Two news stories in the past week really struck me. Tho they were unrelated, they both showed where our priorities are when it comes to education.
The first was on Bryant Gumbel's Real Sports. It was a story of an alumni, Boone Pickens a Texas oil billionaire. It seems that he has donated $165 million dollars to Oklahoma State University. Every one of those dollars going toward the state of the art athletic facilities and the improvement of the football stadium; so that the best football talent would be drawn to the university.
The other was a short news item on a radio station, that we now rank 23rd in the world, when it comes to math and science.
We constantly read stories of school districts, cutting educational programs, for lack of funding. But funds are always readily available for athletic programs. Students are short changed, while athletes are treated to first rate facilities.
Teachers pinch pennies, to survive, with the meager wages they receive. Yet multi million dollar contracts for coaches are the norm.
Page upon page is devoted to athletic endeavors in our daily papers. But academic achievements are relegated to a line or two on the obituary page.
As long as the football and basketball teams are winning, who cares if Johnny can't read or write. No wonder the world is passing us up, and the only jobs Johnny is qualified for are flipping burgers and those ever popular high paying Wal-Mart jobs.
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8 comments:
Math and Science are for sissies and we don't get any entertainment from it.
Watch the money roll in if the NCAA allowed Women's Topless Chocolate Wrestling to be a college sport. It would bring in more money than football ever could. Because it's entertainment that stodgy old rich university supporters would love to see and give them feelings that they couldn't get otherwise.
Why do you think football is so popular? It somehow plays to our basest levels of humanity. Physical contact with the chance to inflict pain. And it isn't life or death. The perfect combination for a so-called advanced civilization.
I think I will just give you the topics, and let you write my blog.
Once again very well put.
I thought former athletes became sports casters. Most of those guys don't have enough sense to flip a burger.
I'm too sarcastic to write the great posts that you do.
Although Women's Topless Chocolate Wrestling as a sport does have many interesting thoughts attached to it.
You and your chocolate fetish. It could replace Dancing With The Stars, or even American Idol. I might even tune in once in a while.
LaSirena, did you ever listen to some of those sports casters speak. They make Bush sound like a Mensa member
Today's dumbed-down kids will make great soldiers and cannon fodder for the empire's future wars.
You are so righy Joe. We need those wars to keep those military dollars going to Haliburton.
But of course! Something like,
"He literally flew across that field on wings as an angel come down from football heaven!"
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