Youths should not be banned from participating in sports such as dodgeball, cheerleading, and football. To begin with, dodgeball teaches physical and mental education. According to the text, ”Rick Hanetho, founder of National Amatuer Dodgeball Association said,” It teaches hand-eye coordination, concentration, and to draw quick conclusions” (171). This proves that youths shouldn’t be banned from dodgeball since it teaches them at a young age and it teaches mental and physical lessons. As for cheerleading, youths shouldn’t be banned because the coaches are trained and certified.
Dalton Burke ELA Ryan 5/4/23 Dodgeball should not get banned in schools. Dodgeball should not get banned in schools all around the world because people love dodgeball and it encourages kids to play and be active. Dodgeball can also be very helpful for kids because it can teach hand-eye coordination and lightning-fast thinking. Dodgeball can also teach outstanding social skills and teamwork. Whenever people play dodgeball they always have a smile on their face.
In “Children Need to Play, Not Compete.” Jessica statsky brought forward a pressing issue of competitive sports that has now become a part of our lives. Statsky claims that these competitive sports have a harmful effect on a child’s mind. The extreme physical pressure is quite damaging as well. The injuries children face can sometimes take forever to heal itself.
I believe that Dodgeball should be banned. This game is basically telling us to go against everything that all of our teachers and principals are telling us. This game is teaching us to not work together and to target people who aren't very athletic. This is also telling us that it is ok to team up on people and that its ok to target people.
OUCH! I strongly disagree. Recently school principals banned dodge ball at schools in Elk ton, Maryland. They banned it because the teachers thought it was violent and inappropriate. The principals banned it by taking it off the curriculum.
Dodgeball Seriously?! Removing dodgeball out of everything?! What’s next, tag?! Oh yeah, they already did that! Kentucky high school banned post-game handshakes, and in Nashia they banned the game of tag!
Some believe it is necessary to ban high school student from playing certain intense sports, while others do not. This topic is extremely vital and necessary to argue as it plays a major role in the lives of children regarding not only their safety and the possible risks of these hazardous sports, but the lessons of teamwork and discipline, and sources of stress outlets they bring. This topic will continue to be debated and no researcher, coach, or parent will stop arguing until all studies are proven accurate. So are all of these life and death matters worth the risks and the long hours of research and studying? That's what we are patiently waiting to find
“Strawberry Spring” fulfills all of the three reasons of why we crave horror. One of the three reasons is “to show that we are not afraid” of facing our fears (King, “Why We Crave” 1). Watching a horror film or reading one of Stephen King’s terrifying books can give us an adrenaline rush or maybe even chills. For example, near the beginning of the narrator’s encounter, “a junior named John Dancey...began screaming into the fog” when he found a “dead girl lying in a shadowy corner” of a parking lot (King, “Strawberry Spring” 2). After all, finding out about Gale Cerman’s death, while having a rather horrifying image of her dead body, is quite shocking.
With sports like soccer, football, and wrestling growing in high schools, so are the number of injuries. Concussions and other head injuries are at an all time high, but can be avoided. In response to these issues, there are laws and regulations being made to protect athletes. Schools, leagues and supervisors are finding new ways to keep contact sports beneficial to students. Teen athletes benefit from sports more than they lose with the serious injuries that can occur.
Health and contact sports are something parents worry about as over 500 deaths in the past 3 years from contact sports alone are making parents stand out against these sports and if the government doesn 't do anything about it the number of 7% overall contact sports drop will just keep getting lower and lower each time. Dr. William Speight also had this to say “Many other kids have suffered paralyzing spinal injuries”(Pennington). Kids being paralyzed is the fear for many athletes these days and the number f kids getting paralyzed has increases 2% which is equivalent to about 8,000 kids each year which is crazy to think about kids can 't play sports for the rest of thrie and maybe not be able to live their life because of it so next you hear mom or dad i wanna play sports your answer should be a simple NO. Kids under 10 need to stop playing contact sports because 45% of kids under 10 getting hurt are from contact sports and 5% of the time its ending that kids chances to play sports in the feature, Not to mention contact sports can also make kids go to their fullest and being burned out and although contact provide some kids will useful tools in life most of the time there is more negative than positive. Health, Age, Contact, parents, are some of the many reasons contact sports can be very dangerous for the youth.
The American Medical Association says “cheerleading should be considered a sport because of its rigors and risks” (Bonesteel 3). Doctors are seeing more and more cheerleaders coming into the emergency rooms with copious amounts of injuries. As of 2007, more than 26,786 cheerleading injuries were complications with the head and neck (Mueller 11). Because of this exact reason, and fatal catastrophes, states and cities all across the country have banned stunting. Cheerleading is also very high up on the list of women’s sports that cause the most injuries.
But, according to , kids are now being thought new and enhanced techniques of playing the sport. The chances of injuries and concussions are rapidly decreasing. Therefore, kids should be allowed to play the sport. Moreover, it has been proven through many studies that active kids do better in school.
2.6 million sports related emergency room visits a year; 25,376 children under 19 sent to the emergency room for traumatic brain injury each year (Merkel). Contact sports, a sport in which the participants necessarily come into bodily contact with one another, like football have become more popular among children and they have started to play the sport at earlier ages as well. Although physical activity is beneficial in many ways, contact sports creates many health risks: concussions, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, brain damage, broken bones, and broken growth plates. Because of all of these risks, contact sports should be banned for people under 18. To begin, contact sports should be banned for children under 18 because of the risk of
“In the U.S., about 30 million children and teens participate in some form of organized sports, and more than 3.5 million injuries each year” claims Stanford Children’s Health. It’s definitely true that competitive sports can cause all sorts of injuries from big to small. The media teaches people simply that sports leads to horrific injuries and can cause stress, but what the mainstream media hardly discusses are the great benefits of competitive sports. While there may be some negatives to competitive sports, that’s just life, and to add on to that; there are plenty of benefits which are sure to override to media’s facts. Kids should play competitive sports because competitive sports teach children powerful life lessons, contributes to their social and mental stability, and because of the physical gain competitive sports provides.
Children who participate in competitive sports at a young age experience more serious negative impacts than positives, including a risk of severe injury, losing
