Observation Of Student Athletes

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As the new year started, we were given ID cards. Although everyone was given an ID, the school doesn’t enforce the visibility of them. Some students do not even wear the card. Even though it is a simple lanyard, it becomes a hassle to remember. In a school where there are not that many students, the school officials generally know everyone or at least their face. There is no point of wearing an ID card. Instead of wearing an ID card the school should first lock every door and window from the ground up. Secondly, the school should increase the

Student ids can bring efficiency to the school in areas such as the library and cafeteria. Schools such as Owensboro High School use student ids to use as public library cards, to buy lunches, to get into athletic events, and even to check out books from the school library(Ramsey). If it was possible to scan student ids, the lunch lines in the cafeteria would decrease in size. Also, it will ease the process to get a public

Purpose: to connect high school athletes with the colleges that will give them the best chnce to

A concussion is defined as “a complex pathophysiological process affecting the brain, induced by traumatic biomechanical forces” (McCrory, Johnston, & Meeuwisse, 2005). Based on current research, findings show a relationship between academic performance and student athletes suffering from post concussion symptoms (Baker et al., 2015; Ransom et al., 2015; Swanson et al., 2017; Wasserman, Bazarian, Mapstone, Block, & Wijngaarden, 2016). More specifically, researchers have found that concussed student athletes had difficulty returning back to the classroom. Surprisingly, some reported having problems with vision and the severity of the concussion also effected

A 2016 study by the NCAA revealed that there are nearly eight million students who participate in high school athletics in the United States, yet only 480,000 of them will compete at NCAA schools ("Probability of Competing Beyond High School"). Of that approximate 16% who become a student-athlete, an even smaller percent will graduate and become professional athletes. For example, data from the 2015 NFL Draft demonstrates that there is less than a 2% chance of playing in the NFL. During the 2015 Draft, there were 72,788 NCAA football participants, only 16,175 of those were draft eligible for the 256 slots which equates to a 1.6% chance of being drafted to the NFL. According to the NCAA, of the 256 NCAA players selected in the 2015 NFL draft 236 were from Division I FBS institutions, 17 were from Division I FCS programs, two were from Division II programs, and only one was from a Division III program. Student-athletes from the power five conferences accounted for for 200 of the 256 draft picks (SEC=54, ACC=47, Pac-12=39, Big Ten=35, Big 12=25) ("Probability of Competing Beyond High School", 2016). With there being a small percentage of playing professional sports after college, the importance of a college degree has become a priority for many student-athletes.

Dean Clark Carter, I am a junior student here at Charleston Southern University. I write in regards to an issue I have noticed on campus and would like to bring to your attention; should student athletes receive special academic treatment? I believe that CSU should hold a student forum about this issue so that all students gain knowledge about the topic, can share and debate opinions, and create possible solutions.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is requiring colleges and coaches to make an effort to track the grades and progress of student athletes. There are more than 360,000 student athletes, according to the data only 1% of those student athletes will ever play football professionally. NCAA wants to make sure that student athletes are prepared for careers other than professional sports. Education World.com is an online source of teachers, administrators, and school staff members. World Education has provided resources since 1996. The article did not list an

Every year, students receive their own personal id upon enrollment. Each student’s id classifies them into a certain grade level: freshmen have blue, sophomores have green, juniors with orange and seniors, red. This id must be worn from 7 a.m. to 3:05 p.m., if it is not worn or lost, it is necessary to get another one which cost $6 per id. They are hard to keep up with; I lose my id almost every month. I personally feel that are id’s are unneeded because of the small population in the school. Everyone is known so why do we have to wear ids?

As a student athlete, you might not be able to get into the pros in athletics. If you get beyond college in football, according to the NCAA in 2016 there were 72,788 football participants in the NCAA (NCAA). But of those 72,788 participants only 1.6% of them went pro (NCAA). That’s only about 1,164 college participants that move on to the Major Pros. Not only that but if you’re competing in women's basketball, only 0.9% of 16,589 players are eligible to play pro (NCAA). That’s about 149 players that are able to play in the pros. So if you don’t make it to the pros, you should meet requirements for other jobs. Even so, if you do make it to the pros, you might go broke after you retire. According to Forbes, “Sports Illustrated recently estimated

Most people do not show up. most people go to the gym. Some. say they are going to another teacher’s room, but do not go to there room. They are not in the room they just walk the halls. most People are inconsiderate should learn to get their grade up so they do not have to be told to.

Furthermore, the crafting of the term “student-athlete” was deliberately ambiguous in an attempt to keep collegiate athletics as an activity instead of professional sports (Afshar, 2015). College players were not students at play which is not to understate their athletic obligations nor were they just athletes in college implying they were professional athletes rather they were viewed as high-performance athletes meaning they did not have to meet certain academic criteria of compared to their peers. Being a student first meant that they did not have to be compensated for anything more than the cost of their studies (Mitten, Musselman, 2009). When Byers, the creator of the term student-athlete pointed out the unethicality of the NCAA stance

In another incident at Western Kentucky University, a young woman was raped, stabbed, and burned to death in her dorm. Everyone that entered the building was supposed to sign in and show identification in this case the one involved walked in without being questioned, he proceeded to her room where she was brutally murdered. When visitors are seen by security and made to sign in and show identification, it would help monitor the visitors in each building. Therefore, guards stationed outside of dorms at night would prevent unauthorized visitors in the building and the guards could personally identify who enters and leaves each building.

Also what if because the students know that the school can search you whenever, they put something like drugs or a gun in your stuff without you knowing. And they run to the principle going, “principle principle I saw so and so with this earlier” And they say you have whatever they put on you. Then later in the day you get called to the office, and you go to your locker with the officials. Open up your locker, oh look drugs that the students planted on you. You try and tell them I’ve never seen these before but they have evidence of drugs in your locker. Yea you’re getting in trouble. Well good thing they search you whenever right.

While studying or even registering for a class presents a challenge to some college students, the greatest obstacle remains, going to class. Attending college is supposed to signify a new found freedom to make many important choices regarding education without high school mandatory attendance policies. However, students everywhere are coming to the staggering realization that college is not too different from high school. Teachers still take class roll and students are still expected to be at every class on time. What next, hall monitors in the hall? The time has come for action to be taken. Colleges must abolish mandatory student attendance policies for several reasons to be further discussed.