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Re: conundrum, par excellence.
I, also, have fond memories of time in the school gym and courts and fields outside. I don't recall much of that from my children. My daughter just walked around a track for her PE class. I don't understand the loss of free time in schools, or the freedom for semi-organized games among students, like recess. I do understand, but don't approve, the increased specialization and high-stress training high school athletes get in some schools. As you say, sports events, even in high schools, have become money-makers, to the detriment of education in my opinion.
But then, my children's high school also has an excellent music program, with several concerts each year, and musical and other theater, too, and those also make money. We live in an affluent suburb, and have taken full advantage. Sometimes, I almost feel white suburban guilt, because I know the condition of the schools, and students, on the other side of town. But I don't know how to fix things.
posted by
mousehop
on January 28, 2009 at 7:56 AM
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Everything should be kept in the right perspective. BCA, Bill*s Ca
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posted by
BC-A
on January 28, 2009 at 5:12 AM
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conundrum, par excellence.
Our highschool had a small basketball court as the only thing inside the school walls. We ate lunch out there, sat and talked out there, played basketball there, futebol de salao and volleyball there. That was it. The boys went to fields at country clubs to play baseball or to train for track. Small school, non-existent budget.
Our gym teachers made us climb ropes attached to the ceilings' braces in the auditorium or do sit ups or run in circles around that small basketball court. Pretty primitive, but one girl at our school beat the Brasilian high jump champ by practicing in our tiny little sandbox to the side of the basketball court.
Our drama club put on plays that ran quite awhile and raked in the dough from the outside community and were quite elaborate and very good, on no budget. Raised money for the school that way.
The kids in highschool, each class had a booth, sold cokes, ice cream, candy or similar garbage to each other before and after school, during lunch time and during special events. We held cool carnavals, etc. and raised money for the school. We did pretty well, supporting everything that we could think up that we wanted to do or to have.
It can be done without the PAC-10 and all that.......which I think takes away from college sports, as the students can't get tickets to their own college games anymore. Their seating section shrinks more each year.
Same goes for basketball, no room for students in the stadium. So, what's it all about? Not about college kids and their school's teams, for sure.
posted by
benzinha
on January 27, 2009 at 4:51 PM
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