CN is probably seeing that school racing, like the model of every other grade school and high school sport is the ONLY answer. or they could keep following the USCF/USAC cues and try and lure kids away from mass participation sports like soccer,volleyball, basketball, hockey, band, football, baseball, softball, la cross , field hockey, porn,social media sites to name a few .
Go buy a 1500 dollar bike to race against kids they may never see again.
The fact that the federation in the US doesn't already have a thriving high school following is why the sport is so tiny.
There are probably more kids involved in grade school and HS surfing than every Jr holding a license w USAC. Give up on sex, who cares what sex the fast person is,pro women's racing is reaching nobody. It is maybe filling a young girls head w a dream while she watches an elite women's event while holding the hand of her cycling fan father but what an indirect way to reach kids that could be racing bikes.
Young girls and boys can learn about bike racing lots of ways but in school is a better approach than the sh!t way the federation is promoting the sport now.
With closed tracks and very little land needed to hold cyclocross races,crits Most US high schools could have a great event right on school grounds, and use the existing facilities, showers, parking,scoreboards, bleachers,ect .Or we could do it the current way and hope that some young male or female athlete gets interested in an almost all adult activity from asking some creepy stranger why he is sweaty, breathing hard and wearing lycra and hope to god the answer has something to do with bike racing. Or maybe some kid in Indiana will come across a great article about the gals TT at the Tour Of Gila and be blown away.
Lots of great Euro events have finished in a multi purpose stadium why not a high school bike race. With mobile phone technology and a little CCTV or help from a local station the entire race or last 15 minutes of a HS race could be on TV at the very least youtube.
Or the grade school or HS kid will sit by the mailbox waiting for his or her CyclingNews magazine and turn right to the girls 15-16 race results from earlier in the month.