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District investigation has found that an "unnamed" official at the school changed the grade of a player to keep him eligible for the playoffs. State title forfeited. WFAA broke this story months ago. |
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Posted by sad @ 2:21 PM Wed, Jan 23, 2008
What a heartache for Dunbar. What a dose of reality for us all. When will we realize that a young person's education should be valued more than his or her athletic abilities? Failing test grades, third grade reading levels in high school, dropouts, professional athletes making uneducated choices....must I go on?
That doesn't even begin to address the issue of a teacher willing to change a grade for an athlete and/or his coach. Sadly, this goes on more than we care to admit.
Posted by Invisble Man @ 1:34 AM Thu, Jan 24, 2008
Since SOC was investigated for their basketball program. DISD should also do an internal investigation on Roosevelt.
Administrator there have arranged for the failing grades of basketball/football players
Posted by 3GradMom @ 1:46 PM Thu, Jan 24, 2008
Did we not learn anything from the Carter High School Football scandal a few years back? AM I the only one who remembers? And what happened to those involved then?
And the course this young man failed, was it not a repeat course? Would that not indicate he had failed course work before? By changing the grade, did that qualify him for graduation, too?
How many courses of uncredited hours did he have to take in community college to get ready for real college work? What a disservice to that young man and taxpayers. Footing the bill once again for crookery and incompetence.
Posted by Rico @ 10:45 AM Fri, Jan 25, 2008
This would have never happened if the teacher (who is supposed to be an adult)would have said NO.
Posted by Diane Birdwell @ 7:47 PM Fri, Jan 25, 2008
When our sports-at-all-costs culture fades away, then corruption like this will cease. Too many of our young black men in high school really, truly, think they will play pro ball--and that is the ONLY plan for life they have. It's as if 40 years of Civil Rights have done nothing--black men play sports, period.
When my students tell me they will be in the NFL or NBA, I used to smile. Now, I challenge their statement, and apparently, I am the only one who ever has.
I say, "Okay, how many college scouts have talked to you?"
"None."
"Okay, say you make into college. What will your major be?"
"My what?"
"Your M-A-J-O-R. Your main study area. What --do --you want--to do --with you life?"
"Play ball."
"Oh, and after your arms/shoulders/knees give out, and you are only 34 years old, then what?"
"Man, I will be RICH! I don't need to do nothin' else!"
---So, when we can change that conversation to one of seeing sports as purely an option for obtaining a scholarship for a degree to do something else, we will continue to have these scandals.