High School Athlete: Source Analysis

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When you think about sports programs, such as football, basketball and baseball, you often think about the amount of time, resources, and money that is put into the activities to keep them running. Over the course of a few years it is often noticed that more money is being put into these activities to provide a new environment and/or equipment needed in order for the sports to be able to function smoothly, safely, and prove to be beneficial to the students participating, the coaches, and to the people watching. Which is why in some instances extra money is put in to push that certain activity the extra mile towards success, but is the extra money put in to the athletic program proven to be beneficial to the system as a whole or could the money …show more content…

Yet this difference hardly ever comes up in domestic debates about America’s international mediocrity in education." This shows a point that the United States have not made a move too change this perspective and increase the educational material being distributed in American school systems. If the states can put more tax dollars into athletic programs then into mathematical and educational programs then why have these specific sports not held any spotlight in our national news and made a greater impact on our …show more content…

In Source D it states "When program cuts are necessary, priorities must be set and difficult choices made. Traditionally, one choice has been between fielding elite athletics programs and maintaining enriching programs in the arts—with the arts usually being the first to suffer."This is beneficial by showing that it is able to connect those specific ideas to a real world situation by comparing the athletic programs to that of the music program. It is describing how when sports need financial assistance instead of seeking the help from fundraisers and ticket sales it instead occasionally gets the funding instead by budget cuts made in, for example, other programs such as the fine arts programs. Bringing up the case that when something as popular as sports is in need it takes away from other extracurricular activities were funding could also be desperately needed, which is why schools need to do more research and search for more evidence in order to put money towards programs that will better educate and serve the youth for the