8th grade english
Mrs. king
April 26 2016 Grades Before Sports intro
This is about grades coming before sports. Sports are fun but they are not as important as grades. Grades are a really important you need to be smart if you would play a pro sport you would need to go to college to play the sport the you like. If you want to go pro one day then you better keep your grades up so you might get a scholarship. A collage will not accept you if you don't have the grades to go with the skill.
Reason 1
One reason that kids should have to have good grades to play sports is because they shouldn't have to compete with somebody who has bad grades. According to Paula Lavigne. Being able to have bad grades would allow them to fail school and play sports. Sports are a reward you have to earn. Put it this way you could have went to a collage of your choice but you have bad grades so now you are flipping burgers instead of playing college sports. You could have been living the life but you started to slack off and fail now …show more content…
School should come before sports. The average gpa is 3.0 so you should be able to keep the 2.0 gpa. “Because if you cannot have good grades, why should they let you play? Why do they need good grades.” They should not have to compete for a spot on the team when the have work hard to earn the spot on the team. While other kids have poor grades and still get to play as they do nothing to work on their grades. If there is a kid who is not good at a sport but they play and have bad grades they would not get to play but if that kid was the best player he would get to play because he is good on the field. That’s not fair for the other kids who want to play but can’t due to bad grades. That would be like giving a smart kid a piece of candy if he got an F on a test it wouldn’t be fair for all the other not so smart kids who got an F. That is the same thing it just would not be