Good athletes don't have to pass school exams to graduate
Good athletes don't have to pass school exams to graduate
A bit like elite football and basketball players in the US. Many of them have college degrees and can barely think.
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/anoth ... -perk-sornAnother golden perk for Sorn?
Mon, 6 October 2014
Laignee Barron
After clinching a historic victory this weekend in South Korea, teenage taekwondo sensation Sorn Seavmey may be in for an unusual perk: a free pass on the grade 12 national exam.
The 19-year-old, who brought home gold from the Asian Games, ending Cambodia’s 44-year-medal drought, was less fortunate going up against the high- stakes test in August; she was among the 74 per cent of grade 12 students who flunked.
But unlike the rest of her classmates, Seavmey might not have to sit the second round of the gruelling exam next week in order to make another attempt for her diploma. The Ministry of Education is considering granting automatic passes to six student athletes from the Games, including Seavmey.
“This is the first time in 44 years that Cambodia has taken home a medal from the Asian Games. It is a huge honour for Cambodia, one we want to reward,” Minister of Education Hang Chuon Naron said. “We want to encourage young Cambodians to train; if we have no policy to promote sports, then we will force youth to choose a different career rather than pursuing athletic talents.”
But the academic prestige that could soon be conferred on the athletes is far from their only reward. Seavmey, who was scheduled to arrive home from South Korea last night, was expected to be showered with gifts and cash at a celebration feted by the prime minister.
Teachers yesterday also commended the high-schooler’s victory, but added that her prizes should not extend to the classroom, where honours are merited through academic, rather than physical, rigour.
“If she is good at sports, then they should give her a certificate of sport,” said Chi Heak, a grade 12 teacher at the Wat Phnom High School in the capital. “The ministry should not let [athletes] pass the national exam automatically.… She must join the second exam like the other students who failed on their first try.”
But with a regimen that starts at 5am and takes a chunk of hours out of each day – and also includes travel outside the country – Seavmey and her fellow national student athletes are given little time to hit the books or take one of the government-sponsored refresher courses.
“Not many student athletes are able to finish high school,” National Olympic Committee of Cambodia secretary-general Vath Chamroeun said. “It takes intensive training to compete at this level. One to two months before a game, there’s absolutely no time for anything else, and trying to take something more on could lead to injury.”
Chamroeun suggested that rather than automatic passes, national athletes should receive concessions, like extra exam points or tutoring so that dropping out of school isn’t the only way to compete.
“Sportswomen and sportsmen should be encouraged to have a strong brain too,” he said.
For her part, the martial arts champ took her victory and its many prizes in humble stride.
“I would ordinarily like to pass the exams myself by my own effort. However, if this is the reward for my hard work [for the Asian Games], I will accept it,” Seavmey told the Post while travelling back from Incheon on Sunday.
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I see nothing wrong with that. Same as sports scholarships in many US colleges.
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Re: Good athletes don't have to pass school exams to graduat
Most US universities don't even try to graduate athletes from the money sports (Football & Basketball). They just try to do the minimum to keep them eligible & not thrown out. This often involves all manner of cheating (by University employees). Hell, my old man was paid & given the answers to a test by priests in the 40s.logos wrote:I see nothing wrong with that. Same as sports scholarships in many US colleges.
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True. But the theory in the US is that those particular elite athletes will make huge sums of money soon playing professional sports, so the education is less of a priority. Is this girl going to taekwondo her way to further fame and fortune, or will she probably need her education to get a job and support herself (in theory anyway)?logos wrote:I see nothing wrong with that. Same as sports scholarships in many US colleges.
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Jeez!
76% of Cambodian grade 12 students flunked?
Cambodia hasn't come in 1st, 2nd or even 3rd place in 44 YEARS! ?
I see nothing to celebrate here.
76% of Cambodian grade 12 students flunked?
Cambodia hasn't come in 1st, 2nd or even 3rd place in 44 YEARS! ?
I see nothing to celebrate here.
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Yeah, I think they should have let her pass on the sly...logos wrote:I see nothing wrong with that. Same as sports scholarships in many US colleges.
That's how it's done in the States, LoL.
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Wow, I'm impressed that they flunked so many.
I thought it was just a matter of a small gift in the right place.
Does this mean that the exam is actually worth something ? (Seriously ?)
I thought it was just a matter of a small gift in the right place.
Does this mean that the exam is actually worth something ? (Seriously ?)
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I remember them saying they were cracking down on cheating this year (and probably "this year" only).
Maybe some truth in it. Maybe.
Maybe some truth in it. Maybe.
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^ possibly a requirement of one of the more 'giving' aid organisations this year.
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Seems HE and I are on the same page:General Mackevili wrote:Jeez!
76% of Cambodian grade 12 students flunked?
Cambodia hasn't come in 1st, 2nd or even 3rd place in 44 YEARS! ?
I see nothing to celebrate here.
“This is the only thing Cambodia can brag about.” said HE.
Prime Minister HE yesterday sang the praises of Cambodia’s first gold medallist in 44 years – suggesting Sorn Seavmey’s achievement was the “only thing Cambodia can brag about” – as the Kingdom’s Olympic Committee warned of bogus Facebook accounts in her name soliciting money.
After Seavmey, 19, took first in taekwondo at the Asian Games in South Korea on October 3, HE yesterday commended her achievement at a graduation ceremony for Cambodia University of Specialties at Koh Pich yesterday.
“It’s no small achievement to win a gold medal against 45 countries,” said the prime minister, who is granting the athlete $30,000, a motorbike, an iPad, a computer, an automatic pass for the grade 12 exam and $1,500 per year in congratulations.
“For those who could not … praise this achievement, please stay silent,” HE said, referring to people criticising the gifts. “This is the only thing Cambodia can brag about.”
The comments came on the same day that the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia released a statement warning that multiple Facebook accounts have been created by scam artists purporting to be Seavmey asking for donations for nonexistent charities.
The accounts contain phone numbers donors can use to set up appointments and contribute to the fake funds, said Vath Chamroeun, the Olympic Committee’s secretary.
“Based on current observation, there have been Facebook accounts established identifying them as belonging to Seavmey for money-soliciting purposes,” Chamroeun said. “We are monitoring those thieves, and we have already prepared lawyers for legal counseling....
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