In “The Case Against High-School Sports” by Amanda Ripley, she explores the negative effects of high-school sports on a student’s education. Ripley informs us that high-school sports are more important to students than getting a good education. In the U.S., sports have become very popular in the last century. Schools spend numerous amounts of money into funding school sports. With the main attention being focused on sports--Ripley believes that schools should not be a front for sports, but rather a place meant for education, Ripley believes that schools should be the main focus. In “The Case Against High School Sports” Ripley writes that sports are better left ignored, rather expensive, and harmful to a student 's learning which is not the
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Singleton, a superintendent for 15 years, arrived at Premont to find it a catastrophe. For Premont, a football player costs about $682 more than a math student in a year. He realized that by cutting sports, the school could save $150,000. Singleton then proceeded to use this money that was saved to hire more qualified teachers. The process for hiring teachers often involves principals hiring a less qualified teacher in order to get a qualified coach at the same time. She quotes a veteran teacher from Pennsylvania to prove, “You hire a teacher, and you sometimes lower the standards because you need a coach”(3). Ripley then gives a variety of statistics and studies showing that sports do not earn money for the school, but only take money away from the budget. Ripley also writes that more funding is given to sports than school, explaining that many costs of sports are overlooked such as the substitute teachers, coaches salaries, travel costs, field maintenance/care, and uniforms. Ripley then writes, “Many of the costs are insidious, Rosa has found, ‘buried in unidentifiable places’”(3). Despite disapproval from students and parents over cutting sports and lack of faith from observers, Premont made a major comeback. Grades, students behavior, and the school budget rose. Premont has since then brought back basketball, track, and …show more content…
Sports are helpful and healthy for kids of all ages (Schools and Obesity Prevention: Creating School Environments and Policies to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity 1). Ripley also refuses to mention how sports can actually make an income. Sports can benefit the students learning, increase productivity, produce leadership and teamwork skills, but they should not be cut from schools no matter what the cost of running the sport may
Singleton, a superintendent for 15 years, arrived at Premont to find it a catastrophe. For Premont, a football player costs about $682 more than a math student in a year. He realized that by cutting sports, the school could save $150,000. Singleton then proceeded to use this money that was saved to hire more qualified teachers. The process for hiring teachers often involves principals hiring a less qualified teacher in order to get a qualified coach at the same time. She quotes a veteran teacher from Pennsylvania to prove, “You hire a teacher, and you sometimes lower the standards because you need a coach”(3). Ripley then gives a variety of statistics and studies showing that sports do not earn money for the school, but only take money away from the budget. Ripley also writes that more funding is given to sports than school, explaining that many costs of sports are overlooked such as the substitute teachers, coaches salaries, travel costs, field maintenance/care, and uniforms. Ripley then writes, “Many of the costs are insidious, Rosa has found, ‘buried in unidentifiable places’”(3). Despite disapproval from students and parents over cutting sports and lack of faith from observers, Premont made a major comeback. Grades, students behavior, and the school budget rose. Premont has since then brought back basketball, track, and …show more content…
Sports are helpful and healthy for kids of all ages (Schools and Obesity Prevention: Creating School Environments and Policies to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity 1). Ripley also refuses to mention how sports can actually make an income. Sports can benefit the students learning, increase productivity, produce leadership and teamwork skills, but they should not be cut from schools no matter what the cost of running the sport may