Word: extracurriculars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agree with H. Ross Perot's criticism of Texas schools and their obsession with football and marching bands [Jan. 30]. However, I would not deny a student the chance to participate in extracurricular activities because of low grades. Some students have their talent in their heads, others in their hands and feet...
Although having separate calendars is better than none at all, Moses' distinctions diminish participation in minority groups to the status of any other extracurricular activity. Placing speeches by well-known minorities who do not often come to Harvard, academic advising by upperclassmen, cultural presentations, and panel discussions on race and ethnicity in American society--all part of last year's student-organized Freshman Week events--alongside swim team tryouts and the showing of Love Story, the FDO implies they are equally valuable. He has denied all freshmen the chance to learn of the broad-ranging role played by such minority...
...named by Governor Mark White to head a committee to try to reform public schools in Texas. It is likely to be an uphill struggle. Texas students spend an average of one hour a night on academic studies and as much as 15 to 20 hours a week on extracurricular activities. At least 600 of the state's 1,100 districts allocate all of their local school revenues to extracurricular activities, leaving the state to pay for academic costs. Complains Perot: "Extracurricular activities are about the only place in the public school system where we demand excellence from...
Across the country, school boards are tightening up on extracurricular activities. For the past year, Los Angeles has had a regulation requiring a C average and no failing grades for students participating in any nonacademic activities. Says School Board Member Rita Walters: "We had to reinforce the academic mission of the schools." The Prince George's County, Md., board of education last year also introduced the C-average rule. The Idaho board of education decided last October that a student who misses more than 10% of classes because of extracurricular activities will be marked as absent from school...
...trend toward unassuming extracurricular involvement toward improving the quality of life on and off campuses is also attracting new converts Kay Latch's Cruz...