In this article Erika Christakis writes about how it is becoming increasingly common for referees to be attacked during high school games. To illustrate this, she mentions an instance when a soccer referee died because he was punched by one of the players. Christakis says that one way to solve this problem is to have sports follow the same rules as Ultimate Frisbee: there are no referees and players have to police themselves. She writes how successful this approach was in the Middle East in a program called "Ultimate Peace" where children of several ethnicities learned to play ultimate Frisbee.
The author's purpose is to convince her audience that the current system employed in high school sports is not working and that schools would be better off if they adopted the Ultimate Frisbee approach.
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