There is a school in PA called Sto-Rox High School that is trying to put in place a policy that will make players/students not eligible from extracurricular activities if the player gets a D in a "key course". One of the examples was if a student has 3 A's and one D (gpa 3.25) the student would not be allowed to play, where a student who has four C's (2.0 gpa) would be allowed to play.

What are your thoughts on this type of punishment for a child who might not do well at one subject?



http://kdka.com/school/sto.rox.school.2.1952493.html

Sto-Rox Parents Clash With School BoardMCKEES ROCKS (KDKA)

Parents in the Sto-Rox School District attended a school board meeting and made it clear they don't approve of a new academics policy.

At the meeting, the audience argued with board members and board members argued with each other.

Students affected by the decisions being made were not impressed.

"I'm not saying any names about the people on the board [but] seeing the way they're acting, is pathetic," Dontez Ford, a high school football player, said. "It seems like we act better than that. We act better than that. We're ineligible, but we act better than that."

The debate is about a new academic policy that would make students ineligible for extracurricular activities if they get a "D" in any core course.

As of now, that would disqualify 25 members of the football team and 16 members of the marching band. Seventy seniors would miss the prom.

Parents say it's unfair because if one student gets three A's and one D, they'd have a 3.25 GPA and would be ineligible. But a student with four C's would have a 2.0 GPA and would be eligible.

"One-point-nine or a 2.0 and you can play sports? And you've got a 3.6 and you can't?! Something's definitely wrong with that," one parent argued.

The policy has been put on hold so students can try to bring their grades up, but they only have a week to do it.

School board members say with Harrisburg considering the possibility of requiring proficiency tests to graduate, they want make sure students are ready for that.

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Any parent of an athlete with true college scholarship potential that was ruled ineligible by such an asinine ruling would only have to make one call the the PA State Board of Educ. and threaten law-suit and this would be over-turned. The 1.75 GPA eligibility rule is already in place for a reason.

Anyone who can't pull better than a D in any subject shouldn't be worrying about college scholarships. It's oxymoronic.

If my kid got a D in "ANY" course they wouldn't be playing and it wouldn't be because of some school policy.

On the one hand I believe, as a highschool student myself, that there really is no excuse for getting a D in today's educational system.

But I do agree that this is a silly rule, there are already rules in place to enforce academic eligibility, regardless of how lax you may personally think they are.

If you actually find a way to get a D in a high school course, you've got a lot more issues then eligibility. Your mere presence without doing a lick of work is enough for a C anymore.

queencitybuckeye;511590 wrote:Anyone who can't pull better than a D in any subject shouldn't be worrying about college scholarships. It's oxymoronic.

That's a pretty ignorant way to see things. Not really shocking considering some of your other posts on here in the past though. Teenagers are not adults and their brains are not adult brains. Some kids are slower to develop certain skills needed for success some subjects. Doesn't mean it'll never happen. Doesn't mean they can't get a college scholarship. This stigma that if you struggle in one subject or another is pretty lame and its passed on by thinking like yours. Get over it.

I don't believe you should be ineliginle for a D unless your instructor deems that you did not give the effort. If you tried, got tutored etc. and still cannot grasp the material then you should be able to opt out of the class w/ no consequence. I know ppl. who simply could not grasp math until they reached a certain period of development then suddenly understood. That was in college for these people.

i was a pretty smart kid in high school. i played three sports and carried a 3.4 gpa. There were three instances where i almost got D's. Once was AP Computer Science in Java, and then my senior year with Pre-Calc. If this rule were in place then i'd be screwed.