Re: Writing a grant to buy a Stocker for our HS
Back in the late 90's I started a Highschool drag racing class at E-town. At that time I had been teaching for about 5 years and was very enthusiastic to promote and grow bracket racing with my students. It was mildly successful at best and the second my High school found out what we were doing, they shut any involvement with the school name down. Our school's lawyers made it very clear ......... drag racing and High school dont mix. It was very dissapointing to say the least and after a few years it just fell by the way side. In todays day and age I doubt any school district would seriously entertain a school owned and operated racecar. The liabilty would far outweigh any promotional or beneficial advertisement or benefits. Purchasing one with a grant further compounds the liability issues. I myself own a few race cars and I have been told on numerous occasions that my cars cannot be associated in any way with our school. Bringing them into school for maintanance or promotional reasons even seems to ruffle some feathers.
Obviously I wish you the best of luck, and hopefully you live in an area that actually encourages these type of things. Imagine teaching kids how to safely and responsibly enjoy drag racing............ What a concept.
bob
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