Athletes Should Not Be Allowed In High School Sports

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For many years, schools with sports teams, have held tryouts to acquire young players to better their future in sports. Recently schools have changed the rules, and now any player who is failing will lose their spot. This debate is argued by many people, people who disagree with this rule believe that athletes have worked hard for that spot. While on the other hand people who believe it is right thought that education is always number one despite your skill level in the sport. What people have to understand is, many athletes may take hard classes which could cause them severely. Along with being in hard classes, these student-athletes may feel that they could cheat on tests because of them being kicked off the team. Finally, without being on …show more content…

Many kids in the USA are overweight or Obese due to lack of exercise or sports which must change for the health of the kids. From the website well.blogs.nytimes.com it states how, “Teenagers can significantly lower their likelihood of being overweight or obese by walking or biking to school and playing on at least one high school sports team, but preferably two or more, a new study suggests.” This shows that having the exercise from school sports could keep you more active and have you be less or not obese. Also, the source stated that you should do at least 1-2 school sports to avoid being overweight or obese especially if your busy outside of school and can’t exercise, from Healthland.time, “They found that teens who were active on at least three sports teams in the previous year were 27% less likely to be overweight and 39% less likely to be obese compared with teens who hadn’t joined any sports teams.” This shows that kids who don't play sports are more likely to be obese. Many might say you could exercise outside of school but many kids are overwhelmed with homework and probably a lot of overdue assignments since they are failing a

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