dad millionaires and develop all sorts of skills he wouldn't have acquired anywhere else in life.
DSM201 t1_j944j45 wrote
I never considered fighting games esports because of the poor payouts compared to other genres.
IamLars t1_j932o9z wrote
Aren't we already paying like $28k a year per student for jack shit results? Is this just some sort of victory lap to make sure the taxpayers know that they can just go fuck themselves?
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nuncio_populi t1_j93u8qu wrote
Are you fucking kidding me? They slap us with a giant tax increase, wring their hands that they have old, dilapidated schools, and then turn around and spend $1 million so kids can play video games.
End BOE independence now. It's time to get some technocrats in there to fix this mess.
Own_Pop_9711 t1_j92nxsp wrote
How much does jersey city spend on high school sports?
LootFroop t1_j92shxa wrote
A million bucks of tax dollars going to kids playing video games.
I mean, I play video games too, but that million should be spent on something else.
Cuprunnethover2022 t1_j932yzs wrote
What was that sound? OH! That was our taxes going up AGAIN!
READTHEBOOKJC t1_j94awrf wrote
Fucking VIDEO GAMES ????? My kids school doesn't have DRINKING WATER !!!!!! Pathetic
keepseeing444 t1_j95t9v8 wrote
Half the kids can’t read and two thirds can’t math at grade level but they want to spend $1M on esports. The BOE mafia are the most corrupt and inept assholes on earth.
robin_tern t1_j92k95n wrote
Meanwhile Pershing Ice Skating ring is closed for the season due to lack of funds for maintenance.
Robin.
JamesBuffalkill t1_j92ybom wrote
Board of Education doesn't run the skating rink.
mookybelltolls t1_j951m8s wrote
Robin that is not true. The old ice compressors cannot be fixed. The old system must be replaced entirely.
robin_tern t1_j963lrc wrote
Sounds a better use of a million dollars.
Robin.
mookybelltolls t1_j951o5m wrote
This is bad.
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milespudgehalter t1_j93g2zc wrote
NYC does this very well for a large city IMO. Most of the bad neighborhoods are within walking distance of a park and most of the parks are safe enough during the day. Individual projects have small playgrounds and basketball courts, and there's a decent number of athletic facilities spread across the city as well. A lack of actual good green / park space is my biggest complaint about Jersey City.
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fastAFguy t1_j9iotbg wrote
Just wait till next year JCBOE budget. Why these fucks can’t get voted out, I don’t know.
Scoochiez t1_j9p1iii wrote
It blew my mind that JC elected three new BOE members that support increases...who's voting for tax increases?!?!
oldnewspaperguy2 t1_j92fo4z wrote
As a taxpayer, this is a fucking insult.