Neil Petrie Athletes And Education Essay

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Alexa Logan English 101 E Huston 09-24-09 Final Buzzer In the essay “Athletes and Education” by Neil H. Petrie he argues that colleges do not treat students and athletes the same. Petrie has been around education his whole life; as a student and as a professor. He has experienced many of the up and downs of college athletes. Colleges claim that their athletes are in college to receive a good education. This may be true, but when the athletes graduate and become professionals that pay little attention to them and a great deal of attention to the ones that settled for lower grades and incomplete programs. In reality athletes never actually graduate. Petrie believes that athletes do not spend enough time studying. They spend the majority of their time at…show more content…
My brother is a college football player and he is taking the same classes as me and he is a junior in college. Every time we have a study session he is always tired and actually starts to slur his words. He blames it on practice and the traveling football requires. It amazes me by how much he focus on football and how little he does on studying. Sometimes I know that he feels bad because he is always telling me how proud he is of my accomplishments and of how I am succeeding in academics. Most of his football team is barely passing and if they are passing how much is that them actually trying? Most of the time the papers are late and are not even done correctly, but there are certain players who succeed successfully. Being an athlete is just one type of an individual. It make me think about how no one offers to help me and I am striding to be a Radiologist. The medical field is a much harder field then football. There are many other fields of study out there, but no one us have coaches fighting for us to pass. If we don’t study, we don’t pass. We have it the hard way, athletes have it the easy

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