I am a geek, therefore I dislike sports. I have serious issues with sports in school. I resent the money some, I really resent the time they take away, such as pep ralleys, or students leaving early for traveling to games. I support one member our my state's Board of Education who believes that your sports should be sponsored by the community. I even managed to convince one football coach that the community thing might work by pointing out that if he were a community coach, that would be his job, not having to worry about standardized testing or school board politics. Now this is what I mean by resources. There are three science teachers in my school, lower science, life science and me, higher level hard science. We have three football coaches, two basketball coaches along with an atheletic director. Out of 98 teachers in my district, there are 13 people certified for PE. That is not all that everyone does, but still you see my point. During a football game I counted 7 men on the field telling the team what to do. My god people its just high school football not the superbowl.
During inservice lessons, I decided to slip out of my comfort zone. Instead sitting with the usual people I sat by the football coaches. They were passing notes, texting, giggling at jokes. I do not resent the one coach scribbling plays, I was making a to do list for the next day. I relayed later "they were juvenille, there is no other word for it."
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