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Clay, a former all-state performer for Racine Park High School and a key member of the UW's 2007 freshman class, has failed to meet the NCAA's minimum academic eligibility standards and won't be allowed to play this season.
I bring up this story because it happens over and over and over and over and over again.
I don't know the exact reasons Clay is not smart enough to make grades, but the same thing happened at the school I taught at this year.
A young man, who was voted one of the top five basketball players in the state of Wisconsin, was being looked at by top Division I college teams. After it was determined that he hadn't done a damn thing in the classroom for about 12 years the only school willing to waste its time with him was Bradley. He was still going to get a D-I scholarship, easily worth $40,000 or more. However, there are basic requirements to play Division one sports. There is a formula that is used that takes into account your ACT score (or SAT) and your GPA. This young man made sure that while basketball season was in session, he earned a 2.0. Otherwise, he could care less. So, with a GPA hovering a bit below 2.0 and an ACT score much closer to 10 than 20, he needed 6 A's his last semester to be eligible for the scholarship. Instead of working hard (which is what adult after adult was trying to do for him), he stopped going to class about a week after the basketball season ended.
This is just one example of what is going on every day in the inner city (and maybe other places). A large number of kids who are willing to do absolutely nothing to get an education. People LOVE to blame the teachers, but what are the teachers supposed to do when the kid refuses to do any homework, barely any classwork, and shows up whenever his schedule allows. I like to say that guys like Jason and Blamin lay down some bitch slaps on the liberals here from time to time, but the next time Mark Belling says that MPS teachers are underworked and overpaid I'll give someone $100 bucks if they go down to his studio and bitch slap him.
There are tons of adults bending over backwards trying to give these kids help, money, whatever...and they STILL don't feel the need to do anything to help themselves. In my opinion, this is the problem with liberal socialism in the inner city. You have a vast majority of kids who have grown up under the liberal lifestyle and don't believe they have to do anything. The government and everyone else owe them things, and they are happy (maybe not happy but content) going through life near the bottom just looking for the next handout...
Here are just two stories of young black men who were being offered college for FREE, but the consequences of doing absolutely nothing their entire academic career caught up with them.
Clay, a former all-state performer for Racine Park High School and a key member of the UW's 2007 freshman class, has failed to meet the NCAA's minimum academic eligibility standards and won't be allowed to play this season.
I bring up this story because it happens over and over and over and over and over again.
I don't know the exact reasons Clay is not smart enough to make grades, but the same thing happened at the school I taught at this year.
A young man, who was voted one of the top five basketball players in the state of Wisconsin, was being looked at by top Division I college teams. After it was determined that he hadn't done a damn thing in the classroom for about 12 years the only school willing to waste its time with him was Bradley. He was still going to get a D-I scholarship, easily worth $40,000 or more. However, there are basic requirements to play Division one sports. There is a formula that is used that takes into account your ACT score (or SAT) and your GPA. This young man made sure that while basketball season was in session, he earned a 2.0. Otherwise, he could care less. So, with a GPA hovering a bit below 2.0 and an ACT score much closer to 10 than 20, he needed 6 A's his last semester to be eligible for the scholarship. Instead of working hard (which is what adult after adult was trying to do for him), he stopped going to class about a week after the basketball season ended.
This is just one example of what is going on every day in the inner city (and maybe other places). A large number of kids who are willing to do absolutely nothing to get an education. People LOVE to blame the teachers, but what are the teachers supposed to do when the kid refuses to do any homework, barely any classwork, and shows up whenever his schedule allows. I like to say that guys like Jason and Blamin lay down some bitch slaps on the liberals here from time to time, but the next time Mark Belling says that MPS teachers are underworked and overpaid I'll give someone $100 bucks if they go down to his studio and bitch slap him.
There are tons of adults bending over backwards trying to give these kids help, money, whatever...and they STILL don't feel the need to do anything to help themselves. In my opinion, this is the problem with liberal socialism in the inner city. You have a vast majority of kids who have grown up under the liberal lifestyle and don't believe they have to do anything. The government and everyone else owe them things, and they are happy (maybe not happy but content) going through life near the bottom just looking for the next handout...
Here are just two stories of young black men who were being offered college for FREE, but the consequences of doing absolutely nothing their entire academic career caught up with them.
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