HPMCommander Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 I hate school sports. :angry: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tran Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 School Sports? I like sports but I never participate on the team (because I'm too lazy). Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-724354 Share on other sites More sharing options...
obiwong Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 what's wrong with school sports? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-724355 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoMayhem Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 I dont like them much Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-724358 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypercube Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 Against, the school is for learning academics, not play. For that reason, the school sports are leeching funds better used on education, like better technology/class sizes, which would benefit with knowledge rather than physical achievement. It would also not serve for motativation for the people that are not good with academics as they can no longer rely on them to get by. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-724366 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdiaz2day Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 Yes! Definitely! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-724387 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cara Veteran Posted March 30, 2003 Veteran Share Posted March 30, 2003 Schools should not be forced to use part of their already limited budgets on things like a basketball team or a football team, if people want to participate in such activities they should form them outside of the academic environment. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-724392 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aem4162 Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 What Cara said. It seems like there is always enough money for new uniforms and stadiums but not enough for current books and teaching materials. I REALLY hate that. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-724396 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HPMCommander Posted March 30, 2003 Author Share Posted March 30, 2003 well said cara and HyperCube!!! couldn't have said it better! our tech budget is now down to 20,000 per year... :( sports is more than 2 mil. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-724407 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToastGodSupreme Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 This is something from a preview of made or some other crapass mtv show: (this is real btw) Coach (addressing his team): You know what Johnson (one of the players) told me the other day? He goes, "Coach, we're not having any fun playing." Well you know what guys? We (apparently him and any other coaches there may be) aren't having any fun coaching you guys! I think that's utter bullsh*t! He's not having fun coaching him? Sports aren't about money, or winning or losing, it's about having a f*cking good time. It's about fun! I find it ridiculous that that coach would even say that. :( Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-724453 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firecat Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 I don't hate school sports (I played baseball throughout the 80's), but I think it's a bit overrated though - especially nowadays. More emphasis should be placed on academics... Just my 2 cents. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-724633 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistical Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 I've participated in school sports. Especially in grade school I was in everything. In high school, I've only joined soccer. I don't really think schools should have sports, but in a way I do. I hate how most teachers treat the players differently. Especially football players and even at our school. I don't like it at all. I can live with it, I just hate seeing it done. Off topic, but, I think schools should have teachers stop giving students homework, or at least if you are a junior or senior, have no homework. Because people work, especially me and hell, I never have time for it. I don't get a lot of it, because I've got an easy schedule, and computer classes. But it just isn't necessary and this is just my own opinion. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-724656 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldmate15 Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 Because sport is not compulsary in Australian schools, 1 in 3 kids under 18 are overweight ever since this happened. (I voted yes) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-724696 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPaul Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 I can't stand how the school (american) football teams always get budgeted so much money when the technology departments suffer. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-724772 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistical Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 I can't stand how the school (american) football teams always get budgeted so much money when the technology departments suffer. Our school just won state for the 8A division. And I can understand what you are saying. We have quite better computers then most schools do. They still are terrible but they do the job. I never experience many problems in my CAD class (2 period), the computers are like 500Mhz Intels, forgot the video card but nothing great and like 128 or 256 mb of sdram (I'd have to check). Our Cisco 1 and 2 classes computers are however different. We have such ******ty computers in there to work with and network. Our routers, omg, how terrible and old. The computers have about 32MB of ram and like, 233Mhz. Now, who really cares about that when you have teachers that are not that qualified. My CAD teacher is excellent, I can't say anything bad about him. However, not to be racist, we have a 80+ year old german teacher and she is just terrible and very slow. She found out last year what a cdrom is. She never heard of C/C++ till alst year and I had to teach her a lot of Visual Basic. She only knew Basic (barely). I didn't really do much of teaching her, nor wanted too. More like "get over here or suffer" sort of thing. I wasn't no teachers pet, tons of times I was yelled at, I remember one time refusing to do work and she said you can't do that, I'm like bull****** I can't, so they took me down to the office and I got yelled at and got like a saturday and such. My mom called later that day and fought with the school, did I ever have to serve it? Nope :-d And last but not least, our cisco teacher, he recently just got his CCNA over a month ago. And still is clueless about things. He is also a phyics (I want to say) teacher, which is he most experienced in that. We always have these dumb labs to do, and they are always the same. I don't care what he says, they are. It takes him awhile to find out a answer, or he just doesn't know. I hate being not taught and having to suffer like this for the future. I don't have time to teach myself out of school other because of work. Yes, I do teach myself when I network my computers and such. But that isn't what you just learn in CISCO 1 and 2. So I miss a lot. He makes the class so terrible. End of my rant and blabbling :p Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-724813 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 The ones that are against it should be gald if their sons/daughters become fat slobs! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-725230 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 Because sport is not compulsary in Australian schools, 1 in 3 kids under 18 are overweight ever since this happened. (I voted yes) In America, they usually make us take a Physical Education class of sorts. These are ok since you learn some anatomy and other stuff about health, but just plain team sports that you see everyday shouldn't be required much less be on school funds. They should perhaps have city leagues or something instead of school leagues. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-725238 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 If sports weren't at schools i bet a lot of adults would be fat and obese and if i'm not mistaken a great part of the US population already is. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-725256 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarus ^i^ Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 School sports is good... lots of countries are cutting down on it, and the kids health is suffering, with more ppl getting fat. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-725392 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CloudEngineer Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 I love sports be it at in or outside of school :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-725565 Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemania Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 I went to a private high school in Australia, sports is compulsory. Two after school training on the weekdays and one weekend games against another school. Apart from the injuries i got, I enjoyed it a fair bit ;) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-725605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HPMCommander Posted March 30, 2003 Author Share Posted March 30, 2003 i understand what you people are saying about overweight people... but see the thing is, weight loss programs should NOT be sponsored by the government!!! I think there's something freaking wrong with you if you are too lazy to get off of your ass and go excersise on your own. The only reason people do sports in school is for the attention, the weight loss is just a benefit. So i don't want to hear any more of that weight loss bullshi t Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-726219 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 but you see, some ppl on this thread are saying that the government spends money on sports and they should spend it on education but if there weren't sports at school a lot of ppl would become obese and the government would spend even more money in weight loss programs and on diseases caused by obesity. am i not right ? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-726247 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HPMCommander Posted March 30, 2003 Author Share Posted March 30, 2003 no, you are not right... private organizations should cover the obesity factor, the government should only worry about one thing. governing the people. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-726252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 no, you are not right... private organizations should cover the obesity factor, the government should only worry about one thing. governing the people. Should but they don't and we have to deal with the reality we have. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/69231-for-or-against-school-sports/#findComment-726279 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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