Monday, February 01, 2016
Are parents rolling the dice on their children’s health when it comes to football?
Football in high school is pretty big in this one town near where I live. I've been thinking that because of concussion news, that simply by attrition, football in high school would dwindle. But in this one town, it's as big as ever, if not bigger. "Why", I asked someone there.
Scholarships. Simply put, the parents can't afford to send their kids to the college they want to, but they think they can get them in through an athletic scholarship. In effect, the parents are signing up their non-adult children to high school football so that they might luck into a scholarship.
There are so many levels of wrong to this. Take away the chance at a scholarship, and how many parents would not allow their kids to play football? Would participation drop by half? Three-fourths? 90%? Or maybe it's just 10%?
I don't know. But let me ask this: what if boxing was big? And scholarships for boxing was big? How many parents would roll the dice on the health of their kids?
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