Mr. Mesick is Making a List and Checking it Twice
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November 2, 2009
Filed under Life at Como
Como Park Sr. High has been formally introduced to “Mesick’s List.” The information has come through morning and afternoon announcements, but how many students actually understand why “The List” was created in the first place? And how will it relate to them?
Mr. Mesick has the answers. What gets a student on the list? “It depends.” Mr. Mesick explained, “As of right now, it’s five missing assignments.” The policy includes missing assignments from core classes, such as Math, Social Studies, Science and English courses. If a student has five or more assignments from those classes put together, they will be subject to the consequences set by the administration.
Consequences include being restricted from attending any extra curricular activities such as sporting events, dances, pepfests and fields trips. An issue that could be created by “The List” is the possible loss of players for sporting events if the players don’t save enough time in their schedules for schoolwork.
Mr. Mesick’s suggestion for solving this problem starts with the team members, but needs to be supported by the coaches. “The coaches need to put pressure on players to stay off of the list.”
Before “Mesick’s List” the general understanding about being able to play sports was also that players needed to be students before they were teammates. But to stay eligible, it seemed that all they needed to do was to keep their grades above failing. Now, every student involved in a sport, must keep up with everything from large projects to small assignments, because just having five missing of them missing will prohibit participation.
There is also concern about how absences and missing assignments due to sickness will be handled. Mr. Mesick says it will be dealt with on an individual level, but most likely, the rules set by “The List” will be followed. Hopefully, when a student misses school, they turn in assignments that were due the day they were sick into their teacher the next day, and get an extension on the work they missed so that in the system, the assignments are not marked as missing. If the student body takes responsibility for the work they missed, and teachers are cooperative with legitimate absences, there really is no need for issue.
Whether students like it or not, “Mesick’s List” is developing into what may eventually be a pillar to the administration’s participation policies. Students now may be temporarily suspended from a sport because, “It is more important for the student to catch up on their school work.”
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