theJEDMAN NATION-A New Wave ManifestoDocumenting the JED Experience Monday, October 28, 2002I'm a fool and I have a fool-proof theory on how you can tell the socio-economic status of any big-class secondary school in the country. All one has to do is go to a high school football game. If the team kicks field goals and extra points with success on a consistent basis, then the commuity that the high school serves is affluent. If the high school team is consistently unsuccessful in field goals and extra points or does not even attempt them, the the school has a lower socio-economic status. Case in point, the schools that I see now don't even try to kick field goals and always go for the two-point conversion. When I was coaching at the affluent school in the JOCO, we kicked extra points and even field goals in the eighth grade on the B-team. The reason for this is that there are more soccer teams in the rich suburbs. Plus few urban learners ever think of being the kicker and therefore never practice the game-winning kick over the swing set in the back yard. Therefore, the better the place kicking, the higher the socio-economic status. theJEDMAN .: posted by Jed 6:56 PM |
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