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Abolish School Sports
For years school districts have been debating if they should abolish school sports. Many schools that have canceled sports have less students falling behind in class.Therefore, school sports should be eliminated because it will save money, give students more time to study, and present the district with higher graduation rates.

Saving money is a big reason for disencumbering sports from schools. Any school district that has sports and has many fields of sports, pays twenty thousand dollars on field maintenance alone by canceling athletics, that money is saved and used to better the schools (Ripley 11). Also if the labs are infested or contaminated the school will have enough money to repair them to continue the science class (Ripley

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