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Summary Of Chronicle Of Higher Education By Neil Petrie

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In Neil H. Petrie essay, which was published in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Neil H. Petrie argues that colleges have a hypocritical attitude towards student athletes. After reading and gathering all the evidence from the essay I'm more incline to agree with Neil H. Petrie for the evidence he proposes is to constrain to ignore. Neil H. Petrie’s evidence for these arguments come not from boring old statistics but from fist hand experience witch makes the arguments much more compelling. One can see Neil H. Petrie addresses these arguments towards four main focus groups are the student athletes, the teachers, the coaches and the school system itself.Neil H. Petrie proposes that student athletes are being used for a means to an end and can simply be replaced at a moments notice leaving …show more content…

They must think for themselves for if they let the coaches and teachers do all their college planning who knows where that path might lead them in the end. Throughout the essay Neil H. Petri paint’s the image into his audience head that the teachers and coaches are two of the perpetrators, for they are to blame why student athletes are being abused. The coaches sole concern is for his gladiators to be in tiptop shape for next weeks game they don't care about grades the only thing going through their mind is one word “Winning” and that will never change, while the teachers have the power to stop at any time and assist these student through their college struggles, instead, some are pressured to assist the coaches in landing the big win in next weeks game. So if an assignment or two are not turned in they just look the other way, leaving the students eligible for the game but leaving them with an empty space where the knowledge of that assent could have gone. The only way teachers can fix their wrongs is to stop the abuse today, stop getting persuaded or pressured by fancy dinners and focus on the students

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