Good at sports or good at academics?

[Anonymous]

70% of kids in organised sports quit before they are 13. We would never allow 70% of kids to quit school before 13.

I am flabbergasted that this is even a discussion: ACADEMICS!

[Anonymous]

All iou sports people will be fat asses after. 30 anyway so what’s the point

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All iou sports people will be fat asses after. 30 anyway so what’s the point

+1

[Anonymous]

This is idiosyncratic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
70% of kids in organised sports quit before they are 13. We would never allow 70% of kids to quit school before 13.

I am flabbergasted that this is even a discussion: ACADEMICS!

How are you “flabbergasted” this is a discussion after reading 8 pages of well-reasoned explanations as to why some parents might prioritize athletics while simultaneously claiming to whole-heartedly value academics yourself?

[Anonymous]

Ok. What would happen if 70% of all Americans drop out of school by age 13? So 70% of Americans never even enter high school.

How would we as a society function without enough people for all the jobs that require a minimum of a high school diploma in Healthcare, police, fire, military, engineering, law ect?

Compare that situation with 70% of Americans not playing organised sports after 13 ie what we currently have. Yes obesity is an issue but obese kids where the least likely to enjoy sports as kids in my experience, they lose weight by other means like jogging or the gym and recreational swimming.

[Anonymous]

Sports of course

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Ok. What would happen if 70% of all Americans drop out of school by age 13? So 70% of Americans never even enter high school.

How would we as a society function without enough people for all the jobs that require a minimum of a high school diploma in Healthcare, police, fire, military, engineering, law ect?

Compare that situation with 70% of Americans not playing organised sports after 13 ie what we currently have. Yes obesity is an issue but obese kids where the least likely to enjoy sports as kids in my experience, they lose weight by other means like jogging or the gym and recreational swimming.

You are not actually being logical. A diploma is not necessarily an education. The majority of the jobs you listed don’t actually require a diploma to do well - it’s completely arbitrary. (Do you really think a person can’t effectively fight fires unless they took world history and trigonometry, for example?)

Also, it’s “etc”, not “ect”. Did you not take Latin in high school? If not you’re clearly unqualified to do your job, right?

[Anonymous]

I expect a firefighter to have passed high school level science. They need basic biology to provide medical care, chemistry to understand combustion and physics to effectively rescue people from a burning building. If a firefighter was going to attempt to lift a heavy beam that had fallen on me, I would want them to know trigonometry!

A working knowledge of common foreign languages like Spanish would be useful too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I expect a firefighter to have passed high school level science. They need basic biology to provide medical care, chemistry to understand combustion and physics to effectively rescue people from a burning building. If a firefighter was going to attempt to lift a heavy beam that had fallen on me, I would want them to know trigonometry!

A working knowledge of common foreign languages like Spanish would be useful too.

LOL! Sorry! Didn’t realize I was talking to a troll. Carry on.

[Anonymous]

Team sports are vitally important for so many reasons but few people will make a career in sports. We always prioritized academics but not excessively. Two of my three kids are very successful doctors and the third is very successful in social media. They all enjoy sports but their families and careers are more important.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Team sports are vitally important for so many reasons but few people will make a career in sports. We always prioritized academics but not excessively. Two of my three kids are very successful doctors and the third is very successful in social media. They all enjoy sports but their families and careers are more important.

Actually, very few people become professional athletes. Plenty of people make a career in sports; it’s a huge, global business.

[Anonymous]

If you don't understand how sports can add value to life and wisdom I feel sorry for you. Someone awesome regardless of whether on academics or sports transcends that. You can't really be good at anything unless you transcend that one subject matter. The same ideals of discipline, knowledge, effort goes into academics and sports it's simply a matter of natural talent and desire of which to focus. It's really about focus it's not that neither are of the same importance because neither should exist in a vacuum. We don't live isolated from one another.

[Anonymous]

It’s beauty and the beast

[Anonymous]

Academics