PRINTER'S NO. 1650
No. 112 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY RHOADES, SHUMAKER, REIBMAN, SALVATORE, STOUT,
LYNCH AND PORTERFIELD, OCTOBER 23, 1989
REFERRED TO EDUCATION, OCTOBER 23, 1989
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
1 Directing the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association
2 to prohibit its member schools from participating in
3 televised sporting events that are carried beyond
4 Pennsylvania State lines.
5 WHEREAS, The growth of cable television and 24-hour sports
6 channels have inexorably led to putting high school sporting
7 events on television; and
8 WHEREAS, Only one in every 50 high school athletes goes on to
9 perform in college, and an even smaller percentage goes on to
10 perform in professional sports; and
11 WHEREAS, We want to encourage our children to view education
12 as the means to achieve success, not the highly improbable
13 avenue of professional sports; and
14 WHEREAS, Our public policy is intended to encourage a strong
15 emphasis upon academic achievement in public schools; and
16 WHEREAS, Money generated from television contracts has had a
17 recognized negative influence on college athletics; and
18 WHEREAS, Pennsylvanians want our high school athletics to
1 remain free from the unnecessary, illogical and misplaced
2 emphasis upon sports that accompanies large television
3 contracts; therefore be it
4 RESOLVED (the House of Representatives concurring), That the
5 General Assembly direct the Pennsylvania Interscholastic
6 Athletic Association to approve a policy prohibiting its member
7 schools from participating in televised sporting events that are
8 carried beyond State lines.
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