Should We Make Competitive Sports Be Required To Graduate High School?

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Muscles tense and aching, sweat glistening on your brow and pure adrenaline is what some want and love to feel. It excites them. While everyone else in the world is certain they are dying and won’t live to see the next day. Some are saying that we should make competitive sports a requirement to graduate high school. Why the nonathletic and those who are not coordinated should be forced to suffer and embarrass themselves! It’s reported that only sixty-five-percent are athletic and the rest would rather leap from abridge when sports is mentioned. So, while some people are just barely passing P.E. how are they supposed to do competitive sports, some of us aren’t healthy enough to do it, and what about jobs? When gym clothes go on some feel their inner self battling with itself trying to escape the deep, dark, monster filled P.E. When your grades drop from having in trouble in physical education, it drowns some peoples straight A’s. It’s constant work to remain a steady mind during that trivial time. When you are not athletic and push yourself to be, it’s not a pretty sight, not at all. When you have the worse social skills and have to work with a team, it just makes you wish you were anywhere but there. Those who are bad and know it start to develop …show more content…
How are you then to graduate when the doctor tells you no sports? It would not be enjoyable at all for you. Another downside is insecurity, again. When you try and be a part of the team, but your health gets in the way is an insecurity. Along with these insecurities comes depression and making others feel worse about themselves. As their sorrow kicks in they start to lose interest in school, making their grades drop. They would need more help then feel awkward when still others are better than them. Health is a huge issue, but when you’re trying to make it to your job straight after school it can be

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