TIME: How are students supposed to manage sports and school work?
By Abbiegeal Griggs, Staff Writer
Most students who play sports also have to deal with loads of homework. Teachers may not realize how stressful and how time-consuming their work is. For some, it is incredibly difficult to handle more than five classes full of work each day. Often athletes are even punished for not attending events, which are usually caused by a surplus of schoolwork and studying.
When playing a sport, in or out of school, you are expected to be at every practice, game, or anything related to the sport, but most of the time the coaches don’t realize that school is a priority in this situation. When researching how athletes are affected by doing both schoolwork and practices or games, it showed that their GPAs lowered and non-athletes were rising above them, as said in the article “How Does Playing A Sport Affect Your Grades.” However, it is later said in the article that playing a sport can improve your grades because it causes athletes to turn in their work to stay on the team. Even though this may be true, students can get caught up in schoolwork, causing them to fall behind.
When doing a sport, it takes a lot of time and responsibility. Due to students having to utilize their time to make room for other things throughout their day. For example, on a regular day, the school takes up about 6-7 hours. A student who then plays sports either has practices or games right after school and in some cases, sports might have events during school hours. By the time these activities are over, kids don’t have much time to work on projects or homework. As a result, grades start to drop to a point where penalties, like being kicked off the team can occur.
Sports are not a bad thing, but when sports interfere with school and learning, most of the time it’s not a good result. Sports should be more laid back, in order to bring more success in the classroom and more fun in the sport.