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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many people do manage to be athletes and still know about other things.  There are plenty of scholar-athletes.  Still, it is true that with more and more competitive recruiting, kids are forced to spend more and more hours at sports, and parents are forced to spend more and more money.[/quote]

And yet despite all of this time and money, essentially none of these kids will become professional athletes, and very few will even play in college at a high level. Could the time and money be invested more wisely, and yet still have  athletics as  smaller, more reasonable part of our kids lives? You need only to look at recent events at Penn State to see how sports are so ridiculously over-emphasized in our society. (I am a former Division 1 athlete and a sports fan, by the way, but my interest in sports wanes each year).[/quote]

Many people will never be historians or scientists either. I don't think 2 hours of exercise a night is overemphasis. We are not talking abuot Penn State we are talking about high school sports.

Some kids love sports - more people are going to the football game than the art exhibit at school. I just don't see the reason people are so bitter about it.

Signed,

Aunt of the kid in the play. (Which is integral to that child's life right now - though a famous actor someday - probably not.)[/quote]

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