Boyd: “It’s time to celebrate Louisville’s student academic stars the way we worship athletes.”

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At Insider Louisville, Terry Boyd spots probes the American cultural sore spot wherein sports is everything and academic achievement a voluntary coin toss. My, my … we are a shallow and self-defeating people, ain’t we?

 … What you’ll never hear is a WHAS Radio call-in show dedicated to listeners trading rumors that the next Stephen Hawking or Steven Jobs might be at this very moment acing a calculus test at Collegiate.

The funny thing is, I find the school systems are reluctant to indulge their intellectuals in the way they’re so fast to tout their athletes.

When I tried to pry the names of top students out of administrators, the silence was deafening.

“Well, we don’t really single out individual students.”

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