This article is about how athletes can’t read. Mary Willingham is trying to figure at how to get these athletes at an appropriate level in school. Most of the athletes only can read to an eighth grade level. Mary’s main concern is that many of the universities won’t take athletes that are this low with their scores. Mary survived around 183 athletes who played football or basketball, "She found that 60% read between fourth- and eighth-grade levels. Between 8% and 10% read below a third-grade level."(Willingham) You may ask, how did they get into college reading like a third grader. It’s almost impossible to do right? Well not for the athletes at UNC. These athletes cheated their way into this school. They took classes that did not exist. They paid a teacher money to act like he was teaching and he really was just giving them their grades. This teacher was charged for fraud when the people found out.
This has to do with not only my classes but also my school. In my school people are barely passing but you will never see my school giving out grades like candy. No, we work for what we get no matter what.
This whole situation just infuriates me. I am a hardworking student and I earn my grades. It’s not right for the students at UNC who actually work their butt off to pass. There is people at UNC that may struggle but at least they tried. These football players have it easy. No school work, all you have to do is play football. Life is given to them on a silver platter. It’s just not right for the athletes to get special treatment. They should have to work as hard as the rest of us, no matter how good their playing skills are.
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Nice post, you were passionate, allowing you to make a better blog post than you would have made if not. I think that more should be done to be sure that athletes have to try and know how to read on the level they need to just as much, but I honestly hope her study was flawed (which a lot of other people believe was by the way). My critique for you is that there is people at UNC, when it should say there are people at UNC (its in the last paragraph). My questions for you is Do you think that this occurs at other schools?, and what do you think should be done about athletes in collegiate sports who are not on the level of academics they should be and the false grades (if there are any)?
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