High School Sports Are More Important Than Ever By Tim O'shei

It’s a Thursday night your charging down a field clenching a football under you right arm, you have all your peers cheering you on. Your big exams were today and you need to be studying for the other exam tomorrow; sweat streams down your face as if it’s washing away the tension and fear of your grades… and TOUCHDOWN! You score and all the worry is swept away. School sports may seem a distraction from learning and succeeding in life to some, but quite frankly it may act as an reliever to those in need. Using the article, “No! School Sports are more Important than Ever!” by Tim O’Shei provides many reasons to support that school sports should not be scaled back. “Yes! It’s Time to Scale back” by Amanda Ripley states that sports should be scaled back but obviously school sports are too important than ever to quit them. Firstly, school sports should not be scaled back! There are many benefits to school sports, sports help release tension and worry. The passage, “No! School Sports are more Important than Ever” by Tim O’Shei states, “The stress can get so intense it feels paralyzing. That’s why it’s more important than ever for schools to invest in their

Sports could become a distraction to students from homework to where they’re grades go down and they aren’t learning as much as they should. As well as a distraction sports add ons such as new uniforms each year etc. can be too expensive for a select few schools. The article “Yes! It’s time to Scale Back” by Amanda Ripley states, “New bleachers can cost up to half a million dollars. Maintaining a grass field can cost more than $20,000 a year.” Readers infer by this statement, that some schools do not have much money and have to not allow sports for a reason. While this might show a good reason to stop sports there are more supporting detail that sports should