” Each year, roughly 264,000 high school students suffer traumatic brain injury (TBI) and mental impairment. The brain injuries hurt students' ability to learn and succeed in school.”

“Is sponsoring an activity that causes disabling brain injury in line with educators' responsibilities to students?”

“Schools shouldn't support activities known to cause mental impairment in a significant percentage of participants. Nor should schools support activities undercutting their educational aims.”

“Even if there were solid evidence that football is more effective for character-building, that wouldn't defend an expensive sport for a few players. Instead, schools should have safer and more affordable sports for all students.”

When they get a force so hard to the head there comprehension neurons are impaired

A section of the brain

Process involved in understanding information and making decisions.

When your brain becomes paralyzed or unable to think

No matter how popular tackle football is, there is no justification for continuing to expose students to major injuries.

Students build better character when they participate in music, theater, and community service instead of sports.

Teams in Texas have begun canceling tackle football programs due to injuries.

Educators and school officials have a duty to protect students from getting injured.

“Some school districts such as the districts of Maplewood, Missouri, and Marshall, Texas have even begun reducing or canceling tackle football programs.”

“Beyond cognitive impairment, repeated blows to the head often cause concussions, with symptoms that include headaches, memory loss, insomnia, and mood disorders.”

“Good judgement is a key aspect of good character, and studies show improved judgement in students who participate in music, theater, and community service programs, but not in students who participate in sports.”

“For a quarter of football players, what happens on the field diminishes their capacity to benefit from what happens in the classroom.”

Compare and Contrast

Cause and Effect

Problem and Solution

Question and Answer

”Dose the putative consent of players or their parents relieve educators and administrators of their duty to protect students from harm? The answer to these questions are clearly no,”

“He explained that concussed and non concussed players alike demonstrate decreased activity in the portions of the brain most vulnerable to empact and have greater difficulty with basic cognitive tasks over the course of a single high school season.”

“The responsibility for harm to students arising these hazards false primarily on school officials, and it is they who can eliminate the hazards by terminating the programs.”

“More than one million high school students participate in tackle football programs at their schools, during which they each sustain hundreds of violent blows to the head over the course of a season.”

Tackle football should not be a high school sport because it it hazardous to the brain of students

High School football should be a sport because there is no danger involved.

There is no justification for continuing to expose students to inherit hazards of tackle football, however popular it may be.

264,000 highschool students suffer traumatic brain injury and cognitive impairment that diminishes their ability to think.

”The risks associated with playing tackle football mounts, professional players and sportscasters have begun to abandon the game.”

”Schools should not sponsor activities known to cause cognitive impairment in a significant percentage of participants.”

”More than 1 million high school students participate in tackle football programs at their schools, during which they each sustain hundreds of violent blows to the head over the course of a season.”

”Helmets help to prevent skull fractures, but they do nothing to stop the brain from smashing into the skull each time a player collides with another player collides with another player or the ground.”

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