Posted on 10/16/2009 11:34:29 AM PDT by flutters
After months of appeals, wrangling over public records laws and the usual backbiting between the university and the NCAA, an appellate court finally gave Florida State the go-ahead Wednesday to release a 695-page transcript of its Oct. 18, 2008 hearing before the NCAA's Committee on Infractions, testimony from which was used to smack multiple sports at FSU in March with probation, minor scholarship restrictions and -- most notably in light of Bobby Bowden's quixotic pursuit of the career wins record -- vacated wins for playing ineligible players later accused of cheating in an online course ("Musical Cultures of the World") in 2006 and 2007. The transcript didn't tell us a whole lot we didn't already know. (Although it is, like, 700 pages long, so a few people are still reading.)
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Brenda Monk, a learning specialist hired to work with athletes who had learning and physical disabilities, was accused of improperly helping students type, edit and write their papers. Monk, who testified that some of those athletes had a second-grade reading level, was accused of committing academic fraud. In one case, she was said to have let students use a study guide that had answers to exam questions for an online music course.
Monk has left the university and filed a defamation suit against Florida State.
2nd grade? i’m surprised it’s that high...................
Only some “semi-noles” grow up to be “adult productive noles”
Now if only they could speak at a second grade level...
Some can read at the 2nd grade level. It is unknown whether this is above or below the mean.
The classes I was in w/ football players was ALWAYS attended by the players, except on test days, when they were NEVER there.
One class had a fullback from some Caribbean isle, who, I’m pretty sure didn’t speak English.
see Spot run!
If only they could play football at a second-grade level.
And we wonder why Ignorance is rampant in this country.
Truly disgusting.
I kaint spell stoodent atheleet but I is one!
Do the math. If these “college” students are reading at a second grade level what about their peers that did not make it to college. What does this tell you about the future of America when we can send students to school for twelve years and they are illiterate? Who bears the blame? Certainly someone is to blame.
Dated a girl in college who was a TA for Remedial Math.... "Math for Jocks" was the nickname.
She used to get multiple-choice tests where all the letters would be off by one question....the kid had memorized them slightly wrong.
Prof's response? "Close enough." Guess he liked sports, too.
sounds like presidential prospects.
I think that the argument here is that athletes are held to a lower standard.
For instance, the star h-back at my college got in with an SAT of '690'. At the time, you got 400, just for writing your name on the test. If I had tried to get in with a score like that, they'd have laughed at me.
But then again, I can't run a 40 in four flat, either. That would filed under "Extra Curricular Activities", and likely was counted 97% in his admissions scores.
Good grief, this has been going on the day 1A schools discovered they could profit by ticket sales and television contracts.
There are some who graduate with a degree that can barely spell their own name, much less write a letter explaining that no, he really didn’t stab his wife and her friend to death...
Many college graduates are functionally illiterate.
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