purpleandyellow: I understand your views -- and of course think that you're wrong as well -- but I respect your belief in them. It must be strange to quote Freire and yet have a belief system aimed at propping up a system that is so biased toward the elite!

Regarding your assessment that school and athletics have nothing to do with each other -- the same thing could be said about school and lunch. Of course, some folks decided a while back that nutrition and education were synergistic. I've heard the same argument concerning exercise.