In class on February 17, 2011 we were taught about the concept of sports and education. Sports and education have been conflicting for a very long time. This of course refers to student athletes at the high school and college level. First with high school, sports is looked at as an after school activity to help students stay in shape and work together with their fellow students. But what people do not realize that all sport practices are after school and they can be as long as 2 hours or even longer. To add to that some students even have jobs. This leaves very little room for homework and papers that the students have to do for classes the next day. It can be very stressful for young students.
In college the argument is almost completely different. It is being argued that colleges are putting too much money into the athletic departments at universities. I found an article that is very interesting to me. This article was composed with the use of other articles that Stanford University gave its student athletes a list of "easy" classes. Though reporters got different answers from different members of faculty, they did confirm that there was a list of classes gave out to student athletes. In the article it says "The course list in itself isn't a violation, but promoting courses because they're easy isn't, ethically, something that academic advisers should do." I can make a comment on this being a college student myself, I feel this is completely unfair to students who do not play a sport. I understand that athletics is a big part of the revenue of a university but all students should be treated the same whether they play a sport or not. The main focus about coming to college is to get a good education to help you in the work force. College are run like a business instead of a school.
