School Sports are Overwhelming Academics. Time to Kick Them Out

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The United States is obsessed with sports in ways that other countries are not.  

  
Nowhere is this more apparent than in our public schools.   

  
Crucial hiring decisions are often made based – not on how they will impact academics – but on how they will improve the school’s athletics program.   

    
US districts spend exorbitant amounts of their budgets staffing, managing, transporting, insuring, and promoting their sports teams.   

  
And millions of students are unnecessarily injured every year with the risk of life-long health consequences while also being encouraged to be less empathetic and hyper competitive.  

  
This may sound hard to believe, but it’s not this way in the rest of the world.   

  
Most countries don’t have school sports teams at all, and even those that do rarely compete with each other.   

  
In places like…

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