Against High School Sports Essay

Are school sports the cause of many students failing academically? Some schools prefer to not have sports because they believe that sports are a cause of academic failure. Many believe that schools are putting too much attention to sports than they should be. Should sports be excluded from schools and no longer have in-school sports? School sports are not essential in-school, but they do help students achieve goals in themselves throughout the school year. In,(“High- School Sports Aren’t Killing Academics”), It talks about how school sports do not affect students in school, but that it actually benefits the student. In the article it says that “Indeed, our research and that of others leads us to make the opposite case. School-sponsored sports
In,(“The Case Against High-School Sports”), it states that “Even in Eighth grade, American kids spend more than twice the time Korean kids spend playing sports, according to a 2010 study published in the Journal of Advanced Academics.”This shows that in-school sports are considered to be more important in America. The passage also talks about school sports and how “In countries with more-holistic, less hard-driving education systems than Korea’s like Finland and Germany, many kids play club sports in their local towns-outside of school” which seems to be a better option, rather than school-sponsored sports.
School sports were never considered necessary to have in school, but that does not mean they were unnecessary. If a child is more involved in in-school sports the person is more driven towards academic success. Though school sports may be considered to some not necessary, in the long run the student does receive benefits out of it. School sports should be more accepted throughout schools because of the impact it has on student studies and character, even though, there is much criticism saying that it is disadvantageous and useless for