ChrisL
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- Jul 24, 2014
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The Reason Jocks Are Privileged Is to Insult Those Who Deserve Those Privileges InsteadBy Believing in the Insult of Having to Pay Tuition, America Deserves the Pain of a Brain DrainQuasimodos of the Bell CurveAnd millions more end up living with their parents and working at Starbucks
even the kids with a marketable skill know little about the real world outside their cubicle
They also know little about their skill; their grade-school level grammar proves that they had no more right to be in college than to be on the college football team, which takes talent, not brown-nosing sacrifice.
Speaking of college and football teams, I always get a kick out of the NFL players announcing where they went to college, and some of them can barely speak English. Obviously, being great at sports is another way to get around doing well in school.
That is related to the mandated ignorance of only talking about tuition. It is undeniable that if college only offered free tuition to athletes, and they otherwise would have to live like teenagers afraid to grow up, few high-school stars would play in college.
And another truth, since no one else dares bring this up. What would the students who are football fans say to a student who they found out was a HIgh School All-American but didn't feel like playing in college? Would they dismiss him like they do the High IQs who refuse to go, saying, "That's his problem. If he's so foolish as not to acquire the benefits of playing in college, why should we care?"
Hey, I don't blame the players for taking advantage of the way the system is set up for them. I'm just noting that the schools obviously don't feel it important to actually TEACH these guys. They are only there for the sports, to give the schools a good name and to make money for the schools.
First, the jocks have no more right to be in the classroom than National Merit scholars should automatically be given a place on the football team. Second, if they want to make money off something that has nothing to do with education, why not give "scholarships" to topless dancers who will work for free at college-owned tittie bars? Third, if the colleges make so much money off sports, why have the costs for tuition and textbooks soared far beyond inflation? Let the slick liars in their Economics Department try to explain all that.
I guess that is just the way it is. Do colleges own "tittie bars?"