Monday, February 25, 2008

If Public Education were Football. . .

1. All teams must make the state playoffs.

  • All teams MUST win the championship.
  • If a team does not win the championship, they will be on probation until they are the champions, and coaches will be held accountable.
  • If after two years they have not won the championship, their footballs and equipment will be taken away UNTIL they do win the championship.

2. All kids will be expected to have the same football skills.

  • NO exceptions will be made for lack of interest in football, desire to perform athletically, genetic abilities or disabilities of themselves or their parents.
  • ALL KIDS WILL PLAY FOOTBALL AT A PROFICIENT LEVEL!
  • Talented players will be asked to workout on their own, without instruction.. This is because the coaches will be using all their instructional time with the athletes who aren't interested in football, have limited athletic ability or whose parents don't like football.

3. Games will be played year round, but statistics will only be kept in the 4th, 8th, and 11th games.

  • This will create a New Age of Sports where every team will reach for the same minimum goal, and all teams will be champions.
  • If no one gets ahead, then no child gets left behind!

4 comments:

Martha said...

What happened to your Half Full Attitude? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm???????????

Oh yeah, it's CSAP and IEP season. Surrounded by this joy is sure to make us all a bit jaded and sarcastic.

tz said...

but keep in mind IF education was football there'd be a lot more money in it!

Colleen O said...

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but. . . that was my half full take on it! You don't EVEN want to hear the half empty!

Sitting In Silence said...

Well.... I want to hear the half empty...sounds like a conversation that I heard at school today about footy clubs for kids...