State needs to offer students better options

Re “Surge in D’s and F’s in San Diego County schools raises questions: How to grade during pandemic” (Nov. 29): The U-T carried this story of lasting damage to our students’ education caused by the pandemic. There have been earlier articles regarding the probable loss of college scholarships for athletes who might otherwise not financially afford to continue their higher educations at the schools they desire to attend.

The state of California should legislate that 11thand 12th-grade students have the right to another school year of athletic eligibility and can retake, without penalty, any class in which they received a C grade or lower in distance learning classes. Academic eligibility for sports should be determined by the student’s grade point average during the last prior inschool semester or the student’s option of grade point average during distant learning.

There is no reason a pandemic should negatively impact our students for life. Richard Jensen

Otay Mesa

The article spent nearly 1,500 words analyzing a problem that anyone with an ounce of common sense knows how to solve already: get the kids back in class.

We don’t need to revamp or reconfigure or reimagine or repurpose or redo anything to the way that students are being graded. We need to go back to doing what we know works. Teachers, teachers unions and government leaders need to prioritize children instead of their personal and political agendas.

Bret Barrett

Downtown