Professional athletes have dedicated their lives to achieving greatness in competitive sports. The emphasis on athletics has created a focus within the African American community to convince their children to pursue this career path. Unfortunately, it has caused black adolescents to become distracted from reaching their full potential in academics. Young African Americans want or have the need to become an athlete so others can look up to them. Over the years African Americans have become recognized in the media for their achievements in sports. The recognition they received has inspired many younger kids to become similar to them, however the lack of focus young African Americans have in the classroom has shown that sports in the media has
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For instance, athletes have an opportunity to become educated but choose to have a grade point average that only allow them to be eligible to play a sport. In “College Athletes Who Never Graduate,” Herbet London claims that Clifford Adelman of the Department of Education, argues that the graduation rates of athletes should be higher than those of other students from the former have a “safety net” of financial support and tutoring generally unavailable to others, yet athletes have much lower rates of graduation. In detail, athletes are offered support that should increase their percentage of graduating, yet athletes are having lower rates of graduation, so they are not taking their financial support serious. In “College Athletic Reputation and College Choice among African American High School Seniors: Evidence from the Education Longitudinal Study1,” Jomills Henry Braddock, II, Hua Lv, Marvin P Dawkins states roughly one out of every three African American respondents reports that a school’s athletic reputation is at least a somewhat important consideration in determining their college choice. To reiterate, athletes choose a college based on how their athletics teams are performing other than the academic performance. To sum up, athletes are not as educated and have a mindset of being mediocre in academics, but in sports their mindset is above …show more content…
Colleges are there to provide their team to overcome any obstacles which can comprise in athletes studies. In "Helping Black Athletes Graduate From College," Sam Clemence claim that some even believe that colleges play on unrealistic expectations to encourage a large number of black male athletes to put their time and effort into sports, rather than pursuing academic studies that might benefit them more in the long run. To put this in another way, colleges are not being honest with athletes based on the expectations regarding the their academics. In “Impact of Demographic Variables on African-Americans Student Athletes Academic Performance,” Lacey Reynolds, Dwalah Fisher, and Kenyatta Cavil states that for these students, their academic pursuit is warded off by negatives such as being underprepared for colleges and not ready for the rigor of college academics. To put it differently, because of the failure that is being shown for athletes, they are not mentally ready for the difficulty in college academics. As has been noted, athletes are simply not prepared because of the type of support system they have in their colleges to improve in their
For instance, athletes have an opportunity to become educated but choose to have a grade point average that only allow them to be eligible to play a sport. In “College Athletes Who Never Graduate,” Herbet London claims that Clifford Adelman of the Department of Education, argues that the graduation rates of athletes should be higher than those of other students from the former have a “safety net” of financial support and tutoring generally unavailable to others, yet athletes have much lower rates of graduation. In detail, athletes are offered support that should increase their percentage of graduating, yet athletes are having lower rates of graduation, so they are not taking their financial support serious. In “College Athletic Reputation and College Choice among African American High School Seniors: Evidence from the Education Longitudinal Study1,” Jomills Henry Braddock, II, Hua Lv, Marvin P Dawkins states roughly one out of every three African American respondents reports that a school’s athletic reputation is at least a somewhat important consideration in determining their college choice. To reiterate, athletes choose a college based on how their athletics teams are performing other than the academic performance. To sum up, athletes are not as educated and have a mindset of being mediocre in academics, but in sports their mindset is above …show more content…
Colleges are there to provide their team to overcome any obstacles which can comprise in athletes studies. In "Helping Black Athletes Graduate From College," Sam Clemence claim that some even believe that colleges play on unrealistic expectations to encourage a large number of black male athletes to put their time and effort into sports, rather than pursuing academic studies that might benefit them more in the long run. To put this in another way, colleges are not being honest with athletes based on the expectations regarding the their academics. In “Impact of Demographic Variables on African-Americans Student Athletes Academic Performance,” Lacey Reynolds, Dwalah Fisher, and Kenyatta Cavil states that for these students, their academic pursuit is warded off by negatives such as being underprepared for colleges and not ready for the rigor of college academics. To put it differently, because of the failure that is being shown for athletes, they are not mentally ready for the difficulty in college academics. As has been noted, athletes are simply not prepared because of the type of support system they have in their colleges to improve in their