Posted by JDseller on July 24, 2012 at 07:32:38 from (208.126.196.144):
Is it not funny that sports are sold to us in the schools as a way for our kids to learn team work and many other "valuable" skills. I can remember when the local schools here where lucky to have maybe seven boys on a basketball team. Forget about football. So at that time you mainly went to school to LEARN!!!! Then the real big surprise The students DID LEARN!!!!
I think there is a direct link to organized sports in schools, high school and college, to the lowering of learning your kids receive. The adults become distracted by sports and forget what the schools main JOB is, teaching. It is just a job to teach kids day in and day out but a sports GAME is exciting. So where does the focus go to???? GAMES not teaching!!!!
Want to know what my Grand Daughters think that sports do in high school???? They say it teaches guys that they can be JERKS and poor students but if they are good football/basketball player they can get away with it. They say that 2/3s of the football players don't even do their own home work. They expect their girl friends to do it for them for the privilege of dating a "football player". My Grand Daughters also say it is expected that if you date one of the better players you have to "put out" to keep them. Their words not mine. So the system is teaching that it is OK for the good players to have their girl friends as basically slave for them. Good morals!!!!
IF you don't think that this attitude of being "better" than everyone else did not help cause many of Penn's States problems you need to wake up to real life today. Sports have created a Special class of people. IF your are a good coach or player you don't have to live by the rules like everyone else.
So we get a bunch of little snots that are high school heroes that don't have any education. Then maybe 5% of them go on to college sports where they can become even bigger snots. Then maybe 2% of them go on to profession sports becoming true profession SNOTS.
So we have a system that is promoting teaching a profession that maybe .001 percent ever will make a living at it????? Try that with any other field of knowledge and see how long it lasts.
That is my Rant for today. LOL I just had to listen to another report of how terrible it is on poor little old Penn State. That lasted 5 minutes and the guy ran through the market report in less than a minute. Show what is important. It is no wonder this country is in bad shape. Many people can tell you in great detail what sports team is doing what but can't tell you their senator or representative name. Guess which one will effect your life the most????
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