Sports shouldn't be an option for high schools

        "The case against high-school sports"written by Amanda Ripley mostly used quantitative writing with numbers and data to give a true and strong argument on high school sports. High school sports shouldn't remain an option to students around the united states. Mostly because, they spend to much money on them, in the long run it is a waste of time, and most of the population in the school don't even play.

       Schools are wasting money on equipment rather than new computers, books, and other important school supplies. In the novel that Amanda Ripley published she found out that by suspending sports the schools could save $150,000 in one year. Not only can they save but they can fix the number variation from each student depending on what they are doing. For example, as a cheerleader the schools pay $1348 per cheerleader and only $328 per student for math instruction. These numbers don't make sense and should be changed by suspending sports. Also, the equipment is crazy expensive because even for then bleachers to watch the games are $0.5 million, to keep the grass they play on clean and cut cost about $20,000 per year, and helmet replacements cost $1,500 a year for a large team. If we remain to keep sports to high schools an option then we will be losing more money than we could gain. 

        Nothing comes out of sports in the long run for students around the united states rather than education for a real job. Yes, some sports will get you some scholarship into schools but what happens after that? Students will be to distracted by football, cheer, or what ever sport they do instead of focusing and getting there grades up. Also by playing collage football or some sport it gets the students hopes up to going professional and focus so much on that they end up failing. Collages are going to be looking at your educational grades rather than if you were the captain of the football team. Good collages will want students who are ready to try there best to get a range from B's to A's or at least high C's. When a student plays to much high school sports then they have a better chance on not focusing on their school work. If we remain to keep sports as an educational part of our school system then students wont be looking at real jobs because their high school teams did nothing for them.

               Even if schools keep the sports that are successful only 40% of seniors participate in athletics. If schools keep the sports and have kids happy by keeping them most kids wont even be on the team or go to games. The majority that doesn't participate gets an unfair advantage on their supplies and outlook on school. A strong part of school is actually going to learn and students are being distracted by that game they have been practicing for at the end of the day. If we remain to keep sports part of the educational system then other students will get less of a high school experience. If we remain to keep sports as an option to high schools around the united states then students are classified and treated unfairly. All in all, high school sports waste to much money, doesn't help, unfair, and should be suspended from high schools in the United States.