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. High 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:
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School sports have served as
a convenient punching bag for advocates and lecturers United Nations agency
tend to take athletics as a cultural backwater. Amanda Ripley, a senior fellow
at the "social change" organization founded by Laurene Powell Jobs,
has created "The Case against High school Sports" in the Atlantic,
blaming sports for mediocre U.S. Performance on international tests. And
Brookings institution education scholar microphone Hansen has lamented that
sports are "distracting USA from our schools' main goals." Meanwhile, for more than a number of progressives, sports apparently
represent harmful masculinity, problematic notions of competition, and gender
segregation.
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Amidst such critiques, the
manifold advantages of school sports will simply wander off. Especially strange
is that the short confession given to the role that athletics will play when it
involves supporting academic success and character formation. That
presumptively has something to try and do with why the National Federation of
State high school Associations reports that more than half of high schoolers
participated in school sports in 2015, up from 40 percent in 1980. If you're used to negative portrayals of school sports, you may be
wondering about this casual assertion of manifold benefits. "Do you have
any evidence for this claim?" some could ask. Well, a quick studying of
some of the most widely cited studies on high school sports tells a fairly compelling
story.
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