The Importance Of School Education In High School?

Sports are so glorified in some areas that schools will put athletics in front of academics. This is exactly what happened the book Friday Night Lights by H.G Bissinger. BIssinger explains that the town of Odessa houses the school Permian where everyone grows up on football. The school and the town give so much praise to the football team that some football players couldn 't care less about class and eventually the teachers don’t care how those players do in class. Mount Vernon is a place where the students are expected to do well in class first and everything else is second. The school has extracurriculars, but knows the school’s main job is to give students an education. Permian and Mount Vernon are opposites on the scale of sports and

Getting accepted into college requires a certain GPA. Having the privilege to play their favorite sport should be the motivation they need to try in school. Furthermore, getting to get into a good college and continue to play the sport they love should be a great reason to keep their grades up and try harder. Along with motivation, and getting into a good college student athletes represent the school they go to and play for. They shouldn't get to fail classes only because they play for the school.

Do schools really care about their students? Do schools care for Academics? Or do they just care about the physical side, due to the amount of schools in the United States who care about their teams, and how they do? At the middle/high school level many students are encouraged to join the school’s sports team, with the pictures of the football team, the basketball team, the wrestling team, the cross-country team, the baseball team, the softball team and the track team. Persuading them to join to become one of “them”. Then there is the fine arts possibly a page here or there in the yearbook that one may have seen. In high school, it is all about finding the groups that benefit one the most. Little do schools know that their beloved sports

First of all, student athletes when they leave high school, they will not be able to maintain the grades needed to pass because they were used to low standards in the past. The GPA needed to play sports is right around 2.3 according to NCAA. If you have good grades, you are more likely to be chosen over another student with poor grades, to receive a sports scholarship to college. Some students get good grades for just one quarter. But when they get to college they will not be able to maintain the grade for the entire year. What good does it do if you can’t keep your grades in college? It does you no good! If you

There is a growing problem where much of a school’s popularity and funding stems from athletic success. Even more, if a school has a student or group of students with great athletic ability, the school will likely bend some of its rules to maintain the athletes’ image and eligibility.

Students are the future of our world, as one generation fades away, the next one steps up and keeps the world turning. In our society, schools are the vital place where many children grow, learn, and adapt. High schools offer athletic programs that keep kids active and teach valuable lessons. While sports have their benefits, they often end up undermining academics and have a shockingly large cost. Schools should preserve athletics yet never prioritize it and sacrifice academics, and if sports negatively impact academics, cut them altogether.

Going through middle school there was not a big competition with grades and sports. However, going into high school, focusing on sports and academics increased significantly. The amount of intensity in sport was astoundingly demanding, but was significantly less compared to the academic side of school. The teachers put extreme emphasis on academics, to the extent of the athletes need at least a B in each class to participate. Sacrifice such as sleep had to be made to accomplish both athletic and academic demands. There had been times where I had only four hours of sleep due to homework and practice. If any of the students failed to meet the requirements, the students were not allowed to participate in any extracurricular activities.

Throughout the history of college sports, athletes have been viewed as “student-athletes.” However, in the last two decades, universities have placed an emphasis on athletes and the sports they play, rather than their education and well-being. School has not been coming first, and this has caused a struggle for athletes to become eligible to make grades. For example, the University of North Carolina had paper classes where the football players would get credits, but did not need to show up for class; they only had to complete one paper and most got A’s or B’s.

At Imlay City High School, Athletics are taken very seriously, but not as serious as academics. Our athletic director, Don Gauthier, has a very strict policy on possessing good grades while being on a sports team. Students must maintain a C or better in every class or said student is required to attend study hall twice a week, and if you have an F, you are ineligible to play for the week. I believe this is very good for us as young men and women. He really wants to set our focus on academics first, rather than athletics. Sculpting our futures and setting us up for success.

School athletic events have always been a place students can show school spirit and bond together. First, school athletic events are a place where students come together and cheer on their school not only to support the team, but also to show other schools that Lexington Local School is bonded together. An example of this was shown during a girls’ soccer OCC tournament; many students came and cheered on the girls throughout the whole game. Not only did they cheer in the stands, but after the winning goal was scored during a shoot-out the entire student section ran down to the middle of the field to help Lexington’s girls soccer celebrate. In that moment the students bonded together and showed the other school that Lexington, as a unit, won, displaying school spirit. Without athletic

Athletics in high school is an outlet for so many students and adults. Nick Saban, the head coach of the Alabama football team, even realized this. In West Virginia,

To begin,the school board shouldn’t cut the athletic program because students benefit from sports in their future.According from researcher Kevin Kniffin,students that played school sports,tend to get better jobs with better pay rather than those who don’t.This means that when student athletes play sports,they gain lifetime benefits of becoming a successful person. Sports on a person’s resume makes it look as if they have lot of confidence in them which is what companies look for.Researcher Kevin Kniffin stated,"If a teenager plays sports,they tend to get paid better and get a better job even if they don't go pro.”It doesn’t matter if a student athlete doesn’t get a scholarship or doesn’t make it to the big leagues because they will most likely

The very notion that students should be allowed to remain in a sports team, if they are failing academically is absurd. This is because the students are more likely to achieve academically than physically, academics always come first because a students future is dependant on their academics, and failure has many consequences, this is why the school board applied the No Pass/No Play into law, that subjects the student to temporarily not be on the sports team if they are failing any subject.

This philosophy reflects the attitude at my current high school. Enterprise High School is the largest school in the area. Although the School system has been in existence for many decades, the current high school was rebuilt in 2010 following a tornado that destroyed the previous high school and taking the lives of eight students. All the on-campus facilities are relatively new and impressive for the Southeast Alabama high school. With the school being so new, there is plenty of pride in the athletic facilities. The facilities are available to rent if there is not a conflict with other in-season sports or a school function. We are here for the city and community however, the students and student athletes of Enterprise High School

George Washington Carver put in plainly when he stated, “Education is the key to unlock the door of freedom.” Education is a fundamental part of an individual’s future as it gives them a key to open more doors for happiness, success, and prosperity. The school system a place made for education has drafted away from its purpose. Sports in the eyes of young people is the key they need for life. Sports are idolized not only by the children in the school system, but also embarrassingly by the educators themselves. Children are being fooled into thinking that to be good at a sport is all the security they need and they forfeit their education for this purpose. The school system should provide equal attention for sports and education to make