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In reply to the discussion: While watching Nova on HS football, IMO it's time to scrap football or change it to a non contact [View all]Purrfessor
(1,186 posts)I was simply pointing out that along with the obvious dangers of sports participation, there are other activities, if you wish to call them that, which often receive little mention yet which have their own inherent dangers.
I have witnessed my own ninth-grade daughter (a sophomore this year) in tears because she received a B+ on a test rather than the A for which she had studied so hard.
As the US population expands the competition to gain acceptance to an elite school increases exponentially. In response we, as a society, have placed evermore burdensome and stressful demands on our kids in an attempt to differentiate the top 1/2 (1/4 maybe?) of 1 percent from the rest.
I do not know the answer to solving this problem. And now, on top of the stressful drive to be accepted by a Harvard or Yale or other similarly prestigious university, we create the problem of how to pay for it. We provide banks zero percent loans yet force college students who will become major contributing forces in our economy into loans that can eventually reach nearly 9 percent.
This is backwards.
Anyway, I appreciate your response and apologize for the last two sentences in my previous post. Upon rereading them I realize they sound rather harsh.