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Vay Wilson (31)
One of the areas of interest is determining whether Newington or other schools that offer scholarships actually get any other benefit from their athletes such as school life, leadership in the classroom etc.
A case in point is that many of the US colleges expect there student athletes also to do well in class. Some even demand a 3.5 point grade average (70%) in every subject to maintain your scholarship. Although the movie "Coach Carter" was based on fact it is not isolated.
In respect to Newington, where less than 1/2 of the 2012 1st XV team are offered places in tertiary education then I wonder where the benefits are. Maybe the athletes need to be at this privileged school for 6 years to get whole of education benefits, not just 2 years?
Holistic education. Not everyone wants to be an underemployed law graduate. Nothing wrong with a trade.