At the high school I went to, the football, basketball and baseball players were treated with preferential treatment by school administrators.
As with most high schools, rules dictated that a student had to maintain a "C" average to participate in school sports.
In ninth grade, I was assigned to a history class which was taught by one of the football coaches. Oddly enough, the bulk of the football team was in the same class, where the "teacher" spent a disproportionate amount of time talking about sports rather than history. By all appearances, this class was specifically created to pass student athletes who couldn't be bothered to do the same work as other students.
As a result, many of these athletes ended up graduating without the educational standards demanded of other students.
Did the student athletes in YOUR high school get special treatment? If they broke the rules, did they get a pass?
And what, if anything, does this say about our society in general?
2007-07-20
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