Essay 1 Rough Draft

Competitive sports can have many positive effects such as health, fitness, and learning positive values such as sportsmanship, but should competitive sports be mandatory within our school systems, i think not. Competitive sports have been around for centuries. From the Roman empire with wrestling or the Native Americans with games such as Stick Ball or Winchishkin. Competitive sports can have positive effects such as fitness and personal health, but are those effects not also possible results of Physical Education classes or for the schools that have it, Personal health classes or if the students simply exercise? The debate on whether to make competitive sports mandatory in high schools has been a topic of debate for …show more content…
Certainly not the schools, now yes public schools could get more government funding to implement this, but what about the private schools? Without government funding private school sports already cost more than public school sports, but where you make the school pay for the sports the private schools would most likely be forced to raise the student tuition. Now some schools might be able to get away with this most will by raising tuition, force parents who cannot afford the new tuition to unroll their children. Ok so now we know that the schools can't pay for it, but if not the schools then who, the parents? Now this might seem like a decent plan for some, or a reasonable plan to those who have a small family, but for a large family this would be horrible how would the parents of lets say 9 children be able to pay for most of them to play a sport. Now this might be circumstantial for larger familys but doing this would severely harm large families as far as financially. The problem of who's actually going to pay for it is a large problem and even if they where to resolve it, they would run into another problem, what sports are …show more content…
Football,Baseball,Basketball these are 3 of the most popular sports in the U.S but if competitive sports were made mandatory, what other sports that people play would be allowed or recognized? Now first you have to remember that one of the major arguments for pro required competitive sports is that it would help eliminate obesity in the U.S, but would it? Sports such as archery,shotgun or rifle don't promote health or fitness, while yes, they can improve your focus,accuracy and some strength in your arms. Also unlike some sports such as soccer,football or baseball they don't promote any good eating or exercise habits, one of the greatest advantages to most sports. Also, if someone wanted to they could easily raise the argument for activities such as chess or certain competitive video games considering they share almost identical advantages to shotgun or archery that they should be considered sports and allowed to be permitted. Of course, many will look at the comparison of video games and a sport such as Fishing and say they are nothing alike, but if you look at the benefits of fishing and compare them to the very long list of benefits of gaming accomplished throught the many varieties of games you will see that fundamentally as far as the reward goes video games offer more reward than a sport like fishing or archery. Now this issue would take many argueing and actually cover multiple debates, is they