Can't agree with that. The best private school down here (The Benjamin School) REQUIRES that students participate in varsity athletics.
Sports can do a lot for young people. It can teach discipline and team building - all while sometimes creating lifelong friendships.
In public schools, sometimes sports IS the only way out. That or drugs. Take your pick.
Government control of sports is a waste of time and money. Mixing a merit-based program like sports with a governing structure built around catering to the lowest common denominator is ludicrous. That’s how you end up with this idiocy with “trannies” competing on girls’ teams.
Equity and egalitarianism have no place in a meritocracy. That’s why private schools exist in the first place.
Those things don’t trump immorality period!
There are plenty of other avenues for sports and don’t forget...some just aren’t into sports but the elite few! Some students have to work they don’t have the money or the time for sports!
But saying sports trumps morality is nuts! Our children are not sexual piles of meat for the highest bidder or the craftiest groomers.,...they are not for sale!
“It can teach discipline and team building - all while sometimes creating lifelong friendships.”
It can also make school years a LIVING HELL for un-athletic students. I achieved all of what you mention, and much more, being super active in the music end of things.
So can debating club, chess club, bands etc. There is no one size fits all and forcing kids to play a varsity sport when they have no interest in doing so and have other types of talent is abuse. I would not have put my kids in such a school. In fact Delbarton was a nonstarter for my boys on just that basis.
I have one son who did 12 years of competitive gymnastics, two others who did other non sport activities competitively.
I never liked sports in school.. They were a waste of time for me as I was not good at anything. Now as I am a senior citizen and talking to some old classmates, I find out that they have aches & pains I don’t have as a result of not being on the football team,etc. I’m not a bit sorry for not going out for sports. Another bad thing about it was the humiliation you feel when they are choosing up sides for teams in sports & you were always picked last. Sometimes it took awhile to get over that even after you graduated.