Reply to Who is more crazy? Sport parents or academic parents?

Forum Index » Tweens and Teens

Reply to "Who is more crazy? Sport parents or academic parents?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure you can really generalize.  There are crazy and not crazy parents involved in every EC.  That being said, the majority of the parents with an over-the-top focus on academics and academic competition I personally know do not have much experience with sports either personally or via their kids.  A lot of them secretly or openly assume that anyone who is great at a sport is a "dumb jock".  I also know a lot of people who lose their minds at kids sporting events, but they tend to be very focused on their kids' academic success.  I think virtually everyone I've met in this area cares a lot about academics, which is not surprising given the highly educated populace.

I've actually thought about this issue a lot as the parent of one brilliant kid who is a good, but not exceptional athlete and one brilliant athlete who is a very good, but not exceptional student.  It's kind of depressing how prevalent the "dumb jock" stereotype still is in this day and age.  On the plus side, I am glad to live in an area where girls get respect and positive attention for being great students.  That wasn't the case all those years ago in the small southern town I grew up in.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics