Education In America

There is this perception education in America is lousy. I will agree there are a lot of problems with it, however I also believe its not the teachers all the time, its not the school, its not what we are teaching, but the culture of extra curricular activities.

FOOTBALL IS THE EVIL OF AMERICAN EDUCATION. If you eliminate football from high school and university and all activities related to the game ( band, cheer leading, etc) you will immediately improve the health and education of our children.

Our children are not at their best as they are stressed, sleep deprived thru their high school years trying to keep up with ridiculous schedules, due to the time wasted on extra curricular activities.

India and China and any other country with rising education standards does not have Football teams........

A teenager needs time to be free. A teenager cannot be up until late hours doing homework and then report early to school to march or practice. ABSURD.

Time and money spent on Football alone can cure the "American Education Crisis".
I may not be completely right, however I never ever hear in any education discussion the idea of elimination of high school and university football. If we are going to seriously think about this, then we must admit the culture is off.

Sports should be for health and fitness and intramural style. Not the way it is today.