My problem is that especially I’m schools, the only competition is sport and athletes are the elite who rule the school and have a whole different set of rules because they are the shit.

My daughter did a math competition…one time. It didn’t happen again because only sports was important. School is there primarily for academics. If sports are part of school but the athletes aren’t gods and academics came first, and they had the same rules as everyone else, yeah, have fun. But that’s not reality.

As far as youth competition outside of school, I say good luck. I don’t think a parent should force a child into something that takes up that much time if they don’t want to but I can see it being good if the kid is excited or on the fence. But then again, I don’t even make mine go to church even though I’m very faithful to the church.

If a child’s academic and art contests were seen as just as valuable as sports, and if children who weren’t good at it had no interest in others had a real chance to find something else they liked, I’d be far more amenable to that.

It’s honestly the god mentality that was the first thing that put me off, and it went from there.

I don’t think anyone ever needs to make that much money off of sports but then again I have different sorts of values with money and so that’s a whole different discussion.

We also need to be careful on our values as a society. It’s sad that the cashier at Burger King who works three jobs as a single mother gets treated like shit on an unlivable wage but some guy makes millions because he can play with a ball.

So I guess…it’s complicated. Sports aren’t immoral but the current system of values that feeds it right now, are.