Why should high school boys and girls should be allowed to play hockey on the same team? Explain your position and your reasoning in a complete paragraph.

Students should be allowed to play hockey together so they can learn different techniques and strategies. There could be good male hockey players while some of the girls don’t play as much. If those students are split, they could play and they could teach each other things. Maybe there’s two close friends whom are opposite gender. If they could be on the same team, they could happily play together.

Refute it, showing why it is mistaken—an apparent but not real problem; acknowledge its validity or plausibility, but suggest why on balance it's relatively less important or less likely than what you propose, and thus doesn't overturn it; concede its force and complicate your idea accordingly—restate your thesis in a more exact, qualified, or nuanced way that takes account of the objection, or start a new section in which you consider your topic in light of it. this will work if the counterargument concerns only an aspect of your argument; if it undermines your whole case, you need a new thesis.