February 13, 2018 09:43AM
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In addition to being a high school history teacher, I was a varsity basketball head coach for 22 years. Yes, I know, part of the problem.
College athletes get a bum rap for low graduation rates. That's a joke. Two out of three college athletes graduate within five years (68% - NCAA stat).
The academics and administrators who rant about college athletics are the one's who need to be taken to the woodshed.
Only 32% of all freshmen eventually graduate from college. That number includes those awful college athletes.
Before you raise the objection the athletes don't have to work, I'd like to point out competing in college is a job. You spend 20-40 hours a week on your sport with travel, practice, etc. You don't have time. I know I didn't.
States would be better served by investing their money in technical schools with two year programs and saving the state university systems for STEM degrees and professions society needs that require a college education (medicine, engineering, teachers - yes, we need teachers).
Leave the liberal arts and humanities to the private liberal arts schools who do a better job of teaching those subjects. They also do a better job of providing financial aid to their students. Many of our graduates who attend private, expensive liberal arts schools graduate with significantly lower debt than do the graduates from state institutions.
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