High school sport emerged in a time where our country was still searching for its identity. The land of unequal opportunity where racisim was prevalent. Sports however opened up the door for people to come together and unite. High school sports enabled students to have pride in where they came from. High school sports provided an outlet for many students and gave them structure and a sense of belonging. These sports taught young boys and girls core values such as teamwork, communication skills, discipline and integrity. The objective of high school sports started off simply as just giving the kids something to do after school and before , this keeps them out of trouble by limiting their free time. We like to think high school sports are doing a good job teaching our children good values and keeping them out of trouble but this is not always the case. High school sports today have become more than just an extra curricular activity. It is more than just a game, coaches students, other faculty have taken it to another level. It consumes a lot of their lives and nasty competitive natures come from it. Winning at all cost is what matters the most. The athletes become mules in a sense and often times affects their academics. With that a lot of values of clean fair sportsmanship goes out the window. Now that more money is getting involved it has become even worse. One way we can fix this is to start by creating equal funding to schools and districts, and have stricter academic standards when a student is involved in any particular sport.
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