AP Anxiety

With AP tests in exactly a month from today, there is no such thing as free time. If I am not doing homework and studying, I am running in a track meet. If not a track meet, i am playing baseball, and if not baseball I am fast asleep on the couch because I have no energy left.There is simply not enough time in the day to get everything done.

This past week was absolutely horrible. I had a total of eight tests, a track meet thursday, ap chem test friday, as well as a track meet friday, on top of track practices and other little things to do. Needles to say, the chemistry test did not go well at all. It is hard to be a student athlete when the athlete part takes priority over the student part. Sadly, that is what is happening.

What if people cared as much about doing well in the education realm of things as they did about doing well in sports? If that were the case, there would be a lot more great students in this country. However, coaches often times prevent that from happening. Every coach says, "School is a priority" but then when you say you cant make a practice because you have to make up a test, the are disappointed.

This makes everything extremely hard now that AP tests are almost here. It is so hard to get all the studying in required to do well. I would be curious what would happen to students test scores if sports were non existent for a year. By no means am i suggesting this happens, but I am curious how sports effect our test scores. I know some people say that being involved in things makes a better student because they manage their time better. I disagree because if you aren't involved in anything, you have all the time in the world to whatever you want, and study more!

If education was a priority in a school rather than their sports, I'm sure we would have a much brighter and better educated nation. Sports take us out of school to go compete, why cant school take me out of sports without consequence? Needless to say being a student athlete at the end of the year can get to be very rough. Trying to finish strong is hard enough, and it certainly doesn't help when your time is very limited. (WC 408)