Persuasive Essay On High School Sports

When do we cross the line that separates doing a good deed and overstepping our bounds for our own personal gain? Many underprivileged and underfunded children in the school system idolize sports and sports stars and aspire to follow in their footsteps. Unfortunately this can lead to said children abandoning all other aspects of their lives and academic careers to chase dreams promoted and promised by coaches who see them as money trains. Coaches for renowned high schools often visit inner city schools looking for untapped potential and promising talent in sports like basketball. However these coaches aren't always recruiting with the best interest of the children. Instead they are looking for kids that will win them games, help them maintain …show more content…
This is driven by the overall assumption that there are too many kids that are smarter with better resources that will make it in life using their brains and so the only other option for other kids is to use their physical abilities in order to give them a fighting chance at the life they want. By taking these kids and pulling them from their familiar environment and placing them in different, often more challenging, schools coaches often end up putting just as many odds against their players as they had before. While being in a better school system may save kids from drug and gang activity it can also hurt them because coaches often to fail to emphasize that their sport is no more important than their family or grades. Also, kids recruited and placed in these schools often feel so much pressure to perform that even if injured or suffering in other areas of their lives they have to power through and keep their eye on the prize. Often kids that are bright in from outside districts will play through injuries or rush recovery in order to maintain their position on a team, which results in permanent consequences that disqualify them from the game for life. Unfortunately for as many players that make it big in basketball just as many are discarded and end up back in their previous life and often worse. Because of their all