There is nothing more important in today's conventional schools system than sports. If there was no sports in our school, there would be no reason to go to school. Teachers have a much more central role in the school than just teaching-they are coaches. Some people are complaining that we place too much importance on today's sports-playing youth.
I disagree entirely.
Without sports, students today would not have nearly as much of the teamwork and intelligence that they have, because nothing helps grades like being hit in the head with a basketball. Watching a group of athletes perform is like watching a National Geographic special on monarch butterflies- the sheer grace and beauty with which they move is astounding. And we all know that it takes an extreme amount of talent to do well in any sports. Those arts kids, the ones that play instruments, sing, or paint, they have it so easy. No talent is required to do anything even remotely artistic. Furthermore, the school board should continue sucking the budgets of said arts programmes dry, and siphon all of those funds into new uniforms, new buses, better equipment for our athletes. Those band kids can use the tubas and trumpets from 50 years ago. As if those band geeks can actually tell the difference between used and new. All scholarships and awards should also continue to go to those students who are involved in sports. If it comes down to two kids, one who plays sports and one who is in an arts program, choose the athlete. Chances are they will be the one landing the CEO job for some big company, that arts kid will spend the rest of their lives selling pencils on street corners. Athletes should be the elite, the most revered membes of the social pyramid. Everyone else is just an audience to appreciate them.
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