[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by popnbrown

I had a lengthy discussion about this with a good friend of mine, who's also an alumni. I must say that after the discussion, I do think that the article actually wasn't as well written as it could have been. While he does mention as the fine print that he does not mean to denigrate sports the tone used in the article suggests the contrary.

I think I was blinded because of my involvement and only saw what he promoted in FIRST, but I believe in FIRST as one other sport or activity that should be made available to everyone. This article conflicts with me a little bit.

It's a lot about how you say it. On a second read, I discovered a lot of assumptions about sports that combined give a very unfair picture of High School Sports.

Some examples:










It's great to have a supporter of FIRST, but if we're to make FIRST successful and keep its values (like so many have talked about), I think broadcasting inaccurate assumptions about competing activities isn't the best way.

And some of that isn't true for first teams. In some teams all girls do is cheer, in some teams mentors scream red faced, and in some cases there are people screaming curses in the stands of Frc events. It isn't perfect.

Originally Posted by popnbrown

I had a lengthy discussion about this with a good friend of mine, who's also an alumni. I must say that after the discussion, I do think that the article actually wasn't as well written as it could have been. While he does mention as the fine print that he does not mean to denigrate sports the tone used in the article suggests the contrary.

I think I was blinded because of my involvement and only saw what he promoted in FIRST, but I believe in FIRST as one other sport or activity that should be made available to everyone. This article conflicts with me a little bit.

It's a lot about how you say it. On a second read, I discovered a lot of assumptions about sports that combined give a very unfair picture of High School Sports.

Some examples:










It's great to have a supporter of FIRST, but if we're to make FIRST successful and keep its values (like so many have talked about), I think broadcasting inaccurate assumptions about competing activities isn't the best way.