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Re: OT-School Board-Political Help
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Posted by Paul in Mich on February 17, 2005 at 09:58:18 from (66.188.26.29):
In Reply to: Re: OT-School Board-Political Help posted by Jeff Oliver on February 16, 2005 at 19:35:03:
Jeff, Football and sports is not everything, but the sad truth is that there are a lot of kids that learn more about how to deal with the world on the football field than they do the classroom. Few classrooms teach charachter, whereas in football, charachter is one of the primary virtues of a successful program, and it carries over into later life more than you"ll ever know, unless you were part of such a program. Probably one of the greatest lessons in life I ever got was from my football coach. He taught me toughness. I have since given speeches to different groups,(football and otherwise) on the subject of toughness. Believe it or not, that lesson also made me a much better student, and most of all a responsible, independent citizen.
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