ipl-logo

High School Sports Summary

568 Words3 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Impact of youth sports

High school sports are valued around the United States. They can be a big part of school spirit, and may even affect the school you choose to go to. Two articles: one from The Atlantic, and one from The Huffington Post have conflicting opinions on the subject of high school sports. The article against sports by Amanda Ripley, was written to persuade US citizens that sports should be limited or fully removed from high schools. The article in support of sports by Kai Sato was written in response to the negative article, intended to critique that author in specific. Amanda Ripley’s tone was judgemental. By contrast, Sato’s article had a factual tone, that included stories of her own that proved his points well. Because of this, Sato’s article is more successful in persuading …show more content…

Though Ripley uses ethos in her piece, it was not as effective or as thorough as Sato’s article it states: “But like, Jenny, the Korean girl featured in the article, I’m of Asian descent and even attended school in my father’s native Japan as a youth, where academics are an obsession...I’m thankful that I was challenged in ways beyond parabolas and factorials.” He combats statements by using his personal experiences. In Ripley’s article it says: “Like most other Americans, I can rattle off the many benefits of high-school sports: exercise, lessons in sportsmanship and perseverance, school spirit, and just plain fun… But as I’ve travelled around the world visiting places that do things differently - and get better results - I’ve started to wonder about the trade-offs we make.” Her quote seems like an attempt to include ethos, but it does not fully accomplish it. Sato chooses to include ethos because it is believable to viewers. Ripley tried to incorporate this, but it is not effective. In this situation, Sato’s use of ethos fulfills its purpose because it provides a valuable personal experience to back up her

Show More
Related
1828 Words | 8 Pages

Courtney Stawarz says, “Sports are important, I understand that. However, Elizabeth Kolbert has a valid argument.” She says, while Americans tend to put more emphasis on sports rather than learning, it is not the children that are at fault. She sees how sports are related to grades being you have to make sure you are eligible to play. Children have to watch their grades in order to be able to play sports in schools.

Read More
663 Words | 3 Pages

In the article written by Amanda Ripley “The Case Against High-School Sports” for The Atlantic magazine. The author exposes the importance that American families and communities give to sports in schools over other vital subjects for students such math, writing and writing. Ripley supports her argument by presenting a series of examples to support her idea. One of the examples the writer presents is how international students that come to America as exchange visitors are shocked to see the extent of attention and resources used to support sports at schools. It is surprising to them to see the amount of money and time invested in school sports, and how much devotion the whole community pays to those events.

Read More
275 Words | 2 Pages

Amanda Ripley argues in her article, The Case Against High-School Sports, that American high-schools should concentrate less on sports and more on education. One of the main points of the article compares the academic success of American high-schools to that of high-schools in other countries. The other main point of the article compares the academic success of American high-schools affiliated with sports to those that are not. The results of the two studies are both shocking and expected at the same time. America is one of the most affluent and demographically developed countries in the world.

Read More
244 Words | 1 Pages

Although Ripley, Bowen and Hitt, and Sato are all taking about the same subject they mostly share different views. Ripley compared to Bowen and Hitt, as well as, Sato attacks high school sports more than supports them like the other authors do. She uses points such as the international test scores or the excessive cost of sports and all that is involved with them in her argument. Bowen and Hitt counter these but they also talk about the advantages of sports and the good they can bring to high school academics and the students and they are supported by Sato’s blog and his points. Although they all three make good points to support their argument and use a lot of evidence to back them up, the question remains.

Read More
246 Words | 1 Pages

In the informative short story “Are High School Sports Good For Kids?” illustrated by Daniel Gould, Ph.D. Director, Institute for the Study of Youth Sports Daniel Gould explains to readers, the importance of high school sports for kids and their education. He accomplishes this through the use of logos. Goulds directed audience is kids attending school and any parent or guardian with a child who is also attending school. He explains his logic through the first person point of view so the reader knows where he stands.

Read More
211 Words | 1 Pages

According to " The Case Against High-School Sports" (2013), sports could create some study, health, and time management problems for schools and students. In this post, Amanda Ripley initially shows the benefits when involving in the high-school sports: exercise, sportsmanship lessons, some positive personalities, more fun and staying away from vices. She also writes some tales to inform readers that in the US, students are interested and enjoy in sports more than other peers in other countries. However, she claims that the high-school sports have negative effects on schools and students. Next, she gave some schools ' examples to show the problems when schools and students spent too much time and money in high-school sports.

Read More
274 Words | 2 Pages

What do you think was your biggest contribution as a team member while you played at Batavia High School? While participating in athletics at Batavia I believe my greatest contributions to the team were my work ethic and positivity. I may not have always been been the best athlete, but my teammates could always count on me to work as hard as I possibly could. No matter how hard a practice or game was, I always tried to inspire and motivate my teammates by working hard myself and encouraging them to keep pushing themselves.

Read More
196 Words | 1 Pages

Throughout Gould’s article he includes data and research to prove a point that High School sports can be beneficial for the youth through increased educational aspirations and even increase social skills within adolescents. Even though most of the research has a positive outcome there is a chance of it having negative effects. In the third paragraph Gould continues on how the issue concerning winning in the sport participated can cause academic success to be forgotten about. He makes it clear that winning is not unimportant

Read More
920 Words | 4 Pages

I agree with the author on some parts of her argument of how high schools should spend more attention on their academic progress rather just focusing on how good their sports are. If students aren’t in a sport colleges look at there academic achievements from high school and if they see that they aren’t doing that great what makes you think they are gonna accept them. So school should spend more of their funding towards getting a better ranking in their achievements so more kids can go to their school rather then spending so much money each year for sports that they offer. This whole article can change some views on sports in high school in the united states some might say that Americans care more about school sports than they do for their education and we have to change those peoples view on us by removing sports. That may sound crazy but those students and parents that don’t agree with the argument but there are many other ways that one can do ports like outside of school there are many

Read More
863 Words | 4 Pages

Students from outside of America are surprised by the ways in which sports are glorified in schools. “...nine out of 10 foreign students who had lived in the U.S. said that kids here cared more about sports than their peers back home did” (Ripley, 2). Jenny, a student noted in the article, mentions that things are different back in South Korea. Accomplishments in the paper usually celebrated are academic success, and soccer was played during free time. Compared to Korea, Americans spend twice the amount of time playing sports.

Read More
552 Words | 3 Pages

In this community lately, there has been discussion lately on sports possibly being removed from the high schools. Although, they get the most recognition that does not mean that just because one little thing it gets removed and completely forgotten about. In fact, so many people do high school sports in the text “Are High School Sports Good For Kids” it explicitly states “Here in Michigan almost 300,000 young people take part in high school sports every year.” This scene particularly shows that many youth athletes participate in high school sports in only one state alone.

Read More
212 Words | 1 Pages

The movie then takes a leap of 7 years, where we see Ricky having a type of a get-together in his home. Where we see how Doughboy is part of a Gang and has come back from jail. Chris is handicapped because of a gunshot wound. Ricky is now a star running-back in his high school football team but also has a young son with his girlfriend. Tre grew up to be a responsible and mature teenager, who also has a job.

Read More
625 Words | 3 Pages

Every culture, community, or ethnic group has its own beliefs, values, and notions on how to live their way of life. In today’s society, it is crucially important to understand, accept, and respect other people’s traditions and histories. Most especially, we live in such a diverse community. Each Ethnic group somehow relies on what is commonly practiced within their society in order to maintain a strong community, preserve its moral and spiritual values, but that is not case with some immigrants when it comes to American Sports. For example, in “The Case Against High-School Sports,” Ripley Amanda of The Atlantic states that sports in American are so famous and it could be quite overpowering where it becomes so challenging with students especially those who are in high school.

Read More
442 Words | 2 Pages

Many people believe that students that are involved in a high school sport affect their grade and test scores. At most high schools in America, sports are very popular and an important role in a student’s school years. High school sports have a positive impact on students and schools everywhere. Students have a better chance in succeeding in school while playing in a high school sport. First, high school sports are positive because it has great impact on both the student’s education and sports participation.

Read More
597 Words | 3 Pages

This notion is supported by Dr. Daniel Gould, who believes that “Children who participate in sports have increased educational aspirations, closer ties to school and increased occupational aspirations in youth” (1). People against the funding of high school sports think that parents and society are placing more emphasis than ever before and, “[P]ressures athletic personnel to deviate on winning from the athlete- centered educational and personal development mission” (Gould 1). However, athletes strive to do better in class. Michael Lorenc, a high school basketball coach believes that “those who seem to have an overwhelming schedule where they’re playing maybe multiple sports, and high academic schedules, they tend to do better than those who don’t do anything extracurricularly” (Gray). Balancing sports and school makes athletes put more effort into keeping up grades while playing the sport they love.

Read More

More about High School Sports Summary

Related Topics

Open Document