High school athletics

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Some parents even want the Spring sports to be played this summer.

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While this issue doesn't rank high on the scale at the moment, you bring up a good question: If this blows over by the end of May, beginning of June, will there be school this summer or will they wait and just reset in the fall?

Teachers assigned our kids two weeks of lesson plans. They are essentially home schooling. We then have spring break, and, I assume, the kids will get more assignments after that if they are still out of school - and they will be.

So, the academics should be covered here, albeit watered down.

I still hate it for the seniors who were seeing the field for the last time in sports. I hope some kind of bone can be thrown to them. Maybe summer play.

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I know there are more grave issues than high school athletics at hand right now.

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It is time that these seniors learn to grow up. A great lesson to get them started that life isn’t fair.

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Baseball at the HS level is actually modern. Before 1970 most towns only had summer leagues. So, it shouldn't effect baseball players much.

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Still do as well as travel ball, but that’s not the same as GHSA (or your states equivalent) sanctioning an actual season in the summer to declare region & state champs. Like some of y’all, I live in an area where bragging rights over the next county’s or city’s high school is important to these kids.

A lot of these kids are down in the dumps. I’d like to see the state high school associations put something in play this summer.

Yeah, Georgia produces a lot of good baseball players. It used to be that most signed minor league contracts right out of HS instead of going college. Is that still true?

No.

This year is over.

School will be closed until fall.

Yeah it produces it’s fair share but the better baseball players everywhere usually sign pro instead of college. That kind of makes college baseball recruiting tricky IMO

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Teachers assigned our kids two weeks of lesson plans. They are essentially home schooling.

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This might have been dangerous from a liability, depending on exactly what the school system did, and especially as it relates to SPED. Federal law requires that every student have equal access to educational opportunities. If the assignments involved anything online, the school district would have to take whatever steps necessary to make sure each child has access to the internet. One state instructed schools that this might include actually bringing those kids to school and seating them in computer labs a safe distance from other students.

If your school system had a plan that they put into place that would have satisfied federal law, great. If this was just a few teachers flying by the seat of their pants to make themselves look good, that's not good.

One superintendent of a large county here in Tennessee emailed all teachers explicitly telling them not to send out anything online yet and to wait for guidance from the county's instructional coordinators.

Here in Tennessee we could be back in school by April 15, and if we are, then yes, we can get a modified spring sports schedule in.

Just because it feels like a good thread to bitch about this in...

My youngest son is set to graduate in May and head to BASIC in June. Already wondering how bad this time off is going to screw that up.

Schools set to open back up on April 6, but I have my doubts already. Myself, I was about two weeks from taking a State certification test and now my evening classes are also canceled until the 6th**.