I oppose funding
intermural sports. I'm still (strongly) in favor of intramural sports. If someone (or their parents) imagines they are a professional prospect, I favor the club system, like Europe has for soccer.
Thinking about it a bit more, I'm okay with amateur intermural sports. Like wrestling, swimming, track & field. So while I don't know exactly where to draw the line, I'm a hard no on commercialized sports like American gladiator style football, fast pitch baseball, basketball.
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Yes, ideally, we should have magnet schools for STEM, humanities, fine arts, performing arts, agrigulture, voc tech, etc. The goal is equal opportunity, helping kids find their niche, not equal outcomes.