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>>>>>>>>>>>>>> “Students should be required to meet certain academic standards, such as passing all courses or maintaining a C average, in order to participate in extracurricular activities.” >>>>>>>>> ====Use Voicthread: [] ==== >>>> ====Respond to the questions in the wiki discussion this date is good for me robert. ==== >> Bandy >> There are academic standards that need to be met in order to take part in extracurricular activities. In Alabama for instance there is a no pass, no play policy and in one article that I came across it has recently decided to ease the policy a bit. There are academic standards to be able to compete in many states but you have to look at things and decide how strict you need to be because in some cases once they get involved a student actually becomes a better student.(Teaching Music, 2000) >> By allowing a student that is struggling academically to participate in extracurricular activities there is a chance you will make them a better student. One study shows that there was a 50% increase in a students chance to become gifted after being allowed to participate in extracurricular activities. Allowing at-risk students to participate also decreases the likely hood that they will become an early drop out and will actually stay in school. You can argue over and over that extracurricular activities should have strict academic standards imposed on them but at the same time the simple allowance of a student to participate will make them a better student. In some cases there is a 1.7 percent decrease in the chance that a student will drop out of school.(Holloway, 1999) >> Alabama Eases No Pass, No Play Standards. Teaching Music, 10697446, Dec2000, Vol. 8, Issue 3 >>  Holloway, John H.//. Educational Leadership//, 01/12/1999, Vol. 57 Issue 4, p87, 2p >>  GOod call, Bandy! Thank you! >  Robert White > > Holding high academic standards are a must for participation in extracurricular activities. However some people and ethnic groups feel that is discrimination. > According to Gazette.net, a Maryland online community newspaper, Montgomery school system administrators are trying to overcome a school board policy that shut a disproportionate number of Blacks and Hispanics out of any afterschool program. The policy made students with a GPA of less than 2.0 ineligible for after-school activities, which include sports, band and clubs. //(The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education) // I never knew that extracurricular activities were a right. I always assumed that it was a privilege. > Cooper, M.. (2011, February). High School "3:05ers" Geared for Success. //The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, // //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 200%;">21 //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 200%;">(9), 34-35. Retrieved February 27, 2011, from Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW). (Document ID: 2265893471).

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Sally Steele <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Previous studies have found that higher physical activity levels are associated with greater academic achievement among students. However, it remains unclear whether associations are due to the physical activity itself or sports team participation, which may involve requirements for maintaining certain grades. (Fox 2000) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> For middle school students, the positive association between physical activity and GPA could not be separated from the relationship between sports team participation and a higher GPA. Conclusions: Regardless of whether academic success was related to the physical activity itself or to participation on sports teams, findings indicated positive associations between physical activity involvement and academic achievement among students. (Wall, 2000)

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">On the college levels it does become a probelm and some of the probelms are unintended consequences for students and athletics programs alike. Unfortunately, the progress requirements have trapped many student-athletes in the majors they chose as freshmen, while the retention benchmarks punish even well-run sports programs for events beyond their control.(Cusack 09)

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Biblography: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> Chronicle of Higher Education, v54 n11 pB2 Nov 2007

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> Journal of School Health, v80 n1 p31-37 Jan 2010