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[quote=Anonymous]I'm just curious as to why our society values athletics so much more than musical or writing ability.  Or why a kid who is a first class lacrosse player has so much more to offer a school than a really good all-around athlete who also plays the violin at a very advanced level who also happens to have better grades.  I don't like the whole idea of kids specializing so early.  Any activity (including the violin, I might add) that takes up more than 15 hours a week on the part of a teenager leaves so little time for reading for pleasure, backpacking, learning how to sew or fix a car, etc., when the academics are so demanding as well.  I just hate to see kids under so much pressure, and, if we are going to encourage kids to focus on one activity early on, it seems like it would be a better use of their time to encourage them to do something more directly related to academics, such as playing music or working on the school newspaper.  I'm all for being physically fit, but I just don't understand the need to recruit Olympic caliber athletes.  It's sad that there are very few "walk-on" positions on college teams any more.  Everything has become so unnecessarily professional.

And the legacy hook (and big donor hook) bothers me just as much as it does you.  There is no reason for that.  [/quote]

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