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CMV: Sports students should not get special treatment or exemptions.

One student's extracurricular hobby shouldn't come with special allowances, exemptions, and treatment unless other students also receive the same allowances, exemptions, and treatment.

This bothered me as a student, and infuriates me as faculty. 

It's simply not fair that random athlete #2254 gets to skip a class for their hobby while another student would otherwise get a grade reduction for such an absence. 

It's also not fair that student athletes should get priority grading. As faculty I recently got a request from the administration to submit grades to athletes first. Fuck. that. 

What reason should student athletes receive special treatment? What is the rationale that sets them apart from any other hobby or extracurricular?
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Would you hold music students to the same standard?

In high school we'd have about 5 days off school to travel to and from national marching band finals or an out of state competition. In the winter, percussion ensemble would do the same for about 5 days, and the concert band would take anywhere from 5-10 day tour somewhere as well in the spring. Occasionally to support these trips we'd hold some extra rehearsals during the school day, which we were also exempted from class for. Teachers were always very lenient with assignment due dates and makeup work. College was very similar in terms of schedule and leniency with professors.