How many F's can I get before I am ineligible to play lacrosse this spring>?? This Quarter I failed Geometry, Chemistry,English. bad ass teachers that can't teach. I need to play lacrosse this spring. They better let me turn in the work. I would of gotten much better grades if it wasn't for the Storm. Can I apply a deecion make by the school bored to let me play since the only reason I failed 3 classes was because of the misunderstanding thinking we had a snow day on Thursday and not be able to attend my 7th period English class on Friday?

Eric,

No, the reason you are failing is that you don't do the work.

The average grade in your class is B or better, as it is in almost all general ed classes. Yes, there are exceptions, but if you are one of those kids who goes around believing C is average and D is passing, then you might want to rethink your argument. While you are not alone, the vast majority of your peers, including those playing lacrosse this spring, are not failing three core classes.

Many students took advantage of the two-hour delay on Thursday and the two-hour early release on Friday to catch up. Did you?

Hint: If you decide that your three "bad ass teacher can't teach" then figure out a way to pass their class despite their flaws. The rest of your peers already did.

Oh, and those geeks with the A's... they will never tell you that they read all the assignments, studied for the tests, and put time into the long-term projects instead of waiting until the last minute. They would rather you believe they are just brainiacs than saying the secret to success is hard work.

Just like lacrosse.

I'll actually go to school this quarter.

Friend of Eric Wrote:
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> Eric,
>
> No, the reason you are failing is that you don't
> do the work.
>
> The average grade in your class is B or better, as
> it is in almost all general ed classes. Yes,
> there are exceptions, but if you are one of those
> kids who goes around believing C is average and D
> is passing, then you might want to rethink your
> argument. While you are not alone, the vast
> majority of your peers, including those playing
> lacrosse this spring, are not failing three core
> classes.
>
> Many students took advantage of the two-hour delay
> on Thursday and the two-hour early release on
> Friday to catch up. Did you?
>
> Hint: If you decide that your three "bad ass
> teacher can't teach" then figure out a way to pass
> their class despite their flaws. The rest of your
> peers already did.
>
> Oh, and those geeks with the A's... they will
> never tell you that they read all the assignments,
> studied for the tests, and put time into the
> long-term projects instead of waiting until the
> last minute. They would rather you believe they
> are just brainiacs than saying the secret to
> success is hard work.
>
> Just like lacrosse.

Eric, this situation is ENTIRELY within your control. This is NOT a situation created by anyone else but you. Your entire lacrosse team has figured out a way to keep their GPA's in a position to maintain their eligibility so, clearly it's not that difficult.

Lacrosse is important to you. We get that. You know what's more important? School, dawg.

School starts in the FALL. Lacrosse starts in the SPRING. I'm sure you knew that when school started you'd have to keep your GPA in a more than flaccid state in order to play. If you knew certain classes were going to challenge you, there's no shame in sitting down with your teacher one on one today and simply saying, "My performance in this class is hurting my GPA. What concepts am I missing to perform better in this class and what can we do together to make that happen?" The first step toward fixing this situation is admitting your role in it. Teachers only really want to help those students who are going to do their part and help themselves.

All of this assumes of course that lacrosse is important to you. If it is, you will do what it takes to be on the field. If it isn't then you're resigned to being drunk, broke and fat...and that, Eric is no way to go through life.

Eric I Wrote:
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> How many F's can I get before I won't get into even NVCC?

Drop lacrosse and focus on your grades, shithead.

Eric I Wrote:
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> How many F's can I get before I am ineligible to
> play lacrosse this spring>?? This Quarter I failed
> Geometry, Chemistry,English. bad ass teachers
> that can't teach. I need to play lacrosse this
> spring. They better let me turn in the work. I
> would of gotten much better grades if it wasn't
> for the Storm. Can I apply a deecion make by the
> school bored to let me play since the only reason
> I failed 3 classes was because of the
> misunderstanding thinking we had a snow day on
> Thursday and not be able to attend my 7th period
> English class on Friday?

Let me be blunt. School is more important than lacrosse. You probably won't play lacrosse professionally or in college. You will do schoolwork in college... if you get in.

Friend of Eric Wrote:
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> Eric,
>
> No, the reason you are failing is that you don't
> do the work.
>
> The average grade in your class is B or better, as
> it is in almost all general ed classes. Yes,
> there are exceptions, but if you are one of those
> kids who goes around believing C is average and D
> is passing, then you might want to rethink your
> argument. While you are not alone, the vast
> majority of your peers, including those playing
> lacrosse this spring, are not failing three core
> classes.

One of the most notable exceptions: Physics. I remember going around in there with an 107 average. The average class grade? C.

You're fucked in college, kid. I've had to teach myself bio AND chem 115. Some professors have a research grant and don't give a flying fuck about teaching the class.



...get your shit together

Eric I Wrote:
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> How many F's can I get before I am ineligible to
> play lacrosse this spring?

I don't know where you go, but South Lakes requires every grade to be a C or better.

> This Quarter I failed
> Geometry, Chemistry,English. bad ass teachers
> that can't teach. I need to play lacrosse this
> spring. They better let me turn in the work. I
> would of gotten much better grades if it wasn't
> for the Storm.

The reason you failed was because of you. You didn't put in the time. No teacher is willing to let a student fail IF he/she is turning in every assignment, working hard, and asking for help. You're probably failing English due to your terrible grammar.



> Can I apply a deecion make by the
> school bored to let me play since the only reason
> I failed 3 classes was because of the
> misunderstanding thinking we had a snow day on
> Thursday and not be able to attend my 7th period
> English class on Friday?

The correct spellings are "School Board" and "decision." You have to be responsible for yourself. It was very clear that Thursday was a two hour delayed opening, not a snow day. The School Board wouldn't care.

I'm going to give you some advice. When you get home, instead of dicking about on Facebook and the like, study your text books. Understand the material. Even if the teacher is teaching poorly, you can come prepared with background. That way, you'll understand most of it, if not everything.

Eric -put your lacrosse stick in the closet and open up your books - at the school that I play for we have to show our 2nd quarter report card to the coach during try outs -anyone failing 3 classes may as well not show up because you will not make the team - in this day of blackboard ,interims constantly being sent home and being able to re-do assignments and retake tests your going to blame 3 Fs on missing one day of school and some sort of miscommunication? -quit blaming everyone else and look in the mirror or your in for a long painful life

Dear OP,

If you really wanted to play lacrosse, you would have done your work. Let's be frank here, you have to really do nothing to get F's in high school unless you have a learning disability of some sort that was never found out. HS is quite easy and the teachers do their work just fine in order for you to at least maintain a C. There are teachers who are poor in their teaching styles, but they all have to pass a pretty difficult testing cycle to teach their subjects, so basically they know their stuff, relating it is another story. My guess is you are the kid who has their Iphone glued to their ear in class and is always watching youtube during classwork during essay writing time. That's okay, because the teachers know you do it, they just see that and say to themselves "hey, here is a kid who cares more about Lil' Wayne instead of their Romeo and Juliet essay", so when you go to them for help 2 days before the end of the semester looking for help, they will just laugh at you and point out the facts. And like everyone has said, you are the only one to blame. Teachers are required to have their assignments and calendars posted on Blackboard (which you should have access to), so knowing your assignments shouldn't be a problem. Better get used to this phrase "would you like fries with that?" which I doubt you could do that job either, since most people who retain that job are hard working immigrants, unlike you.

FCPS requires you pass 5 new classes the prior quarter in order to participate in the next season's sport or activity. In your case, sorry no dice. Like prior posters have said, get your life together now because it only gets harder and study your books. If you really want to be a part of the team, go to the coach and state the situation and beg if you can be a manager or something so you can still be affiliated somehow. As far as playing goes, forget about it because as a coach I would say, "oh you thought Thursday was a snow day when it was clearly marked as a 2 hour delay, then how are you going to remember practice/game times and schedule changes during inclement weather. Sorry kid you are not what we need here, we want winners and doers, not lazy kids who fail to do their basic work and follow basic priciples....CUT!!!"

Sincerely,
Real life

Lacross, really we are talking about lacross, give me a break. Nobody cares about lacrosse except rich white kids, its a filler sport. I picked up a lacross stick once in between football games once and am now ranked the top 3 lacross players of all time.

Jim Brown Wrote:
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> Lacross, really we are talking about lacross, give
> me a break. Nobody cares about lacrosse except
> rich white kids, its a filler sport. I picked up a
> lacross stick once in between football games once
> and am now ranked the top 3 lacross players of all
> time.

Lacrosse, James...lacrosse. L-fuckin'-A-fuckin'-C-fuckin'-R-fuckin'-O-fuckin'-S-fuckin' 'nother S-fuckin' E.

La Crosse is for girls. Le Cross for men.

The following syllabus is for my new class, English 401: The Short Novel, meeting Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:10-2:50pm.

Course Description
In this class, we will analyze some of World Literature’s greatest short novels in an attempt to interrogate the essence of plot and character while reading as few words as possible. Each class session will begin with a student presentation of 15 to 20 minutes, so we’re looking at an effective class time of about an hour. I’d love to give you a five-minute break halfway through the period, with the tacit understanding that we actually blow 15, but then I’d have to pretend I didn’t notice when 36% of you didn’t bother to come back. Or I’d have to pass around the attendance sheet again, which is a major pain in the ass.

After the student presentation, which should cover structure and theme but will seldom rise above rote plot summary, I will provide whatever historical and biographical context is both critical to our understanding of the book and available on Wikipedia. But I will sound so authoritative and well-versed that you’d never know this, even if you had the book’s Wikipedia page open on the laptop you’re pretending to take notes on, rather than your Facebook newsfeed.


The rest of the period will be spent in class discussion, which by week three will have settled into an “Inside the Actor’s Studio”-esque conversation between me and one or two consistently prepared students whom the rest of you will quietly despise. Occasionally, another student may come out of nowhere, Jeremy Lin style, and dominate a particular class, only to break my heart by fading permanently back into the woodwork the following week, Jeremy Lin-style.

Books
Course books are available at the campus bookstore. Please refrain from contacting me eight weeks from now to say that the book we’re discussing tomorrow is sold out and you are thus unable to do the reading. What if you went to the store to buy toilet paper, and they were out of it? Correct: You’d go to another store. Or, even better, you’d anticipate your need for toilet paper and purchase it before the moment of desperation. I am not comparing the great short novels of world literature to toilet paper.

Contact Information
No, you may not have my email address because I’m sick of the way you sidle up to me at the beginning of class and ask if I got the hysterically punctuated excuse you fired off at five this morning or seven nanoseconds before class started. I’m also fed up with receiving emails from your mom and your older sister explaining how rough this semester has been for you, what with the suspended license and the new gluten allergy, and telling me why I should cut you some slack. To say nothing of the sadness that blooms in my soul like a dark flower when I receive emails from students at addresses such as KindBuddz420@gmail.com and SexiLexi69@me.com.

This semester, we’re going to try something different. Here is the phone number to my home, where I live with my wife and kids and, for all you know, one or more disabled elderly persons: 228-1745. If what you have to tell me about the unfairness of my grading policy is important enough to call, dial away. Yeah, I didn’t think so.

Grading Policy
My grading policy is to remain above the fray. Your assignments will be read by Scott, the Teaching Assistant. If you question me about your marks, I will plead ignorance. If pressed, I will strongly imply that Scott holds some kind of mystical or legal sway over me and that I am powerless to alter his decisions. Scott and I have worked all this out ahead of time; he is the Bad Cop and I am the Kindly Aloof Genius. Let me be clear: It would take a major act of God – not the kind of thing they consecrate saints for these days, but a plague of cigar-chomping Labradoodles plummeting from the heavens – for me to read a single word you have written.

Exams
There will be a midterm and a final. Both will be Scantron exams. I feel awful about this, because evaluating your understanding of literature via multiple choice goes against everything I believe in. But there are a lot of you, and your handwriting tends to be illegible, and even Scott has his limits. I will, of course, write a couple of quirky “extra credit” questions on the board halfway through each test (“Who would win in a bar fight, Clarice Lispector or Thomas Bernhard? Show your work.”), acting as though I have just made them up. Your final exam will not be given during finals week, but rather during the reading period preceding it. I will claim that this is to beneficially stagger your schedule, but even you will see through that one.

Academic Honesty
Please note that Scott is excellent at ferreting out plagiarism, particularly the incompetent, undergraduate variety in which the writing style veers from Late Caveman to Deconstructivist within a single paragraph. Plagiarism is an expellable offense, and I am obligated to report all incidents to the Dean.

Realistically, I doubt they’d expel you if your tuition check cleared, and there’s no way I’m reporting anything to the Dean. I don’t actually know who the Dean is, and the last thing I want to do is draw His attention. What I will be looking for is remorse, as expressed through tears or a certain ashen, petrified quality. I will then give you a zero on the paper, accept your gratitude stoically, and avoid making eye contact with you for the remainder of the semester.

Office Hours
Are by appointment only.

Stop feeding the made-up lax-brah troll.

And "Jim brown", don't be a douche. Brown grew up playing lacrosse. He also knew how to spell it correctly.