Bengals Are Coming To My High School On Friday!

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(08-05-2022, 02:07 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: Yeah, and anyone that bashes this has to be obviously trolling because the Bengals have invested over 1.8 in the past several years in funding for local high school football fields in Greater Cincinnati.


And other donations have come from the NFL and Local Initiatives Support Corp., and it's because Covington Catholic is an amazing school that turns out leaders and successful people that, along with the school, donate lots of time and money to charities.


What people that bash this also fail to realize is that, while the tuition is high and it has a lot of students that come from wealthy families, CCH also offers tuition assistance and scholarships to low-income families. Aside from a few wealthy neighborhoods, Ft Wright and Park Hills, where CCH is located, is generally a lower income area. If you drive a mile north (not even a mile), you're in the inner city of Covington, which, for the most part, is extremely poor. 

Not really. A good portion of the lower-income housing was torn down and new townhouses were built--in the east end. There are still "poor" areas, but they're smaller. 

The median income in Cov now is only about 7k less per year than Park Hills and about 6k more than Newport. Property values are still below the other two but that has a lot to do with improvements Newport has made in the last 5 years. I live in the west end--not too far from the "inner city"--of Cov and the wife and i make about 170k a year.