The Ground Beneath Their Feet
Big Cuter's high school lacrosse team got no respect. The administration, the athletic department, the other students, no one seemed to care. Parents hired coaches and tried to cobble together practice schedules on fields that were never available. One year, they used a paved parking lot and the grassy overflow area behind it.... and they had to travel to another town's Rec Center to do so. Then, a private/public partnership was proposed. The Community College would allow the high school to renovate the college's playing field. In return, the high school could hold lacrosse practices and games on the College's campus. We had the money, they had the flat land, the field was in disrepair, the kids needed a place to play.... it was a perfect plan. Parents were dunned for the funds, of course. There were a lot of fabulously wealthy families who were more than able to fund the whole expensive-but-not-obscenely-so project without blinking, but...