What are you prepared to do to get to the top?

I am not sure how much a 3.0 g.p.a is worth these days but I do know practitioners experience an overwhelming amount of pressure to get their students to achieve top marks despite the fact that a good number of students today appear to want exceedingly high marks but seem unwilling or unprepared to "do the work" for the grade they want.

In my view, student performance or the lack thereof involves a combination of difficult factors. These factors simply put are serious, long standing barriers to learning. We do want our kids to thrive, but not under any and all conditions!

Consider Steven, a top track and field runner in the under 17 division who has been representing the school from he arrived in the 10th grade. Despite his stellar athletic performance, he is struggling in all of the core subject areas. Should John's grades be adjusted to help him pass just because he is a stellar athlete for the institution? Do we bend the rules for John?

How we use our Money?

Some parents do have the resources to purchase all the steaks the P.T.A could ever imagine they need! And school practitioners are thrilled by the support given by well to do parents. However, should the steaks put our integrity at stake? Should the child get every single award at graduation save two just because of his parents' generosity to school? When our kids fail to meet the academic standard, should our message to the young people we are training be that we resort to buying our way to the top?

When we adjust the rules for six figure Mr. Thompson's daughter and our Olympian to be John, we make integrity a hard sell in our communities and to our young people. For children who we believe in our hearts should pass, this is not the easiest discussion to have. However, for the sake of maintaining the integrity of the organization, we must hold fast to a standard and say the hard words. "Im sorry but you did not make the cut!"

I strongly believe that parents, teachers and youth organizers must do better in raising children who can win and lose gracefully.

Whether they win or lose our-kids must know that all is not lost if they didn't get first place this time. Having the capacity to celebrate with others when they win is apart of the grace they must have when life throws them limes. If you go to the finish line in a race, at a college, in a competition or at a graduation that alone should be enough! Our kids must know that they shouldn't seek to win at all cost!

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