Should Kids Be Able To Play Competitive Sports
An issue that is hotly debated in Mrs. Crowell’s class is if kids should be able to play competitive sports or not. I strongly believe that kids should not be able to participate in competitive sports for three main reasons: sports can get costly, injuries are common, and the kid is pushed way too hard by parents and coaches.
The sport that a kid is in could impact families in need. The most important reason is the huge cost the sport could have money wise. According to Visual News, parents tend to spend around $671 on just the appropriate clothing, equipment, and travel expenses needed for a specific sport. Also about every one in five parents spend over $1,000 on a child’s sport. The family maybe could’ve used the money spent on the …show more content…
The opposing side would take that sports would decrease the obesity percentage in kids, but what they don’t see is that while obesity is going down, injuries are going up. An injury that a child sustains from a competitive sports could be crucial along the road of his/her life. One example of this is concussions. Too many concussions from a competitive sport could result in Alzheimer's, a disease that affects your memory and you can’t remember things the same that you used to. There are many stories on Alzheimer’s, one being a little girl named Ella and her brother having the disease. One passage from the story called “Ella’s Story” is, “Then his driving became so crazy. He did not realize he was in the wrong lane. He would run stop signs and forget to put the car in park (actually rolled to hit steps by a mobile home). He could not get the car out of park because he had the key out of the ignition. Isaac could not, as time progressed, figure out how to put the key in the car lock or put a key correctly into anything. It just did not work.” These kinds of diseases could affect many families/friends. A second piece of evidence for injuries is if the kid can’t play sports anymore, they may turn to steroids or other enhancing drugs to catch up to everyone else physically. Lastly with injuries, if a kid receives a bad enough injury, they could miss tons of school and be completely behind all of the other students in
The sport that a kid is in could impact families in need. The most important reason is the huge cost the sport could have money wise. According to Visual News, parents tend to spend around $671 on just the appropriate clothing, equipment, and travel expenses needed for a specific sport. Also about every one in five parents spend over $1,000 on a child’s sport. The family maybe could’ve used the money spent on the …show more content…
The opposing side would take that sports would decrease the obesity percentage in kids, but what they don’t see is that while obesity is going down, injuries are going up. An injury that a child sustains from a competitive sports could be crucial along the road of his/her life. One example of this is concussions. Too many concussions from a competitive sport could result in Alzheimer's, a disease that affects your memory and you can’t remember things the same that you used to. There are many stories on Alzheimer’s, one being a little girl named Ella and her brother having the disease. One passage from the story called “Ella’s Story” is, “Then his driving became so crazy. He did not realize he was in the wrong lane. He would run stop signs and forget to put the car in park (actually rolled to hit steps by a mobile home). He could not get the car out of park because he had the key out of the ignition. Isaac could not, as time progressed, figure out how to put the key in the car lock or put a key correctly into anything. It just did not work.” These kinds of diseases could affect many families/friends. A second piece of evidence for injuries is if the kid can’t play sports anymore, they may turn to steroids or other enhancing drugs to catch up to everyone else physically. Lastly with injuries, if a kid receives a bad enough injury, they could miss tons of school and be completely behind all of the other students in