...Final Throughout the world there are many schools that believe that school should be about learning not about sports. But I believe that school should be about more than just learning. It should be a place where you can socialize, have fun, and play sports. But most importantly I do agree that it should be about learning. In the article “High School Athletes Gain Lifetime Benefits” there are many good points on why sports are a good thing to have in high schools. A research was conducted by Kevin Kniffin, a teacher of leadership and management in sports at Cornell University. Kniffin’s research showed that people who play high school sports get better jobs, with better pay. Sports is not just a time to have fun, sports can teach a person to have more self-confidence, self-respect, and leadership. I6t is also said that former student-athletes donate more time and money more frequently than people who weren’t part of a sports team....
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...How many times at your local school has a homeschooled student asked to play a sport for your school? Many school districts are having this question asked to them by homeschooled students and many are answering the question “No” for many reasons. A few of those reasons are “How would we monitor your grades?’ “How would you meet requirements that public school students meet?” Those are just two of the many questions that are asked. Homeschoolers should not be able to play public school sports. Many people believe that homeschooled students have a right to play public school sports. In most states, if one would like to play sports he or she has to at least attend part of the day or have grades monitored in some way. For example, in California...
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...Pay to Play Should one have to pay in order to play? Yes they should be required to give a monetary fee to participate in the school sport. Athletes need to be required to pay to play due to it being a privilege to be on the team. The reasons why pay to play will be effective are school budgets, it eliminates fundraising, and someones kid will more likely get more out of it. Schools are cutting wages because the budget is so tight. If the wages get cut teachers will leave because they want a higher salary to support their families. Also, when wages get cut, it gets harder to find teachers who will work for them low wages, and the adolescents in the classroom may also be affected by the lower wages because bad teacher, usually get the...
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...child is playing for the sake of a scholarship, and not for love of the game, be careful, she warned. Keep your eyes wide open. It's not high school athletics. In some ways, it's really exciting. But if your child's not passionate, you are going to have a lot of teary phone calls’” (Holland, Kelley Holland, and John W. Schoen). The dedication and passion athletes need to play...
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...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. Although high-school sports are beneficial, students...
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...be paid for playing college sports because some already get a full- ride scholarship to the college. Many people think they should be paid above and beyond their scholarship to play their sport, but the athletes are already receiving the benefit of a free education. Why is it that some people feel college athletes should get paid above and beyond their scholarship money? Some say the extra money will be used to pay for meals they eat off-campus, clothes, or a trip over spring break. The college athletes believe other kids get money from their parents on top of their scholarships, so why shouldn’t they? They can get jobs because they do not have practice to attend, so they can make money on the side. Some people feel like it would teach the kids financial responsibilities before they can receive the big contract in the NBA, NFL, or MLB. That is something every kid needs to know but what about the kids that do not get forwarded scholarships how do they learn. They...
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...should get paid to play football. I feel like this is a topic that a lot of football players that is transitioning from high school to college discuss frequently. There has been a few controversies on if college football players have been paid under the table. When you hear that they have been paid under the table, it means that either the college they have chosen has given them money secretively, the head football coach paid them out of their own pockets, or even someone they know personally has paid them to play for that school. College football players should not be paid to play football. There are many reasons on why they should not get paid. When you hear a certain college name, the first thing you hear come out of someone’s mouth is something about how good or bad their football team is. Football players are shown a lot of attention. On their campuses they are very well known, whether or not if they play in the games or sit on the sidelines. Most college football players end up getting a full ride to school because they play football. If they are not paying for school out of pocket, they shouldn’t get paid to do something they are supposed to do. Another reason why they shouldn’t get paid to play football is the fact that other teams that play sports on the campus don’t get paid. Why out of all teams, football should be the one to get paid. For example, a baseball team on the campus might be better than the football team but they don’t get anything. If you pay one team, you...
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...Should College Athletes be Paid to Play. C Team BCOM/275 Robert May Should College Athletes be Paid to Play. Should college athletes be paid to play? That is the question and discussion being presented not only in this paper but also across many colleges in these United States. There are many pros and cons to college athletes being paid to play their sport, which makes this is a very controversial topic. Are the sport scholarships and uniforms enough? Should schools really pocket all that money they make in revenue from the sports teams? Many moral, ethical and legal issues can be raised in the idea of paying college athletes to play, on both the pro and con side of the issue. Should an athlete receive a full ride scholarship and also be paid from the school to play? Many big universities may be able to handle such a thing, but what about the small colleges that do not receive such a large amount of revenue from their sports teams? Can or should schools pay all the athletes or only the top players? What about Title IX, how will potentially paying athletes be affected by it? All these topics will be discussed, as well as Team C’s final decision on this matter. PROS In 2012 the athletic revenue reported by University of Texas was $163.2 million, Alabama $143.4 million, Ohio State $142.0 million and Michigan $140.1 million (Berkowitz, Schnaars, & Upton, 2014) Coaches like Nick Saban (Alabama Football) and Mike Krzyzewski (Duke Men’s Basketball) make in excess of $7 Million...
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...Funding for Schools Each and every year student athletes are forced to fundraise more money for their sports programs than years prior. Instead of spending time practicing or even getting school work done at home, student’s frantically search for ways to come up with the money to nurture struggling sports programs. Without sports kids are losing out on opportunities for higher and better education. Health problems and academic declines are at stake due to lack of exercise and motivation to play sports. Money needs to be given to sports programs to insure that student athletes stay motivated in school and stay active for health purposes. Athletes stay motivated in school by getting good grades, which enable them to play there sports. In the article, “Not Buying It” written by Steven Kurutz, he explains how people are setting up dumpster diving gatherings in order to find supplies that would help out the people around their house. They set up diving expedition outside of colleges after the college kids start throwing supplies away when school ends. Since the start of the recession school funding in the K-12 have been cut enormously. Thirty five states are getting less money then they did five years ago. California has cut 20% of there spending on kids since the start of the recession (Phil Oliff). With these cuts sports are obviously secondary to education, but in some instances, sports are being cut indefinitely. Families are struggling to put their kids through school let alone...
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...To: Mike Smith, Supervisor From: Max Christ, McKenzie Botcher, Alivia Roscoe Date: January 30, 2013 Subject: How to Respond to the NCAA Baseball Bat Standards Complaints Overview Template Table Below we have created a table with responses to the letters. We have organized it by: the complaints, responses, and sources to where we have found our information. Arguments in the letter | Potential responses | Research backing the responses | How could you risk my son's life by not changing the standards for bats immediately when your tests showed that a player cannot react quickly enough to avoid a ball batted by one of these high tech bats? The NCAA should be ashamed. I am writing my congressman. | The NCAA has already attempted to change the standards a year ago, but ultimately the company would be sued by one of our top manufacturers (Easton), which directed the company to limit the performance of all composite bats. Also, the miles per hour from an average hit off of a composite bat are 93.3mph whereas for a wooden bat, the power of the bat generates an average of 86.1mph. Although this statistic was provided by Brown University and was set forth over a decade ago, the standards have been drastically been shaped to allow for much safer composite bats than in previous years. | | What are the results of your research in the area of bat technology?I saw a show on Fox Sports Net in the Spring that made some claims that not only are batted balls faster than ever...
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...Schools are trying to push back start times in school for children to get more sleep. If this happens many events could be disrupted. If schools start earlier we will lose money and this will result in many catastrophic events. Should schools take this chance? Schools should not start later, it could disrupt children’s after school schedule and cost a lot of money. Will school’s use this or not. If we started school later it will be costing about 8 million dollars to change the bus schedules. The school board will have to chose if they are going to change the schedule the schools will lose lots of money. In the video “Should schools start later in the morning?” it states that “After dropping the high schoolers the busses turn around drop the middle schoolers and then the elementary schoolers.” This could result in a hectic morning for the busses and if one change happens they might need to buy new busses for the high schoolers and that is what will cost a lot. If the school push the start times back it could result in consequences since they end school later too. I do not think that it would be smart to push the school times back because if we push school times back we are also pushing the end times back. Many children have homework or play...
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...championship. Millions of fans invest time, money and energy cheering for their favorite teams. Billions of dollars are made by the television and advertising industries, the food and beverage industries and the College and University “industry”. We watch these young men and women play their hearts out never once considering they have classes to study for or calculating the amount of money they make generate. Today’s college athletes or “student-athletes”, as the National Collegiate Athletic Association calls them, are a part of a long time controversy. While they receive scholarships and are allowed to go to college for free, they also have to “work” in practice and games. They are no different than other college students in that they also have to pay for other necessities. Even if a fan wants to help them out in any way like buy them a meal they can’t because it’s a NCAA violation. This is a hot topic especially during the NCAA tournament. Even the popular IPhone application, Instagram has recently put this hot topic on display. This past week, University of Louisville women’s basketball player, Bria Smith posted a picture of an article about this debate. Her teammate, Monique Reid commented on the photo saying, “Pay us!!” Ohio State University women’s basketball player Raven Ferguson also commented saying the same thing. College athletes should be paid because they are not compensated for their work in sports and the money that’s generated for their university and for the NCAA is...
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...you want to play sports in college you might want to be paid for them but you get to choose to play sports or not. What some don’t know is that you shouldn’t have to get paid to play a sport that you chose to do. Today, I am going to try and persuade you why college athletes should not be paid. In college playing a sport is a privilege because most people that play sports in high school don’t play in college. What reason do athletes need more money, each year there are billions given to college athletes, the athletic scholarship averages over the schools tuition. Here is an example Ohio State of a little over $10,000 a year and the scholarship is $17,856 (Anderson). If they wanted to get paid let’s say a $100,000 salary that isn’t bad but a salary is affected by federal and state taxes. A student with a salary would have to pay a total of $34,900. That means the student only has $65,100. And college expenses get to $65,000 then then what was $100,000 is only $100, so is getting paid and having a salary better...
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...portrayed leader. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the leader? Answer: Coach Carter is a great man who accepted an offer from Richmond High School as the basketball coach based on not only his own interest, but more interest of the basketball players’ future. As a former basketball player, he knew that the current educational system would lead the basketball players to no future, so he didn’t only pay attention on improving players’ basketball skills, but also focused on players’ academics. Under his coaching, Richmond basketball players not only improved their basketball skills, but also achieved high on academics. He was a strong leadership with great expert power and also knew how to use his power to achieve goals. However, he also showed up his weakness in the film. He almost gave up on the team because of a conflict. 2) Utilizing information you have learned about leadership from your text, explain how a key leadership model, theory or approach is illustrated in the film. Answer: Coach Carter showed more than one leadership styles in the movie, and his key leadership is transformational leadership. As the textbook states: a transformational leadership inspires followers to transcend their own self-interests for the good of the organization and is capable of having a profound and extraordinary effect on their followers. They pay attention to the concerns and developmental needs of individual followers; they change followers’ awareness of issues by helping them to look...
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...contribute such a large part of all that money, don’t get one single part of it. B. These kids invest so much time into their athletics, risking the outcome of their education and they don’t receive any part of the money that they are responsible for. C. Today I’d like to speak to you about why these athletes deserve some type of pay, first off on how it’s becoming more of a job nowadays, how they contribute, and why people believe they don’t. Body Paragraph #1 Claim: Playing big time sports in college is starting to become more of a job than an extracurricular activity. A. Robert and Amy McCormick think it’s definitively a job for football and basketball players on athletic scholarships at big time Division-1 schools, they argue that they are treated as “employees” under federal labor laws and entitled to form unions and negotiate hours and working conditions. B. “There are many more demands put on these young men than any employee of the university,” says Robert McCormick. “These young men are laboring under very strict and arduous conditions, so they really are laborers in terms of physical demands on them while they’re also trying to go to attend school at the same time. C. The player might have to postpone taking courses until the summer. Athletes don’t have free choice of what major they take if the classes conflict with practice schedules. “There are similarities to it being a job, as I look back there is a time allotment that is expected of you,” says Hicks a 1991 graduate...
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