Link Post- Taking sports away from kids?

How can you ever say sports are bad for anyone? You want to try and get them out of schools because you think they cost too much money and distract kids from their studies? America is known for being great at sports at it is a huge industry in the United States. David Safier has been writing a three part blog on the internet, with his latest post called, “After school sports are bad for education” (http://arizona.typepad.com/blog/2008/03/after-school-sp.html). He claims that America is one of the worst ratings academically wise for kids in school, and teachers scratch their heads trying to figure out why, and he is blaming it on sports. I find this ridiculous. If you take sports out of school, it was have so many affects besides education. One of the long term affects is it was drive competition downwards in professional sports because people won’t be in sports as long so they won’t be as developed and people will stop watching which means they lose money because of poor ratings. Some short term effects are obesity and more kids will be on the streets. Obesity is already a big concern in this country and if you take sports away from schools it will lead to unhealthy kids and that could make it harder to learn. A big concern from taking sports away is that means more kids in the streets. A big reason kids do sports is because it is something structured to where they stay out of trouble and in a safe place to where them and their parents know they won’t be in any harm, so I think this article about sports is terrible!