That's horrible. What else I think is wrong is alla a kid has to have to play a sport is a 2.0 GPA. That's criminal.
2.0 is straight C's. It's not ideal, but it's "good enough".
in florida, 1/3 of high school students do not graduate. 68% graduation rate last time I saw.
Why? Lots of reasons. One reason is poor teachers, as your thread notes. The problem is this... teaching pays what, $30k a year for a 4-year degree that requires FOUR unpaid internships while you're in school, including a FIVE MONTH unpaid teaching full-time position. Yes, imagine any other field where you have to work HALF A YEAR for FREE before you have your degree, so you can start at $30 grand.
Raise the standards, Coach. Pay that Geometry teacher $80k and require him to have a masters and re-interview for his job every year based upon results. but then, who pays that $80k? raise taxes? federal govt? The states can barely pay $30k a teacher now.