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[Ed Phillips]

Bill Ashlock wrote:
> 
> Some more food-for-thought on this lack of younger generation participation:
> 
> I got home tonight and read in the local paper that most of the high school
> clubs are to be eliminated this year due to lack of funds. The list included
> the math team, the science team, the etc etc etc team. Now wait a minute
> ---- since when does a club have to be a traveling team?? Looks like we have
> not only phased out neighborhood sports, such as backyard softball and
> replaced it with organized parent-attended softball teams but also have
> phased out neighborhood science projects with traveling teem competition.
> What's the fun anymore in semi-individual scientific experimentation that
> used to gain us so much encouragement from our parents? "Ya got to join the
> science or math team Jonnie, you're good in math"  - "and it will help get
> you into college".  So it's heading out to another school 50 miles away on a
> gas guzzling school bus with a well-paid driver and answering scientific
> questions that really counts. And oh how much we cheer when the team comes
> back a winner! ......And when they go all the way to the state finals.....!!
>      #### Rubbish! There's got to be a way to reverse this trend. What we
> are really doing is overcontrolling every activity our kids can possibly get
> into.
	
	When I was in high school (long, long ago) we had science clubs which
met after school.  No school subsidies, just use of a room if we didn't
mess it up.  Would still work today!

Ed