High School Football Essay

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High School sports are not-beneficial to students,some sports can cause leg inguries ,and or a concussion,also can may or may not cause death.
According to the article "What in the name of High School Football?",due to some students sport schedule it causes them to miss classes, with students miss their classes the more their grades are dropping, and students with bad grades can cause them to get kick out of sports.Football is the most dangerous sport to high school students about 28% of 5.5 young football players ages 5 to 14 get hurt each year. All of this catering to sports students have bleary eyes, overall depression of educational performance for everyone. This educational disaster is looming, which means that a very large, and or threating

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