In this blog post I will write a response to the debate if schools should offer sports or not. This topic stuck out to me because it’s unusual to see someone argue against high school sports. In the article “School Should Be About Learning, Not Sports” by Amanda Ripley, she makes good and surprising points about how sports shouldn’t be offered in high schools. For example, her main point was that sports distract kids into caring about their team more than their education. Ripley supports her theory by interviewing an exchange student from Finland and he said how “It was amazing to see how school wasn't just about the grades. In my home country, school is just for learning.” although the exchange student had fun in America, he proves Ripleys point by showing how other countries are more committed to their education than us. In the article “Turn Down the High School Football Volume”, the author, Buzz Bissinger argues how sports like football don’t need to be taken out of schools, they just need to be “Toned Down” and be more about the fun of the sport. Just like Ripley, Bissinger also speaks of a young man from a different country that he saw selling discount cards to help raise funds for his team. Bissinger purposely says how the young mans team recently just ended a 17 game losing streak. He does this because it shows that sports can be apart of kids lives without the competitive mentality that most Americans have. I believe with Bissinger because he make good points of how schools should offer sports. I have a bias view on it because I play sports and personally love them but I do think they can distract a lot kids to care more about their sports team than their education.