Exactly, last time I checked school was supposed to prepare people for the real world, not give them a dream world, where everybody is equal.
Dodge Ball, Music programs, advanced classes, these are all there to teach people. To allow them to find what they are good at. At 11:27 AM 1/30/2002 -0600, you wrote: >Dodge ball is not used to make geeky kids feel geekier and athletic kids >feel superior. It's a game that gives kids exercise and helps them with >eye hand coordination not to mention have a little fun. It also teaches >kids how to work as a team in order to achieve a common goal. It >teaches kids how to deal with failure and also how to win humbly. These >are important life lessons for kids to learn. You would actually be >doing those kids that you consider geeky a disservice. Extending your >logic, maybe the schools should lower their standards so that dumb kids >aren't made to feel dumber and smart kids superior and higher standards >of education should not be encouraged by teachers. Music programs >should be cut because some kids aren't musically inclined and in order >to save them from shame, we should not encourage such things. Cut art >classes because some kids can't even draw a stick figure. Kids need to >be challenged. Absurd. ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
