school and sport

Paul O'Connell is oficially the lions captain.

This was said on the intercom in our last period. It made me think about how schools think about sport more than they think about the education of these students. Can you imagine a class learning something that may decide what they do in their later life to not be able to learn it because the intercom interrupted him for that minute (hows that for a worst case scenario!)
But even if you look at the school itself, you find that there is on the whole much more advertisement for all things sport than anything else. I missed Scifest (a science competition smaller than the young scientist) because I had no idea when it was on. And yet all students are alerted when Paul O'Connell becomes Lions captain.
And then if you look at school extra-curriculars. I mean to get in to some colleges you need extra curricular and most people, which the colleges know, jump at the chance of kicking a ball around to get into Harvard. (I know, I'm watching to much T.V.) and my school, and I'm pretty sure most schools are like this, has much more sports teams then academic teams.
So, in conclusion, Stop with the big emphasis on sport!!!!