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The Bizarre Disdain for High School Sports

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I found a lot of things peculiar about the reactions to last week's offensive pay-for-admissions scandal, but I believe readers have already tired of the subject (if you're interested in my take, you'll be able to find it here or there). However the one factor I do need to the touch upon nowadays is that the weird way that proof of corrupt school coaches, sleazoid middlemen, and asleep-at-the-switch admissions offices fueled broadsides fulminating typically at scholastic sports—as if several high school athletes and thousands of coaches are concerned by the wrongdoing of coaches and employees busy raking in bribes at elite faculties. This all felt remarkably familiar. H igh school sports, for reasons that completely escape Pine Tree State, have become a frequent target. As Amy writer and that I placed it in a column in National Review last month: Source: Google School sports have served as a convenient punching bag for advocates and lecturers United Nations age