Importance Of Sports In School

Sports Abolition in American Schools

First of all, sports are a very popular extracurricular activity among many different schools in the United States. As a result, American students usually praise sports over academics. Since sports are a popular and glorified activity in schools, they pose as a distraction from the institution’s academic focus. Some may argue that playing a sport helps achieve good health, develop leadership skills, and avert affiliation with drugs and gangs. Although this is true, sports divert American students’ attention and effort from school’s academic purpose. Also, there are other ways, involving academics, that help students stay healthy, develop leadership skills, and prevent them from getting involved in problematic

This might cause such students to have less time available for their academic studies. They might also feel too weary to focus on school work as well as homework. In his article “Academics, Not Sports, Should be Focus When in High school.” John Klement, a board member at The Augusta Chronicle, theorizes that “The problem is that for too many teens, sports and sports icons are valued above everything else. One reason for this is that sports are what gets the attention in schools.” In the United States, many young students value sports along with their star athletes above everything, academics in particular. Thus, sports claim students’ attention and appraisal. He also claims that “Schools are supposed to be about academics, but for a long time sports has been given as much, if not more, importance”(1). He believes that academics should be deemed more important than sports in schools. Since sports are considered more important in schools, students, especially athletes, will value them more than academics. They pay more attention to competing in sports that solely grants an accolade than studying for an exam that will grant a higher education and a good paying

In her article, she states that “Parents, [in addition to coaches], can create high levels of stress and anxiety for the young athlete. A parent can inadvertently set a child up for failure by establishing unrealistic goals for performance and winning by forcing a young athlete to participate in sports beyond...interest. A child who is unable to perform as expected by parents and coaches may lose confidence and seek alternative avenues for fun” (¶20). Adults can induce anxiety upon a child with their unrealistic expectations for winning. This may cause a child who cannot seem to fulfill such expectations to find another source of amusement. This can possibly lead to finding amusement in academics. Perhaps the child will enjoy keeping their focus in school instead of out in the field. This is a positive outcome of giving up sports. However, the child might take the wrong road towards fun. They may end up socializing with the wrong group of people. People who might serve as a gateway toward drugs and violence. One does not want this to happen to any child of course. Compared to sports, academic activities can be really fun and don’t pressure students to be better than everyone else in order to win a simple