For thousands of years sports and games have helped prepare our youth for the combat called war. Today that training is provided by the video games that simulate our computer-controlled weapons of war. But thankfully sports and games are still with us. The question is whether they need be in schools . In Europe they re not.
Schools are for academics.
Athletics are for community sports clubs. The only true World Series is for soccer not baseball. Their men s teams win. Lest sports clubs be immediately dismissed as an alien idea consider the range of non-school sports already available to Iowa City s youth. The Kickers soccer program.