Why The Gym Should Not Affect A Student's Gpa

Should students’ grades in Gym affect their GPA? In the United States today, the topic of whether Gym grades should affect GPA is a controversial one. The grades a student receives in Gym should not account for in their academic GPA.

High School sports are a big part in the high school experience. Many kids participate in high school sports each year. Some kids do many more sports than others and kids get injured during them. Playing a sport in high school is difficult because you have to worry about school work and family & friends. Also, many people do not make some of the sports team they will try out for and be embarrassed of themselves. Schools should not continue to fund sports because of school work, injuries, and embarrassment.

A. Attention Graber: How many of you are interested in gym class? And if you are then, should gym class should be included in GPA for grading?

Students should not be able to play sports with a low GPA. Students should have good grades to play sports, because it is not fair to other students who play sports and keep their grades up. You can not get into college just for sports. You need to have a high GPA too. Other people need sports to help them get good grades. Student athletes should have to maintain a certain grade point average to participate in sports because it helps them develop life skills, gives them a future, and helps them with their confidence.

Academic success is important for both high school and college athletes. To be eligible to participate, athletes must maintain a certain GPA. Student athletes that don’t make school a priority, not only miss out on playing time, but also fail to prepare themselves for the next step in their life. For high school athletes, that means prepare for college while for college athlete, it means preparing to enter the workforce. Although, both high school and

Should high school athletes be required to have a 2.5 GPA to play? Considering athletics consume a significant amount of time, athletes should set time aside for academics as well. Student athletes should have at least 2.5 GPA to be eligible for a sport because they need to give 100% for both school and sports, managing their time, and also are held to a higher expectation.

Cardale Jones, former Ohio State University football quarterback tweets; “Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain’t come to play SCHOOL, classes are POINTLESS” . This tweet continues the stereotype that athletes are stupid and do not care about getting good grades. On average athletes have a higher grade point average than non athletes. In a recent study, it presents that college athletes had a high grade point average, averaging a 3.25, than college students, averaging a 3.01. Not all athletes fall under the dumb jock stereotype.

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

Many high schools and teachers don’t realize the damage they can do to these athletes if they do give them those couple extra points to play. According to a website, “Any student should have good grades to play sports. Even if you are a great athlete, you will probably not get a full-athletic scholarship. Having good grades can lessen your stress about affording college” ( psychologytoday.com ). In this case, what teachers don’t know is not only are they making that athlete happy to play, but at the same time you are hurting that person for future references, when later in their future college sees the kind of grades that athlete is getting he may not be the kind of fit for whichever school that may be. Overall any student that has failed a class and is not able to play that athlete shouldn’t be able to play at all. If an athlete is not able to be responsible to keep his grades up what makes a coach think that he can be

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

“Defeat is not the worst of failures.  Not to have tried is true failure.”  -George Edward Woodberry.  This quote is relevant to the question because if you have a bad GPA you're not trying, thus losing.  High school athletes should have to keep their grades up to play a sport.  There are three reasons for this.  First, if they have good grades and are good at sports, there’s a better chance of getting into college.  Second, grades keep them motivated during sports.  Lastly, it helps lessen the stress of paying for college.

Throughout the history of college sports, athletes have been viewed as “student-athletes.” However, in the last two decades, universities have placed an emphasis on athletes and the sports they play, rather than their education and well-being. School has not been coming first, and this has caused a struggle for athletes to become eligible to make grades. For example, the University of North Carolina had paper classes where the football players would get credits, but did not need to show up for class; they only had to complete one paper and most got A’s or B’s.

You are in high school to get an education, not to play sports, therefore, the student athletes who do not have good grades should be removed from the sport. Coaches and teachers need to come to an agreement that education will always be more important in the long run for most people, most of these students will not be able to get into college unless you are seen as very good in one of the sports that you do. Even then getting a full ride on a sports scholarship is hard to attain, they want the perfect person. They want grades and athleticism all in one. These students need to begin working on academics before they turn their gears to

Students should not have to get a B average in order to participate in athletic programs. Academics are important but athletics programs are just as important. Athletic programs are important because we need to stay healthy and staying healthy would mean that we do better academically. Participating in any kind of athletic program will help maintain the discipline of exercising. It is like “killing two birds with one stone.” Everyone is fit and healthy and they also do exceedingly well in academics.}

Almost every college and university require their students to take a physical education class. College students disagree with the idea because the class it either to active for them or the will become less presentable (sweat and stink). Physical education classes are not hard and some relatively does not require a lot of activity. Although college students feel that they should not be required to take physical education class, college students should be required to take a physical education