| Teamwork is one of the most important skills | | | | |
| that high school students can learn, and | | | | Another good reason for having sports in high |
| nowhere is this easier to teach than on the | | | | school is the possibility of college |
| sports field. Here students can learn how | | | | sponsorship. This is especially important |
| each individual's effort combined with that | | | | for lower income families who haven't the |
| of their team-mates creates the success level | | | | financial opportunity to build up a college |
| of the team. If all the members of a team | | | | nest egg to help their child further their |
| give it their best and pull together as a | | | | education. Many of the better colleges offer |
| team, then the team has a greater probability | | | | up to 100% scholarships for the best athletes |
| of winning. | | | | sportspeople they can identify in high |
| | | | schools around the country and so if your |
| Although winning everything isn't always the | | | | child is hoping to go to college, and your |
| best lesson to learn, the fact that if | | | | finances are low, then you could do well to |
| everyone does their best the team does better | | | | encourage your child into trying out a number |
| is the more important lesson to learn. Once | | | | of sports to see which, if any, they can |
| the students leave school/college and start | | | | excel in during their high school years. Of |
| in a working environment, they are going to | | | | course sports aren't for everyone, and it |
| find themselves on a job-related team of some | | | | could be that your child just isn't |
| description whether it's for a legal firm or | | | | sport's-minded, but if they are then it's a |
| the local garage; they are going to helping | | | | great way of getting their education at a |
| their employer to do better than the | | | | much reduced rate. |
| competition. | | | | |
| | | | Not all teens enjoy sports during their high |
| Even if your child isn't happy with team | | | | school years, and for some of them they are |
| sports, and some kids much prefer working at | | | | an absolute misery, but if your child's |
| their own level, there are plenty of sporting | | | | school has a compulsory sport's program then |
| opportunities where individual effort is | | | | the best you can do is to encourage your |
| required. Track and field events are usually | | | | child to become interested in some sporting |
| the more obvious ones to be undertaken at | | | | activity. Even if it's one that's not on the |
| high school level, and high school students | | | | high school curriculum, at least they will be |
| get the chance to test their skills against | | | | able to say that they are proficient in at |
| peers at inter-school athletics events in | | | | least one sport and therefore be less at risk |
| much the same way that the teams compete in | | | | of being a target of ridicule from the other |
| inter-school games. | | | | students. |