Saving Lots Of Money: Should Schools Be Paid?

Sports have interfered with students and have been making kids not having the time for school work. Sports have interfered with students academic grades, homework, and sleep. Therefore, schools should get rid of sports to save money for new supplies, allow students to catch up on their work, and classrooms get dirty or messed up.

With the elimination of sports, schools will save lots of money. “So Superintendent Ernest Singleton made a bold decision: He canceled all the sports doing this he realized, the district could save $150,000 in one year” (10). “Also, just the equipment can cost thousands of dollars, new bleachers can cost half a million dollars and maintain a grass field can cost more than 20,000 dollars a year” (10). See look how much money Schools can save without sports, with all that extra money schools can buy whatever they need. Cutting sports have saved schools thousands of dollars and helped schools with saving money.
According to Amanda Ripley, there was a school district called Premont Independent and school sports have been eliminated there in the spring of 2012,”There was all this extra time,” says Nathan (10). According to Amanda Ripley, she says that “50% of students passed their tests, but now with the elimination of sports 80% passed” (10). This shows why sports should be taken out of schools because with it being at school, students are failing their classes because none of them have time to study. Cutting sports are giving students the time they need to get work done on time or just lets them get ahead of the