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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I agree with this. [b]Sports are cutthroat around here but academics are egalitarian[/b].[/quote]

Cutthroat sports (much like policing the world, drone attacks and the NSA) are by far our preference.

We worship and idolize our athletes.  We enroll our kids in multiple sporting activities when they are in diapers (but chatise other parents for teaching  3 or 4 year-olds multiplications tables).  We drive, car pool back and forth from club to club, sweaty gym to chlorinated pool houses, game to game, practise to practise, at all hours of the early morning, afternoon and night.  We buy billions of sporting attire with our favorite athletes plasted all over the clothing and bedroom and bathroom walls.  We spend $$ billions attending games in school, club and professional stadiums.  We pay these adored athletes billions of dollars (contracts worth $250 million over 10 years,  tens of millions per year in many sports).

Our children are taken our of school daily to attend sporting events and make their warm-ups, practises and matches/games.  We rarely take our kids out of the meets and games to attend school.  They skip and miss classes throughout the year so we can leave work to transport them to their games.

Repetitive physical work outs and drills, challenge and stimulation (including creatine, milk and protein supplements) are encouraged and promoted in the pursuit of cardiovascular endurance and hypertophy and faster contraction of our skeletal muscle fibres and winning; yet when it comes to mental workouts (homework, math, worksheets, practice and prep) the laity are quick to claim this regime leads to low IQ and neuronal atrophy.  Such work should automatically disqualify students from magnet programs and honors classes/courses.  These kids while worthy to take to the pitch with this preparation and not worthy to join the rest of us laggards in the classroom.

Given the American love affair with sports one might conclude the US public education system needs a little of the "cutthroat" some posters see in sports.
   
 
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