School board repeals minimum grade standards for athletes

School board repeals minimum grade standards for athletes

Alamance-Burlington school board members have voted 6-1 to eliminate a 12-year-old policy that had required student-athletes to maintain a C average in order to be eligible to participate in school-sponsored athletics. The policy requiring student-athletes to maintain a minimum of a 2.0 grade point average, or a C average, had been adopted on a 5-2 vote in December 2013. The old policy required all ABSS high school student-athletes to maintain a…