High school sports: Are we putting athletics before academics?

In the sports vs. academics battle, sports holds the advantage this week.

Consider the parents rushing to defend an APS football coach. The AJC reports Atlanta Public Schools found more than $10,000 belonging to the Mays High School football team unaccounted for, according to a report completed last week. That includes more than $6,000 in football receipts recorded by coach Corey Jarvis that were unable to be traced and more than $4,000 collected by him. The district also found that Jarvis engaged in "heated verbal altercations" with critics.

So, what are parents and community members saying on Facebook in response? One person wrote, “I believe a football coach must be tough in his teaching. Ten grand missing? Much ado about nothing from what I see. A coach is a leader of young men, not an accountant.”