Contact sports have no place in schools, amirite?

I was with you until you made the claim that sports in general shouldn't be funded in school. Physical education is massively important, and most schools in the United States don't do enough of it already. Removing sports entirely is just silly. Also, school is just as much a social education as an academic one. So the social clubs have their place too.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

I'm not sure how my view can be incorrect. It is a question of values.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Can values be incorrect? They are not statements of fact. It is like people saying blue is their favorite color.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

When the values are literally just dumb? Yea they can be wrong

by joanie28 2 weeks ago

how can values be dumb?

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

What is your rank, sir? What base are you stationed at?

by KeyImpressive 2 weeks ago

When they're founded on baseless claims, or in this case, specifically harmful claims that end at sports not being important at all in schools

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

People built social education into it because of tribalism and morons that insist on pooping where they eat. ait has no place. Sports teams, by nature of their limited roster, is not school wide physical education.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

See this is what I mean about being incorrect

by KeyImpressive 2 weeks ago

People built social education into it because of tribalism and morons that insist on pooping where they eat. ait has no place. The reason it was added to school is irrelevant. It is currently in schools, therefore it, by definition, has a place. Sports teams, by nature of their limited roster, is not school wide physical education. So? It's more options to keep kids engaged in physical activity.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

I don't care. make it a class with mandatory attendance if it is so important, or not at all.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

"So? It's more options to keep kids engaged in physical activity." I was saying I don't care about this

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

no

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Cross band off the list as well. Same with choir. Good bye art.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Correct

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Sounds miserable.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

"…you should do the rest outside." um they already do? hence why they're called extra curricular activities

by yoconnell 2 weeks ago

outside of school. that is still associated with the school and needs to go.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

But extracurriculars are associated with the school unless you mean you don't like those also. I think those are great for getting people who otherwise couldn't meet or talk to get more confident in a niche area.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Schools are not only academic institutions, they also provide a more holistic approach to education. Which is pretty important if you're spending like 30 hours a week for basically your entire childhood. Not to mention there's numerous studies which show stuff like playing a sport, learning a language, or even playing an instrument is proven to be beneficial for a child's education. Why would you want to remove that?

by Next_Fan 2 weeks ago

Truly unpopular opinion. people live and breathe sports for whatever reason. Unfortunately, chemistry is not as well loved. People will eventually start telling you all about the money that sports brings into schools (even though very little of it is funneled to academics and most of it is kept in the sports programs) and discount the bashing and harm being done with this argument. After all these people's entertainment and vicarious living through their favorite athelete is what matters more than just about anyhting else in this world.

by PreferenceHot 2 weeks ago

sports along with other extra curriculars aren't really state funded; much of it is from parents, clubs, fundraisers, etc so it doesnt make much sense for it to be funneled into academics imagine you a parent pays for your child's specific interests and the school decides "nah this activity has enough funds, we'll take it and use it for something else"

by yoconnell 2 weeks ago

I feel like a lot of people here are missing the point of why sports need to stay. They are a reliable source of income for school systems. Get rid of them, and they pretty much only operate off of tax funded education programs. A lot of school systems would be severely hurting if you took sports out of the equation.

by runteviolette 2 weeks ago

Running a brothel out of the school would make money too. Money isn't the point.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

School is as much for socializing and team building as it is education, perhaps moreso.

by Abject_Student5295 2 weeks ago

nope. just education

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Contact sports cause brain damage. Water causes drowning. No more swimming, everybody.

by friesentaya 2 weeks ago

Sounds like OP got picked last for dodge ball frequently

by Romagueraguille 2 weeks ago

Huh. Seems like you missed the whole critical thinking aspect of formal education.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

"You all sustained brain damage but there are no symptoms of it, but we should ban contact sport anyways" Lmao

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

correct. I don't care if it is asymptomatic

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Then this doesn't come down to a difference in opinion, but a difference in IQ

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

can i ask WHY you don't think schools should funding any activities beside academic ones? there's more to learning that pure academics, sports and other activities (art, music, etc) are huge for building passion and character

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Not to mention team work, leadership, and strategy.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Then run it in pe class for everyone. But those are things that should be learned outside of school. School is for learning academics, not team work.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Lots of things cause lots of injuries, getting rid of everything that is potentially harmful isn't the answer. I'm a huge proponent for sports, specifically football, in schools.

by Successful_Day 2 weeks ago

Football isn't potentially harmful. Collisions are harmful

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

So are school shooters.....

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

I answered that in the OP. I'm willing to be more tolerant if it doesn't have head collisions. You described something with collisions. So I wouldn't be more tolerant, would I?

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

and collisions are potential in football

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

It is a guarantee that it will happen.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Any athletic endeavour has risk of head injury. My daughter does high level cheerleading where many of her teammates have had to quit due to concussions and when my son played soccer, there were multiple head injuries through out the season. The reality is that most pros of sports outweigh the cons.

by Successful_Day 2 weeks ago

Then do those things outside of school. I don't care about pros or cons

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Heaven forbid they given kids incentive to go to school.

by Successful_Day 2 weeks ago

Something tells me you need contact sports in your life more than anything

by Nervous-Word-8090 2 weeks ago

I'm in my 40s and actively do a contact sport. My kid does a contact sport.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Then forgot I said anything

by Nervous-Word-8090 2 weeks ago

Yeah but parents want it so that's the end of the discussion

by CurrentAd 2 weeks ago

....or maybe, just maybe, the kids WANT to play!?! Aside from what the parents think, there are many kids who WANT to play a sport.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Kids want to play on the railroad tracks too, doesn't mean you let them. Contact sports as children is dangerous and stupid and kills them every year. You want to do it as an adult, fine, but no kid can actually consent to be put into CTE central.

by CurrentAd 2 weeks ago