Football and computer science

twoinanddone
Mon, 04 Apr 2016 20:34:56 +0000

The accommodations can take many forms. Because of a mix up caused by the school, my daughter had a hold put on her registration after her first semester and by the time they removed it, the section of the lab she needed was full. She called all upset about it. I told her to just sign up for the other lab that met right during practice. Well a miracle occurred within an hour of her telling her coach and a spot opened up in that other lab. Coincidence? I think not.

Her coach has done things like delay the time the bus leaves on a Friday morning so that students can take quizzes before leaving for the weekend, cutting practice short by an hour on Thursdays as many of the math classes have exams on Thursday nights; happens 2-3 times a semester, giving them the day off after returning from a travel game to make up class work missed. We played a team about 2 weeks ago and the athletic director had flown down a day late with a player who’d had a midterm on the day the team traveled.

They do make accommodations, but they are minor, not ‘you don’t have to practice because you have a hard major.’ I know one thing that is done at some big D1 schools is the students take a lighter load during the sports season, and the scholarship extends to cover summer.