Banning School Sports

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School sports are becoming very controversial in every intellectual environment, whether or not they should be banned. If you don’t have sports it could save large amounts of money and a great deal of other things that will help out. Therefore, sports should be abandoned to cut costs, keep students more focused, and it will keep the academic community safer.

Financing school sports has become a major problem for schools across the U.S. When Premont Independent School District in Texas dropped sports they saved “$150,000 dollars in one year” (Ripley 10). Preserving a grass field for the sports teams can cost over “ $20,000 a year” (Ripley 11). This means that all sports should be put to an end from districts across the country without question,

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