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A New Football Field For Asbury Park High School Because of Goose Poo

By Art Gallagher

The Asbury Park Board of Education is planning on spending over $1 million on a new astro-turf football field because they have a problem with Canada geese at the existing field.   Wednesday night the board awarded a $145,000 contract to an engineering firm to get the bidding documents ready and to supervise the project, according to a report in The Asbury Park Press.

goose-pears2That money would be much better spent using the geese as an educational resource.  The Asbury Park Board of Education should to invest in a life skills curriculum.  They should teach hunting and cleaning the geese.  A culinary program with internships for students at area restaurants would be ideal.  Business classes that teach production, packaging, distribution, marketing and sales of fresh and cooked goose would be a real benefit to Asbury Park students.

Such educational programs could produce revenue and lead to additonal educational opportunities for students, like accounting and administration.

There might be health and hygene risks, but they could become educational opportunities too.  The risks would be cooking-goose-neck-sausageless than the long term orthopedic damage young football players will suffer from playing football on concrete covered with plastic.

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Posted: October 14th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Abbott Ruling, Education | Tags: , , | 6 Comments »

6 Comments on “A New Football Field For Asbury Park High School Because of Goose Poo”

  1. James Hogan said at 12:00 pm on October 14th, 2011:

    And you made fun of me when I made goose poo a campaign issue in 2008! 🙂 For the record, Frank Pallone supports Federal Laws that protect the lives of unborn Canadian Geese but Frank Pallone does not support Federal Laws that would protect the lives on unborn humans. (go ahead, stomp that goose egg and go directly to jail and Buddy Amato will Karate chop your neck too!)

    As a side note, My Remington Shotgun and I would be more than happy to sign a contract with the Asbury Park School District to keep the football field goose free for the next 10 years for $1million dollars, or if it would make Buddy happy, I’ll get some MSPCA dogs and put them to work, chasing geese. Either way, $100K/yr for 10 years seems like a salary some unemployed fella could live with, and they can give the $145K in engineering costs away in a raffle.

    If I can point out slightly different oddity – I keep hearing about “shared services” and how “we” should be working to implement them everywhere to save some money. I don’t know about Asbury Park, but Long Branch – as in the City Of – spent (I believe) $6million on a park in town which included a football field for Long Branch Recreation. At the exact same time, Long Branch – as in the School Board of – spent about $2million on a high-school football field. How, or why, are the collective “we” pushing “shared services” when “we” can’t even get our local folks to share the obvious services, like a football field?

    I figure that, at best, the Long Branch high school football field gets used for a dozen or two football games a year, maybe a few soccer games or something – but for the most part, it’s just an empty field to mow and maintain — the public isn’t welcome to use the field… it’s “private property”, the sign says “no trespassing”…. It’s barely used, expensive to maintain, private property. Meanwhile, on the other side of town, there is a second football field, also with a cost to maintain, that is also mostly unused, and would have been a great home, as far as I can tell, to the school team(s)… 100 yards of flat grass between a pair of endzones and some field goal posts… what more did they need? Share This.

  2. Ken said at 12:47 pm on October 14th, 2011:

    I still cannot believe the word “fair” took to the paper when that Act passed. Limit the union, cut the bottom 10%, remove tenure, adopt a free market salary system and more of our brightest and hardworking in society will educate. You don’t like it, do something else, but move over for someone who drives the kids’ best interest and doesn’t see them as the necessary evil to play this game.

    I graduate next year with my M.A. in Ed, certs in TSD, Social Studies, Math, English, and ten years of business experience in sales, career counseling, and resume writing. Here I come.

  3. Justified Right said at 1:32 pm on October 14th, 2011:

    Can’t wait to play on it they will be on our schedule next year!

  4. Ken said at 1:37 pm on October 14th, 2011:

    Well, they did beat Mater Dei 60-0 the other day. So much for a little Catholic mercy. Too bad the announcer couldn’t pronounce Seraph correctly.

  5. Chris said at 2:15 pm on October 14th, 2011:

    Jim: what do you mean, you can’t use the school field, being private property?? Is that a private school? Or is it the public school, in which case you actually paid for it, so you’re part owner?

  6. Firesign58 said at 1:28 am on October 15th, 2011:

    Who knew goose poo is no longer taboo?
    LOL

    Seriously, goose-harvesting and food production as a high school curriculum is a great suggestion. Many a celebrity chef started careers as a sous chef, assistant chef, in hotel and restaurant management, and so forth. Such a program would introduce the student to a hands-on understanding of the supply chain as well as product development and marketing….all life-relevant skills.