Should Student Athletes Be Allowed In High Schools Essay
When it comes to McEachern Sports, I feel like certain groups of athletes at the school are put to a lower standard than the rest of the population. Being a student Athlete is a lot harder than just being a student. With long practices everyday, no matter midterms, or finals, being exhausted after school and then going home and having to study or finish homework or a project. It can sometimes be hard to squeeze in the work load.
Of course, I realize, this isn't the problem everywhere. Not all athletes have bad grades, McEachern High School has always been know as the athletic school in Powder Springs, and Hillgrove as the Academic. Although Hillgrove has beaten us many times in various sports, so what makes the Hillgrove students better than …show more content…
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Do they have better resources? Are they more determined than McEachern Students? Is beating us a bigger Incentive for them? Whatever the difference is, McEachern still needs a solutions, so I’ve come up with a few.
Minimum morning for Athletes (underclassman included): This would allow the athlete time to sleep at night, and wake up the next morning to finish any assignments that were due.
Required study logs: I feel like this would be more of an incentive to make the athletes work a little bit harder. If they did not fill out their required study hour log for the week, they wouldn't be able to participate in the following weeks games or practices.
Study Hall: This would be a class in all athletes schedules. Instead of taking culinary or music appreciation the athlete would have a study hall class, that they’d be required to attend everyday and work on assignments for school.
Upperclassman tutoring: This is where a senior or junior, who passed a previous class with an A, would be assigned to an underclassman who might not be doing so well.
Now, after reading my four solutions, that could fix this problem, I had to narrow it down to the alternative that I believe would be the best fix. Although I believe some of these could be combined to address the solution even better. Granting all this I choose Study Hall, to go into further detail, as an alternative to fix the McEachern Athletes.
Here’s how it’ll work:
How it starts: Coming into McEachern as a freshman, you don’t know exactly what you're going to do or who you’ll be yet. Of course if you try out for basketball, in the middle of the first semester, were not going to automatically put your name in the system and drop you out of whatever class you're taking at the time. Once logged in as a member of a McEachern Athletic, the following semester, the class will be added to your schedule. (only sports that start in the summer like Football, Softball, cross country and cheerleading students would get study hall first semester freshman year)
Choosing a time: My Ideal study hall time would be 1st block, that way I would have 90 minutes to work on any and all assignments due that day.
Nevertheless not all the athletes would be able to. At the end of Freshman year the athletes with the highest grade point average, should be able to choose first, when they want study hall, making it an incentive to do well.
Study Hall itself: Every Day the student would come to class (A computer lab with a teacher during their planning) and work on any assignments they need to get done.
Negative drawbacks: I believe its built in teenagers DNA to be social, of course students will want to talk to each other, and maybe get less work done. What if study hall turns into a grounds for cheating and copying other student's assignments? What if students skip study hall? There are many negative drawbacks, but it should be up to the student if he or she wants to use the resource of study hall.
When visiting colleges for lacrosse, all the schools had mandatory student athlete study sessions. Once a week, or maybe even more. The athlete was required to go to study hall, or tutoring, or even the library. Sit down and work on all the assignments they needed to. I feel like incorporating this earlier than college would be a great way for students to understand their study habits and use them to their advantage in High
school.
Of course, I realize, this isn't the problem everywhere. Not all athletes have bad grades, McEachern High School has always been know as the athletic school in Powder Springs, and Hillgrove as the Academic. Although Hillgrove has beaten us many times in various sports, so what makes the Hillgrove students better than …show more content…
us.
Do they have better resources? Are they more determined than McEachern Students? Is beating us a bigger Incentive for them? Whatever the difference is, McEachern still needs a solutions, so I’ve come up with a few.
Minimum morning for Athletes (underclassman included): This would allow the athlete time to sleep at night, and wake up the next morning to finish any assignments that were due.
Required study logs: I feel like this would be more of an incentive to make the athletes work a little bit harder. If they did not fill out their required study hour log for the week, they wouldn't be able to participate in the following weeks games or practices.
Study Hall: This would be a class in all athletes schedules. Instead of taking culinary or music appreciation the athlete would have a study hall class, that they’d be required to attend everyday and work on assignments for school.
Upperclassman tutoring: This is where a senior or junior, who passed a previous class with an A, would be assigned to an underclassman who might not be doing so well.
Now, after reading my four solutions, that could fix this problem, I had to narrow it down to the alternative that I believe would be the best fix. Although I believe some of these could be combined to address the solution even better. Granting all this I choose Study Hall, to go into further detail, as an alternative to fix the McEachern Athletes.
Here’s how it’ll work:
How it starts: Coming into McEachern as a freshman, you don’t know exactly what you're going to do or who you’ll be yet. Of course if you try out for basketball, in the middle of the first semester, were not going to automatically put your name in the system and drop you out of whatever class you're taking at the time. Once logged in as a member of a McEachern Athletic, the following semester, the class will be added to your schedule. (only sports that start in the summer like Football, Softball, cross country and cheerleading students would get study hall first semester freshman year)
Choosing a time: My Ideal study hall time would be 1st block, that way I would have 90 minutes to work on any and all assignments due that day.
Nevertheless not all the athletes would be able to. At the end of Freshman year the athletes with the highest grade point average, should be able to choose first, when they want study hall, making it an incentive to do well.
Study Hall itself: Every Day the student would come to class (A computer lab with a teacher during their planning) and work on any assignments they need to get done.
Negative drawbacks: I believe its built in teenagers DNA to be social, of course students will want to talk to each other, and maybe get less work done. What if study hall turns into a grounds for cheating and copying other student's assignments? What if students skip study hall? There are many negative drawbacks, but it should be up to the student if he or she wants to use the resource of study hall.
When visiting colleges for lacrosse, all the schools had mandatory student athlete study sessions. Once a week, or maybe even more. The athlete was required to go to study hall, or tutoring, or even the library. Sit down and work on all the assignments they needed to. I feel like incorporating this earlier than college would be a great way for students to understand their study habits and use them to their advantage in High
school.