chico—you are deeply wrong about SCHOOL choice—but this isn't the place for that—
i will just reiterate—when we mix academics and athletics, we are making a mistake—the two have nothing to do with each other—we use sports as a carrot to force children to care (or pretend to care) about their academics—that really doesn't work for either better sports or better academics—but it does create dishonesty—IF athletics is a valuable thing, and IF academics is a valuable thing, then they are such on their own merit—we don't tell club players or professional athletes they can or can't play based on factors outside the sport—we don't tell professors they can't do their scholarship if they can't run a 5-minute mile—sports and school is a false marriage that is a US tradition—a tradition that should be ended—for the sake of both sports and academics—
