High_School_Athletics__Good_Or_Bad_Influence_

High School Athletics: Good Or Bad Influence' High School Athletics: Good or Bad Influence' High School Athletics: Good or Bad Imfluence' “ In America we have laws, laws against killing, laws against stealing, and its excepted that as a member of American society you will live by these laws. In West Canaan, Texas, there is another society, which has its own set of laws. Football is a way of life.” This excerpt taken from the beginning of Varsity Blues, which premiered in 1998, shows the way of life for high school football players. In this movie, Jon Moxon played by James Van Der Beek assumes the role of star quarterback after the starting quarterback suffers a career ending knee injury. This movie showed how athletics and athletes have become the center of everyone’s life and how athletes can sometimes become higher than the law. In society today, high school sports have a great influence on the future of students, whether they will or where they go to college. This influence may seem good at the time but later turns into a bad influence, which could end in the student dropping out of school. In recent years, the amount of violence in sports and involvement of parents has sports, school, parents, athletes, team, play, out, kids, because, one, junta, game, costin, pressure, laws, influence, become, society, playing, percent, parent, life, involvement, injury, high, fun, children, athlete, against, after, youth, year, win, violence, two, treatment