Really sad and ridiculous. I don’t know why athletics comes before education so much in this country, especially when they are supposed to go hand in hand. My brother teaches at a high school in Virginia. He said there are kids on the football team who are failing almost all of their classes, but the school does nothing about it and won’t make the coaches bench them. So the kids can sleep through school and fail but still get the reward of being able to play their sport after school lets out….why? Where’s the motivation?