Current Trends in High School Athletics

Trends in High School Athletics

In school , children are exposed to different activities such as sports , dancing and even games through their psychical education With this subject , children are able to communicate and interact with other people through games and competitions . Also , these activities do not only enhance their physical skills but also their social skills because of the interactions that happen among them as well as the relationships formed among students and their teachers / instructors

These activities have also been a way of expressing themselves . Movements just like in a

dance , they are able to portray different roles and show different strengths and power . Thus , for some the sport , dance , or game they play help reflect who they are by means of their levels of performance on it

For some , these activities are called or part of their physical education but for some , it a part of their athletics class Physical education is being defined as a process of learning that makes use of physical activities for people to have and obtain skills knowledge , fitness and attitudes that are factors for their health and development

It is also a training and development for the human body that involves athletics and hygiene (Wordnet . In this way , they are also able to build their personality and character . On the other hand athletics is simply known as a collection of events of sports (Wikipedia 2007 . Therefore , an athletics class ' is often understood being a class that teach or provides students different kinds of sports and how they are played and done

Researchers have shown that those students who participate in these kinds of activities or athletics , delinquency and drop-outs lessen - having positive effects on students (Landers Landers , 1978 Otto and Alwin , 1973 . And so , with these pleasant impacts on students athletics has been a reason for schools to spend more time and money on it

Considering how schools spend for their athletes , different issues then arise . These issues include how schools manage and handle their funds and / or budgets , how they buy and make use of different facilities and many other concerns about athletes and their training

Budget and Facilities

Athletics have an array of results from bringing a university international and national recognitions and having more donations to spending large amounts of money and different resources that is not directed on academic interests and then later on being a `commercialized monster . It has been a way of how schools set new standards on a sport , how the school 's name are identified and recognized in a state , country or even internationally speaking (Shulman Bowen , 2001

High school and college sports increase their costs millions of dollars every year to operate . But the issue here is whether these sports bring enough worth and value to the schools to makeup for their costs (Noll , 1999 . This goes the same for the question whether the effects of spending such budgets are positive of negative

Several studies tried to find a correlation between the fundraisings...