Posted on 09/19/2013 12:40:31 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
High schools sports are an integral part of the huge sports industry. In Texas, kids start playing tackle foot fall in elementary schools. In Texas football is the only subject that is uniformly taught and practiced at a high level. On the other hand, about the kids don’t even get recess. Every kid should get a couple of hours of exercise every day. If they are physically fit, they don’t need that sugar fix to get through the day.
Sports is only done by a small percent of the students. Many school districts have lousy PE programs because all the attention goes to this minority. It would be different if there were intermural programs, but most schools only play sports at the interscholastic level.
I don’t want to “buck up” and it’s that very attitude that I hate about sports - I hate the attitude even more than I hate sports, and I hate sports mightily.
And many brilliant high achieving people are not good at sports and don’t like them. Nijinsky - you do know who he was without googling, don’t you - Nijinsky said, “sports are the death of Art.”
You know darn well that Texas is a religion in Texas. Just because a high schoolcoach works more hours than a 12th grade math doe snot mean that his work is more valuable. Coaches work hard because the pressure to win is enormous. That does not mean that the kids on the football team deserve a higher paid teacher than the kids in the Calculus class.
Meanwhile, over at Harper's, Nicholson Baker makes the case against high school math and wonders why we require it and devote so much resources to it. I'd have to give him the award for most contrarian article of the month. It's certainly more provocative than going after sports yet again.
You are the embodiment of everything from which I have always recoiled in horror.
The football team at my kids’ high school along with the cheerleaders are known to be onto drugs, and it’s a private Christian school.
On of my kids’ friends is an excellent singer, and he’s been in the spring musicals. However in the fall, he plays football. My kids hate it when he’s playing football because he gets into lots of trouble with the team. His parents are oblivious to it, and they always want him doing football over theater.
Colleges have lots of problems with drugs. Texas A&M had to suspend several of it’s starters for the first 2 games of the seasin because of drugs.
I grew up in Texas, and my high school was state champs 1 year. The football generated money!
Now, I live in California, and I can gaurantee the football programs around San Jose do not make money. Not many people go to the games. It’s nothing like goung to a game in Texas. I’m sure the schools are nt makng mne from football.
In my county every time the public schools want more money they threaten to end football. The idiots here line up like lemmings to give them what they want.
Deserve? Who deserves anything? Funny thing is some of the best higher level math teachers I worked with were coaches. Winning depends on player talent and that’s a crap shoot. If you are a Texas citizen and you are unhappy with your district’s pay scale; athletic programs or whatever get off your damn computer and go to school board meetings to speak at the public comment segment of the monthly board meeting. Hell, start your own Tea Party movement!
I think if the football program brings in money to the school, then the coach should be paid more, but that doesn’t happen in all schools.
Now, I live in California, and I can gaurantee the football programs around San Jose do not make money. Not many people go to the games. It’s nothing like goung to a game in Texas. I’m sure the schools are nt makng mne from football.
Well there's your problem. How could anybody, having grown up in Texas, stand to live in the People's Republic of Kalifornia?
Tell you what, all you suburban welfare queens, if you want your kids to play games and be in clubs, open up your own damned checkbooks and pay for it yourselves. Stop sticking your neighbors with a large part of the bill to entertain and recreate the kids you chose to bring into the world.
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