The Case Against High School Sports Funding in America

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After reading " The Case Against High School Sports" by Amanda Ripley started to make me think. There were many strong points about how the priorities of the sports are beginning to be more important to students than their education. Another great point was that the financing and budgeting is unfairly distributed throughout school districts and is spent more on athletics and clubs and not enough on classes. And I Believe that schools should put certain restrictions on the spending and promoting or in school sports and clubs because of the major drop in national and world comparisons. Teachers who dubble as a coach often split commitments between being a coaching and teaching such as when schools have to find substitutes for the days the teachers are gone with their team. Referring to Ripleys Article Sports are embedded in American schools in a way they are not almost anywhere else. Yet this difference hardly ever comes up in domestic debates about America’s international mediocrity in education (Ripley,2). Reading an article that compared European Schools to American Schools showed that Europe focuses more on the academic aspect and has after school clubs and sports, not in-school athletics and clubs. (Loh,1). In Asia, although they have some clubs and sports inside school, like math club and honor society, the majority of the activities take place outside of school.Stevenson stated in his article about Asia's success teachers need the proper training and time to be able to help the students understand the course material and be able to excel in the academics, which is often lost when the teachers double as coachs and is becoming more and more common among school districts (Stevenson,4). These are just some of the di... ... middle of paper ... ... school sports and clubs so they don't clash with academics we need to get Americas schooling back on top. Works Cited Katherine, Paige. Personal interview. 19 Mar. 2014. Loh, Stefanie. "Club Spots Is King in Europe." Web log post. Penn News Live. The Patriots News, 19 May 2011. Web. 27 Mar. 2014. Mcg, Robert. "Playing Sports Doesn't Lift Grades, Study Finds." The New York Times. The New York Times, 15 Aug. 1989. Web. 30 Mar. 2014. Parker, Suzi. "Boom! U.S.A. Falls Again in Global Education Rankings But Could Learn a Lesson or Two." TakePart. N.p., 4 Dec. 2013. Web. 27 Mar. 2014. Ripley, Amanda. "The Case Against High School Sports." The Atlantic. N.p., 18 Sept. 2013. Web. 20 Mar. 2014. Ross, Gary. Panel Interview. 11 Mar. 2014. Stevenson, Harold W. "Why Asian Students Still Outdistance Americans." Educational Leadership. ASCD, n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2014.

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