Since High Schools are already paying for sport Coaches, they can be assigned as reading coaches, teaching their slower learning players and other, don't care attitude students, to read. Give the coach the paddle back as incentive for students to improve/practice his or her reading skills and attitude. - Problem solved.
Or - Do like; (Dennis Rodman who flunked out Community College his 1st year of Basketball, but another school let him play later with schools like;
ROCKFORD, Ill. -- School leaders here are beginning to see the benefits of making it easier for students with poor grades to keep playing sports.
Yes, they made it easier for students with low grades to stay on teams.
Students with less than a C average have been able to compete on Rockford teams since last year, when the district dropped its rule requiring athletes maintain a 2.0 GPA. The Rockford Public School District is one of at least a dozen examples nationwide -- from big cities such as Boston and Pittsburgh to smaller towns like Clinton, La., and Shelton, Wash. -- that have either lowered or dropped GPA requirements to keep kids on athletic fields.
No wonder we have youngsters growing up thinking "Democrats & Socialism are Good". All poor readers have been indoctrinated by the controlling Democrat Teachers Union, to command the bottom of the Student Totem Pole and will want handouts forever..and forming strange ideas from one's own lack of knowledge, head.
After all Dennis spoke of Socialist->Communist Dictator Kim Jong-Un as a Saint!! By telling Kim - “you have a friend for life”.
Maybe he needed that coach with a paddle, to bring up his reading skills & grades.