Sports Average Grades

When participation in a sport in high school, it may interfere with class work, meaning an athlete may have to leave class early in order to participate in a game or tournament. With doing so, it is up to the student to get their work done. They have to make it up on their own time in order to make up what they missed in class. This teaches students time management and motivates students to try their best in order to make up work they missed. All coaches should take into consideration that if a student does not have the grades, then the athlete may not participate in competition or practice. Even this rule applies to the team’s best athlete, grade ineligibility applies to everyone. When it comes to high school, the sport itself generates motivation to keep the student on top of things and wanting to thrive for greatness in academics and athletics as well (“Merkel,”). All students should know that grades come before athletics. This will make student athletes aware of the minimum GPA that will be needed to be maintained in order to participate in athletics (“The Benefits of Participating in Sports”). Consequently, it forces students to learn

In “The Case Against High School Sports,” Amanda Ripley, a journalist for The Atlantic, states that America is spending more money on high school sports rather than on academic purposes. “High School Sports Aren’t Killing Academics, “ written by Daniel Bowen, a postdoctoral scholar at Rice University, and Colin Hitt, an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas, discusses the benefits that come out of sports programs to improve the classroom and the school’s social capital. Co-founder of a sports recruiting social network, Kai Sato’s article “The Case For High School Sports,” focuses on how school does not just involve scoring well on a math test but to educate us to be productive in what lies ahead. Ripley’s article discusses how

Should grades determined if you are allowed to play sports or be in any extracurricular activities? Some say no and a lot say yes. In this essay you will see both sides. While also seeing why I agree with the C rule. The C rule is what most schools are doing, and trying to get all of the schools to follow this rule. The C rule is a policy which states “ That in order for students to participate in extracurricular activities, they must have at least a C average in each of their required classes.” If you think about it they're not asking for much with this new policy.

Should there be grade requirement for athletics? Should athletes have to be on the honor roll in order to play? Many states and schools have many different opinions to both questions.

The “No Pass/No Play” requirement drastically affects the ability for low-income students to participate in extracurricular activities. According to an article in the Washington post in 1995, The correlation between the income of students and their GPA, SAT, or ACT score is strong. Using the current requirement, the NCAA may be restricting participation in extracurricular activities to income not scores. Also, in 1995, the USDOE’s National Center for Education Statistics found that Proposition 48 would cut off more than 1/3 of low-income students and 1/10 of high-income students (Klesse, 2005). Cutoff scores are controversial because a point or half a point difference in a score can determine pass or fail; however, the standardized assessment being used as the measuring stick may require a larger difference before mastery or lack of mastery can be indicated. For example, one additional question correct or incorrect on the SAT can result in a 10-point difference in a student’s score. However, a 120-point difference is needed in the score of a SAT student before a difference in ability can be qualified (Klesse, 2005). Opponents of the “No Pass / No Play” requirements argue that minority athletes will end up

Primarily, a “C” average should not be required for student athletes to play sports on a school team because it discourages many students. A student may be born to be an athlete, but can be struggling to keep up academically in school. If a student is rejected from playing the sport they love because of their other struggles, this will discourage them. This can hurt a student. For example, a student may reject a challenging, but interesting class in fear of getting a bad grade. **Opponents of this argument may say that forcing students to have a “C” average will encourage them to do well in school.** In reality, a student will be dejected enough to drop out of school. In other words, some students may give up completely, rather than trying

The analysis of the data in this study showed that there was a statistically significant difference in the grade point average of high school junior student-athletes when compared to non-athletes. During their participation in an athletic season, the mean GPA of the athletes was 3.11 and the standard deviation was .73, when the athletes were not participating in an athletic season, the mean GPA was 3.20 and the standard deviation was .90.

First of all, student athletes when they leave high school, they will not be able to maintain the grades needed to pass because they were used to low standards in the past. The GPA needed to play sports is right around 2.3 according to NCAA. If you have good grades, you are more likely to be chosen over another student with poor grades, to receive a sports scholarship to college. Some students get good grades for just one quarter. But when they get to college they will not be able to maintain the grade for the entire year. What good does it do if you can’t keep your grades in college? It does you no good! If you

The law states that a student is required to be in school by the age of six and remain enrolled until the age of sixteen, nowhere in the law does it say that it is mandatory for anyone to play sports. Students will spend most of their time and energy at practices or at games, but when it comes time to do their homework or study they won’t do it because it wasn’t their first priority. So by having the rule that they need to keep their grades up students take more initiative to do their work and to complete it so they can play in games.

The “No Pass No Play” rule states that public school students who participate in extracurricular activities must achieve a passing grade in each grading period in order to be permitted to continue participating in extracurricular activities. Meaning that every athlete has to have a 70% or higher average in every class to be able to do something they are talented at or something that they enjoy. A number between 0 and 100 determines a student's intelligence and whether they are able to take part in extracurricular activities. Athletes should still be able to play sports even if they have failing grades. Sports aren’t the thing that cause the failing grade it's the athlete's attitude.The “No Pass No Play” rule isn’t fair to athletes and they

Student athletes need to maintain a good gpa to do good after graduation. Getting better grades will help you get into a better college. Getting better grades will help you get into a higher quality college, and also help you do better in college. Getting into a better college helps you become

I do not think that this ''C'' average policy is fair because sport can take up a lot of your time and energy. So in this essay I will reason why this is not fair. Sport or any school activity can take up time and even sometimes a lot of time. Even school academics take a lot of time, so sports could get in the way of studying.

The article describes the qualification for an athlete to participate college sports as well as professional sports. It describes how athletes do not have to finish their bachelor degree program in order to play in professional sports. It also concludes that athletes only have to acquire a 2.0 grade point average to play their desired sports. This article shows that colleges are letting athletes take the easy way out as far as education.

Some students tell me in class that they can’t afford to fail their classes because it makes them miss games and they are the starters for the team so if they do they can lose their chance to going to the finals in high school. However there is a bunch of students in the whole school who disagree with me but they think that they should still play even if they have bad grades because their going to cause us the game and not get us the win for the school. However it’s better to get goods grades then to play in the team because colleges watch your grades before sports and then they will see if you got the grades to play in the team if not they will just take you out of the

Have you ever wanted to play a sport but weren't able to because you don't have good enough grades. Well, that's life for you, because if you really badly with all of you heart wanted to play a sport you would just have to try a little harder to get your grades up. If you think about it, it's not that hard to maintain a C average because you could have a D in one class and an A in another and that would bring you up to a C average. Also, if you can't keep your grades up how committed are you going to be in sports when you're not even able to do easy things like school work. Therefore, the policy that states students must maintain a C average in order to participate in school sports, clubs, and other after-school activities is fair.