Athletics trumping academics

[PRETZEL]

perfect timing. Sto-Rox faces my HS alma mater Cornell tonite,

Sto-Rox board overturns grade policy for athletics
Friday, October 29, 2010
By Moriah Balingit, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


After more than an hour of raucous debate, a threatened arrest and the mid-meeting departure of two school board members, the Sto-Rox school board voted to overturn a controversial academic policy that at one point benched more than half of the football team and about a quarter of the marching band.

To the boisterous cheers and applause of around 70 students, parents and community members, the board voted 4-2 to amend the policy to require a minimum GPA of 2.0, with provisions of mandatory tutoring and more stringent rules about core classes. The former policy benched anyone who had a D in a core class

(snip)

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10302/1099010-298.stm#ixzz13lYTdacP

Now granted Sto-Rox is a small school(Class A) playing small school Cornell. But the winner would probably make the Class A playoffs. Not many players on either side have much chance for scholarships so for these kids, high school will be the end of their educations.

Nice precedent Sto-Rox.

[Auggie]

1. The losers in all this, of course, are the students

[PRETZEL]

2. Well in this instance I think the teachers lose more,

the school board just took away one of the last ways to help kids learn in that you have to work in order to participate in extra-cirrricular activities.

Now, not so much.