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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Enough. Professional opportunities will not be denied because there is no diversity on a high school team.

If your white son isn’t up to snuff to make the high school basketball team, big whoop. Majority of those kids will not even play in college key alone pros.  They will hopefully play basketball recreationally or pick up some other form of exercise once they are older.

But all students need an education. They will all hopefully be using their minds in one form or another as an adult. Making sure everyone gets a good, challenging education is much more important to society than making sure a high school basketball team is diverse.[/quote]

Is the justification for high school sports that they are part of a well rounded education? What justification is there for denying that facet of a public education to less athletic kids? Dumb dumbs can sign up for ap classes and fail, why can’t fat kids play for the basketball team? [/quote]

They can. If they make the team. The goal of any team is to win games. If a player is of value to a team and will help them win, they get a spot. It’s that simple. Some fat kids can play sports. You can’t play any sport and any position you want but no one can unless they earn that spot.  So if your kid wants to play high school sports, find one that is best for them or find one that accepts walk ons.

-former fat kid on a HS varsity team[/quote]

If any kid who want to play can’t, what is the justification for funding it in a public school setting? [/quote]

With that reasoning, do you think schools should also cut the theater and music programs? They need to audition to be in theater, musicals and some select band and orchestras.  Shall we also cut any advanced academic programs, where ALL students may not be successful in the classes?  Would it be better to privatize everything, so only families with money can have their child participate and others don’t get a chance at all?

Why are you on the sports forum if you don’t think they should be happening? [/quote]

Purist view would be that public K-12 schools are for educating everyone. Therefore, music, arts, athletics, and academics should be taught and available to all. However, ‘competitive’ activities are supplemental and if offered via a public school are subject to a filtered participation set. Hence, why kids have to try out and make the team. The only criteria is talent and learned skill for the number of available slots. Now, should public dollars go to school-run extra-curricular activities?  Apparently yes, as that is how local and state elections have gone over the last 100 years. Should college be a public funded right for all?  Apparently no, according to voters’ elected officials. Should there be race-based college admissions policies?  So far it appears yes, but this social engineering experiment is floundering a bit as while it does provide some opportunity it also creates animosity and a sense of unfairness (hence why you get posts like the OP’s). There is probably a better way that deals with anonymous applications devoid of applicant names, genders, race, and school names and uses computer algorithms vs. humans to decide. Just like the rich kid whose parents have connections or the minority kid with good but not great grades both get into Harvard, these unfair decisions would mostly be eliminated. [/quote]

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