{"id":2027,"date":"2015-03-06T00:42:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T00:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web02.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters2\/archives\/2027"},"modified":"2015-05-24T07:13:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T07:13:19","slug":"sports-made-compulsory-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/2027","title":{"rendered":"Sports made compulsory for all?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;\"><span style=\"color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\" lang=\"EN-US\">Most of you must have heard the Sports Club&#8217;s proposal that all students in our school should be required to join a sports team at school.\u00a0 The Sports Club meant well to promote a healthy habit, but is it really a good idea?\u00a0 Let us take a closer look.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; color: #222222; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; color: #222222; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\">How many students do we have?\u00a0 And how many sports teams are there?\u00a0 What about the number of coaches?\u00a0 The numbers just do not add up.\u00a0 It means that we will have at least sixty students per sports team. \u00a0As you can see, the proposal is not feasible.\u00a0 Having so many students in a team will require a lot of equipment and space.\u00a0 I do not think our school has enough of those.\u00a0 Besides, with so many students and so few coaches, it will be very hard for the coaches to look after the students.\u00a0 Therefore, the students may hurt themselves when doing sports.\u00a0 All of these show that the proposal will not work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; color: #222222; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; color: #222222; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\">Even if it is going to work, it will not be efficient in promoting a healthy habit of doing sports.\u00a0 As there are only a few coaches, the students may not have the chance to learn the sports in great depth.\u00a0 The coaches need to take care of so many students so the coaches will not have so much time to spend on each student.\u00a0 Other than that, the students will be forced to join a sports team.\u00a0 It means they may not be willing to join in the first place and they will not have the drive to learn the sports.\u00a0 Not all students are talented in sports.\u00a0 Therefore, the school should not waste its resources on this proposal but instead allocate more resources to develop each student&#8217;s talent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; color: #222222; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; color: #222222; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\">The proposal could also affect the students in a negative way.\u00a0 As the students will need to spend a lot of time on sports teams, they will be spending less time on homework and revision.\u00a0 This can affect their academic results.\u00a0 On top of that, students are very busy and may have little rest.\u00a0 With the extra time needed to spend on sports teams, students may not even have time to rest.\u00a0 This can seriously affect their health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 1.3em;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; color: #222222; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\">Obviously, the proposal of the Sports Club is neither feasible and nor efficient.\u00a0 It can even affect students&#8217; academic results and health.\u00a0 Therefore, it is not a good idea.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;\"><span style=\"color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\" lang=\"EN-US\">Most of you must have heard the Sports Club's proposal that all students in our school should be required to join a sports team at school.\u00a0 The Sports Club meant well to promote a healthy habit, but is it really a good idea?\u00a0 Let us take a closer look.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; color: #222222; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; color: #222222; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\">How many students do we have?\u00a0 And how many spo.........<\/span><\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/2027\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","classlevel-others","schoolyear-36"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2246,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/2246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}