CNN analysis: Some college athletes play like adults, read like 5th-graders
Gamin, Sara. "Some college athletes play like adults, read like 5th graders." CNN. Turner Broadcasting System Inc., 8 Jan. 2014. Web. 27 Jan. 2014. <http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/us/ncaa-athletes-reading-scores/index.html?hpt=hp_t1>.
LaMonaca, Mike. "UNC Chapel Hill." Photograph. Flickr. Yahoo, 7 Nov. 2012. Media. 27 Jan. 2014. <http://goo.gl/wMc5pJ>
In this article it is talking about the athletes education levels that now go to college. The teachers are finding out that most of them can't read past a 8th grade level. After learning this, they are questioning how they made it through high school without anybody noticing it.
This relates to the normal high school students that don't care about how they do in school. Some of the teacher's will just give grades so the student doesn't have to stay in their class any longer. There is even cases in which teachers are payed to give grades to pass a child along. Nobody in the world can survive on their own without some type of knowledge of how to read and write.
When I take a place in this article it really makes me think how often kids get pushed through school knowing anything. It makes me mad that some kid work their butts off to maintain grades that they try so hard to earn. Then you hear that college athletes can't do the stuff normal middle school and high school student can do, and they've got that far without anybody knowing. It affects my life by the fact people don't do anything and get stuff I or somebody else could never get in our lifetime. They didn't even work towards it, they got their gift to help them through it.
I liked reading this because you don't always realize it happens. I kinda don't understand why you have chapel hill picture,also should have put some kind of statistics graph to prove it happens and how long it actually does happen. One thing I would say is if it was you were that athlete you would think of this article in a different way.
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