Ineligibility is a common thing to get yourself into when you are in sports. Ineligibility is caused when student-athletes have an F or INC. It’s easy to get lost in homework especially when you have teachers who assign homework almost every night. Schooling can cause a lot of stress for student-athletes as most of the time they are aware of their failing grades and are still reminded by coaches and teachers that they will not be able to cheer or compete.
Grades are a hard thing to keep up in general because one bad test grade can bring your grade percentage down by tons. Sometimes teachers won’t give you the options for test corrections and instead, student-athletes have to find a different way to get the bad grade up. T This also makes them miss more games and brings their team down. Paige Jenson states, “Getting my homework done can be difficult at times especially because we have practiced almost every day after school and lots of games to keep up with.”
Though this system does help encourage students to keep their grades up and try their very best on every test and paper they do. Making students do their very best work and actually trying to finish work rather than not turning work in and getting lazy with their papers. It is highly important for students to attend school though mainly because of the reason
Ineligibility is caused by absences as well. Students missing school means students have lots of work to make up. This is why attending school every day is very important. It’s easier to fail a class than pass one. Not turning in work can cause huge drainage to the grade, and during winter lots of students catch bad colds or even tough sicknesses so most students can’t help but miss school which usually turns out to be regretful for the students when they return to school.
Student-athletes deserve more credit for all their hard work. These athletes balance school, homework, and their sport all at the same time. The Spud is proud of each student-athlete in AHS!