Just Let Them Play!!!!!!!

I want to address an issue regarding funding for our education system that I haven't brought up yet and doesn't get as much attention as it needs. The lack of funding for our public school system in this country has become such an issue that sports programs at a number of high schools are either being cut down in size or being cut altogether. This is a very disturbing trend in our country that began in some of the smaller districts, but has now begun to affect even large school districts in big towns and cities. Some of my fondest memories from high school are from me either competing in or attending school sporting events. When you begin to take the fun areas out of school you begin to make school seem like a job. Teenagers already have neough going on in their lives to make school seem like a job. What gets me, is that the adults in the government and education system that decide to underfund schools and cut these sports programs were at one point teenagers who loved playing and watching high school sports themselves. How can adults become so far removed from their own lives that they don't realize they are forcing a generation of teenage students to endure a schooling process that in now way resembles the one that hey themselves have great memories of.

With other areas of the schooling process like the school band and art programs being cut from budgets, it's time for parents and adults across out country to take a stand. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and other portions of our public schooling system are in need of some serious reform if our country is going to move and improve the current state of our education system. Standardized testing should not be such a huge concern and point of emphasis, that funding the testing process eliminates other portions of school like after school sports. I can't grasp how adults in this country don't care more about the future of our country, I don't think that men and women in the 60's and 70's would have enjoyed the bland schooling process that is currently taking place in this country. Please help the future of our nation enjoy school by doing whatever you can to raise awareness about the changes that must take place within our public education system.