Growing up in a family where sports are very importance, but not the most important thing in the world really has allowed me too see both sides of the argument for changing the rules with sports.
In High School, being a so called "popular" kid was being athletic and a star in sports. Gender didn't matter. All the cool kids played sports and if you didn't basically your weren't as important. There were teachers that favored different students because of the sports they played. Not only is this totally wrong, but shows kids that academics aren't as important as sports.
Being at a school where the theater, art, and other programs where lacking in proper supplies the sports programs bought new gear each year, and had all of the top equipment. Instead of redoing a building or buying something truly needed for the school, they decided to spend a ton of money redoing the football field and putting turf in. Umm did I miss something? This was the biggest waste of money. Our football field was completely up to par and there was truly no need to replace it but hey football is really important.
You never hear about the artistic kids wining scholarships, or the super smart kids going off to amazing schools. All you see in the local paper is the students getting scholarships or wining awards for some type of sport. Favoring others has never worked out best for our society and the passage Time to Change the Rules discusses this as well.
-Maddie Rzeppa
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