Agreed. I don't know what the answer is to the OP is, but at Rural we have a different policy for the wrestling team than every other sport. If a kid is failing a class (anything below 70% at Rural) he serves up to one week of hard time on the "poop list" after practice. If after a week he still isn't passing the class, he doesn't practice until he's passing, and those dates go down as unexcused absences. On the second UE he's done. We have only lost two kids this year because of this policy. It really lights a fire under kids that are struggling. Some parents question our more stringent policy at first, but when they see how successful the policy is and how we're holding our kids to a higher standard than the basketball players (shouldn't we??), they are all-in.