"NO PASS, NO PLAY" POLICY

 PARENTS AND BOYS CLUB STUDENT ATHLETES:

Please read carefully the following Boys Club of Oak Ridge Athletic Academic Policy.  All student athletes will be required to meet this policy for participation in Boys Club athletics.

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 Oak Ridge Boys Club Special Programs requires mandatory tutoring classes for students in Boys Club athletics who make an “F” in any subject area at the midterm of each nine weeks.  Rather than eliminate a student’s participation in Boys Club athletics, we wish to provide assistance for students having difficulty.  We do not want to punish students by taking athletics away from them, but instead, we want students to continue in athletics by providing tutoring during the season.  This will give students the assistance they need for academic improvement and will keep them in Boys Club athletics.  However, if a student is failing at the end of the nine-week period he will be removed from the sport until his effort in his academics has improved.  This improvement will be evaluated at the midterm of the following grading period.

Mandatory tutoring sessions will follow the Oak Ridge Schools schedule and will meet in the afternoon from 3:30 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at the Boys Club of Oak Ridge.  Tutoring will be open to both boys and girls concentrating on grades 4 through 9.  Students must sign in and attend three out of four sessions offered each week.  Absences from tutoring sessions will be excused or unexcused according to the procedures of the Boys Club of Oak Ridge Special Programs Committee.  On each of the first two unexcused absences the Boys Club Special Programs Committee will be responsible for the intervention.  Upon the third unexcused absence the student will not be allowed to participate in Boys Club of Oak Ridge athletics for the remainder of the current grading period.

There is a zero tolerance for discipline problems in the tutoring sessions.  Any discipline problems will cause removal of the student from the tutoring session and will result in an unexcused absence for that session which cannot be made up by attending another session.

Students who are enrolled in the mandatory tutoring sessions are required to attend tutoring the entire nine-week grading period.  At the end of the grading period, if the student is failing a subject(s), he will then be removed from the sport in which he is participating.  The effort displayed in tutoring by the student will be taken into consideration. If a student improves his grade(s) to passing at the end of the nine-weeks, he will not be required to attend tutoring sessions for the next grading period and he will be reinstated in the sport.  However, students can choose to continue attending the tutoring services.

The staff for the tutoring sessions will include a combination of peer tutoring and volunteer tutoring.  Peer tutoring includes students from the National Honor Society, Scholars Bowl, and various advanced academic classes.  Volunteering includes PTA personnel, parents, Partners-In-Education, and community leaders.

It is the intention of the Boys Club Special Programs Committee to encourage students to participate in Boys Club athletics and to give students tutoring assistance if they have difficulty with their grades.  It is our belief that the students who are involved in athletics will be higher achievers and better behaved students.