College Athletes Cutting Class Essay

“ Failing College enrollment indicates that upward mobility may become more difficult for working class and disadvantaged high school students”. This was stated by Heidi Sheirhotz, She is speaking about the issue of College Athletes cutting class. I think that College Athletes cutting classes is affecting high school students, students in general and is teaching all these students bad habits. I strongly believe that school comes first because without an education to fall back on, you will not be able to get a job. Without a job you will not be able to earn money to support yourself and your family and have a good life. For example Allen Iverson, who in his prime, was considered one of the greatest Basketball players ever and earned 21 MILLION dollars a year. According to Money Magazine, Allen Iverson who left Georgetown after 1 year is

That means that in a poll of 643 students, 30.9 percent of the students cut at least one class. This is definitely affecting students because just last year 65.9 percent of high school students opted not to go to college. Another reason is that high school students look up to college students as their heroes. High Schoolers look up to college athletes in whom they hope to be someday. If they see College athletes cutting class then they will think that it is ok to cut class. For example just this year Brandon McCoy who was a 5 star recruit and top basketball player for UNLV dropped out of UNLV because the Basketball season was over and he was thinking that school was no longer important. Brandon McCoy is projected to be a top 20 pick in this years NBA Draft. If Basketball does not work out for McCoy, it will be very hard for him to get a good job because he does not have an education. Also Brandon will not have learned time management and the responsibility that comes from the hard work that you must endure from balancing academics and