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    up, and walked away. Jesse, being captain of the football team, was very popular. And good at football. In fact, Jesse had stayed back two whole years, purposefully, just to stay on the football team! Noah was a freshman and, though he should be a sophomore in college, Jesse was a senior in high school. They both went to…

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    Cheering is not all about showing sprit shouting and screaming cheering is a professional sport just like any other sports as in basketball, softball, and football. They have rules and tournaments just like those. I’ve been cheering since I was little. I started cheering on the pee-wee team, the middle school, junior high and also high school. Cheerleading is so much more than leading cheers and shouting. Its completion its gymnastics its exercise. It’s also pride and self-respect especially…

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    Dear High School Administrators and Members of the PTA, How would you feel if you were playing a sport you love but then work so hard for it you wind up getting so hurt you will never be able to play again? Or what if you actually hate the sport but your parents want you to play and then you get so hurt it affects you for the rest of your life. Sports in high schools have always been a thing and they should absolutely not be. Students can get seriously injured and have life threatening…

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    organization dealing with such big numerical figures could be considered non-profit despite having a lot of transparency. The NCAA makes an enormous amount of money through these games. The coaches and schools too have earned a lot of money by making these student athletes play. Successful basketball and football programs are especially important to the image of large universities as serve as a source of pride and prestige to alumni, students, faculty, and administrators. (Wittmer 52) Moreover,…

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    Assignment The most positive effect of high school sports is its effect on the athletes ' school performances. Many high school athletes put their time and effort in sports, they have higher grade point average, better attendance records, and also lower dropout rates than the overall student body. It can be due to the effect of hard work that the sport has put into these high school athletes, and the positive impact from coaches. Another positive effect of high school student sports is its…

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    During my time in high school, our choir went to state every year, the art department won first in show year after year, and our forensics team won state two out of the three years I participated. We worked incredibly hard for those achievements; however, year after year, the allotted budget for extracurricular activities went to new football uniforms, or a new score board. We never understood why they got fresh uniforms and new equipment every two years when they couldn’t win one game. All the…

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    Bo Jackson: A True Hero

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    thigh high water and still land on his feet. His God-given abilities made incredible athletes look like weaker athletes. Bo also grew up from a poor family which made him an epic hero by having a noble birth, great strength and courage, and his humility. Bo didn’t have the best childhood. He always got bullied and made fun of by kids at school. He also always felt like he didn’t belong with everyone else, and did some things people thought were unbelievable and kept…

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    Companions In “The Case Against High-School Sports”, author Amanda Ripley argues that public high schools are spending too much on their sports programs at the expense of academics. While athletic programs can be costly, they pay back what they cost in their benefits to the school and the students. A school without its sports teams is a very dreary place. High schools should keep their athletic programs because of what they bring to the school and the students. Good sports…

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    Kountze High School permitting students to display blatantly religious banners which other students are then made to run through represents a violation of not only a violation of the establishment clause, but is a situation which is easily rectified without the threat of violating the students’ right to free speech. Where the precedents have been set for determining that the state has violated the establishment clause through Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971) and Santa Fe Independent School…

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    Over the past few years, as some states have begun to recognize robotics as a sport at the high school level, the argument of whether robotics is truly a sport or not is being debated. Robotics is an activity that requires hard work and commitment, and all those who participate in robotics should be able to say that robotics is a recognized high school sport. The definition of the word sport describes robotics perfectly. Robotics also parallels other official sports, and much like other sports,…

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