As Many as One in Four FSU Athletes is Learning Disabled? What Difference Does that Make?
For athletes, the practical result of an “LD” designation can include more time to complete the 16 high school courses required by the National Collegiate Athletic Association before they can play sports in college, less arduous courses, extra time on college entrance exams, and possibly a waiver to play freshman college sports before crossing the 16 high school hurdles. Once in college, an LD designation can also mean recorded reading material, note-takers, and extra time for college testing and assignments.
This is a simple supply and demand outcome. If the regulators supply a way around academic standards for college athletes who never should have been in college in the first place, there will be pleny of takers.
Why don’t we just turn college teams into pro teams and end this whole charade?
Answer to Neil: Because that would cost the colleges a lot of money. A better idea is to dispense with academics altogether in college sports.
Just admit the athletes, let them play sports and do nothing else (unless they want to) and let the schools make as much money as possible before sending them on to the pros.
This idea for funding higher education seems to me to make a lot more sense than Obama’s idea of giving everyone a scholarship.
It may mean that they’re stupid.