Derrick didn't do so hot in High School either
Someone with access to Derrick Rose’s academic records at Simeon High School changed a D to a C, boosting the future Bulls Rookie of the Year's transcript for college, sources told the Chicago Sun-Times today.
Who altered the records in the grade-changing scandal remains a mystery that the Chicago Public Schools has been unable to solve.
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You take that back!
Derrick Rose is a saint!
(also, I refuse to believe anything resembling shenanigans occurring in a public Chicago institution. no sir.)
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by your friendly BullsBlogger on May 28, 2009 4:46 PM CDT reply actions 3 recs
My favorite part
Simeon basketball coach Robert Smith said he doesn’t know who was responsible for changing the grades.
"If they knew who did it, that person would be fired," Smith said. "Everyone is still here."
Sullivan said he couldn’t disclose information involving student records, but he said no one was disciplined.
"No discipline was taken because we couldn’t pin it on any one employee,’’ the CPS inspector general said. "At least seven people at Simeon had the ability to access student grades and records.’’
"The Zen philosopher Basho once wrote: 'A flute with no holes is not a flute, And a doughnut with no hole is a Danish.' He was a funny guy."
The head of the Chicago Public School system
is now running things at the federal level. Woo-hoo!
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Can he play point?
Draft him.
12/31: Fire Vinny Del Negro.
by NBA Observer on May 28, 2009 6:25 PM CDT up reply actions
Only if he is taller than BG.
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I heard Arne can play
He’s in Obama’s five. But can he go to his right as often as they both go to their left?
12/31: Fire Vinny Del Negro.
by NBA Observer on May 28, 2009 9:42 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
It's a mystery!
Who altered the records in the grade-changing scandal remains a mystery that the Chicago Public Schools has been unable to solve.
Yes, there are a lot of mysteries the Chicago Public Schools have been unable to solve.
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because I wish to insult you personally
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You need someone to talk
Someone talked to the NCAA about Memphis just like someone talked to the NCAA about UMASS and someone talked to the NCAA about Oklahoma and Indiana.
Somebody has to stop this cheating to get ahead. All the walls will fall as people merely cheat their way through everything.
12/31: Fire Vinny Del Negro.
by NBA Observer on May 28, 2009 6:28 PM CDT up reply actions
Won't somebody please think of the children?
Why resort to name calling?
-Dionysus2.0
because I wish to insult you personally
-your friendly BullsBlogger
by Big D on May 28, 2009 6:36 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Then I guess it is fortunate
that you can’t really cheat basketball talent and that is what these basketball players are making their careers out of, not academics.
Imagine if actors had to have academic requirements before they could appear in a movie and make money. Sometimes what your job is has nothing to do with academics and one year of school certainly isn’t going to do anything for a person academically anyway. All of these hoops they have set up for them to jump through (hoops set up to keep the college ba$ketball industry going) have very little to do with the betterment of the guys who are good enough to go into the NBA out of HS.
Everything I post is speculation. I have no insider information nor ideas deemed concrete enough by those who are self-elected to regulate post content.
Academic standards are what?
So I guess your opinion of school is that it is a hoop established for industry profits.
I’m actually fine with basketball rearing from very early ages if that is what parents want. Our code of laws are nowhere close to this. And we shouldn’t apologize for the standards we do establish and look the other way when people cheat.
12/31: Fire Vinny Del Negro.
by NBA Observer on May 28, 2009 9:46 PM CDT up reply actions
The colleges hardly bother with standards themselves.
They fail at even properly going through the motions of making it look legit. Players are there to work basketball for the college, not to get an education. Do they even take normal classes? Do they even have a four year plan for their “major”? How many classes do they miss during their tournaments? It is really hard to take it all seriously within the “rules” so when this comes up I am supposed to be shaken by it? Other sports don’t do this with their athletes. Hockey certainly does not. Of course college hockey doesn’t make the money that college basketball does. Imagine LBN in college basketball for even a year. That is the big reason the rule was made. Not for the betterment of the “student”. This is probably all coming out because another change is going to be made to the “rules” soon. They need something to start the fire.
Everything I post is speculation. I have no insider information nor ideas deemed concrete enough by those who are self-elected to regulate post content.
The standards "we" establish?
Speak for yourself. I didn’t have a goddamn thing to do with establishing it. I couldn’t care less if someone cheats to circumvent a rule that I vehemently disagree with. It doesn’t affect my life one way or the other. I don’t look at some basketball player I don’t know for anything other than entertainment.
Why resort to name calling?
-Dionysus2.0
because I wish to insult you personally
-your friendly BullsBlogger
I never really got the whole
[entertainer/sports star/actor] as a role model thing either. They can certainly be enjoyable to watch and even amazing and standing apart in their field, but they’ve not necessarily done things you’d model yourself after in any practical sense. You are lucky if they are nice guys in the very least. Rose seems to be a nice guy.
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Of course you did
You’re a state resident are you not?
What do you think your tax dollars are doing at the University of Illinois, UIC, Southern Illinois, Eastern Illinois, Sangamon State and Northern Illinois?
You are making the standards. Your democratically elected officials oversee them.
12/31: Fire Vinny Del Negro.
by NBA Observer on May 29, 2009 10:30 AM CDT up reply actions
Oh God
So, what are we supposed to do, rise up and fight the power?
The state universities did not create these standards, the NCAA, the governing body of all college athletics did.
That Steve Nash is exactly the same as Kirk Hinrich, but worse.
by NBA Observer on Apr 8, 2009 12:23 PM CDT
by Ozzie Montana on May 29, 2009 10:39 AM CDT up reply actions
Illinois elected officials put in the NBA age limit?
Wow, I thought Rod Blagojevich was too busy taking kickbacks to worry about basketball. I know he was trying to “hold up that fucking Cubs shit,” but I didn’t know he was a basketball fan too.
Why resort to name calling?
-Dionysus2.0
because I wish to insult you personally
-your friendly BullsBlogger
Hey, give Rose a break
Not evveryone can handle the tough academic standards of Simeon High School.
Why resort to name calling?
-Dionysus2.0
because I wish to insult you personally
-your friendly BullsBlogger
Do those standards includes spelling? ;)
Not evveryone
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by Granny Waiters on May 28, 2009 7:19 PM CDT up reply actions
Weren't CPS teachers caught changing grades on standardized tests before?
I wonder if this wasn’t just some rogue teacher changing grades in order to bump up pass/fail statistics (hooray for The Wire so I can act like I know everything about inner-city public schools).
That Steve Nash is exactly the same as Kirk Hinrich, but worse.
by NBA Observer on Apr 8, 2009 12:23 PM CDT
This immediately made me think of The Wire, Season 4.
Long live The Wire. What a show.
"Vinny continues to act like a crazed arsonist pouring gasoline on our season while running around carrying a torch yelling 'I’m in charge. Don’t any of you foolish knaves try to second guess me. I know gasoline is a liquid but I’m pretty sure it isn’t flammable and the odor gives me a natural high.'" - Tyrusmancrush
by Illini15 on May 28, 2009 7:03 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
read freakonomics
the answer is yes
the problem with public schooling
by Looney_Bucky on May 28, 2009 10:54 PM CDT up reply actions
Who cares
he got an A in thorpe’s rookie report, so there u go
"Talent wins games, but team work and intelligence wins championships." 23
by Belize on May 28, 2009 7:45 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
How the hell did a genius like Kevin Garnett get into Farragut Academy?
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Now I guess we know why he's called "D" Rose
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