Athletes In High School

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I think students at schools shouldn't have to pick a some type of athletics to be involved in because of that you can you should have the right for you pick in school and schools shouldn’t force you to play in athletics in high school. When i was in High school to make i was going to be able to graduate in time we meet with our school guidance counselors to make sure that we had all of the credits that we were going to need. When i was told that i was going to need to take some type of art credit I started to look at the different classes that i wanted to take. I decided to get into public speaking and a Film lit class. I knew with all of my business classes that i was taking was going to fill all of the credits that i already had. It was that winter i decided to try out for one our school plays and i got a small role in the play which i was super excited about because i really wanted to have a chance for a varsity letter and with that play i finally got that varsity letter that i wanted after working super hard in my sports that i was told that i would never get a varsity letter from them. …show more content…
Short told me that i would be getting a $5.000 dollar scholarship for college just for being his favorite student in four years of my high school career it finally made me realize that all four years of high

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