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EBR School Board votes to lower athlete GPA requirements
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:33 am
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:33 am
Searched and didn't see it posted 
https://www.wafb.com/story/29731601/ebr-school-board-votes-to-lower-athlete-gpa-requirements
Can't get your kid to care about school but he'll play sports... no problem, we'll adjust it.
Pathetic they can't get these idiots to stay in school or care when they do go, that they have to do this.
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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) -
The East Baton Rouge School Board voted Thursday to reduce the GPA required to participate in school sports from 2.0 to 1.5.
The unanimous decision reverses a statute in place for the past decade.
"We just want to get more kids involved in after-school activates. We don't know what they go home to," said EBR School System Superintendent Warren Drake, who spearheaded the effort to lower the requirements. "What we're trying to do is put those kids after school with coaches, mentors and teachers that help them get better in the classroom and have an opportunity build that ownership and pride in their school."
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"Anything that help kids to stay focused, to defer them from getting into criminal mischief, to be around adults that love and care about them, I'm for it," Washington said.
https://www.wafb.com/story/29731601/ebr-school-board-votes-to-lower-athlete-gpa-requirements
Can't get your kid to care about school but he'll play sports... no problem, we'll adjust it.
Pathetic they can't get these idiots to stay in school or care when they do go, that they have to do this.
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Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:34 am to Signal Soldier
1.5
1.5
one point five!!!!!!
Holy fricking shite. Even 2.0 is too low. If you can't maintain at least a 2.5 in high school you're just on a fast track to nowhere, or prison.
This is why the south is the butt of so many jokes.
1.5
one point five!!!!!!
Holy fricking shite. Even 2.0 is too low. If you can't maintain at least a 2.5 in high school you're just on a fast track to nowhere, or prison.
This is why the south is the butt of so many jokes.
This post was edited on 8/7/15 at 10:36 am
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:34 am to Signal Soldier
Well the playoffs will be a bit tougher around the state 
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:35 am to Signal Soldier
Don't remember seeing those baws out on the field being watched for their academic prowess.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:35 am to Signal Soldier
I was discussing this the other day... unless I'm remembering wrong it was 2.5 when I was in high school.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:36 am to Signal Soldier
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Almost all of the districts and school systems across the state already have a GPA requirement of 1.5 for athletes. This would bring EBR in line with those school systems, including Ascension, Livingston, West Feliciana, Zachary, Central, West Baton Rouge and Baker. In EBR, the C-average is equal to a GPA of 1.5 to 2.4.
How can a C average be a 1.5?
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:37 am to Signal Soldier
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Defer them from getting into criminal mischief
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:38 am to Signal Soldier
I get what they are attempting to do here. Trying to keep kids occupied and off the streets. I get that, but I don't necessarily agree with lowering the GPA to play sports....But it is what it is. They are going to end up in the streets regardless, because they aren't going to qualify for college sports.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:39 am to Signal Soldier
quote:Wow times have changed. When I played in about a century ago(LOL), I had to maintain a 2.5.
The East Baton Rouge School Board voted Thursday to reduce the GPA required to participate in school sports from 2.0 to 1.5.
And even that's stretching it because my parents would have pulled my arse on the first D even if all the other grades had been As.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:42 am to Signal Soldier
quote:Well frick then, why have a GPA requirement at all?
"Anything that help kids to stay focused, to defer them from getting into criminal mischief, to be around adults that love and care about them, I'm for it," Washington said.
quote:LOL. No.
"What we're trying to do is put those kids after school with coaches, mentors and teachers that help them get better in the classroom and have an opportunity build that ownership and pride in their school."
Those coaches want the kids to be eligible for the same reasons coaches have ALWAYS wanted kids to be eligible.
Used to be, the coach had to be corrupt and get teachers to "pass" their kids but hey, now the whole district is in on it!!
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:42 am to Signal Soldier
Are high school eligibility rules the same as NCAA? If so, I still have 4 years of eligibility to play sports and I'm considering using them.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:43 am to Kracka
quote:
I get what they are attempting to do here. Trying to keep kids occupied and off the streets. I get that, but I don't necessarily agree with lowering the GPA to play sports....But it is what it is. They are going to end up in the streets regardless, because they aren't going to qualify for college sports.
Yup. If a kid has a 1.5, keeping him off the streets playing football for 2 years is nothing more than deferring the inevitable.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:44 am to Signal Soldier
They ain't there to play school man.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:47 am to Signal Soldier
Students can't drop out until they are 18 now. I guess they figured as long as they will be on campus, they might as well play ball.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:47 am to Kracka
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They are going to end up in the streets regardless, because they aren't going to qualify for college sports.
Very few people play college sports after HS because they are usually not considered good enough. Not totally because of GPA.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:49 am to Kracka
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They are going to end up in the streets regardless, because they aren't going to qualify for college sports.
Well since we're going down that road...since when has college sports ever kept kids "off the streets"? Hell, even the NFL can't seem to do it. Thugs gonna thug.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:49 am to Signal Soldier
They're still drug testing athletes though, right?
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:51 am to Kracka
quote:
I get what they are attempting to do here. Trying to keep kids occupied and off the streets. I get that, but I don't necessarily agree with lowering the GPA to play sports...
Yep. Good intentions. But these stupid frickers should be in vo-tech learning to weld, no learning to run routes that will never pay off for them or society.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:51 am to Signal Soldier
you can't combat extreme mediocrity with acceptance even more mediocrity
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:51 am to thesoccerfanjax
quote:...or afletic scholarship.
If you can't maintain at least a 2.5 in high school you're just on a fast track to nowhere, or prison.
This post was edited on 8/7/15 at 10:53 am
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