by baller01 » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:51 pm
This is my outlook on this subject.
High school athletics is about learning life lessons, hardwork, dedication, sportsmanship, etc. Why should a student-athlete have to stay in a school system that doesn't exactly insist on hardwork and dedication? In quite a few high school athletic programs throughout the state, the athletes don't play the sport or train for the sport other then during the season. It is much more then chasing a state title. Surround yourself around athletes who work hard, are dedicated, set goals, etc. or surround yourself around athletes who don't care about improving, aren't dedicated, and could really careless about being successful. Which is going to make you the better athlete and, more so, a better person? The reason it looks like kids are chasing state titles is because the programs they are wanting to go to are successful because they have the kids that are dedicated and work hard.
Do I think one year a person should go to this school because they are #1 and the next year another and so on? No. Do I think a person that is serious about athletics who happens to go to a school that doesn't have the same vales as him/her be allowed to go to a different program that does? Yes.
Maybe a young girl leaves a school for another because she is an avid flute player and the school she is at now has a poor music program. Is she wrong for leaving that school to go to another school with great music program? No. She wants to better herself and staying where she was to begin with would not give her the best oppurtunity to do so. It is the same thing. Whether its basketball, football, music, art, etc., this is America. We have the right to do whatever we want for ourselves. If you want to change schools to help you become better in an aspect of life whether it be athletic or academic, you shouldn't be denied this.
Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is. -Vince Lombardi