Wow, just wow.
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On a "no politics" site you post this?
I dont see anything 'political' about it. Its about how uninformed people are today...especially students. Get a life.
I'm not trying to drag you down. I'm just watching you flitting about the bug zapper and wondering why, that's all.
WTF are you talking about?
Heres some follow up on this. The paper below got a NC athlete an A-
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UNC athlete paper.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of our nation's finest universities, ranking 30th in the latest U.S. News and World Report list of top schools and eighth on Forbes' list of top public colleges. And the bit of drivel above apparently earned an A-minus, according to ESPN.
Why? Simple. That paper was written by an athlete for a class specifically designed to keep them moving through the university.
"Athletes couldn't write a paper," Mary Willingham, a specialist in the school's learning-support system-turned-whistleblower, told ESPN. "They couldn't write a paragraph. They couldn't write a sentence yet." She said that some of the students were reading at a second- or third-grade level, which is considered illiterate for a college-age student. As Willingham notes, in the "AFAM" classes, players were notching As and Bs, but in actual classes such as Biology and Economics were receiving Ds and Fs.
The academic scandal at UNC has deep roots; hundreds of classes since the mid-1990s fell into a "no-show" category, classes made up primarily or completely of athletes who didn't even show up to class and yet earned an A. Such dry statistics generally receive a disbelieving shake of the head, but it's not until you actually see what kind of work these "students" were producing that you start to see the way a "student-athlete," and an athletic department, can game the system:
That paper doesn't even make it six words before its first error (the actual date of Rosa Parks' bus incident was Dec. 1, 1955), and the rest of the paper would make a fourth-grade Language Arts teacher burn through two red pens.
One of the key arguments of the NCAA and its defenders, or those opposed to paying players, is that the players are "receiving a valuable education." Giving an A-minus to a paper like this shows how false that premise can be.
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...politics?!... politicians!?... OMG, I'm like totally facebooking LL and reporting you outlaws!
Haha, some people need to chill the fuck out.
Haha, some people need to chill the fuck out.
In all fairness I could have given a crap less who ran this country when I was 19 or 20 in college. I was way too busy chasing tail and getting buzzed to be quite honest.
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On a "no politics" site you post this?
This is clearly a commentary on the failures of our education system.
What school makes you learn what people are currently serving as senators? And does said school offer refresher courses every time there are changes?
Mrs. Andrews high school US History, 1968. Every Friday we had current events day. We had to know the governor of the state, the US Senators and Congressmen from our state, the President, Speaker of the House and PPT of the Senate.
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