I have attended every book club meeting at my school. I've never missed a National Honor Society meeting, a Math Honor Society meeting, a Social Studies Honor Society meeting, or a Latin Honor Society meeting. But when I tell people that I've never attended a high school football game, I am always asked the same question: what's wrong with you?
This article has piqued my interest on an issue that is one of the very foundations of our culture as a society. While the author advocates for sports to be taken out of schools, I do not. I do, however, agree that sports have become something of a nuisance for the academic and intellectual growth of this country's youths. The culture surrounding sports has become one which subjugates intellectual advancement for the sake of a game that has no real world impact. Sports provide an escape for those who play them, and do promote some very positive thing, but a culture which puts a game before an education has something inherently wrong with it.
