[Bob Seger]

Congratulations to you and your wife on your academic success. But tell me did you or your wife excel in college athletics? If so congratulations. If not then explain to me how lifting weights in high school prepared you for college. What did weight training do for you that was so amazing that you think all kids should take it.

A previous poster was right about a lot of parents not understanding finance or other valuable life skills. I had to learn a lot on my own. And those are the things I try to teach my kids. I could care less if they can bench 350 lbs. or squat 500 lbs. But I do want them to understand how to balance a check book, know what APR means, what a mutual fund is, the importance of a retirement fund and college fund for their kids, ect.... And I can assure you without a doubt that none of those will be taught in weight training.

Or how the other little simple things in life that kids dont know how to do either. How about being taught what a screwdriver is and how to use one or how to sew a button on, or perhaps how to cook some sort of a meal. If they dont even take college prep classes, I would much rather mine be involved in something like an industrial arts class or home economics class than to lift weights. I realize that college is not for everyone. It's amazing how many kids are completely helpless when it comes to the little basic things that everyone should know how to do.