Character counts ... and costs

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Teaching ethical behavior to high school athletes should be a high priority for any coach or school official, and it’s obviously important to the administrators who control the purse strings of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

In his most-recent column, Eric Sondheimer reports that LAUSD spent $194,030 this past year in a contract with the Josephson Institute in a campaign to teach sportsmanship and other positive character traits to athletes, coaches and administrators.

You might have heard somewhere the Josephson Institute’s motto: ‘Character Counts.’

Yeah, and costs, too.

-- Mike Hiserman