School Funds Being Used for Soccer Stadium?

This drives my point home that people do not seem to do any kind of activism unless it affects them personally:

Stadium deal angers parents:
Jordan School District residents fret about loss of school funding

Since the public learned millions of dollars reserved for Jordan schools may be spent on a Real Salt Lake soccer stadium, residents’ reaction has been overwhelmingly negative, a review of e-mails sent to the Jordan School District and Board of Education shows.
For some residents, e-mails they sent marked the first time they felt strongly enough about an issue to contact the district.
“I have never, ever in my life e-mailed a school board, a congressman, a senator with a political opinion – ever,” Brad Jacobsen, a South Jordan lawyer and father of two children in the district, said in a Tuesday phone interview. “But this one made me do it.”

At issue is as much as $8 million the district could contribute as part of Sandy’s $15 million bond pledged to RSL for land and infrastructure improvements for the stadium.

Even though the Board can effectively choose not to use its share of the property taxes (now or in the future) towards any such projects, it has not made a decision nor has it voted on the matter.

Really. This is a no-brainer. What is more imporant to us? Spending money on corporate deals or educating our children?