Alabama tracking students' locations to penalize them for leaving games early

Re:Alabama tracking students' locations to penalize them for... by harryh on Friday September 13, 2019 @01:07PM (#20964032)

You've completely changed your argument. First it was "sports have nothing to do with receiving a basic education." Now you concede that participating in sports can be a big positive, but in some cases a positive only available to the children of richer students.

To that I say:

1) Plenty of poor kids do find ways to participate in school sports. Let's not throw that baby out with the bathwater.

2) Where this is not possible, it would be better to find ways to make it possible than to get rid of something good for everyone.

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Re:Alabama tracking students' locations to penalize them for... by linuxftw on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:17PM (#20966061)

I never said sports were bad. Organized team sports after-school are not part of a basic education. Since after-school sports activities favor the well-off, we should not use public funds for such activities. Those education dollars should be spent to help the education part, not the rich-kid sports part.

If you want to have public sports programs, that's fine. It has nothing to do with school, should be an entirely separate pool of money, and IMO, should be entirely self-funded.

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