High school football coach in Utah suspends nearly entire team for bad behavior

[merithyn]

Sorry I dont have perfect spelling and on occasion I use ple when it should be pal.

Fuck you all. 

except Meri

The best way to remember it is that the Principal is your Pal, where as the principle is no one's friend.

[11B4V]

Sorry I dont have perfect spelling and on occasion I use ple when it should be pal.

Fuck you all. 

except Meri

The best way to remember it is that the Principal is your Pal, where as the principle is no one's friend.

The "Man" is never your pal.

[The Brain]

Or you could just, you know, know spelling.

[KRonn]

Smart move by the coach. A few of the kids on the team spoke on the news and all were in favor of it, and recognized what they were doing wrong, that sort of thing. And even better, I don't think that even one parent sued anyone over this!

[KRonn]

Sorry I dont have perfect spelling and on occasion I use ple when it should be pal.

Fuck you all. 

except Meri

The best way to remember it is that the Principal is your Pal, where as the principle is no one's friend.

That's a good word association to remember the spelling with.   

[Valmy]

Fortunately for him, he's not a Texas high school football coach.  Don't mess with Texas high school football.

My High School team would perenially enter the State Championship Tournament a highly ranked favorite, have most of the team's stars fail a class and be ineligible, and then lose in the first or second round.  I mean WTF?  Education getting in the way of football?

[MadBurgerMaker]

Fortunately for him, he's not a Texas high school football coach.  Don't mess with Texas high school football.

My High School team would perenially enter the State Championship Tournament a highly ranked favorite, have most of the team's stars fail a class and be ineligible, and then lose in the first or second round.  I mean WTF?  Education getting in the way of football?

Wait. Are you implying that they're supposed to be able to do things like read?  Sounds like bullshit to me.

[The Brain]

Or they'll go to Reading Gaol.

[crazy canuck]

Wait. Are you implying that they're supposed to be able to do things like read?  Sounds like bullshit to me.

A couple nights ago I attended a session put on by my boys' school for students interested in applying to US schools.  There were a few interesting things that came out of the stats regarding the students who were accepted to the elite schools.  One somewhat surprising thing is that perfect GPA and SAT's etc where not a strong indicator of being accepted.  There were a lot of students with less than perfect scores being accepted in preference because they had other things going for them.

There were some significant outliers on the low end of the scores.  The person giving the talk said, "any guesses as to who those folks are"...