ipl-logo

Summary Of The Case Against High School Sports Amanda Ripley

1273 Words6 Pages

High School Sports Aren’t Detracting from Academics Amanda Ripley argues in her article, “The Case Against High-School Sports” that athletic programs and schooling should be independent of each other. She argues that school sponsored sports result in lower test scores, draw focus away from academics, and aren’t economically feasible. This infatuation with sports in American schools is harming our economy and our education system in Ripley’s opinion. Ripley offers an in depth explanation and research to back her claims, but she fails to address other factors and variables that are resulting in our nation’s academic mediocrity. Amanda Ripley compares the athletic attitude of America to other countries. Ripley talks to foreign exchange students …show more content…

Premont suspended all of their athletic programs and Ripley argues that suspending sports allowed them to improve their facilities, teaching, and academic success (2). Ripley writes that Ernest Singleton, the superintendent of Premont Independent School District, defended his decision to suspend sports by arguing that “eliminating sports would save money and refocus everyone’s attention on academics” (2). This decision to suspend sports programs brought about major positives for the school district, as they were able to upgrade facilities and provide more training for their teachers, which helped to cause academic progress for their students. Ripley argues that the school district was able to develop a more balanced budget and able to provide a better learning environment for their students as a result of eliminating sports programs …show more content…

Ripley’s article title implies that she is going to focus on all high school sports, when in actuality she uses the majority of the article to target football. This weakens her argument because she isn’t disproving that all high school sports have negative effects on education. In fact, this argument against football isn’t even entirely applicable to her primary example, Premont. The Caller Times, a newspaper in Corpus Christi, Texas, states that Premont has brought back football to both its high school and junior high (Garcia). This contradicts Ripley’s argument that sports are the primary cause of our academic mediocrity. Why would Premont bring back football if administrators felt it was negatively affecting learning? Ripley spends too much time focusing on football, which weakens her argument because she doesn’t prove that all sports, or even football, have a negative effect on

Show More
Related
410 Words | 2 Pages

Football is a very popular sport not only in American high schools and colleges, but also in the entire country of the United States. Is playing high school football worth the risk and harm inflicted to high school football players? This is the main question raised by the author, Raymond Schroth, in the article “Abolish High School Football.” In this article, Schroth talked about the disadvantages and harms of playing high school football to the players. Schroth argued that high school football should be abolished because it had contributed more harmful effects than benefits to football players.

Read More
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
417 Words | 2 Pages

In the book Friday Night Lights, author H.G. Bissinger documents Odessa, Texas’s 1988 Permian High School football season. By depicting a class of students who would rather rally at football games than get an education, Bissinger presents his belief that the school is disregarding education in order to produce a winning football team. I agree.

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
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
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
1235 Words | 5 Pages

In order to see the film from this perspective, one must consider the symbols that exist amongst all of the team members. A very important symbol throughout the team’s season was the sport of football. The sport of football bettered the players throughout their 2009 season. To quote coach Courtney, football can “reach your hearts through something you love”. It definitely seemed to do just that for many of the players that season.

Read More
167 Words | 1 Pages

The Director of the Institute for the Study of Youth Sports,Daniel Gould in his Article, “Are High School Sports Good For Kids” suggests that high school sports are an integral part of American society. He supports this claim by first saying how sports have educational benefits, then talking about their effect on the child as a citizen, and finally claiming that sports give adolescents increased aspirations. Goulds purpose is to illustrate the benefits of children taking part in school sports. He adopts a analytical tone an older audience.

Read More
1520 Words | 7 Pages

Football has taken U.S. Universities in hostage Steven Salzberg is a Bloomberg distinguished professor of Biomedical Engineering, computer Science, and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University. Salzberg has also been a vocal advocate in favor of the teaching of evolution in schools and has authored editorials and appeared in print media on this topic. He writes a widely read column at Forbes magazine on Science, medicine, and pseudoscience. “Get Football out of Our Universities” is an article by him about the “evolution of teaching” in United States universities.

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
568 Words | 3 Pages

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.

Read More
597 Words | 3 Pages

High School Sports Should be Funded Every year 300,000 students are participating in sports (Gould 1). The School District has been funding the athletics program, which has been benefiting many of the students’ lives for several years. The discontinuation of high school sports will cause many students to loose the health, social and educational benefits provided by participating in athletics. The School District should continue to fund sports because they benefit students.

Read More
547 Words | 3 Pages

For many years has football has been considered the utmost dangerous sport in high school, but recently many new studies have been made to prove the exact opposite. High school football gives money to the school and improves the school. In high school sports when a team wins the championship the school gets money that can be used towards hiring new teachers, providing scholarships for students, buying new books, and overall improving the school itself. When a high school football team wins the championship the team's school gets $400,000 that can be spent on the school in many different forms.

Read More
407 Words | 2 Pages

The stress can get so intense, it feels paralyzing. That’s why it is important than ever for schools to invest in their athletic programs,” states the sports article “Should Schools get rid of Sports.” Schools should keep their sports programs because they help improve academics, help improve mental and emotional health, and improves social skills like being on a team. Schools should not get rid of their sports programs because they help with student’s academics.

Read More
1457 Words | 6 Pages

Bissinger emphasizes this point to persuade the readers to understand how detrimental pouring large amounts of money and energy towards the high school football team severely impact the future of all the students in Permian High. The small pond these children are living in disrupts their academic success, and the adults fail to recognize this notion. A teacher of thirty-one years, Jane Franks explains that they are now “deadened to themselves and to the world around them” because of their constant lack of effort in class (133). Bissinger includes her views on the effects of the obsession with football, and how the football players are encouraged to only focus on the sport. Franks describes them as ‘deadened’ to the outside world, further examining how unprepared these young adults are for the real world.

Read More

More about Summary Of The Case Against High School Sports Amanda Ripley

Related Topics

Open Document