Should Students Compete In Sports Essay

Do you believe it is right for students to be be pushed to compete in athletics? Students join sports for different reasons, Author Grace Chen states, “high school athletics are filled with positive mentors from the coaching staff to on the sidelines to the leaders on the team. Students learn to work with a wide range of authority figures who teach them important lessons about hard work, respect, and good sportsmanship. Early experiences with mentors help shape students in positive ways” ( Grace Chen). Athletics also teaches students time management because game days and practice doesn't leave much time after to do much of anything so students learn how to organize their schedule. Another benefit of athletics is the students learn teamwork …show more content…
Student athletes have a normal day of 7 hours of school and practice everyday day afterwards each school day, and sometimes in the weekend. Students are already under the pressure of joining the sport. Sometimes less time is spent on school work. In an article about a coach going the extra mile an athlete was putting less effort into school and even less in his life. “ In Thorps view Paul was shrinking his duty and he roused the young man out of bed and into his best of street clothes so he could support his team”(John Myers) . Student athletes are told they have to pass their classes with a grade of C or higher and a GPA of 2.5 or higher, athlete with grades lower then a C are are considered ineligible for. Low grades are caused by coaches working their players to much to where students are too tired to perform well during the school day in the classroom. They're being pushed to hard, coaches and parents are forgetting that there are certain students that do it for fun, to take things off their mind and being pushed makes it a job rather then fun there are only outcomes when making and pushing a student to hard to do something they're not really sure they want to