I did some extra credit in high school...

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but there was no way they would let me do enough to move my grade from a "C" to an "A." I mean wow that's a lot of extra credit to move your grade up two whole letters. Eric Bledsoe must be some worker to do so much extra credit work.


I am sure this will be dropped from here on out because they can't go back and look at his extra credit from high school, but something still smells fishy about the whole situation....


...or maybe what I am smelling is just calimari.
 
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Happens everyday, not just for kentucky basketball.
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This so called "extra credit" is one of the reasons "the great" Rush Propst lost his job.

It's blatant grade changing. A little bit of extra credit is one thing, but moving up two whole grades is absurd. If that's how school was suppose to work, everyone could have a perfect gpa with ease. We could all attend the Harvard and Yales of the world.
 
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Even if there is something awry with this, it would be yet another example of how slick Cal is. Lets say hypothetically that they did get some grades changed... How in the world would this fall on him? It wouldn't, it would fall on the HS teachers, the University compliance dept, etc...
 
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Serious question for those on the board. You have a student that has one opportunity to get ahead....way ahead in life. He is great at basketball, but not so great with math. His future is in your hands. You give him the A and his opportunity is realized. You give him a C and possibly destroy his future. What do you do?

Remember, we are just talking one grade. I do everything I can to award the A. Period.
 
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Lexvol said:
Serious question for those on the board. You have a student that has one opportunity to get ahead....way ahead in life. He is great at basketball, but not so great with math. His future is in your hands. You give him the A and his opportunity is realized. You give him a C and possibly destroy his future. What do you do?

Remember, we are just talking one grade. I do everything I can to award the A. Period.
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I would most certainly do it as long as the effort was made and I saw improvement in him or her.
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NYYVol said:
I would most certainly do it as long as the effort was made and I saw improvement in him or her.
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They did it for Bledsoe. They didn't do it for the goofy ass fans in Lex.
 
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I'm right there as well as long as the kid is showing the effort needed and that he "wants it"

WWJBD

What would Josh Briscoe do? ... is that too early? lol
 
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ya'll realize the ncaa already looked into this back in the Winter and no letter of investigation was ever sent to UK regarding?
 
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Lexvol said:
They did it for Bledsoe. They didn't do it for the goofy ass fans in Lex.
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Exactly. And someone in another thread brought up the point that stuff like this happens to small college players as well. People that act like this is strictly something that UK had a hand in are very naive.
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i'm not a cal homer. i didn't like the idea of cal initially and at times it still worries me. i know this much, if i had a kid and had to pick between cal babysitting him and bruce, cal would do it everytime.
 
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I was just a baseball player who did not do well in a chemistry class. I made up the class and was told by my teacher the second time that when it came to test time if I didn't know it to "leave it blank."

Needless to say I made an A in chemistry with tests that were turned in with nothing but my name on it.
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Lexvol said:
Serious question for those on the board. You have a student that has one opportunity to get ahead....way ahead in life. He is great at basketball, but not so great with math. His future is in your hands. You give him the A and his opportunity is realized. You give him a C and possibly destroy his future. What do you do?

Remember, we are just talking one grade. I do everything I can to award the A. Period.
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Exactly. I do it and feel good for having done so.
 
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Lexvol said:
Serious question for those on the board. You have a student that has one opportunity to get ahead....way ahead in life. He is great at basketball, but not so great with math. His future is in your hands. You give him the A and his opportunity is realized. You give him a C and possibly destroy his future. What do you do?

Remember, we are just talking one grade. I do everything I can to award the A. Period.
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Uhm no.
 
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NYYVol said:
So you decline a kid a chance to succeed in life, yet you want to throw out the word hypocrite?
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Uhm how does having integrity make me a hypocrite?

I would be a hypocrite if I gave As to everyone on the basketball team, while making everyone else in the class actually do the work, and learn the material to earn a passing grade.

Glad you and your buddies here aren't educators, I think they might have a job for you in Chapel Hill. I hear they are looking for some new "tutors"
 
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VolBurgers said:
Uhm how does having integrity make me a hypocrite?

I would be a hypocrite if I gave As to everyone on the basketball team, while making everyone else in the class actually do the work, and learn the material to earn a passing grade.

Glad you and your buddies here aren't educators, I think they might have a job for you in Chapel Hill. I hear they are looking for some new "tutors"
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Who said it's strictly for bball players? I know it's tough to realize, but not all kids have a level playing field in life or the classroom. Reading your crap surprises me you don't understand that.
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VolBurgers said:
Uhm how does having integrity make me a hypocrite?

I would be a hypocrite if I gave As to everyone on the basketball team, while making everyone else in the class actually do the work, and learn the material to earn a passing grade.

Glad you and your buddies here aren't educators, I think they might have a job for you in Chapel Hill. I hear they are looking for some new "tutors"
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Judging by your reading comprehension and consequent assumption I assume you weren't really paying attention in English class.
 
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NYYVol said:
Who said it's strictly for bball players? I know it's tough to realize, but not all kids have a level playing field in life or the classroom. Reading your crap surprises me you don't understand that.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but we are in a thread talking about basketball players. Not only that, but the quote I responded to said specifically "basketball player."


What does not having a level playing field in the class room have to do with academic fraud?
 
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The unfairness of this situation rests with the NBA, the players union and their collusion with the NCAA. Bledsoe lives in a free country, yet he isn't allowed to make a living in the NBA until he has spent a meaningless year in a college classroom.
 
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