Very few high school players get injured permanently playing football. What it does is teach them very important lessons about life like not quitting when things are hard, facing adversity and being gracious in loss, and that all of that testosterone and aggression has to be controlled. There is a certain number of young men who aren't going to learn a crap ton to start with. That's why they had shop class and welding class in the old days. At least they could learn to be productive. Look what we have now. The pussification of the young American male is at least 60% of what is wrong with this country. No-one is teaching them to be men. Single mothers do a terrible job of teaching them, hence the feral young black male problem we face in the cities. Now white young men are nipping on their heels as the family continues to be destroyed. So yeah it is a bad thing.
They can still take trades courses. They can still go out for track and field, basketball and baseball.
It wouldn't kill them to take "drafting" Math and English.
(Especially English)
Well said.