Muscatine

Grades?

We are but three weeks into the school year. Grades aren't out for another three weeks. What gives here?
That said, I firmly believe that poor academic performance (anything below a c) should result in ineligibility as far as extra-curricular activities are concerned. Students failing to achieve a c in all of their classes obviously need to devote more time to hitting the books. It's a matter of priorities.

harsher

its harsher on the possession charge but the F occured IN school where the alcohol happened off school grounds and time.

Great points, Koach

This is another example of the ''no win'' situation that teachers find themselves in. Parents demand accountability. They expect rules to be concise and to be enforced equally for all. Yet the parent in question here finds fault with the enforcement of a clearly stated rule and consequence. So if the teacher ignores the infraction, he or she is ineffectual as a classroom manager and not fair, but if he or she applies the consequence, he or she is not fair again because it wasn't a ''serious'' infraction.

There are reasons besides the low pay that our best and brightest young people are staying away from the profession.

Nigel

You and I don't agree often, but on this point we do. The notion that rules are made for everyone else is a problem in many facets of life and, like so many things in this world, it starts in the home. Until parents are willing to make their kids take responsibility for their own actions, we will never see schools be as effective as they should be.