More Than Sports

Why do school systems support sports? Because we are entertained? No, it is much more than that. Young people need to know how to  learn the value of personal sacrifice for the betterment of the whole, the value of giving your all for others, the value of team work, of taking instruction, and receiving rebuke, the joy of victory, and how to endure the pain of defeat. All of these are social skills that sports teach, so we have teams. Some of them have done well.