Sports
This Texas high school is tacking the officiating crisis head on
Flour Bluff Independent School District announced in a press release Thursday that it will offer a sports officiating class for the 2024-2025 school year.
The class will be offered to juniors and seniors as an elective course.
Officiating for football, volleyball and basketball will be taught during the fall semester. Soccer, softball and baseball is slated to be taught in the spring.
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As students complete each course, they will be eligible to contact the corresponding sport officiating chapter and immediately start shadowing officials.
Flour Bluff ISD is only 1 of 15 districts in Texas to provide this program to students. The district stated that the course will allow students to learn a trade that will help them build characteristics beneficial to their future and that students will have the opportunity to develop and polish interpersonal communication skills and connect with the community.
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