Protecting athletes from being held back, suspended, and expelled for lack of academic performance is plaguing even some of our Catholic schools. This really serves no one any good, as they will not (likely) be in sports for the rest of their lives. The number of people getting passed along in grade school and high school is significantly higher than the number of people in professional sports after all, and even the professional sports athletes typically retire young. Which brings me to the story of a teacher being fired for refusing to change a grade. One of his students appeared to be asleep in class. The teacher, no doubt frustrated by the lack of effort that the student was putting into the class, lowered his grade, and was fired (after refusing to restore it). Tell me, what has this student learned? That he can do whatever in class and it will not matter. How does this prepare him for the real world out there, beyond the school doors, where he will have to make a living, and support himself and perhaps a family? It does not prepare him; it prepares him only for a life on welfare.
