http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/25/sports/ncaabasketball/25preps.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&th&emc=th interesting article.. players transfering to schools that will get them all good grades and then top colleges letting them in... high schools that don't even seem to be able to give a diploma.. "Coach Schofield said that the students' improved academic performance could be attributed to Lutheran's strict discipline and that the students were required to retake exams until they achieved a score of at least 80." So you just keep taking the tests until you get a B? I believe the Times did an article about another school earlier this year doing similiar things.. and it is now shut down
I want to know if you get to retake it until you get an 80 . and then have your grade be an 80 despite it being your 10th attempt at the test
I figured you would say that.. considering it says TMac is what made these schools popular.. they are unaccredited and can't give diplomas.. lol
Thats my kind of school. Where is this school you people speak of, I want to enroll my future kids there.
You are in luck.. one of the schools that the Times lists happens to be in Texas... "God's Academy in Irving, Tex.: A summer basketball coach started with three students in August. Now 40 students in Grades 6 to 12, all basketball players, meet with two full-time teachers four days a week at a recreation center. The curriculum is provided and graded by an education center 25 miles away. Its star player, Jeremy Mayfield, signed with Oklahoma."
Awesome, so I can just drop my kids there and pick them up when their 18? Assuming they would want to come back to me.
UTEP has two freshmen from Philly Lutheran and we're recruiting one of their seniors. I have no problems with the school at all...
The players made it through the NCAA Clearinghouse. If the NCAA says they're eligible to play ball in college then I see no problems.
jeeber.. They werne't cleared because the schools were acceptable. .they were cleared because the NCAA wasn't paying attention to thinigs like that. From the article " The National Collegiate Athletic Association acknowledges that it has not acted as such places have proliferated. For years, its Clearinghouse has approved transcripts from these institutions without questioning them. Until revelations last year about a diploma mill in Florida and concerns about other schools like it, the N.C.A.A. chose not to police high schools. Although the N.C.A.A. recently commissioned a task force charged with curbing academic abuse, it still faces the tricky task of separating the legitimate from the nonlegitimate schools. "
