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.
That 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 
less than the long term orthopedic damage young football players will suffer from playing football on concrete covered with plastic.