Sounds like another attempt to help the Va Tech Jokies football recruiting

If students are having trouble you don't lower the bar, you raise it. Being able to join a sports team should be considered a privilege, something you have to work for, to achieve. Make the minimum requirement a 3.0 and stop treating the poor as if they are damaged goods.

someone call the waaaambulance for these kids.

Just tell them to switch their major to sociology, that will get you an easy 3.0

i didn't even know you could graduate with a degree at 2.0

My 1.9 kept me out of ninja school!

Arthur Jumbles: If students are having trouble you don't lower the bar, you raise it. Being able to join a sports team should be considered a privilege, something you have to work for, to achieve. Make the minimum requirement a 3.0 and stop treating the poor as if they are damaged goods.

Hay! U shut op! I plae fotball and kan reed just fyne! So go crie to yer mamma u ediots!

\110%
\\The team played well
\\\I'd like to thank God

RTFA these are HS kids

Arthur Jumbles: Being able to join a sports team should be considered a privilege, something you have to work for, to achieve.

This would require someone to have to study hard, pay attention in class let alone, Show up for class. If the athletes there were like the ones I went to school with the 2.0 would be achieved by joining the team and showing up to practice. To bad Norfolk has honest teacher who won't just pass the good players to keep them on the field winning games for the school

boobsrgood: My 1.9 kept me out of ninja school!

Well, that made my eyes bleed.

haha...VA is full of tards.

Not everyone is going to get drafted to a major sports team. Athletes have a strong work ethic and an excellent team spirit. Combine that with the hard work they put forth to play sports and you have the ideal ditch digger.

VA should be commended with helping to strengthen the American workforce.

Although I understand the motivation behind this plan, which is to keep at risk kids out of trouble and into sports, I am certain the Nortfolk school district can come up with something more dignified for both the kids and the school. Perhaps that plan can also reach out to the less athletic kids that are also at risk and don't have the benefit of being able to toss a football. Yeegads.

StacyG: Although I understand the motivation behind this plan, which is to keep at risk kids out of trouble and into sports

There are ways to play sports that don't involve one's school.

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Well, that made my eyes bleed.

You do realize you're encouraging me, right?

MBA Whore: haha...VA is full of tards.

Thinking in absolutes is one of the dumbest things humans do.


anonymousgirl: i didn't even know you could graduate with a degree at 2.0


Mars Volta = great

boobsrgood: Interrupted Infinitum

Well, that made my eyes bleed.

You do realize you're encouraging me, right?

Eh, I'll be too intoxicated to care in a moment.

HappyHarryHardOn

I just finished reading a Kurt Vonnegut novel this evening. That picture feels so right in the wake of Vonnegut.

/Hi ho.

This is why there should be academic schools and sports schools.
And never the twain shall meet...

/fap

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"Whoever battles monsters should take care not to become a monster too, for if you stare long enough into the Abyss, the Abyss stares also into you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"If you hate something, don't you do it too."
-Eddie Vedder

Drop my good man, drop. See you on the upside, if at all.

boobsrgood: Interrupted Infinitum

Well, that made my eyes bleed.

You do realize you're encouraging me, right?

I have a pic of that guy on my profile page on another board... I have half that board convinced it's a pic of me. Please point me to the source of these superb works of photographic artistry.

HappyHarryHardOn

BWAAAAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAA!

That made it worth getting out of bed today. I'm totally stealing that BTW.

boobsrgood: My 1.9 kept me out of ninja school!

The think that I find scary is the fact that this guy posed for this and if it isn't a self portrait, someone very weird took that picture.

quixana: RTFA these are HS kids

That actually makes it worse, just FYI. Freshman year of high school is full of amazingly difficult subjects like algebra-farking-1 and 'world geography'. If you can't pass that kind of thing, you need to be kicked out of all your extracurricular activities so you can focus a little more.

think = thing

Is this the thread where we all brag about our high gpa's? Jeez, my gpa is pretty farking low, i average a 3.7 in my major and below a 2 in everything else. I study all the damn time, and im not complaining, just saying hard work isnt always going to get you a perfect 4.0.

That said, i do see a lot of people piss away their college careers and its a shame. But, looking down on everyone less capeable than you is pretty shameful too.

puffy999: StacyG: Although I understand the motivation behind this plan, which is to keep at risk kids out of trouble and into sports

There are ways to play sports that don't involve one's school.

My Weeners to this reply didn't register for some reason . . .

I'm assuming that Norfolk is an urban district; having taught in an urban school, for several years, I became acquainted with the hands-off, uninvolved parenting techniques prevalent in city schools. Basically, the schools are taking responsibility because the parents aren't around after school or taking their kids to play in soccer leagues.

eff ewe

I'm sorry, I do not keep source info.

boobsrgood: My 1.9 kept me out of ninja school!

Is that a Klingon???

Good grief - I should have known...

I was looking for a pic of a jock-type guy studying. All I got from GIS was gay porn.

Protip: Leave the word 'jock' out of all further GIS without safesearch on.

/you're just gonna have to live without my witty mspaint pic.

"Rarely is the question asked..."

Jim_Callahan: That actually makes it worse, just FYI. Freshman year of high school is full of amazingly difficult subjects like algebra-farking-1 and 'world geography'. If you can't pass that kind of thing, you need to be kicked out of all your extracurricular activities so you can focus a little more.

And beaten with a farking hose.

Klippoklondike: Is this the thread where we all brag about our high gpa's? Jeez, my gpa is pretty farking low, i average a 3.7 in my major and below a 2 in everything else. I study all the damn time, and im not complaining, just saying hard work isnt always going to get you a perfect 4.0.

That said, i do see a lot of people piss away their college careers and its a shame. But, looking down on everyone less capeable than you is pretty shameful too.

What about virtually brain-dead athletes who consider themselves God's gift to humanity for placing a piece of rubber in a net like a trained seal? Can I still look down on them?

geetus: Good grief - I should have known...

I was looking for a pic of a jock-type guy studying. All I got from GIS was gay porn.

Protip: Leave the word 'jock' out of all further GIS without safesearch on.

/you're just gonna have to live without my witty mspaint pic.

The reason why you couldn't find a pick of a jock studying is because it doesn't happen. Much like finding a pick of a blonde chick winning a Nobel Peace Prize for physics.

Another scary thing about that pic is the fact that Mr. Fail-sassin has lots of boxes of bullets on his shelf next to him. Not the kind of person I'd want having a loaded firearm anywhere near me...

Can'tLetYouDoThatStarFox
What about virtually brain-dead athletes who consider themselves God's gift to humanity for placing a piece of rubber in a net like a trained seal? Can I still look down on them?

Yes. Yes you can.

Klippoklondike: Is this the thread where we all brag about our high gpa's? Jeez, my gpa is pretty farking low, i average a 3.7 in my major and below a 2 in everything else. I study all the damn time, and im not complaining, just saying hard work isnt always going to get you a perfect 4.0.

That said, i do see a lot of people piss away their college careers and its a shame. But, looking down on everyone less capeable than you is pretty shameful too.

Your GPA was obviously drug down by your failing grade in reading comprehension class and spelling class.

/Think about places besides colleges where you might get a GPA

the country is being dumbed down. just lie back and enjoy.

FWC Skinny: "Rarely is the question asked..."

is our children learning?

Klippoklondike: Is this the thread where we all brag about our high gpa's? Jeez, my gpa is pretty farking low, i average a 3.7 in my major and below a 2 in everything else. I study all the damn time, and im not complaining, just saying hard work isnt always going to get you a perfect 4.0.

THIS.

On Thursday I had a brainfart, tanked a test and got my first C. Since that was for a 3-credit class, it assraped my GPA.

A 3.0 was like a 60% in Calc, and like a 95% in Organic Chem. So, considering there are classes meant for athletes that are even easier, I consider this an affront to my 95%.

Meh, the top athletes are mostly in Hampton and NN anyways.

Klippoklondike: Is this the thread where we all brag about our high gpa's? Jeez, my gpa is pretty farking low, i average a 3.7 in my major and below a 2 in everything else. I study all the damn time, and im not complaining, just saying hard work isnt always going to get you a perfect 4.0.

That said, i do see a lot of people piss away their college careers and its a shame. But, looking down on everyone less capeable than you is pretty shameful too.

That's great for college. But TFA is about high school. No excuse for bad grades in HS.

Oh, for an off-beat trivia answer/question subject, here's a strange one y'all can now can bring up; Mike Vick never made first team all-CONFERENCE. He was no Ronald Curry. Then again, nobody ever was. Or will be.

No child gets ahead...

More are sure to follow. Pretty soon Americans will be so dumb we'll be powerless to stop the evil brains from taking over.