Last week, Easton Area School Board member Frank Pintabone proposed allowing coaches to have acccess to student's grades.
That's a practice the school district used to allow, but has dropped due to privacy. Pintabone thinks reintroducing it would allow coaches to keep track of how their students were performing in the classroom.
What do you think? Do coaches need to stay on top of how their students are doing in class? Is this a job for parents? Or for both? Take our poll, and tell us in the comments.
Anonymous
3:36 pm on Sunday, September 16, 2012
Coaches can encourage students to remember that school should come first, before sports. If the grades are failing students should not be allowed to play unti they are off the "fail list". Personally, though I see the benefit of sports I think that it is sometimes TOO much of a good thing. Too much time. All sports need to be scaled back. Students are getting more and more concussions and injuries. They are spending a lot less time studying and doing homework because they get home late and are exhausted from their sports activities. We need to put sports in perspective in that they are a hobby and school is preparing you for a career. If you are one of the very few that makes sports a career, then you will have plenty of time in your career to play. The rest of the athletes will just look back and perhaps wish that they had spent more time trying to study. It is not the students fault though. They are not the ones who make the schedule. We adults need to scale the time invested so that they have time to put school first. If having access to grades helps students become more serious about school work, then it is worth a try.