School sports have been around for a long time. Whether you hate them or love them they are getting cut down in school districts everywhere. They should be because school athletics is too expensive, a minority of students play them, and sports take away from family time.
For example, "The district's cost-saving measures are part of the latest trend in which middle school athletic programs are sacrificed ahead of freshman and junior varsity programs. But such strategies aren't always sufficient. Brevard (Fla.) Public Schools, facing the loss of $36 million in federal stimulus money at the end of 2010, is targeting both middle school and junior varsity sports programs for the 2011-12 academic year - potentially affecting more than 2,500 student-athletes.
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High school sports participants can not miss a day of them or they will be kicked out. "One of those students last year was Ollie Costolloe, a member of the track and field team at Brookline High School in Massachusetts. The coach required attendance at practice six days a week, including holidays, his mother said. “It wasn’t just summer vacation, it was the complete inability to go away for a single weekend during the entire school year without significant consequences,” Deborah Costolloe said. She recalled the coach telling students, “If you need to go to the doctor, you need to plan that during class time, because if you miss practice you are off the team.” That even applied to family funerals. (Bruce Feiler).” Also sports make you have to play them on your off time when that should be family time. "A New Jersey parent captured the frustration in a comment on a forum for the West Windsor-Plainsboro school district: “If your kid plays football, forget going anywhere in August. If your kid plays basketball, forget going anywhere during winter break. And if your kid plays baseball, forget spring break. — and heaven help the family who has a kid that might play two or three sports during different seasons!! Does anyone else out there feel that the school should stay out of our time (Bruce Feiler).” Lastly, sports might have to make you miss important events. "Recently, I spoke with the patriarch of a large family who spent a year