Football and High School

Provocative: Football is better than high school.

Simplistic: Easy to point out how education/schools fall short. Also, the main power a coach has – to prevent someone from playing – teachers don’t have. Not so easy to say what we should do about it – weakness of the article.

What can we learn?

Why didn’t those skills and capabilities and that enthusiasm show up more in the classroom?

We don’t usually ask what it is about school that tends to make it unworthy of that kind of devotion – we tend to accept it/blame the students. Football can offer a place of joy, a place where students lose track of how hard they’re working.

School is a set of requirements, but sports are a set of opportunities.