The Importance Of Sports And Sports In High School

For some people, high school is just a place to make friends and be popular and others use high school to get somewhere in their lives and be successful. Most students gravitate towards popularity and neglect their grades causing them to have problems later on in their adult lives. The real problem with students valuing sports and social status over making good grades and being a good student is the faculty, allowing it to happen by not recognizing other school activities during announcements and pep rallies. The students who do not join sports join other underappreciated school activities, and are not supported in the fullest capacity. After being a part of a school activity without the support of friends, it can make a student feel less and eventually want to give up on the program. Schools are at a continuous battle of brains

When the students labeled as “nerds” do well in their own individual school activity, school announcements do not praise them in the same way athletes are praised. As said by Grant Penrod in Why We Hate Smart Kids, “any or all of these factors can contribute to anti-intellectualism, and the result, is a crushing disregard for the lives and achievements of fellow human beings” (Penrod 760). Not giving praise for other activities devalues the program and student’s view of academics. Some people involved in sports barely pass by in academics and work harder in their sport in hopes of them one day playing professionally. In reality, it is harder to maintain good grades because of the competitiveness between students. Making good grades requires extreme planning and dedication and is more likely to help pursue a career outside of high school. Academics are greatly underappreciated and need to be a school’s main