Outline and Essay for Prompt: "High schools should require students to maintain a certain grade point level in order to play on competitive sports teams."

Agree

Students like competitive sports

They offer a chance to meet others

Get a chance to exercise

Have fun

Grade point level should be 3.5

3 is average, so students should do better to get a reward, get 3.5

Will encourage students to get higher grades

People who originally didn't do that well in school but liked sports would now get better grades

Conclude

          Some high school students just focus on competitive sports and don't do very well in academic studies. This is a big problem, and one way to fix it would be to require a higher grade point level to participate in competitive sports.

          In schools, especially high schools, it is important to get good grades. Normally, you want to get good grades because it shows your understanding of the subject, and you want to show your understanding of the subject because you want to show you have learned something in school. If you don't learn anything in school, there wouldn't be many measurements to show that, but a grade is the best available one.

          So students' individual grade point level should be at a certain place before they could participate in competitive sports because the competitive sports would be great motivation for students to achieve higher. The required grade point level should be a 3 because anything below that is below standard, and anything above that is too hard for most students to achieve, so it is like a middlepoint. For achieving average, which isn't easy for most students, students should be rewarded with the opportunity of participating in competitive sports. People who originally didn't do that well in school but liked sports would now get better grades because they would want to participate in competitive sports.

          All in all, I think there should be a required grade point level to participate in competitive sports because people like competitive sports, and therefore will be more motivated to get better grades.