Persuasive Speech On Sports Suicides

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Have you ever had to run laps, suicides, or have had to do burpees or push-ups because you did something wrong in PE or in a sport? Well it is illegal in the state of Colorado and in 28 other states. Using physical activity as a punishment is deemed a form of corporal punishment. The National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) states that “Administering or withholding physical activity as a form of punishment and or behavior management is an inappropriate practice.” Examples that are illegal are; Forcing students to run laps or perform push-ups because if behavioral infractions; threatening students with physical activity or no physical activity, and then removing the threat because of good behavior; making students …show more content…
For the girls that didn’t leave early they had to run seven suicides because we had lost a ball. Gina was a girl who left early and she had shin splints and when they were really killing her, she asked to do some other type of conditioning on the sidelines, but they said no. Same thing happened to me, I sprained my ankle and I was supposed to take two weeks off of volleyball but I didn’t do that so my recovery time was longer. While running I had rolled my ankle again because my ankle wasn’t strong yet, and I asked to condition on the sidelines but they told me no. They even wanted Lindsey to run with a hurt shoulder. Another time we had to run was when we didn’t set up the nets fast enough and had to run around the gym for almost nine minutes. During that time Mary had broken her ankle again was out for the rest of the season. For C and D teams every time the ball hit the ground or we weren’t talking enough, or we were talking while the coach was talking, or if we weren’t using our courtesy jog we would have to run five suicides, or run five lines or do five burpees or when we would scrimmage each other the team that would lose would have a punishment. We would have won more games if we wouldn’t have ran so much or have done so many burpees. And little did we know that this was
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