🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <C0pBLz.6M2@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> lamoran@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (L.A. Moran) writes:
>Pete Lancashire gave us an example of a bright student who decided
>to play basketball rather than putting all of his effort into
>getting good grades. His school and his parents supported this
>decision. Pete writes;
>
>     "I was a mentor to this summer, (est IQ over 135) didn't want
>      to get good grades because he felt that he would not have
>      any friends, and he did not want to be a 'nurd and geek',
>      his words. Also he had to make a choice between basketball
>      EVERY NIGHT of the week or homework, the school (big into
>      sports) and his parents felt that his basketball was more
>      important.
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>
>I doubt that either the parents or the school said "to hell with
>academics". If the student had been doing poorly I'm sure that
>basketball would be dropped.

Um, I think you missed article <1993Jan9.061912.6608@sequent.com>, where
petel@sequent.com (Pete Lancashire) writes:
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:His academics, he is currently getting D's and F's in math, english, and
:history, sorry forgot to say this in the first post.