In Neil H. Petrie’s essay “Athletes and Education” it is clear to see that Neil Petrie has a problem with colleges giving student athletes special treatment when it comes to getting an education, even though some athletes do not deserve this special attention. I think that the main point of this passage is to express the hardships of student athletes trying to balance the struggles of education and athletics in college. Neil expresses how unfair it is that the athletes “get to take makeup test, alternative assignments, and special tutoring, and the other students would have to have been very sick or the victim of a serious accident to get such dispensations” (Petrie pages 32-33). However, he does have sympathy for the athletes that try their
