For as long as you and I have both lived, high school sports has taken many students in and, regardless of if they were the best player on the team or the assigned waterboy, have taught them valuable lessons that are forever engraved in who they are. Take away sports, and you’re not just taking away the game, you’re taking away the many benefits that the students receive from it. These benefits include skills that are going to drastically improve the chances of the former high school athletes to succeed in the real world. Some say that sports are too much of a distraction in high school and take the focus off of what is important: school. But actually, the sports help many students to be responsible in regards to their academics, and develop many skills that will help them in the future. Although some believe high school sports are shifting the focal point of high school from academics to athletics, the life lessons and skills that you develop from high school sports trump anything else. Due to recent incidents involving hazing and concerns of high school sports negatively …show more content…
A good percentage of high school athletes are not good enough to play at the collegiate level, and that’s just the cold hard truth. This is another major argument for the opposition. According to Amanda Ripley, the author of “The Smartest Kids in the World--- and How They Got That Way”, sports give kids the wrong idea of school and “shapes kids’ priorities.” This was one of her points that branched off of the major argument “that this path ends abruptly.” In other words, she explains how for most high school athletes, at the end of their time playing for their respected high school, the real world hits them whether they are prepared or not. Due to this, her argument is that students should not partake in sports, and give their undivided attention to the