Our society stresses excellence and top performance on the football field and other sports agendas, but when it comes to students performing well in the classroom it seems that is not as important. There are not many people more passionate about football than I am, but still I have begun to see we need that same passion about sports in the classroom. We have students many times prepared for running a top time in the forty yard dash or dunking a basketball but not prepared to live life after the twelfth grade.Achievement in the classroom needs to be as important as anything else a student will do in his or her life! That achievement is not easily obtained.
After Butler University won the right to go to the final four in the NCAA Basketball Tournament the Coach said the reason they won was because of "...the power of we." He wanted everyone to know even though they were a small college they were able to win against teams four and five times the size of their college because of all of the players working together for one goal. If parents, grandparents, teachers, board members, and people from the community work together, we can through the "power of we" help the students to achieve their full academic potential.
“What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.” ~John Ruskin
