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Should Student Athletes Have To Get Good Grades To Play Sports?

The document discusses whether student athletes should be required to maintain a minimum GPA, such as a C average, in order to remain eligible to play sports. It presents perspectives from those who believe grades should be the top priority and sports eligibility should be tied to academic performance, as well as those who think sports are a positive activity separate from academics and bad grades should not preclude athletic participation.

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Should Student Athletes Have To Get Good Grades To Play Sports?

The document discusses whether student athletes should be required to maintain a minimum GPA, such as a C average, in order to remain eligible to play sports. It presents perspectives from those who believe grades should be the top priority and sports eligibility should be tied to academic performance, as well as those who think sports are a positive activity separate from academics and bad grades should not preclude athletic participation.

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Debate Prompt

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Should student athletes have to
get good grades to play sports?
Some say athletes should have at least a “C” average to play sports. Others say
this is too strict.What do you think?
Picture this: A good friend of yours has play sports. Your friend’s average is a “D.”
always struggled in school. He’s a great guy. Suddenly, he’s off the team. Is this fair?
But he has a hard time doing well on tests. Some school boards say it is and have
Despite his troubles in school, however, your already passed rules like this. They say that
friend has a few things going for him. He grades must come first. Others disagree. They
happens to be the very best hockey goalie in say that sports are healthy, positive activities
the state. In fact, he’s so good, there’s a that should not be linked to grades.
chance he’ll go pro. There’s just one thing. In What do you think? Should athletes with
the middle of his best season ever, when he’s bad grades be kicked off the “team”?
breaking every record in the book, the school
board passes a new rule. They say that if you
don’t have at least a “C” average, you can’t

School is about learning. Sports and grades have


Everything else should nothing to do with each
come second. It’s wrong other. If a kid can become
that kids can coast through school a great athlete, nothing should stand in
without learning much. This rule will the way. And even if some kids have no
make kids work harder to get a good chance of going pro, they shouldn’t be
education. Anyway, it’s hard to become punished for their grades. Think of
a professional athlete. People need everything you learn from sports:
something to fall back on. And even if teamwork, fast thinking, discipline, and
someone does go pro, they’ll still need other skills. There are a lot of things you
to know how to read and do math. need to know to survive in the world, and
you can’t learn them all from books.

Your Turn!
Consider Both Sides: Imagine you are the star football player at your school. How
would you feel if you were kept out of the game until your grades improved?

50 Debate Prompts for Kids © Daley & Dahlie, Scholastic Teaching Resources 23

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