In America, sport is not only a physical activity, which is used for competition or games but it is also one of the main missions in schools of the US. However, there is a post named "The Case Against High-School Sports" written by Amanda Ripley, which are on a website named The Atlantic. In this post, the main idea of the author is that sports are taking too many times and money in schools and that makes some negative impacts on students, schools, and society.

In this post, she claims that she can see the benefits of high-school sports and these sports are becoming likely more important than other academics in schools. However, she has wondered about a trend that participating high-school sports too much could lead to some problems.

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Then she shows more the benefits when involving in high-school sports: exercise, sportsmanship lessons, some positive personalities, more fun and staying away from vices. Moreover, she told that high-school sport not only has a huge effect on students but entire communities. Next, she gave some schools' examples about facing problems when they spent too much time and money in high-school sports. She shows that a school just mainly paid for sports while they cut costs of other departments such as arts and music. The main reason is that this school loves sports, and they do not want to pay too much money for other courses, so they tried to reduce the cost of other classes instead of sports. However, this school has to face with financial mismanagement and academic failure. If they do not fix it, they must be shut down by the state. Finally, she analyzes more detail about how high-school sports effects on student's health and