You misread my statement.
1. Tuition is rising because state governments are slashing education budgets.
2. Those students on athletic scholarships will then have to pay that tuition. Most cannot.
3. The # of students going pro in sports through college is incredibly small, and not really pertinent to the overall discussion. In football alone, there are about 23,000 scholarship athletes. There are another 13,000 in men's and women's basketball. And on down the line to sports with even less chance of playing professionally.
4. I assume that we'll also be eliminating any other kind of non-academic assistance? No more scholarships for playing an instrument or any other form of art. Nothing based on background, race, disability. You're either smart enough to get in, or tough crap.
It's just weird to hear this from Nader of all people, since it's basically an idea that will screw the little guy overall. Good thing he ceased to be relevant in 2000.
1.Yes tuition is raising but the more people paying tuition the lower it will cost, all state run schools have a set budget they have to stick to and all expenses have to be approved, they base their cost off of their expenses. If you have a few hundred more people paying tuition then the cost for everyone goes down.
2. There is millions of dollars in free money for students to get, if they do not qualify they can get student loans. Of the students who graduated with a bachelors degree in 2007 86% had some from of student loan, 61% had loans through the government. Only 39% of graduating students do not get federal student loans so after you take out all academic, need based, and random bs scholarships less than 10% of students can afford college. Private loans are available at pretty much every financial institute in the country and are relatively easy to get. If they cannot figure out how to get money for college when over 90% of their peers can they either do not care enough to try or are not smart enough to be in college and if they still cannot afford a 4 year degree they should go to a junior college for 2 years and drastically cut their cost. Athletes can get loans just like the rest of their classmates.
3. Exactly less than 1% of students will be professional athletes so why should they get free education because the participate in something that does not directly relate to their adult life.
4. Students can major in music and art, a music scholarship for some one majoring in music is the same thing as a business scholarship for some one studying accounting. I have never heard of some one majoring in football or basketball. If an athlete decides they want a degree in baseball then and only then should they be able to get a scholarship to play baseball. Any scholarship that is only for people of a specific background or race is extremely discriminatory and should not be allowed, it is against federal law to discriminate based on those things. Doing something to benefit one group of people over an another is discriminating against all other groups of people and therefore is illegal but it is allowed because of how afraid people are to talk about race.
Anybody who truly has issues with the eliminating of money for students should complain to any member of congress that is supporting drastically cutting the funds for Pell Grants bc their are a lot of them that want to and that will hurt potential students a lot more than athletic scholarships. But sadly people pay more attention to sports then to what their government is doing.