What are your thoughts on high school athletes receiving undeserved inflated grades because they are applying for scholarships?

Bullshit. If the kid wants to get into college then they need to do the work.

@Narl don’t do it. She should work for that A just like all of the other students in your class had to do. That’s complete and utter bullshit.

Sucks

Wow. I always thought US TV shows just made that sort of stuff up to be dramatic.

@Lightlyseared No. It’s real.

I believe they dealt with this issue in “King of the Hill”. Peggy was put in a position where she was being pressured to give this athlete good grades even though he never did any of the work and always earned bad grades.

Personally, I think it’s wrong. Grades should not be inflated or deflated because of athleticism or any reason, really. If people want to get into college, they’re going to have to work harder. Don’t do it, seriously.

@Narl And then, if said student gets into college on scholarship, she will most likely be promised a teaching certificate or something else so she chooses their college over another. It is a vicious circle that needs to be stopped.

I think that the action is utterly wrong. Why should I have to work my arse off for a grade when this person over here can sleep all day and end up making a better grade. That’s ridiculous; I think that America takes sports way too seriously. Sports in the US are everywhere; we’re the only country that puts it in the news.
I wonder how much money just football alone brings in per year?

When I taught in college, I had several such student-athletes in my classes. One in particular was tragic. He was a wonderful athlete, but he could not read. It took some doing but I finally got him willing to go to the reading lab and learn to read. As I pointed out to him, since he was in college he should take advantage of every possible learning ability while he was there. It wasn’t going to cost extra, and it would surely save his bacon whether he was able to go pro or would just return to the family farm. I worked with him, too, and am happy to say that he ended up able to read, perhaps not as well as some, but well enough to read instruction manuals and agricultural regulations, and to some degree contracts, all of which would be important in his life.

@Darwin You get some sort of award for that! Don’t know what, exactly….but nice.

@Val123 – It is just what teachers need to do, teach their students what they will need in the real world. Even though no one else had done it, at least I was able to reach him and get him to set aside the shame of not being able to read in favor of learning.

@Darwin When I was teaching (subbing full time) I wound up bringing one of the kids in my class home with me! He was in 4th grade, could not read, and he and his brother who was in 6th, were at my house every weekend for the whole weekend. We had a lot of fun (I even took them to Missouri on a family vacation with us!) but the main thing was we had to spend at least 30 minutes a day reading. His Aunt Kay (His mother had died six months earlier) took me to his first PT conference after that first summer, and the teacher noted that most kids lose some skills over the summer, but Truman had increased skills! I was so tickled.
Eventually I lost him. And his brother, Thurman. They were really high risk kids because of their environments. So sad, but I cherish those two years.

Fuck that shit, we all do well in some things and poor in others, this is why we are graded in our individual subjects.

My GCSE grades upon leaving school at 16 were as follows (I think) it was while ago now, my memory isn’t that great

Science Dual Award – B, B
Maths – B
Information Technology – C
English Language – C (1)
English Literature – C
Business Studies – D
Music – D
History – E
French – G

I thought the G meant Good, I didn’t know grades went that low!

I think that goes to show that we all have our strengths and weaknesses

I hated the special treatment athletes received when I was in high school all the way though to now. I think that everyone should have to put in the same amount of work to get decent grades, regardless of their extracurriculars.

I went to the University of Georgia and had a lot of football players in my Child & Family Development classes. It was really odd, but apparently they managed to get good grades in that program somehow. I hated it in some cases, but in others I really liked the guys and didn’t have a problem because they at least appeared to be doing the work.

Yeah, and you wind up with people like Larry Johnson and Michael Vick who think they are above all decency and laws.

I didn’t do it. She received a D for the quarter.

I AM SO PROUD OF YOU! Way to go Narl!!! So, was there any fall out or flack?

@Narl Thank you for upholding a high academic standard and showing your student that she won’t get special treatment for being an athlete.

@Narl I think you really did the right thing, it’s only fair to all the other students that apply themselves. Kudos ;).

@Narl Here, have a cookie! You deserve it! :D

@Narl Have a brownie!

@Val123 Oh, I see how it is. She gets special treatment because she’s a teacher. Uhhuh.

I wanted a brownie!

@avvooooooo Well, um. You kind of know where the last of the brownie are now. You’re free to come get them!

@Val123 Yuck!

LOL