Should Contact Sports Be Banned From School

Michael Jones Jr

Mrs. King

ELA 6th Hour

11 April 2017

Should Contact Sports Be Banned from School?

Contact sports can help students is so many ways as far as grades to friendships. In reality some people think that contact sports shouldn’t be banned from school because it helps kids in so many ways. But on the other hand some people think that they should be banned from schools because they get hurt, they can have concussions or even broken bones. I think that contact sports shouldn’t be banned from schools because it helps kids have better relationships with each other and it helps kids deal with emotions.

I don’t think that contact sports should be banned from school. One reason is it helps kids have better relationships with other kids

or students. According to Shookhoff, athletes develop relationships with their teammates. Sometimes it’s the sole ways of socializing with others, and in communities it might be difficult to develop a social network at all. I think this because it gives kids or students a better way of getting out there and making new friends and just being more social with other kids. Another reason is it helps kid define themselves through their relationships rather than their achievements, sports offer yet another way to make friends and create an alternate peer group according to the feminist theorist Carol Gilligan. It gives kids another more easier way of making new friends and being more social. The President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports reports many developmental benefits of participating in youth sports for girls, including increased self-esteem and self-confidence , healthier body image, significant experiences of competency and success, as well as reduced risk of chronic disease. Girls benefit from it to and they are healthier and feel good about themselves.
Another reason I think that contact sports shouldn’t be banned from school because it helps deal with emotions. In the words of one patient, “If you play really hard, you feel better because playing takes your mind off things that bother you, and afterwards you concentrate better.” Because of this it helps kids take their mind off other things that bother them and let them concentrate and do their best that they can. Many athletes get better grades in season (theories posit the discipline and the need to manage time, along with an increased ability to concentrate). During exams, Duke University opens its gym twenty-four hours a day to provide stress relief for its students. Because it has scientifical proof that helps with the students getting better grades and doing better on exams and tests. Most doctors recognize the positive mental effect of physical exertion, even though we’re not sure exactly why this is so. I know that my ability to study in college and medical school was greatly enhanced when i ran during the day, and I’m not the only athlete to find this true. Because it just helps study better and do better during things like college and medical school.
On the other hand, contact sports are bad due to injuries.

And most common victims are kids, who are starting football at ever-younger ages. Their necks aren’t fully developed, so they can’t brace for a hit the way adults can. And their braincases haven’t finished hardening, which makes their skulls more vulnerable to impact. This is true if you don’t have enough padding to protect you from contact. By the time they get to high school, kids have a 5% chance of sustaining a concussion for each season they play. And as a 2011 study showed, former football players who sustained two or more concussions in their youth have a significantly higher rate of cognitive impairment as adults. Kids that had injuries while playing sports as a child would most likely to sustain them as an adult. The results were predictable: smashed noses, dislocated shoulders, broken necks and fractured skulls. Dozens of young men died, mostly from cerebral hemorrhage. “The sight of a confused mass of educated young men making batter-rams of their bodies, plunging their heads into each other’s stomachs, piling upon each other or maiming each other for life-sometimes indeed … killing each other … is to me a brutal monstrosity,” said Cornell President Andrew D. White in 1891. Injuries was going to happen and sometimes you could even be killed from the hit or you could die afterward due to the injury you

sustained.
All in all, it helps kids have better relationships with each other and it helps kids deal with emotions, contact sports should not be banned from school.

If my argument wasn’t followed it could hurt students grades and make them not be able to make friends as easy as they would if they were playing sports.

Works Cited

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Zimmerman, Jonathan. "We Must Stop Risking the Health of Young Football Players." Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2017. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/VWETBE693994308/OVIC?u=pub_ovrc&xid=dfeb74dd. Accessed 3 Apr. 2017. Originally published as "Football: Unsafe at any level," Los Angeles Times, 13 Sept.

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