I don’t recall saying anything that would run counter to that.
Marc
Eh, maybe I assumed something you didn’t say. I do that when I read out loud. I’ve stopped using my fingers to read but I still move my lips from time to time. :smack:
While I would be temped to do that, I think that I’d just say no.
My mother let our high school know that my older brother was competing ineligibly (bad grades) in track.
I’m a big fan of “no pass no play”. While I view things like sports, arts, etc., as being part and parcel of a well rounded education I do think there should be consequences to failing classes.
Marc
Of course it would.
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I had similar experiences except that the team sport was played on Saturdays.
Heck, I get calls every week from precious Johnnys’ mommy telling me how unfair it is Johnny has to pay child support to his trollop ex-wife.
If Johnny has signed a release we can speak with mommy, but I find I tend to be a bit harsh. I can see it if Johnny in incapacitated, but otherwise I find myself asking why Johnny cannot handle his responsibilities himself.
Did you read the same thread title I did?
All snark aside, I think we agree.
My dad tried to do this in high school. It was not as bad as some examples, but I did (horribly) bad in math. I am not a maths person so I never did homework, goofed off in class, and just all around screwed up. My dad wanted to email the teachers to see if I could get some extra credit. I put my foot down. I told him how it was my own fault for messing up and he could not do anything to fix it, even if he wanted to.
My mom also supported me in that. Whenever he got on that she would just tell him to shut up.
For every kid that told his or her parents about “mean teacher so-and-so giving me a bad grade” there are several others who actively stop this from happening.
You guys don’t get it, this child playing JV basketball is vital for our national seciurity. After all it was the Duke of Wellington who supposedly said (although probably not), 'The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."
Why do you hate America?
Why do YOU hate America, man?
You’re trying to apply a quote from a citizen of a country with COMMIE HEALTH CARE!
A guy with a “noble” title- the kind of crap that caused us to kick out those damn limey bastards in the first place.
General Washington would roll over in his grave if he heard the blasphemy coming out of your mouth.
Why don’t you go back to wherever it is you came from?
This bit is interesting. At the hotel I work at, we recently fired an employee because her husband accused our manager of sleeping with her (he most certainly was not) and sent said manager a series of accusatory text messages. The final message read, “Just so u know im on my way to beat ur ass.”
The young lady was fired for this, but she was awarded unemployment benefits because apparently, firing someone for something their spouse did isn’t considered “just cause.”
Maybe it’s different in other states, though.
Sorry for the hijack.
Maybe it wasn’t “just cause”, but “just 'cuz”. 
Oh, what I wouldn’t give for the ability to say so little, so forcefully.
I’ll admit fault for expressing myself badly. Schoolchildren should all learn basic skills, and I never said otherwise. But people like Czarcasm can only maintain their simplistic sanctimony by ignoring the fact that many U.S. middle schools (extended junior high, or about 11 years old - 14 years old, for those who don’t know) already funnel their students into math-intensive, english-intensive, science-oriented, computer-related, vo-tech or fine-applied-and-performing-arts-intensive programs, based on nothing more than perceived aptitude gauged only by tests and teacher testimony.
But even if we assumed equality, would you punish a piano prodigy who couldn’t decipher the quadratic formula by barring her from music lessons? Or keep an artist from the school studio because she couldn’t adequately recite “The Cremation of Sam McGee?” Or tell a young mathematical genius that he’s not allowed to study calculus until he can name all the presidents in order? Responding to a child’s deficiencies by squelching the abilities she does have seems merely vindictive, not theraputic.
I agree that children should not be allowed to choose their path to adulthood based on what seems to them at the moment to be most fun. However, I am also sympathetic to the view that educational discipline and incentive is poorly served by destroying the one school-related thing a student might possibly relate to, even if it’s athletic.
Many years ago, I was fired from my job because the boyfriend I had broken up with came down to my place of employment to harass me and made several huge scenes in front of guests. Instead of calling the police and despite the fact that I had tried to get him to go away, they let me go. Yes, I was able to collect unemployment, but I was devastated because, at that point, that was the longest job I’d ever had. And I liked it. 
ETA: Most employers have an “at will” employment contract which means they can fire you at any time for any reason. As long as it’s not illegal. And, in most of these cases, you’d be eligible for unemployment, which is more desirable for the employer than dealing with people’s “drama,” I would imagine.
That’s what I would have thought, too, but it turns out that when a former employee is awarded unemployment benefits, the employer’s costs go up. There’s some kind of insurance or something that they pay whose rates go up.
In our case, it was just so damn frustrating because she had done all sorts of shit that would have warranted termination had the manager chosen to get rid of her at the time: Screaming at our manager and being rude to the guests, throwing a bundle of newspapers at a guest, describing her sex life with her husband to a guest in graphic detail… But since the thing we finally got rid of her for wasn’t just cause, she gets benefits.