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To get started, School sports is a need for most students in order to get their mind off school and to have fun. In the text, “Sports Are More Important Than Ever” by Tim O’Shei the author talks about how,

For example school work and grades. In the video called “How much is too much,” by KCRA It states that sports and help kids with keeping grades up. The buissiere your schedule was the easier it was to prioritize what needed to get done. Altho sports could help with grades at could also make them decrease. In an article called “ Are High School Sports God For Kids,” It says that winning a competition for the sport they're playing can stress them out and only keep their mind on winning. When playing the sport and being under the pressure of wanting to win could change the importance of education to the kid. The kid could then not get good grade and affect if they get into college.

Also sports help kids with their grades.” According to a 2013 evaluation conducted by the Crime Lab at the University of Chicago, Becoming a Man--Sports Edition creates lasting improvements in the boys’ study habits and grade point averages. “ (“ Bowen & Hitt”). Sports are the number one reason for a kid who is thinking about dropping out to stay in school. Think about it if you need a 2.0 to stay in sports and you struggle in school but, you love sports and want to do it in college you will stay in school to achieve your dream. Also with sports that helps me is you don’t get time to procrastinate because if I know I have a game tomorrow and I have a big essay do the day after that I will do it tonight because I know I can’t do it after the game. Which is why most people who aren’t in sports struggle with procrastine. “Neish (1993) that found positive correlations between high, medium, or low levels of involvement in extracurricular activities and students’ GPAs and involved students attained higher GPAs than did students who were not involved.”(“ Lumpkin & Favor”). This proves again that sports truly do help are kids in school.

“Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.”(Billie Jean King) Most students from first grade to twelfth grade say that sports are a big part of their life and make them who they were meant to be in a positive way. Some people might argue that students in sports or extracurricular activities have lower grades than the other students, but it's the opposite way around. Sports improve your performance in school because they strengthen your concentration ability and leadership traits.

Playing sports or even having the knowledge of them can result into happier and more social students. In the video Notebook: Kids and Sports, Katie Couric states, “Playing sports cannot only give kids more confidence, it can also give them more rewarding friendships” (Notebook). This implies that our school can be more successful if we have greater variety of sports kids can join. Although being happier and more social isn't the only benefit of being in sports.

Sports in high school are important because they involve students in school activities, build self-esteem, create social relationships, teach teamwork and cooperation and provide positive mentors. School activities can unite a school where students, faculty and staff, and parents

Learning while currently enrolled in your profession is inevitable, however. Even without a full college education, athletes still need to be capable of retaining knowledge. Becoming a student of the game is just as important as becoming the all-star of the game. Furthermore, you couldn’t be great without knowing greatness,

High school sports keep kids healthy so they stay in school and keep students from missing class. According to ''Are high school sports good for kids?'' ''Students that win seventy percent of their games sometimes stress the win but they never put the win between their personal and educational development."

Inferring that in order to maintain a healthy mind, one needs physical activity to maintain a healthy body. Also, when giving an interview with Dr. Esser, an athlete herself and mother of an athlete, I was told, “The physical aspects of a high school sport: is it helps their metabolic rate, thus keeping them thinner. It teaches them that the food they eat can help or hinder their athletic ability which then affects their energy, mood, and ability to perform.” The studies and stats show that sports (physical activity) will help boost your overall health and cognitive abilities. Therefore, showing high school sports can help your academics. If sports are taken away, it will lead to worse health conditions in the U.S. and it will take away from the student’s mental status, performance, and well-being.

Students get distracted from their education by sports because of the fact that they become too focused into the sport.

1). “Longitudinal studies on school sports have suggested that such participation raises students’ grades and test scores” (Broh, 2002, para. 2). Stephens and Schaben performed a study looking at the number of sports each student played and its effect on academic performance. They noticed that students who participate in at least one sport each year outperformed those who participated in one or less, in class rank, overall GPA, and math GPA. They also noticed that the students who participated in more sports for many seasons had a “higher level of scholarship than the [students] who had competed in only a few seasons or for only one year.” Some research indicates that physical activity not only improves academic performance, but has an actual physical benefit for the mind. Shepard (1996) said, “Regular physical activity might influence cognitive development by increasing cerebral blood flow, altering arousal and associate necrohormone balance, changing nutritional status, or promoting the growth of interneuron connections” (Para.

Sports are embedded in many American schools in a way they are not anywhere else. One element of our educational system consistently surprises them, “Sports are a huge deal in American schools,” says Earl Smith of the New York Times. The positives have always outweighed the negatives in the case against high school sports. As Sato Kai state, “The benefits of sports as part of the education process are abundant and sometimes beyond quantifications,” According to many academic specialists, sports offer formative and life long lessons such as: discipline, responsibility, self confidence, and accountability. These skills can furthermore excel your later life and give you a greater chance of being employed in a high level job. Participation in high school sports helps your later development as an adult and teaches you life long skills that can't be taught elsewhere.

Sports teach countless important lessons that apply to school and afterwards in the real world. A few of the skills that you can learn while playing sports include sportsmanship, hard work, leadership, teamwork, discipline,

Students are full of energy, all of which cannot be spent in studies only. The extra energy can lead students to do wrong or unwanted activities which are harmful not only for the health but studies of students as well. This is avoidable through sports. They are the outlets of surplus energy. Students who play sports have their mind occupied and are less likely to have their mind wander to wrongful things. A student learns that while playing, he has to play not for his own good but for the good and success of whole team. He or she is to keep in mind the success of his or her school. Sports help students lead a more corporate and mature life. Sports teach our students that the ups and downs are the inevitable aspects of life and should be taken in strides. Playing for a sports can help them experience hardships and allow them to face the trials, hardships and various rigors of daily life in the future. The very breath of sportsmanship is fair play. Sports are another name of honesty, integrity and loyalty for students. Thus a good sportsman can be the ideal citizen of the country.

Students learn about the importance of sports and how it has a positive effect in their lives. Sports also help teach children about teamwork and sportsmanship and how it will help them in the future. Although some people might argue that sports are making children stressed out and distracting them from learning, it actually helps raise their grades and help them become more focused. Paying high school sports not only allows students to handle pressure, but to also gain leadership