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Old 10-10-2011, 07:15 PM
 
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I need help. I'm a violin teacher in Kentucky but was born in Central Ohio. Here's my problem- my students are obsessed with sports. Each child is in 2 or 3 sports. They have no time for homework or -gasp-music practice. My students regularly tell me that they will be unable to attend lessons for the next month or so because of volleyball, softball, cross-country, or whatever. It's driving me nuts. The parents seem to do nothing but rush their children from one sport to another. They quit Youth Symphony because their coaches won't let them out of practice for an hour. I don't know when they do homework. From what I can gather, the teachers do not give out much homework because that would interfere with the sports. The reason I'm asking about this here is that I am wondering about the state of children's artistic and academic life in other parts of the country. Kentuckians do not seem to have the same commitment to academics and arts that Ohioans did. My old high school orchestra has over 100 members and went to Carnegie Hall last year. That would be unheard of in this area. Mentioning the importance of a life enriched by knowledge and art draws blank stares around here. I haven't been back to Ohio in a number of years and was wondering if there is this same obsession with sports across the River- if this "sports disease" has taken over up there, too.
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Old 10-11-2011, 06:49 AM
 
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every state overflows with parents that want to vicariously relive high school through their children.
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Old 10-11-2011, 10:58 AM
 
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Yes, but this is just crazy. Around here, the only avenue to college is seen to be a sports scholarship and "good enough" grades are good enough. Participation in arts or academic activities is almost unheard-of. The valedictorian of my high school class was a Rhodes Scholar and a number of nationally-known classical musicians were from my area. Striving for such things around here would be viewed as an absurdity. WOSU-TV in Columbus has a popular program in which high school academic teams compete. On the air, even. Is the paucity of non-sports emphasis only present here, or is it wider spread?
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