Persuasive Essay: High School Sports

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High School Sports Should high schools be all about education, and grades? I couldn’t see myself getting up in the morning excited to learn trigonometry. Let alone be happy in a place like my school. My point would be that I only come to school because I find motivation in the sports that this school has to offer. I tell myself I have to turn my homework in, or I need to read this page, and study so I can pass my test to play Friday night. I believe sports gives so much more than what others who just observe the activity. Personally I’ve gained more than I could’ve have from sports than school that I can apply to the life I will start when I graduate from high school, and what I learned from playing many sports like wrestling, football,

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