SHARON
Active students will have to keep grades up
After 19 months of discussion, policy committee meetings and haggling, Sharon school directors adopted a policy Tuesday aimed at making students participating in extra-curricular activities more responsible for their grades.
The board voted unanimously to require students in any nongraded, extra-curricular activity, including sports, to attend mandatory tutoring sessions if they are failing a class. If they refuse to attend the study sessions, they will be ineligible to participate in activities until their grades are brought up or they attend the sessions.
Tutoring sessions will be open to all students who would like help, not just those who participate in extra-curricular activities.
The new policy is a diluted version of a policy originally proposed in July 2000 by Director Richard Mancino, who said students failing a class shouldn't participate in any extra-curricular activities.
Though the adopted policy is not what Mancino proposed, he said it will benefit the district.
"I'm happy with it," Mancino said. "I think it's good for the school. It will show people academics are first."
The policy goes into effect at the start of the 2002-03 school year.
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