It Is Better To Work Than On Sports In High School

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I agree with taking out the sports for the high school. The kids should focus more on school work than on sports and play sports on their own time like on weekends and breaks. School is made for learning and education but sports is not one of them. Kids who play sports like baseball, basketball, and football will fail more often than kids who do not play sports. Kids will not have lower grades as much and will succeed in life at jobs and be richer if they did not focus in other things like sports.

Focusing in school work is a serious thing that should always be done when the right time comes but sports would interfere with the time so kids will be distracted during that time. Kids deserve to be smart as adults but if something gets in

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