From the video, Big Hits Broken Dreams, many questions are raised from multiple viewpoints. The video spent a lot of time addressing the new protocols that a local greenville high school set in place after losing one of their football players to a Traumatic Brain Injury. One of the questions raised is if high school students should be required to follow the protocols set up for them. However even with support of this policy, what's preventing the students from lying to the trainer or doctor about their symptoms? In the video it addresses how high school football players and even NFL football players will downplay their symptoms just to be able to stay in the game even if it is detrimental to their health in the long run. Hopefully, by bringing
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Some of the negatives to enforcing this policy on all students is the loss of their autonomy. Autonomy is one's right to make govern over themselves. In this case, it is the student's right to understand the consequences and act as they feel needed. Making this is policy infringes on this policy. Another thought that many people are fearful of, espoeccially in football, is the fear that these policies will change the game. Football is a rough sport and many people like it that way. The thrill of a big tackle is one that many enjoy. By making the game more safe it might change that way football is viewed and played (Academy, 2015). While I do understand that their are some cons to having a strict policy in place, I think that the positives outweigh the consequences. One positive is that it is keeping people safe or in other words preventing harm, nonmaleficence. As young adults we are impulsive and do not think in the long term without guidelines a lot of kids can be seriously injured and even at an increased risk of death. Another positive that would come out of these new protocols is by putting these policies in place we are keeping student safe in the long term but also backing the meaning of a student-athlete up. With these protocols the risk of concussion will go down and hopefully keep the student- athletes at their normal cognitive level (How concussions affect academics,
Some of the negatives to enforcing this policy on all students is the loss of their autonomy. Autonomy is one's right to make govern over themselves. In this case, it is the student's right to understand the consequences and act as they feel needed. Making this is policy infringes on this policy. Another thought that many people are fearful of, espoeccially in football, is the fear that these policies will change the game. Football is a rough sport and many people like it that way. The thrill of a big tackle is one that many enjoy. By making the game more safe it might change that way football is viewed and played (Academy, 2015). While I do understand that their are some cons to having a strict policy in place, I think that the positives outweigh the consequences. One positive is that it is keeping people safe or in other words preventing harm, nonmaleficence. As young adults we are impulsive and do not think in the long term without guidelines a lot of kids can be seriously injured and even at an increased risk of death. Another positive that would come out of these new protocols is by putting these policies in place we are keeping student safe in the long term but also backing the meaning of a student-athlete up. With these protocols the risk of concussion will go down and hopefully keep the student- athletes at their normal cognitive level (How concussions affect academics,