Students Spending Too Much Time On Sports?

Vasilios Panagopoulos, Reporter|September 20, 2014

There are many students that attend Arrowhead High School and also play a sport. If not multiple. And some are year round and some are in different parts of the year. Other people have different reasons on why they play. Helps them learn, keeps them motivated. But are sports interfering with their school work?

Craig Haase, a American Problems teacher at Arrowhead High School said, “I believe that Arrowhead’s focus is evenly shared on academics and sports.” He says, “I believe that is why Arrowhead is a place that all students should be able to ‘shine’ if they want to.”  He says there should be no problem playing a sport and still succeed in school.

Tamara Varsos, a Arrowhead High School history teacher said, “There should be a lot of emphasis on the fact that they are a student athlete. And I think that school should be first priority.”

With Varsos saying there should be emphasis on the fact they are a student athlete, that is saying that being a successful student should come first.

Samantha Borgerding, a 11th grader at Arrowhead High School said, “I think we should focus on them equally because sports [are] important, and academics. But we ‘students’ don’t focus on academics. We focus more on [sports].”

And then Theodore Orlando, a 11th grader at Arrowhead High School said, “I think students should focus more on academics because, I’ve always heard the term ‘student athlete’ and students should have school come first.”

Varsos and Haase do feel that education should come first. Orlando and Borgerding believe school should come first. With the answers from all four of them, should more of the schools income go towards the students education?

Varsos said, “I think Arrowhead should definitely spend more money on education, if we have it. Money spent on education here at Arrowhead will just help.”

Orlando said, “I think Arrowhead should spend more money on the students education… the reason I think that is because, you want to give the students the best possible opportunity to succeed.”