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Originally posted by Lady Sidhe
In our high school, all of the coaches were teachers. If you didn't pass their classes, you didn't play. Period.
Of course, our school was unique in that it placed academics OVER sports.
Sidhe
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Your school WAS unique. It infuriates me how we worship sports at the cost of learning. While coaches may be on the regular teaching staff in high schools, they generally are not in colleges and universities. The coaching department or sports department is just that and nothing else. Players are coddled thru college just so the school team can win games. At the end of the exercise the kids on the team may or may not end up with a diploma in a field they know nothing about and a bunch of sports related injuries that will haunt them the rest of their lives. I think the system really takes advantage of the athletes it uses.