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Machi4velli
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 01/22/2014 : 21:46:13 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Originally posted by Siberia
Edit: that and soccer being most likely the only way chance these kids have to get even remotely close to success and riches. |
I remember a poll of urban youth from a couple of years ago. Like teenagers. It was something close to half of the boys who thought they'd grow up to play in the NBA. All things being equal, however, each of them have about a one in 666,000 shot. Completely unrealistic expectations.
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I've seen so many kids act as if practicing sports is a good path into college, even in states where you can get free tuition at state schools for getting national average scores on college entrance exams (WV, FL are the states with which I'm familiar), not to mention the availability of even more need-based aid to cover housing costs.
A small subset (sure, more than 1/660,000, but almost certainly still no more than 1%) can turn their skills into a college scholarship. The graduation rate then ends up being low because they're really not prepared for college.
Schools, parents, state governments, whoever can influence, need to work much harder to raise awareness of these really not-so-high requirements to get full assistance with college. In 90% of cases, high school sports end up being completely worthless for college (and almost certainly useless as a career path) when probably significantly less effort in academics has a massively higher rate of return. |
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