NFT: BBI Teachers: NFL wants fantasy football in curriculums!

Personally, I find it disingenuous/deceitful.

Seems to me the NFL benefits a lot more from it than the kids do.

In comment 11829070 Britt in VA said:

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Personally, I find it disingenuous/deceitful. Seems to me the NFL benefits a lot more from it than the kids do.

Absolutely agree with you

where all they did was run fantasy teams. I think baseball can be cool with the way they break everything down and you can use different levels of math. Football? Not so much.

The educational aspect is very low.

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on concussions. It's helpful to the kids and the NFL.

I remember in 6th grade, must have been early 90s, we used this program called pigskin geography. It was just us geography that incorporated nfl teams/cities. I know it wasnt something the teacher put together, but some commercial product. So i dont think this general concept is anything new. I dont really have an opinion on the propriety of it from a marketing standpoint, but if it gets kids thinking and applying principles and has a legitimate potential educational benefit, then great.

But it is not official and takes up only 5 mins a week.

I think that is a good initiative to apply maths learnings. Part of the curriculum? Errr why?

you seen what's actually taught nowadays?

and fantasy sports should def be one of em. I love to play Life or Monopoly with my daughter and have her be the bank so she has to figure out the math of it.

You wouldn't be taking Monte Ball in the second round then?

and I'm sure countless thousands of teachers play it. If one had found merit in it for a lesson I'm sure they would have done it already, for free, without having to have the endorsement of the NFL.

His explanation rubs me the wrong way:

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"We want to make sure that at the younger age, there's a format for fantasy and a way to play that will allow you to engage. But also use it educationally. It's a complex game, fantasy. You should be able to learn a lot, particularly around math. How many points do I need? How many points does this player get? We're also trying to work with groups to get the concept of fantasy based into the curriculum of elementary schools. If you love football and you teach them math through football, the chances are you may teach them better math and more quickly."

So adding and subtracting can be utilized. That it?

Frankly, I want more than "Hey, there are numbers! You can use it for math!" as an explanation as to why it should be written into the curriculum.

He's the "Marketing" director of the NFL.

it's a fun way to learn math and apply what you are learning while kids stay interested and engaged.

but "written into the curriculum" as in a required teaching tool across the state?

Who does that really benefit the most?

Just keep adding more and more shit to curriculums while limiting and reducing the creativity of great teaching.

I think it's a great idea for teachers to incorporate into *their own* classroom methods if it works for them but putting it into any curriculum is fucking stupid.

Teachers are dealing with more than enough bullshit keeping them from mastering their craft already.

I am only saying that I think there are fun ways to teach kids instead of reading a book and teaching a lesson on a chalk board. Kids can learn a lot of useful things, such as math, from some games. Again, I love to play monopoly with my daughter because there is a lot of math and it's a great way for her to learn and have fun.

That seems sketchy at a minimum.

so is horse racing.


fantasy football is gambling at its core, and doesn't belong in a school curriculum. (maybe as a problem to gain interest of disinterested students once or twice, but something supported by the league? absurd. )