High School Sport

The idea of sports within schools is normal these days. Since elementary I remember kids talking about going to soccer or football practice after school or on the weekends. That kept up in middle school too. The beginning of teams started and even though the games were not as serious, there was still competition. Once high school comes around, the games become real. The freshmen go into the games knowing that there is a chance they can have scouts at their games and get recruited. The rise in testosterone levels might also have something to do with it.

The positives about students in sports is that it balances out their lives and health, sitting in a chair for over 5 hours a day is not necessarily keeping us active, so participating in sports is helping the blood flow. This is important with the recommended exercise we are suppose to be getting.

The negative in this is that sometimes, the love for the game is more than the love for the academics. Athletes do get worked a lot by coaches during practices, sometimes they have their two-a-days and that can take a toll on them. One of the solutions there has been for this is that the student athletes have to maintain a certain GPA and grades to participate. However, this can be skewed because there are times the teachers give them tests that are not rigorous enough as other students, they get a lot of excused absences, and the grading can be biased. One solution to this is giving the athletes their tests in another classroom and with a teacher who is not their's, to eliminate bias.

Again somehow this goes back to the idea that athletes are often babied and given advantages others do not always have. Of course the biggest expectation is winning.