Student athletes should be given special leniency with the instructors?

Question

Student athletes should be given special leniency with the instructors?

Answer 1

No. I don;t care if you can swin the 50 Freestyle in 29.8 seconds, if you can't fifgure out basic math, you can lose all your hard-earned salaries

Answer 2

no, it hurts them in the long run, it means their grades are not accurate, it means they are not as well qualified and trained as others, it compromises the instructor's ethics and it compromises the institution's reputation.  and in the long run it actually hurts the athlete.

Answer 3

As a student athlete in a D1 college, I can state for a fact that certain players do get a certain edge, but it's not much. Most teachers don't care if you're an athlete.

Answer 4

I don't believe so because they are first students and athletes second.  Actually I feel that the coaches should be more understanding towards the student.  Academics come first!  I have student athletes in my home and their coaches either respect the fact that classes come first or no sports.  I don't know but my thoughts are if athletes are given leniency it puts them above the students who don't play sports and that's not fair for them to be considered "special".  The world shouldn't work like that.

Answer 5

No, but they always will be because they bring more prestige (and money) to our schools and universities than any of the other students.  It's a problem with no easy solution, because none of the teachers want to play favorites, but at the same time they realize that the athletes are valuable to their schools.

Plus, as a former college professor, I can tell you that about my least favorite thing to do is talk to a coach who really, REALLY wants me to pass a failing player.  Like parents, coaches nearly always side with their players.  Coaches will go to great lengths to smear the reputation of any teacher who dares to fail one of their players, no matter how much their players may deserve it.  And the coaches have a lot of sway with the administration, because they bring in so much revenue.

So on the one hand, the professors want to stick to their morals and give their students fair grades (and they also want to be fair to the non-athletes, who work very hard to avoid failing).

But on the other hand, teachers and professors have to make a living, and if enough influential coaches go to the administration complaining about the "unfair" teacher who failed their player (who failed every test in the class), the teacher will soon find themselves out of a job.