Let's do away with all high school and college sports programs.

[Unkotare]

Too many student athletes are using steroids to help with athletic performance and the coaches condone it.

Proof? Link? BS?

 

[Unkotare]

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All of that money should be used to expand the course offerings or give teachers a raise. ....

 

[Unkotare]

Not really, just put some of that money into required gym class for K-12. ....

Schools already have gym class.

 

[Unkotare]

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Get Vocational Education back into the schools...job 1. ...

It is still there.

 

[Sunni Man]

Great idea. Then even more kids can become fat and lazy.

Back in the day when I grew up.
Before video games and the internet.
The parks and school sport fields were always filed with kids.
Today when I drive by those same parks and fields.
They are completely empty.
Not a kid to be seen.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

do you realize how much money the school loses if they are done away with?....

How much do you think it is?

IUs entire athletic program ran at a $5.6 million surplus, for example. And they were ecstatic not to LOSE money.

That surplus is earmarked to maintain the athletic facilities.

 

[task0778]

I think athletic scholarships could be eliminated, but I don't see eliminating the athletic programs as a good thing. There a lot of positives in promoting competition, discipline, and fair play in sports that can bleed over into other avenues in life. But IMHO we do need less emphasis on winning and more on how you play the game.

 

[Unkotare]

Funny how it's always the 98lbs weaklings who spent their youths cultivating an internal voice for their insecurity who always call for doing away with an aspect of education that goes back to the ancient Greeks at least.

 

[Unkotare]

I think athletic scholarships could be eliminated ....

Oh sure, why give kids a chance at higher education who might otherwise never have had one?

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Funny how it's always the 98lbs weaklings who spent their youths cultivating an internal voice for their insecurity who always call for doing away with an aspect of education that goes back to the ancient Greeks at least.

Funny how it's always the low IQ high school glory days folks who put more importance on the sports than on the academics.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Oh sure, why give kids a chance at higher education who might otherwise never have had one?

'Cause they can play sporty ball? How about giving that opportunity to a kid who both needs AND deserves it?

 

[Unkotare]

... IMHO we do need less emphasis on winning and more on how you play the game.

Spoken like a loser.

 

[Unkotare]

Funny how it's always the low IQ high school glory days folks who put more importance on the sports than on the academics.

And the weaklings always want to believe THIS absurd falsehood ^^^.

 

[Unkotare]

'Cause they can play sporty ball? ...

Because they are talented academically and athletically.

 

[Unkotare]

.... How about giving that opportunity to a kid who both needs AND deserves it?

That's who the opportunities go to now.

 

[task0778]

Oh sure, why give kids a chance at higher education who might otherwise never have had one?

Maybe if there were no athletic scholarships then students in high schools might study harder and get better grades. There's nothing wrong with academic scholarships, and BTW there are alternatives like trade schools and community colleges. IMHO, we might be prioritizing the wrong things.

 

[task0778]

Spoken like a loser.

Spoken like an asshole.

 

[Unkotare]

Maybe if there were no athletic scholarships then students in high schools might study harder and get better grades. ....

Maybe you're full of shit. Athletics don't prevent students from studying hard and getting good grades. Quite the contrary.

 

[Unkotare]

Spoken like an asshole.

If you have to choose one...

 

[Unkotare]

... BTW there are alternatives like trade schools and community colleges. IMHO, we might be prioritizing the wrong things.

Typical 98lbs weakling who wants to believe that being athletic means one is not "college material." What an insecure douche.