High School Forced to Cut Wiccan Club, Among Others

It’s always fun when schools have to make budget cuts, because you get to see what they deem to be “important” and what they deem to be “really fucking useless.” See, this is great in getting the asshole temperature of a school district or high school in general. Of COURSE, they aren’t going to touch football or any sort of club that includes international students, but if you happen to be a part of a club that doesn’t exactly jive with the politics of the school board, you’re fucked.

Oh, and if you’re parents don’t have any money and you’re a member of one of these clubs that PROBABLY is more beneficial than the “Young Greeks” club, you’re fucked too.

Freedom High School Principal Mike LaPorta knows the classroom alone often is not enough to make teenagers feel like part of a community. After-school clubs also help them find their niche.

So last month, it crushed LaPorta when he had to eliminate 28 of 51 non-curricular clubs at his Bethlehem Township school because he had a limited amount of money to cover teacher stipends as club advisers.

Gone were the Bible, Gay-Straight Alliance, German, French, Young Republicans, Young Democrats clubs and others. A total of 600 students lost memberships to clubs, which carried stipends of about $354 each.

”It was difficult,” he said. ”I’m looking at picking and choosing what kids’ club deserves priority over another kids’ clubs.”

It’s the same story at Liberty, Bethlehem Area School District’s other high school. Liberty Principal JoAnn Durante also slashed the number of clubs by more than half to eliminate about $11,696 in stipend costs.

Some of Liberty’s eliminated clubs: Audio Visual Aides, Mini Globe Trotters, Mock Trial, Video Game and Wiccan. Source

WOWSERS. The Bible Club is gone the same day as the GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE CLUB??!??! Fuck the Germans! Fuck the French! Fuck the Video Games! Fuck the Democrats! Fuck the Republicans! Fuck the Mock Trialists and the min-globe trotters (wtf is that?)

GO FOOTBALL!!!!!

Oh, I love people and their fun little community projects.