Do Sports Keep Teens Out Of Trouble

Does participation in sports keep teens out of trouble? Schools all over the world offer sports for kids to play, some people play because they want to and some people play because their parents want to keep them out of trouble, but does playing sports really keep teens out of trouble or does it cause more trouble.Putting teens in sports doesn’t mean that they won’t be getting into trouble, sometimes it can mean they get into more trouble, but most of the time this means they have to run more if the couches find out.

Depending on who it is, teens can get into trouble no matter what they are involved in, but if they really care about what sport they are in most kids won’t do anything that could get themselves or get the team into trouble.Sports are effective in that they reduce the number of hours that kids and teens spend being “bored.”(Greenchisports)Consequently sports also increase the attendance rates at …show more content…
Playing sports also helped with the kids grades because if they had bad grades they couldn’t play in the games and they had to run extra after practice but it also sometime hurt their grade because they didn’t have a lot of time.

According to (theatlantic.com) sport can get kids into trouble because they create an ego which the atlantic says can get kid into thinking they are above everyone else.(Theatlantic) also says that schools are spending too much on sports.This is why after the state threatened to shut down the school district of Premont in texas, they decided to shut down all of the school sports programs, which saved them thousands of dollars a year and allowed them to give the teachers bigger