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Ideally, the point of school is to help children figure out how to contribute to society once they are no longer in school. Some children do this by being good
by Kneecaps07 7y ago
Ideally, the point of school is to help children figure out how to contribute to society once they are no longer in school. Some children do this by being good at sports. Yeah, that sounds weird, but a lot of people make their living through sports or sport-related fields.
Do you think we should end the art and music "farm system" too?
- specialist 7y agoI oppose funding intermural sports. I'm still (strongly) in favor of intramural sports. If someone (or their parents) imagines they are a professional prospect, I favor the club system, like Europe has for soccer. Thinking about it a bit more, I'm okay with amateur intermural sports. Like wrestling, swimming, track & field. So while I don't know exactly where to draw the line, I'm a hard no on commercialized sports like American gladiator style football, fast pitch baseball, basketball. -- Yes, ideally, we should have magnet schools for STEM, humanities, fine arts, performing arts, agrigulture, voc tech, etc. The goal is equal opportunity, helping kids find their niche, not equal outcomes.