Is it moral to ban foreign exchange students from participating in state tennis championships?
I had a discussion today with a co-worker whose son and daughter are both in the high school state championships in tennis today. She and others, including the coach who also works in my office, think that the foreign exchange students should be banned from playing in the championships because they start out at a young age getting lessons and it gives them an unfair advantage over the local students. I said that it was not moral to ban the foreign exchange students just because they are better players. I argued that the world is unfair, that the students will be competing for the rest of their lives with those that have an advantage, and that at times they will have the advantage over others. I also argued that there is noting preventing the kids in Montana getting tennis lessons at a young age just like the European children.
What say you?
What say you?
The quite controllable unfairness would be to the foreign student and the school if a rule were enacted compelling the school to exclude the foreign student who probably worked very hard to get to the US.
If the exchange students are not being recruited for their athletic skills, I do not have a big problem with this. However, when it is clear that they are being recruited then I think this is a misuse of my tax dollars.
I don't know what's moral or immoral but I would not call it a championship unless everyone had a shot at the title. What soccer team doesn't pull for an exchange student or two each year.
Time to ban the ban! Let's the kids play!
Think I'll go play now...
Seriously, Technocracy makes good points.(+1) If the organizers provide the private funding, they can set the rules. If you don't like the rules, then don't play. (Or use your looters "pull" to corrupt the entire process.)
Another way to look at it is what would happen if the foreign competition is excluded? American quality will not improve; instead, with less competition, external or internal, it will only decline.
The provider of the scholarship has total control in the rules for consideration. They are voluntarily providing largess, there are no "rights" involved on an individual receiving it.
If the trustee(s) of the scholarship wanted to only grant it to left handed redheads with one leg, that is their right.
For example the NAACP is not only allowed, they are celebrated for granting scholarships to only people of color.
Political Correctness and "Diversity" often contradict each other. They also fly in the face of reality.
The other argument that comes up is that it involves "public money". Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't.
Many scholarships disbursed are funded not with public money, but private donations and endowments.
There are no "publicly funded" services that meet with 100% public approval. If that was required, nothing would be funded. (Taxes would go down, lets make that a requirement)
This is banning the good because they show up the not as good. It is evil.
A foreign exchange student is granted access to the school, classes, and extracurricular activities to partake of the American culture, then hopefully take their positive experience back to their home country.
If parents think that foreign students are given an advantage, maybe these same parents need to take some time and EDUCATE THEIR KIDS A BIT THEMSELVES!!!
There is nothing unfair, except parents in this country pawning off their personal responsibility of educating, raising and instilling ethics into their own kids to Government.
I fail to see where the question has any relevence at all. Parents want fairness, then kidck their kids in the ass and make them learn something and be active instead of sitting on the couch playing video games and watching TV.
An interesting point about competition and competitors...Competitors need each other to be the best they can be...each feeds the other.
Let the exchange students represent USA high schools (whose parents did not pay taxes to support) by only playing each other.
Not enough exchange students?
I've played two against two or three against three games with only one hoop as a kid.
Oh, an afterthought~
They can still ride on the same bus with USA students. I'm not that cold-blooded a lizard.
Presenting a closed wall culture is a rather sordid way of ensuring someone else's win. Kinda like our current rigged elections.
It's sets a really bad example but then these days we are a really bad example ...as a nation.NAACP filled a need at one time as did unions at one time.Now I wondered why they are allowed to keep such a openly racist name?
I don't like the idea but it does show the American Way of rigging the game at the State level. Exchange students are supposed to be learning how great we art not how great we aren't.
If there is a reciprocal agreement with other countries to allow exchange students to participate in all school activities, then they should not be banned.