Rich and poor leagues

In the Des Moines area the city schools that have a lower tax base are having difficulty fielding football teams that can compete with the rich suburban schools.  The schools in the suburbs have video monitors to analyze games.  They have good equipment.  They have excellent coaching staffs.  And they win games.  The five public high schools in Des Moines have a 0-104 record against rivals in the more affluent school districts.

Here is the solution being proposed.  The poor schools would play in a different league than the rich schools.  The athletes from the poor districts would be told that they can’t compete with the rich districts, so they would be lumped with other poor schools.  In the meantime, the rich districts would have their own league.

This is how we do things in America today.  We don’t fix the problem of poor and rich districts.  We create leagues to separate athletics by class.