According to statistics, sport helps children (especially boys) to graduate, but only if it is a team game.
Research conducted by the University of Montreal (Canada) on 2,775 students between the ages of 12 and 20 has shown that practicing sports in an organized way during childhood and adolescence increases the probability of graduating.
Male record. And it happens more to boys than to girls: the percentage of boys who obtain a qualification increases by 15%, compared to a more modest increase of 7% among girls.
Matter of Attention. For this to happen, however, it must be a team sport (basketball, volleyball…), while this effect is not recorded in the case of individual sports (for example gymnastics) or poorly structured ones (such as cycling). Probably because team sports train prolonged attention and the ability to cope in certain group dynamics.
