Minimum GPA to Play Sports

[Seshat]

How about this really radical idea: separate sports and school.

Oh, have enough athletics in school for the children to become encouraged to live an active and healthy lifestyle, and to expose them to a wide enough variety of sporting activities that most of them will find something they enjoy.

But separate semi-professional and professional sports from schools and colleges.

It's how many countries do it. Think about UK sports for a moment: are the names that spring to mind names of colleges? Nope, they're names of cities (or regions, or former names of cities or regions).

Australia: the same. Oh, we have minor sports events that are school-based, but they're kiddie stuff and not very big at all. Even our university school-based stuff isn't particularly big, except where the university has a 'human movement' or other sports-activities degree course and an associated Commonwealth/Olympic training school.

It just seems wierd to me to have so much of your professional sports wrapped around your academia. It's got to cause problems!

[DesignFox]

It just seems wierd to me to have so much of your professional sports wrapped around your academia. It's got to cause problems!

It causes more problems than you know! Not only with the grading, but also that not all extra curricular programs get equal share of sponsorship or funding. Sports took the cake. Us drama and marching band kids got the crumbs.

Most of us involved in the art programs were top of our class. Can't say the same for the football jocks...and they got all the money and attention.

[Greenday]

It causes more problems than you know! Not only with the grading, but also that not all extra curricular programs get equal share of sponsorship or funding. Sports took the cake. Us drama and marching band kids got the crumbs.

Most of us involved in the art programs were top of our class. Can't say the same for the football jocks...and they got all the money and attention.

My school tried to get rid of the music program all together. No concert band, which was a class that gave me as many credits as my normal classes. Thanks to a mass protest, the school kept the music program. Why do the sports teams get so much funding, yet the music program, with so little funding as it is, is chosen to take the budge cut?

[DesignFox]

I never understood that either, Greenday. And our marching band membership easily outstripped the numbers of kids playing multiple sports.

[daleduke17]

How about this really radical idea: separate sports and school.

I've had that thought before. Currently some of the school districts around here (including the aforementioned District 186) are having budget issues. They talk and talk about cutting back or eliminating almost any extra-curricular activity...EXCEPT sports. The city I live in and the bordering town have several private entities in it that do sports (YWCA, YMCA and Prairie Cities to name a few), so, why not have the kids who want athletics go to those, and pay the necessary fees and leave the schools for the academics?

Also, look at the space a school takes up. I'll use the two high schools Normal has (I live near there, plus both buildings/sites are almost identical). Football field, track (circling football field), soccer field. Not all three of those are needed. Leave an outdoor field for pyhsical education classes, and the rest can become land for the Future Farmers of America or biology classes, room for future growth, etc. But, with the athletic fields taking up room, they won't be able to expand the school in the future (which Normal is growing).

[McDreidel09]

Yeah. It's the same way at my school. Since we aren't that great academically, we rely so much on sports (and we aren't that good anyway. We made State Champs for IL in 2001 and that's it). Sports first, school second, it seems.

Well, I was in Scholastic Bowl,was President of Future Business Leaders of America, on Prom committee, and played Track. Track practice was everyday. I had to run alot,work out, and practice my field events. I had a job and had to help out alot at home because my mom worked two jobs. I paid for all my sports stuff myself. I would still get homework done,even after working and taking care of the house.

Even after all this, I stayed on High Honor Roll.

Oh did I mention that I had an early class, so I was there before everyone else and I stay seventh hour,even though with my early class I could leave early? I was at school for almost twelve hours EVERYDAY.