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High school football unsafe?

I think that high school football is very good thing for young male adults. It teaches team work, discipline, and is very productive for the male teen. Some people think high school football is unsafe and dangerous because of all the injuries that happen in high school football. Football causes more injuries then any other high school sport. High school football has caused many problems with teenagers schooling and the kids concentrating on school work more then football. Also the concussions that come from football cause some of the football players to get lower marks and have trouble doing there school work.  It is important that the teenagers succeed in school because the teenagers are our future.  Daniel Fischlin, a university professor from Alabama quotes “high school football although productive in some ways is unsafe and to dangerous for high school students because of the risk of injury and concussions that will cause the students to have lower marks”.  In my opinion high school football might be dangerous to a certain extent but the productivity of the sport is far greater then the risk of injury.  High school football builds team work which is an important quality for any young male teenager. Many male teenagers will have jobs that will require them to work with people and it’s good if they can work as a team. It teaches work ethic which is also a very important quality for young males. It keeps the teenagers out of the trouble if the kids don’t put there effort into something they will look for something else to do like crime and drugs. It teaches them to work for things and have great team and school spirit. Although there might be some injuries in football I think that the risk of being injured is far worth it because of all the positives that come from playing football which includes social. The football players will make friends and keep them from getting into the wrong crowd such as crowds that are involved in crime. High school football is not unsafe. The players wear shoulder pads, helmet, mouth guard, hip pads, thigh pads, tail bone pad, and knee pads. With all this equipment the players wear football is not unsafe but accidents do happen as they do in any situation. High school football could require that players wear more protective equipment to lower the risk of players being injured. They could wear thicker pads, helmets with more padding to prevent concussions, and more heavy duty shoulder pads. Also they could ad elbow pads and some sort of padding for the lower legs as that is a point on players that is commonly injured. High school football is not unsafe. It is one of the best sports programs for young male adults and it is very productive. High school students should be encouraged to play football!