[Diogenes]

"Transfer" or not, going somewhere for the express purpose of playing a sport spits in the face of why kids go to school in the first place. Hint: it ain't to play sports. If you want to argue that you're sending a child somewhere for a better education, then you shouldn't be worried about if he gets to be on the stickball team or not. More time to study that way.

Sports in schools needs to deemphasized in a HUGE way in this state. Period. When coach salaries outstrip superintendents and millions of dollars of taxpayer money are spent on stadiums while classes are being taught in trailers and we can't afford to keep good teachers, something has gone horribly wrong. It's nice to have extracurricular activities, but in the end, basketball and football should be no more important than a strong band or debate team. I love high school sports as much as everybody else, but when we are moving children like cattle from pasture to pasture or costing them a year of their lives by holding them back for no other reason than simply to put a ball in a hole, we've lost sight of the big picture.