Comments on: Are Sports More Important than School?

By: Morris B

Morris B — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:41:04 +0000

It was really interesting on how 75% of parents let their children miss a school exam JUST to go to a game. You had lots of facts and was really believable. Great Post!

By: Bryan Ramirez

Bryan Ramirez — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:58:02 +0000

Great post! I also think education is more important because if uyou don’t succed in your sport than you have a back up plan to lean on. This is why our parents always tell us to do good in school, and that school comes first. Yea sports are fun and if your good enough you can become pro but if your not then you need a good education.

By: Julieanne

Julieanne — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:52:44 +0000

wow
im an athlete and a student and my parents always said school before sports. If my grades start falling they make me bump my grade up before i do anything with my sport, but great blog

By: Shatira F.

Shatira F. — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:02:13 +0000

Great post. I think that education is more important than sports, because if you were to hurt yourself in any sport and you droped out of school to play that sport most likely you won’t get a very good job. I think it’s really sad that the parents of those athletes let them skip an important exam just to play a sport that they migjht lose.

By: Jeremy Roberts

Jeremy Roberts — Sun, 30 May 2010 07:27:21 +0000

Interesting post. I think that an interesting situation can occur in college, where in order to be at the top you will need lots of dedication, you will probably have to decide whether you want to be an athlete or you want a top GPA…

By: karen

karen — Sat, 22 May 2010 13:46:23 +0000

For me..study is more important than sports..because everything that we learn is important..when we growth..the first thing that we use to find our job is our result in school whether it result in primary school or secondary school.Yes,of course sports is important too but you must more concentrate in study especially those is still in school..As you know,sports just help us to make our body become more health..everyday we must exercise even just half an hours,that for making us more active..Maybe some of us said that sports is more important but for me it is fault..it is shown because it already done at me..yes,i admit..and i admit too that i did not know to divide my daily time..when i more active in sports,my result in study totally drop..that made me so sad..that why i want to try to more concentrated in my study and sorry i can”t support that sports is more important than study

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 13 May 2010 20:12:28 +0000

Helloo!! I think that this is a great article because sports does affect kids and their school work!(:

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:47:45 +0000

Personally, I feel that school should always come before athletics. I always try to play my hardest whenever I’m in practice but at the end of the day, I’m mostly in my room doing my homework. Plus most people think of the likelihood of becoming a professional athlete. Some people might think that because 1 out of 16,000 people become professionals, then they think negatively about themselves and might give up on their dreams. But being an athlete is not about thinking about the possibility. It is about natural talent, diligent hard work, and pure athlete abilities. Sports can help you succeed in school for a number of reasons. First off, colleges look at your transcript not just for grades but for after school activities you do. Probably the first thing that they look for is if you play any sports. And if you are really talented, they can sometimes offer a full scholarship to their university. People like Sean McGonagill, a RB and basketball player from Riverside-Brookfield, get into Brown because they are not only talented at their sport, but also get solid grades in the classroom. But still, getting good grades are still the most important thing on your transcript. Also if you are failing in school, most schools won’t let you play until your grades improve, and that can possibly motivate you as the player to do better. So sports can help you academically. But being an athlete does have its positives. For example not being in dress code and leaving school early are some of the biggest advantages for being an athlete at Staten Island Academy.

For me, I don’t take basketball that seriously. I do it to have fun and I really enjoy playing the game. This year I barley played and sat on the bench for most of the season. I’m not that competitive of a person either so whether we win or lost I always feel very calm after the game. But then again, I don’t really have a deep connection with basketball and don’t have a big enough passion about it to have the urge to go pro. I would much rather peruse other things like music. But people who are passionate about the game do take the game’s way to seriously, even its just a bad call from the referee. So I do think it can affect your personality because of two factors (1) The aggressiveness of the sport and how intense it is. For example people are more aggressive when they play football then people who play golf. (2) How passionate you are about the sport. Less passionate people don’t care as much about their achievements then passionate people. Some are really dangerous and can cause life threatening injuries. For example, many H.S. students today who play football are experiencing many head injuries such as concussions. Some concussions are so severe, that they cause permanent brain damage. And as the game gets more and more violent every year, the likely hood of concussions increase. It would make many people fell unsafe and can make people distracted during school. Overall, I feel that students should really focus on their academics, not on the big game they have today.

http://rbclarion.com/sports/2009/10/16/rb-basketball-sensation-goes-division-1/

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:58:03 +0000

I believe that this is a great topic. I do agree with Joe when he says that sports help you succeed academically, but I find it more common in the case of individual sports, for example tennis, that children who excel in school are better at the sport. Strategy is very important in tennis, and in order to choose the correct strategy, one must have some intelligence.
About the topic of the athletes who represent the school given better treatment, there are mixed views about whether this should be. According to the article below, better treatment of student athletes should not be permitted, students should be treated equally no matter if they are “athletes or computer wizards.” I agree with this statement. No one should be treated better than someone else in school. This only creates frustration in the students who aren’t being treated fairly and cause them to worry about other people and not themselves. In my research about favoritism in schools, I found an article about a survey done in a high school. This survey showed that most of the favoritism in this school was shown towards the football players.

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/31/opinion/l-no-special-treatment-for-student-athletes-403389.html?pagewanted=1

http://www.123helpme.com/preview.asp?id=36314

By: Michael L.

Michael L. — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:00:53 +0000

To me school is more important than sports because that is just the way my father raised me. I play basketball and I try my hardest every day but when I come home I do my homework. Sports though also effects a person’s mood when you go into school, an example is if I lost my basketball game I wouldn’t be in the best mood going into school the next day. I tend to do my homework until 11 o’clock at night if I have a game which also affects my mood. Also sports can mean something with popularity which also depends on the sport but it could destroy someone’s personality which makes them do everything worse. Sports though in my opinion are in front of playing an instrument and to most people instruments are just an extra thing. Sports you get to leave school early and they can also help you get into schools but your transcript and grades are the main factor. An example of a person of a Canadian student who got into an IVY league college because of his grades and because he was good at baseball.

http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/35/a1/18.pdf