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Message: [QUOTE="memcorsu, post: 110518, member: 452"] Very interesting. Having attended public school in a low income area and being an athlete myself, I have seen this scenario many times. There are two ways that this usually pans out. First, a kid skates by the first few years as they develope physically (freshman/sophmore). As they get a bit older and start to understand that they need higher marks to move on, they begin to take a more serious understanding of the process and apply themselves. ala [COLOR=#ff6600]“I really don’t know anything about that. I don’t think Coach Cipp would ever do that. I worked my ass off to get to where I am today, just like anyone else,” Sloan said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]It takes a special mature kid to understand this process and apply themselves from the get go as an athlete (I.E. Cam Lynch). [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]The second scenario is kids who are pushed through because who they are and might become. Thus you have scandels such as this. I remeber my Geometry teacher in 10th grade had taught Penny Hardaway at Sheffield High School back home in Memphis. It was a well know fact that other teachers had pushed him through and students would do his work for him. She even had a geometry project of his that had a huge cut out paper penny in the middle. She said, "it was the best work that he had done if he had actually done it". [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]I think the telling statement in this story is, [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff6600][COLOR=#0000ff]Victor Correa, president of the Board of Ed. of the South Country School District, which oversees the school, said O’Connell’s allegations were investigated and found to be untrue.[/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#0000ff]“The district reviewed that student’s record, as well as other students, to ensure that grades being transcribed were being done correctly. The review concluded that grades were accurate,” Correa said.[/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#0000ff][COLOR=#000000]I can see where at the school level administrators might allow this to happen but once you get to the district level, they don't usually allow this to fly. Being on LI I would assume that this is a pretty large district and officals at the district level are pretty far removed from the school administration and have very little incentive to allow cheating to go on. I would also suggest they are very eager to swiftly correct any cheating that goes on. [/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Sloan had to have been approved by the NCAA Clearinghouse to attend SU and allow him to accept the scholarship. NCAA has 0 incentive to allow things like this to happen. They are actually pretty tight about admission (see some of the current players on the roster). It will be interesting to see how he did in his first semester at the University and if he is put on academic prohbation or if he was able to complete his course work with passing marks. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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