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UNC specialist gets death threats after research one in 10 athletes have reading age of a 3rd Grader
Mail Online ^ | 1/10/2014

Posted on 01/13/2014 7:38:36 AM PST by Altura Ct.

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To: Mercat

At least 20% of the population is functionally illiterate (can’t read beyond a fifth grade level).

’ Our sons were reading at college level by the time they were in fifth grade. I’m not sure why. I read to them, they have a high IQ.’

More diverse households don’t do that sort of thing.


21 posted on 01/13/2014 8:12:30 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: Altura Ct.

$10 says not a single death threat was written in cursive.


22 posted on 01/13/2014 8:15:21 AM PST by Repeat Offender (What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
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To: Altura Ct.

Its not just at UNC... it is across the board


23 posted on 01/13/2014 8:20:42 AM PST by WomBom ("I read Free Republic for the pictures")
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To: Altura Ct.

While in graduate school at a major university, I had a job, actually there were several of us, running a mandatory study hall for football freshmen. We never had a problem with them. We also followed their grades and arranged tutors when grades dropped. This was in the mid-sixties and there were no black studies or other make believe courses.

We ran a tight ship and I can guarantee you they could all read. Out of about 75 we only lost two or three that couldn’t do course work.


24 posted on 01/13/2014 8:24:31 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Altura Ct.

These are college students! Kinda tells me that they are not in college to study. They are there because they bring prestige and money to the school.

Do they get a degree? What’s it worth?


25 posted on 01/13/2014 8:25:06 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: onedoug

I’m betting the baseball players weren’t even part of the study. It’s not a revenue sport.


26 posted on 01/13/2014 8:28:32 AM PST by perez24 (Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.)
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To: perez24

It is in college. Go Gamecocks!


27 posted on 01/13/2014 8:38:22 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Reminds me of the interview I saw after a Bull’s win. The subject of the interview was Steve Kerr, of the Bulls. In the course of the interview Kerr stated, “How could we lose when Michael and I combined for 60 points”?

Kerr had contributed 4 of those 60 points.


28 posted on 01/13/2014 8:41:56 AM PST by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: elpadre

“..This was in the mid-sixties.....”

Correction: “This was in the mid-fifties”

my how time flies!!


29 posted on 01/13/2014 8:48:05 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Scratching the surface.

The last outfit I worked for underwent 2 different hiring phases for a ‘delivery driver’; it was an enlightening experience, to state the least. One gal actually came in and asked, “This doesn’t require a driver’s license, does it?” (the ad stated that little tidbit). She then went on to state she was suspended for DUII the month prior and walked out the door, leaving us completely bewildered (true story).

I’ve looked at the jobs reports for the past 5 years and wondered what the actual percentage of ‘jobs’ were actually ‘turnover’.

Color me jaded: I fully expect an addition to our collection of ‘anti-discriminatory’ offenses within the coming years...

‘Education Discrimination’.

It’s ‘not fair’, right? /s


30 posted on 01/13/2014 8:48:26 AM PST by logi_cal869
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To: Altura Ct.

There would be more threats, but most can’t write, so they’re stuck.


31 posted on 01/13/2014 8:56:15 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (Over production, one of the top 5 worries for the American Farmer every year.)
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To: Altura Ct.

It’s called The Carolina Way.

When this stuff really hits the fan UNC will be (should be) forced to vacate about 5-10 years worth of football and basketball games. That would include two NCAA titles for the hoops team.

With UNC a media darling, especially ESPN, look for a cover up or a quick excuse from the NCAA that this wasn’t a lack of institutional control.

If this were any other school, save Duke, this would have already happened.


32 posted on 01/13/2014 8:59:01 AM PST by ealgeone (obama, border)
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To: WomBom

No one denies that the problem of poorly educated college athletes exists at almost every university (Stanford may be the exception) that participates in major college athletics but most have not been as hypocritical about the situation as had UNC. For decades the UNC Athletic Department trumpeted the claim that its student/athletes were far better prepared for college than those at other schools - say Clemson, for instance. Now, as events unfold, that claim was false.
It is one thing to admit poorly prepared students to your university but its another to claim you don’t and then be discovered as having done so.


33 posted on 01/13/2014 9:06:49 AM PST by quadrant (1o)
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To: Altura Ct.
As a huge fan of college basketball, I always smirked when people like Dick Vitale would whine about players leaving early for the pros. For most of them, considering their dismal academic capabilities, that was probably their best option. If you're an athlete at a bigtime school, and you are offered a million or more dollar contract, you better take it. Because if you break a leg or get some other serious injury, that money will not be there.

A great many of them simply don't belong in a university classroom. One and done is the rage now, and while it makes a joke of the college-is-the-best-thing-for-everybody scam, it's what is best for most of those dullards who probably couldn't get a decent job anywhere if they couldn't bounce a basketball or carry a football.

34 posted on 01/13/2014 9:16:59 AM PST by driftless2
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You are thinking about the basketball and football starters.

Yes. The Golf, Tennis and Swimming athletes actually make pretty good students - of course they don't make much money for their schools but whose counting ?

35 posted on 01/13/2014 9:22:48 AM PST by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: Henchster

Every time I hear a live interview with a star athlete, I cringe.

I went to a one room school in rural Wisconsin.

None of them can speak as well as all of us could at the end of the 3rd grade.


36 posted on 01/13/2014 9:39:37 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Altura Ct.

I’m assuming the death threats were verbal and not written.


37 posted on 01/13/2014 9:56:19 AM PST by billhilly (Has Pelosi read it yet?)
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To: Constitution Day

Great schadenfreude over this UNC FAIL.


38 posted on 01/13/2014 9:58:05 AM PST by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: perez24

Baseball is the thinking man’s sport.

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39 posted on 01/13/2014 10:02:52 AM PST by Mears
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To: Graybeard58

Image how many more he would have scored if he had completed college!


40 posted on 01/13/2014 10:09:50 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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