HS grades are gameable. Just look at public highschools across the US. A significant percentage of graduates can't read. And the policies won't let teachers fail or hold-back students so they cook their grades to push them through the system.

The ratione behind this was "ending the school to prison pipeline." They saw the correlation between drop out rates and incarceration and thought they could reduce the latter by gaming the former.

This is why you see a lot of college dropouts from that corpus because they can't make it. They were lied to.

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SoftTalker 6 days ago | parent [-]

Also not that uncommon for the star HS quarterback to be functionally illiterate yet passing all classes with the required GPA for athletics participation.

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watwut 6 days ago | parent [-]

To be fair, the absurd thing is that in order to have a career in sport he excellent at, he needs to go to university. Not being university material is stupid reason for not being able to do sports professionally.

	▲	SoftTalker 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Agreed. And it's becomming more common in the US pro leagues to see players who only completed high school. But the majority still play at least a year or two at the college level. It's a filter, and D1 college sports is a big business in its own right.