- Jun 18, 2023
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"not good at school" isn't really a thing though. Yes, some people aren't great learners, and the system fails them, but a basic education is really important and you can't just hand wave "eh, learning isn't for them" especially when THAT would be abused, and in fact often is. This is why you get classes like "calculus for athletes" that's basically just attendance.
especially when there are so many situations at the higher levels of people getting rich off these kids, and it financially incentivizes _them_ to push the kid more towards sports than school.
If anything, there should be more _casual_ sport. Let kids play softball for a few hours as an outlet, as an escape, as FUN. Maybe more would stick with it, even if they weren't aggressively climbing the ranking leaderboards or whatever.
The problem with decoupling sports from school is that there's even less protection from a travel coach grinding the player to dust in the pursuit of winning or fame or whatever.
I don't think in most cases a coach outside school should be trying to inflict punishment for something he wasn't privy to in school, but I find it hard to believe a kid getting into a fight in school isn't exhibiting problematic behavior outside it too.
especially when there are so many situations at the higher levels of people getting rich off these kids, and it financially incentivizes _them_ to push the kid more towards sports than school.
If anything, there should be more _casual_ sport. Let kids play softball for a few hours as an outlet, as an escape, as FUN. Maybe more would stick with it, even if they weren't aggressively climbing the ranking leaderboards or whatever.
The problem with decoupling sports from school is that there's even less protection from a travel coach grinding the player to dust in the pursuit of winning or fame or whatever.
I don't think in most cases a coach outside school should be trying to inflict punishment for something he wasn't privy to in school, but I find it hard to believe a kid getting into a fight in school isn't exhibiting problematic behavior outside it too.