In Oklahoma, Arizona and Kentucky, where schoolteachers walked out or threatened to walk out (and as a retired college instructor, I support them 100 percent), just wondering, would high school athletics have been threatened too?
In Chicago, where I reside, no school, no sports. No sports, no athletes competing, no chances to show their wares to colleges interested in offering scholarships or pro teams in sports like baseball and hockey, where kids do go directly to the pros, at least at some level, right out of high school (unless your name is Ball, and then you go directly to jail, purgatory or Vermont Avenue on a Monopoly board.
Nothing is more important than educating – and protecting the safety of – our kids. Athletics are part of that educational experience. Let’s protect it and let’s pay our teachers what they deserve so the athletes can display what they can do too. Teachers are educators, not gun-toting security guards.
SEAHAWK SQUAT: Apparently, Colin Kaepernick had been talking with the Seattle Seahawks about making a comeback into the league, likely as Russell Wilson’s backup and, who knows, as a secret weapon in “wildcat” and other special formations.
It wasn’t all that long ago that owners knelt with their players in support of their protest against unfair treatment for all in America. It wasn't all that long ago an owner called the players "inmates." This whole thing is confusing, confounding and ridiculous.
Now, with Donald Trump riling up fans over this, with games taking longer, delayed by prolonged replay reviews, with TV ratings eroding a bit and the game overexposed on TV from Thursdays to Mondays, with the occasional late-season Saturday, and let's not leave out fears of concussion concerns, aha - only now are the owners looking the other way.
As long as the form of protest is passive and peaceful, there is no problem, and when the game starts, it’s forgotten already.
We support our teachers and their protests for more pay, better materials and better venues in which to educate our kids. Some of those kids are playing in the NFL now.
Unfortunately, one of them is Reuben Foster. Why aren’t you, Donald Trump, declaring he should be “fired?”
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