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PROS AND CONS OF SPORTS IN SCHOOL

DONPAUL CARTER-MENDOZA
PROFESSOR ANDREW BUCKLE
11/17/2014

Standard #10 Leadership and Collaboration

The teacher seeks appropriate leadership roles and opportunities to take responsibility for student learning, to cooperate with
learners, families, colleagues, other school professionals, and school community members to ensure learners growth, and to
advance the profession

Name of Artifact: Pros and Cons of Sports in School

Date: November 16th, 2014
Course: EDUC 101

Brief Description: In this power point I will describe the Pros and Cons to having sports in school. With doing so, I will get
peoples opinions either positive or negative and their reason WHY sports are either good or bad for schools and students.

Rationale: To document my understanding of Standard #10 Leadership and Collaboration, I documented the pros and cons of
scholarly sports and how they effect students and the school financially and academically.

Background/introductory information and/or a brief overview of the trend or issue

Schools financially able of sports

Academic push for passing
Students positive effect of excerise
How it effects students/School

Pros of not having sports

America lags behind more than twenty nations academically

Districts suspending sports could save $150,000 in one year
Suspending sports more students pass
More extra time throughout the day to finish schoolwork

Cons of not having sports

Less social gatherings between students and staff

More drop-out rates in areas
More time discipline
Greater risk of obesity children

CONS OF HAVING SPORTS

NO TIME FOR HOMEWORK

HIGH COSTS TO MAINTAIN FACILITIES

COULD SELL FALSE HOPE

PROS OF HAVING SPORTS

LOWER RATES OF OBESITY
BUILDS CHARACTER/SELF-ESTEEM
CAN FOCUS ON ACADEMICS FOR SCHOLARSHIPS

What positive or negative effect does sports have on students?

What could schools do to keep cost down for children that play sports?

REFERENCES
Ripley, A ( 2014, January)Yes! Its Time to Scale Back. The Denver Post. Pp. 10, 11.
Oshei, T (2014, January) No! Sports Are More Important Than Ever. The Denver Post. Pp. 12, 13.
Thibodeau, P. (2010) The Human Body in Health and Disease. St Louis, MS. Mosby Elsever