Teen suspended for tweet critical of high school sports
125 replies, posted
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;40575392]It really is absurd. I feel bad for my sister's theater group in high school. They receive literally $0 in funding and have to pay for the rights to their plays and the materials to build it entirely out of pocket and/or fundraising, with the ticket sales barely being enough to buy the rights to the next play.
Meanwhile, the football team gets funding for just about anything they want. Why? Because sports.[/QUOTE]
At my school the football team will go to a restaurant and blow over $2,000 on a huge team meal before their big games, no other team gets that.
[QUOTE=LMFAO;40575451]football can become a very high-paying career[/QUOTE]
Do you know what a career in sports actually is? A career in advertising that you get because you're good at sports.
The fact that people are making the GDP of a small African nation off playing a game is laughable and pathetic
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;40577289]At my school the football team will go to a restaurant and blow over $2,000 on a huge team meal before their big games, no other team gets that.[/QUOTE]
Good lord.
That 2 grand could have gone to better things.
people care way too much about games
in the end its a fucking game get the hell over it
And if a jock had said "God, the academia at this school is crap", none of the academics would give a shit and jack-fuckall would have been done about him.
[QUOTE=silentjubjub;40575431]Are you trying to say what the school did was ok just because other people can't take a hit?[/QUOTE]
No, I was wondering if people were just jumping to conclusions. The school may have suspended the student for his own safety (which shouldn't happen anyway becaus people should be able to take a joke), the source also points out that he wasn't the only student suspended.
People seem to think that my post was critical of the student when it really wasn't.
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It also shows how fucked the education system's priorities are.
My highschool got some ungodly amount of money (like a million/half-million dollars I think, no, I'm not joking) from the state to build a football stadium when we were told we couldnt even afford replacement pencil sharpeners for all the classes.
Fuck, it's not even a very good stadium.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;40577305]The fact that people are making the GDP of a small African nation off playing a game is laughable and pathetic[/QUOTE]
Only if you think sports being incredibly popular with the public is laughable and pathetic
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Or if you hate capitalism
[QUOTE=LMFAO;40575451]holy fuck go outside more please, football can become a very high-paying career if you excel in it and are a very promising, skilled player. it isnt all just running around and throwing yourself at the other guy for funsiez.[/QUOTE]
Or you can go do something productive with your life and to society as a whole.
[QUOTE=viperfan7;40582358]Or you can go do something productive with your life and to society as a whole.[/QUOTE]
So what are you doing that enriches people's lives more than a talented sportsperson
[QUOTE=viperfan7;40582358]Or you can go do something productive with your life and to society as a whole.[/QUOTE]
You realise that sports teams do contribute an awful lot?
American schools, what are you doing.
[QUOTE=WeekendWarrior;40582395]You realise that sports teams do contribute an awful lot?[/QUOTE]
Entertaining fat fucks sitting in front of their TVs and some thousands of people in stadiums doesn't really justify earning THAT much money. (Not talking about high-school sports teams, but "professional" teams here.)
Hell, I wish I could earn a hundred grands for playing TF2 for about 2 hours.
And on the topic of schools, investing only in sports while letting everything else that's actually educational go down the drain doesn't exactly help humans in making progress as a species, you know. It only serves to create more idiots.
The Education System in America isn't all that great at the moment isn't it?
[QUOTE=Doom64hunter;40582537]Entertaining fat fucks sitting in front of their TVs and some thousands of people in stadiums doesn't really justify earning THAT much money. (Not talking about high-school sports teams, but "professional" teams here.)
Hell, I wish I could earn a hundred grands for playing TF2 for about 2 hours.
And on the topic of schools, investing only in sports while letting everything else that's actually educational go down the drain doesn't exactly help humans in making progress as a species, you know. It only serves to create more idiots.[/QUOTE]
You're comparing playing a video game to playing professional sports? They are at two completely different ends of the spectrum.
You realise that these players are actually brand assets? They generate the money for their respective clubs/franchises. Their bosses decide what they're paid.
Athletes don't wake up one day and say ''well I'm going to play pro sports exclusively for money!!!'', they do it for a love of their sport and professionals play at high levels and risk occupational hazards.
And a brilliant generalisation at the end, sportsmen/women aren't idiots.
[QUOTE=N-12_Aden;40577313]Good lord.
That 2 grand could have gone to better things.[/QUOTE]
School sport funding is ridiculous. My old school passed up a new computer lab in favor of a jumbotron for the football field. A jumbotron. For a high school football field. Fifty grand down the hole.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;40582707]School sport funding is ridiculous. My old school passed up a new computer lab in favor of a jumbotron for the football field. A jumbotron. For a high school football field. Fifty grand down the hole.[/QUOTE]
Shit we were lucky to have a bloody scoreboard that works. I don't even think our school has had 50 fucking grand at one time.
Just curious but where the hell did this happen?
Our high school school pumped thousands into a new sports stadium while literally every computer, even the CAD machines, were running Pentium 4's.
And we had a rally like every other month, which for me translated into leaving early.
At least my university has decent computer labs and a nice VPN setup.
[QUOTE=Doom64hunter;40582537]Entertaining fat fucks sitting in front of their TVs and some thousands of people in stadiums doesn't really justify earning THAT much money. (Not talking about high-school sports teams, but "professional" teams here.)
Hell, I wish I could earn a hundred grands for playing TF2 for about 2 hours.
And on the topic of schools, investing only in sports while letting everything else that's actually educational go down the drain doesn't exactly help humans in making progress as a species, you know. It only serves to create more idiots.[/QUOTE]
It's called supply and demand genius, you won't get paid that much because no one wants to watch watch an angsty teenager play video games for two hours
[QUOTE=WeekendWarrior;40582604]You're comparing playing a video game to playing professional sports? They are at two completely different ends of the spectrum.
You realise that these players are actually brand assets? They generate the money for their respective clubs/franchises. Their bosses decide what they're paid.
Athletes don't wake up one day and say ''well I'm going to play pro sports exclusively for money!!!'', they do it for a love of their sport and professionals play at high levels and risk occupational hazards.[/QUOTE]
How does that make it completely different ends of the spectrum? They are both games where the goal is for your team to win.
The clubs are the core of the problem. They pay their players huge sums of money (which compared to what they actually achieve in their jobs, is far too high) so that they won't switch over to the competition.
The highest bidder wins in that dispute. And with the amount of money they can make off of people coming to watch the games, TV licenses, advertisements etc., it's bound to be very large numbers.
And of course the athletes love their sport, but so do I love playing video games. Why else would they choose to play it?
And you can't be fucking serious that they aren't doing it for the money. Otherwise, why would some of them be switching clubs, if not for the money? Why would they focus on becoming professionals in the first place?
[QUOTE=WeekendWarrior;40582604]And a brilliant generalisation at the end, sportsmen/women aren't idiots.[/QUOTE]
Oh, they will be. If the schools decide to cut funding for educational purposes that is. Mind you, only a small percentage of them actually gets to be successful. And in case of failure, what are they supposed to do when their education has been shit?
Schools shouldn't encourage gambling on your future.
[QUOTE=James*;40583100]It's called supply and demand genius, you won't get paid that much because no one wants to watch watch an angsty teenager play video games for two hours[/QUOTE]
Completely missing the point I see.
[QUOTE=Doom64hunter;40583579]Completely missing the point I see.[/QUOTE]
No, I understand your point perfectly. Sports stars shouldn't be paid as much because you don't enjoy it and act arrogantly and disparagingly towards those who do.
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You also still fail to grasp the concept of supply and demand, it really isn't that hard
I'd be willing to bet that there is something important about the story that is missing, probably something more than just that one tweet that guy did.
[QUOTE=James*;40582385]So what are you doing that enriches people's lives more than a talented sportsperson[/QUOTE]
Going to be developing software for use in hospitals, you know, the places where peoples lives are saved, that's what I want to do, and that's what I'm working towards.
[QUOTE=viperfan7;40583700]Going to be developing software for use in hospitals, you know, the places where peoples lives are saved, that's what I want to do, and that's what I'm working towards.[/QUOTE]
Well good for you, but surely entertainment is a vital part of being alive. Some people find it playing video games, others watching sports. To say sports has nothing of value is incredibly ignorant and disparages those who enjoy it.
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I also knew you'd find some way of working healthcare into your response
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As if keeping people alive is the be all and end all
Our schools should teach kids how to act like dumb jackasses on reality tv. I mean being a jackass on reality tv makes a lot of money you know and people want it. Supply and demand and shit.
[QUOTE=James*;40583633]No, I understand your point perfectly. Sports stars shouldn't be paid as much because you don't enjoy it and act arrogantly and disparagingly towards those who do.
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You also still fail to grasp the concept of supply and demand, it really isn't that hard[/QUOTE]
Who the fuck cares about supply and demand. Capitalism isn't the holy bible you know, and treating sports as if they're 100 times more valuable than saving lifes (for example) is a fucking joke.
[QUOTE=Hamaflavian;40583757]Our schools should teach kids how to act like dumb jackasses on reality tv. I mean being a jackass on reality tv makes a lot of money you know and people want it. Supply and demand and shit.[/QUOTE]
I haven't mentioned anything to do with education or funding or anything like that, I agree that by the sounds of it sports are over-prioritised in schools. The focus in schools should be more on the health aspect rather than the competitive
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[QUOTE=Doom64hunter;40583784]Who the fuck cares about supply and demand. Capitalism isn't the holy bible you know, and treating sports as if they're 100 times more valuable than saving lifes (for example) is a fucking joke.[/QUOTE]
Okay so what is the alternative?
[QUOTE=James*;40582385]So what are you doing that enriches people's lives more than a talented sportsperson[/QUOTE]
My father has this where he thinks that roadworkers deserve less than sports stars.
[QUOTE=gokiyono;40583822]My father has this where he thinks that roadworkers deserve less than sports stars.[/QUOTE]
There certainly are a lot more roadworkers and it's a lot easier to become one, even if it's probably not easier being one
I remember that my school neither had good sports equipment, nor had the best books and IT equipment.
From a school that was supposed to be in Denmarks top 100.
There even were a documentary about it.
(The geology exam sucked because we had to use monitors that hurt our eyes. (One student made the joke that he would get a doctors permission to use his computer.))
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