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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, there you go.

I'm hoping the PP is referring to the reasons schools offer sports, because

STA requires all boys to play 3 sports so it isn't the school for the family who is counting on[b] multiple college sports scholarship[/b] offers.  STA does have talented athletes and some are recruited to play in college- but that isn't the focus of the school and their athletic program.

I wouldn't call this pathetic, just different priorities. STA is a very challenging school and while they do recruit athletes, as many of the boys schools do, these young men have to be able to manage the school work as well, and that does limit recruiting efforts.  
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Who does this?! Sport scholarships in college are a MASSIVE waste of time. I taught at the college level and my student athletes were hands down my worst students because they missed class for sports! Student athletes' main priority is sports not education, IMHO. No responsible parent who has actually gone to college and received a decent education would push their child into trying to obtain a sports scholarship, esp when they are paying for a private school education because in some cases college isn't much more than private school.[/quote]

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