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Medas-King urges readiness for College or University for young athletes
Andy Medas-King
The King-Medas Pansy Adonis (KMPA) foundation would like to raise awareness among the Guyanese public about the importance of being University or College ready.
Andy Medas-King, the founder and organiser of the King-Medas Pansy Adonis Classic Road Race is of the view that parents in Guyana are ‘setting up’ their kids. Medas-King noted that parents are only concerned about the academic part of their children’s lives and not allowing them to be rounded.
“At present, world class athletes are rounded and no College or University is going to spend money on any child because of bare academics. The truth be told, almost every parent I spoke to in Guyana including some Head Teachers are of the view that running and kicking ball can wait until after studies,” Medas-King noted. But the KMPA disagrees with such.
Medas-King explained that when a child gets 15 CXC passes because of no sports policy in Guyana when that child approach an Educational Institution the child have to pay while if that same child was a rounded student he or she would have been eligible for a Scholarship. The practice in Guyana needs to be addressed and until then parents will have to find that money or that child will have to forget about getting that higher education.
The foundation is asking parents to allow and support their children to participate in different sporting events and watch their children grow, become competitive, learn to lose and also learn how hard they must work in order to win.
Medas-King and the Foundation would be writing several articles addressing these issues and are hoping that changes can be made in the mindset of Guyanese and in the pending sports policy which has a draft being circulated in some circles.
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