Education

I'm not an elitist. I would never detract from anyone's enjoyment of a sport as a participant or a spectator. I simply don't feel sports fans have the right to impose their preference upon others who have no interest in sports, especially unwilling sensitive children. If I had a teenage son who wanted to play football in high school, I would support him. But if he developed a sense of entitlement, I'd be very disappointed in him; and if he turned out to bully other students, he would be in deep, deep trouble with me.

This article has really upset me because I know from my own childhood that it's true. (I didn't learn until 2007 that as a boy I had been defrauded by the mandatory P.E. of my youth. My first personal trainer at the health club, of all people, inadvertently pointed that out when he showed me how to shoot a basketball -- something that was never taught in any of my P.E. classes.) It's still true today for many nonathletic boys, who are definitely marginalized in the schools.