Ohio school district adopts 1.0 GPA requirement for athletes
August 28, 2017 / Athletic Administration • Coaching
Dayton Public Schools (Ohio) last week lowered its academic standards for athletes, requiring students to carry a 1.0 GPA to remain eligible for sports.
The district’s Board of Education voted 4-1 in favor of the new policy. The one board member who voted against the measure said the bar was too low and he believed the public would have a negative response, according to WKRC in Cincinnati.
Students will now have to have a 1.0 GPA on a 4.0 grading scale to be eligible to play. Those students with a GPA between 1.0 and 1.99 must enroll in the school’s Athletic Academic Intervention Program for at least one calendar year and make ‘satisfactory progress toward the established goal of a 2.0 GPA each academic quarter.’
They also said that students are allowed to participate in extracurricular activities if they have passed a minimum of five one-credit courses in the immediately preceding grading period, even if that student also earned a failing grade.
“That’s what this plan is about,” said Board of Education President Dr. Robert Walker. “It’s ensuring that all of our students are excelling, especially those who are participating in extra-curricular activities.”
Earlier this year, the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) ruled that the Dunbar High School football team (which is in the Dayton school district) intentionally lost a game last season to avoid having to report its use of a academically ineligible player. The loss allowed another Dayton high school, Anderson, to make the postseason. The Dayton Board of Education did not say whether lowering the academic standards was tied to that incident.
Coach & Athletic Director polled readers in 2015, and 81.5% believed athletes should, at minimum, be required to carry a 2.0 GPA.
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Not a good thing. This will only hurt the student in the long run. The idea is to get young people thinking of improving skills and bettering themselves in preparation for a successful participation in a competitive world of work. For years youth in Sports move on in life believing society owes them and they think they can do what ever they want without fear or responsibility for consequences. Wrong! They are Robbed! Then they live a sorry existence believing it’s all good and that Poor Lives Matter. They never develop skills and are very slow in thier personal growth. Consequently, low expectations in school make them have low expectations for themselves. Lowering Standards is a Step back. School Districts cannot do that.
I think they are out of their own minds i played sports in Ohio from pee wee thru HS and i have a HS son whos on the football team even if in NC the requirement was only a 1.0 or D there is no way in hell my child would play because he wouldn’t be earning his right to play in my mind thats not fair to the children who had to maintain a 2.0 to 3.0 to play