This is good advice. Truth will out, so don't waste time trying to prove the lack of value in your school's sports teams - you certainly won't make friends that way. Use that energy instead to prove what's valuable in what you want to do. It's easier to do that by finding students and teachers that hold common interests with you. Get them together, and your case for what you want to do suddenly gets much stronger. Hold back from being outwardly critical of what you might perceive as conflicting interests, people are less likely to align themselves with someone who's bitter, critical, or otherwise prone to inflammatory speech or activity.3v0 said:The first step would be to get the interested students and faculty together to form the club. Then inform the school of what you want do and persuade them not to dump all the tools and materials in a dumpster.
Salgat said:My old High School, which is also in Michigan, cut their Electronics Program the past year. Seems like High Schools are more concerned with core classes such as math and english.
Salgat said:These coaches can lead a school into a successful season, reaping millions of dollars for the school.
Salgat said:If you can show me that the top Universities who are paying millions of dollars for coaches are not making profits off their football program, then I will gladly agree with you.
Nigel Goodwin said:It'll all swing round again - in the UK the Government dropped Music a few years ago in schools, then they suddenly noticed a sharp lack of musicians, so reinstated it - but where do you find music teachers all of a sudden?.
Likewise cookery was effectively banned in schools, apparently too dangerous? - so cookery lessons consisted of planning healthy menus, and no actual cooking. Many schools re-allocated the cookery rooms to other uses, and scrapped all the equipment. Lo and behold, the Government have noticed no one can cook any more! - so they are bringing it back again - but there are no teachers, and no class rooms!.
Typical governments, don't have a clue how to run anything!.
Big thing at the moment is boys vs. girls, girls outperform boys considerably in the younger years, so the government are trying to get boys up to the same level as the girls. Anyone who has ever seen a child knows full well that girls develop faster than boys - not to mention the boys kick footballs about and punch each other in the playground.
dknguyen said:Music's not worthless. Do you know how hard the musicians in fine arts have to work to get in and stay there? Probably harder than anyone else on campus. You can half-ass your way through a lot of programs (like most academic degrees, engineering included- it's called cramming and some people are very very good at it) but anyone who is in music is downright dedicated.
I used to think like that too until I actively pursued playing an instrument. I still hold the same opinion about drawing artists though.
dknguyen said:Music's not worthless. Do you know how hard the musicians in fine arts have to work to get in and stay there? ...
I used to think like that too until I actively pursued playing an instrument. I still hold the same opinion about drawing artists though.
Perhaps! But I am an imperfect person.3v0 said:Perhaps is you learned to draw, paint, an or sculpt.
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