The Chronicle of Higher Education posts a sordid story tracing the decades-long grade fixing scandal that has engulfed college sports, revealing a problem, that reaches from the players and their representatives all the way to the teachers, coaches, and college administrators.
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No shit. Never coulda thunk it possible.
One of my kids was an NCAA Division 1 athlete. There was a specific facility at her university designated for student athletes where they were required to study and/or receive tutoring when necessary.There were many, many athletes who had to be tutored because they COULD NOT READ. Can someone explain to me how kids who can’t read gain admission to college? For crying out loud, how did they get out of elementary school?
Maintaining a constant supply of lofo voters.
The worst part of this is that these kids are told at an early age how special they are. They’re fast or big and strong or physically dexterous. They may even be lied to and told they are smart. Either way, everything is secondary to their chosen sport. They end up in college because their elementary and high school just passed them along. No one flunks anymore. At the college level they have an amazing 3.8 GPA in History of Afro-American Studies. When they become professional athletes, they will be lucky to last 5 years and they have no idea how to save or budget money because those were not considered important classes. Their million dollar professional salary will be spent and they’ll be working at the local convenience store for $8 per hour while some libstain uses them again to “prove” schools need more money and a “living wage” must be instituted.
Hey dumbshit athletes. Hope you like the democrat party. You’re on that plantation for life.
about as surprising as the study recently that discovered that increased levels of CO2 makes trees happier.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2891432/Carbon-dioxide-emissions-help-tropical-rainforests-grow-faster-Study-shows-trees-absorb-greenhouse-gas-expected.html
Let’s see … Dexter Manley was a Redskin back in ancient times, graduated from Oklahoma State (if memory serves) even though illiterate –
and somebody’s just now figuring this shit out?
Just pay them a salary and get it over with.
As much as I love college basketball (and I really do), it’s a bunch of crap that these low IQ, high octane athletes are required to go to college or play overseas prior to playing professionally in the states. This needs to change. Who should have a say on when an athlete is ready to try for the big leagues in any professional sport? The athlete, not a college or organization.
SiS, there is at least one state that does flunk. Their high school standardized test is a graduation requirement and a senior will not graduate unless they pass. They give a re-test in the fall for those who didn’t pass and please believe me, the essays they write are just brutal in their failure.
It almost makes you cry when you read a kids paper that says, “Please pass me. This is the third time I’ve taken this test.”