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Eric Lucas wrote:
> 
> Jeff Wilson wrote:
> >
> > Tom Potter wrote:
> > >
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > >
> > > America should build a bridge to a better 21st century,
> > > by dismantling the public education monopoly, and turning
> > > over the responsibility for education to the person who uses
> > > it, and to the people who love the children the most, the parents.
> > >
> >
> > This sounds great, but...  How would you solve the problem in schools
> > about athletics and academics?  What I mean is, you've got some students
> > who are bored with school because it's too easy.  You've got others
> > who barely slide by and rely on athletics.  Heck, you even have those
> > athletes parents complaining that a mininum "C" average is required
> > to get an athletic scholarship!  Man, just try getting a acedemic
> > scholarship for college with a "B" average!  And these are the same
> > college students who get full tuition paid with "C" or below averages.
> > Those same schools, most likely, cancel academic scholarships for
> > students whose gpa drop below a "B"!  Sorry, I'm digressing.  How do
> > you balance this disparity in educational goals?
> 
> Umm...  Pardon me, but what do the words "academic scholarship" have to

I think in your hurry to vent your spleen you got a little careless
here. Later on you use the term "athletic scholarship", which is
what your rant seems to be about. Here you are somewhat misleading, as
I almost wrote to chide you for getting riled up about the wrong thing.

> do with each other?  And I say this quite seriously.  Has the whole
> world forgotten what the origin of the word "scholarship" is?  It comes
> from the money paid to a scholar to further his education.  However,
> that's the *last* purpose on the mind of someone that goes to college on
> an "athletic scholarship."  Let's be honest about it--they are being
> paid to go to college to play sports.  Period.  And the use of the word
> "scholarship" to describe what they are paid is misleading and
> hypocritical.  Yes, some do peripherally take their education seriously,
> but I think they are the exceptions (witness the facts stated in the
> quote above regarding the GPA requirements to get/maintain an academic
> scholarship vs. an athletic stipend.)
> 
> Don't you suppose this might have something to do with the apparent
> unbalance?
> 
>         Eric Lucas

Rich Lemert
