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They can back out and go juco even after signing a letter of intent. The NCAA and juco schools do not go by the same laws. PM coach.

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Taking it a step further we had a player at a D-I school a distance from home when he had a family health situation---not only did the school and coach let him out of the scholarship but they helped him get situated at another D-I school closer to home

Keep in mind college coaches are people too @@@

That was going to be my guess TR - great post

SIBullet's answer is what I told them. It was one of those moments where you know but then again, you want to make sure that you were right. I seem to be having those moments a lot lately.

Had this come up for the first time. In this great state you have to pass an exit level test to get a diploma as well as have all of the required credits. Not sure one of my players will pass all parts of the test, but will have all of the credits required. So the question is......Can you play college baseball without a hs diploma or GED?

NO !!!!!

I could be wrong...but I believe he could play JC baseball.

Nor would you be doing the kid a favor in attending college when he cant pass basic exams. We have the same tests in Georgia and from what I understand they are extremely basic and not too hard to pass.

The state of Washington will have a mandatory graduation requirement to pass the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) (a three subject test requirement) for the first time for the class of 2008. The test has been given for several years, but was not a graduation requirement.
Here is what the Seattle Times provided about the WASL after last years testing of 4th, 7th and 10th graders:
"Only about half of the students passed math in grades seven and 10, and only 42 percent of 10th-graders passed the reading, writing and math sections of the WASL. This means that unless the passage rate increases dramatically on next spring's test, tens of thousands of students who are sophomores this fall won't be on track to graduate. Starting with the class of 2008, students must pass those three subjects sometime before they graduate in order to earn a diploma."

I have seen the sample test questions and these test are not simple. They do require studying and meeting curriculum objectives.

I know several parents that are paying big bucks for WASL workshops to prepare their children for the test. For the class of 2005, many of the students that I know that had trouble on the WASL received the “old” SAT scores over 1100.

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Originally posted by d8:
Had this come up for the first time. In this great state you have to pass an exit level test to get a diploma as well as have all of the required credits. Not sure one of my players will pass all parts of the test, but will have all of the credits required. So the question is......Can you play college baseball without a hs diploma or GED?

d8, interesting! This could turn out to be a very interesting thread. Keep those questions coming!

California also has an exit exam... and a few thousand seniors failed to pass it last year and as a result did not get their diplomas. From what I read, the issue was primarily with english as a second language students who had trouble with the word problems on the math test. Of course the students are suing for their diploma.

They get 8 chances to pass the test in California starting in the sophomore year. Nearly everyone in our high school passed the test in the first sitting but those who did not are given massive amounts of tutoring until they do pass.

From what I saw of the CA test, the questions were basically 8th grade math and reading. Not exactly rocket science - and anyone who could not pass would be extremely challenged in a college classroom.

You can find more info on the CA program on this page - including sample questions:

http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/hs/resources.asp

California requirement is interesting. History lesson = Kinda of like the Romans and the 12 Tablets of Law. While very basic and somewhat cruel, these laws were written down. From this point, there wasn't arbitrary treatment. The natural progress then was for things to improve based upon changing what was written down. I like the idea!

The line of reasoning is that the diploma should mean a certain level of academic achievement - and the test is to validate that this level has been reached.

While there is probably some fine tuning of the level of achievement as well as for the test to ensure that it fairly measures that level of achievement, in general I like the goal.