Motion Passes!!! Support 2020-2021 Nampa School District Winter High School Sports

Our kids are struggling. The shut down of the schools has come with devastating mental and emotional struggles. I've seen it in my own home and have heard similar stories from nearly every other parent. Even just returning to practice has done wonders for my son's mental health. Kids need to be active and social, not shut up in their homes staring at screens. Young people suffer greater risk from isolation and inactivity than they do from this virus. Sports are optional. Parents who are allowing their children to participate have weighed the risk. Please let our kids to play.

If parents and athletes feel unsafe, they have the right to not be part of a sport. For everyone else, let them have their year. Let them have their opportunities. Kids live for this.

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Let them play!

Let em play!

Let’s try to make this year as normal as possible

It is such a dark and dreary time. Our kids are suffering from isolation. Sports and activities are the safest, lowest risk ways to “medicate” them against depression and suicide. Please please allow basketball games to take place. It gives the boys something to look forward to and something to work for. So much has been taken away. Athletics are vital to the mental health of some kids, including mine. Sports competition would be such a blessing.

Freedom to decide for yourselves.

Let the kids lead a normal life. You are playing a dangerous game with their mental health

Let them play !

Please let them compete

Play!!!!!

Every other school district in the state is competing. Nampa school district should be as well

Let the low risk kids play

The risk of these kids getting sick is much less than the risk of them getting into trouble or making decisions that will change their life for the worse if not actively engaged in extra curricular activities

I want to support this effort. Risk of long lasting effects or worse for younger members of our population is really low. Unfortunately The risks of spread from large groups of people in an enclosed space cheering and yelling without wearing masks (and even with them) seems really high. If anyone wants to know more about why I think the spread matters read on, otherwise please stop now. For anyone interested... I understand that there are some people who don't believe this is real. And let's be honest for around 90% of us it won't turn into anything long lasting or fatal, so that makes it barely real. I mean, except for that around 10% who will experience severe illness with long lasting effects, plus a much smaller percent who will die, most of us won't really be affected at all. All of the above is, I think, true. So everything for most of us will be fine... unless we are in a car accident, have an infected appendix, heart problems, pneumonia, head injury, or experience any other life threatening emergencies... And, if we have that emergency, the hospitals are understaffed because of very high numbers of sick people (which IS our situation right now). In this case they may not have the manpower to help us quickly enough to save our lives. In this situation more people will die, no not from the virus, but because there are so many who are already sick using up all the resources needed for emergencies. Slowing the spread makes sense to me.

I support keeping youth physically and socially active at this time, as well as balancing our perspectives and risk priorities sensibly.

Let’s play ball!! Senior year let’s not ruin it.

Let them play!

Let them play!