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What are your thoughts on this process?

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There's so much controversy in Texas football

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No because you get some what credit out of a 50 & you get nothing out of a 0.

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no its not, a 50 is always better than a 0, a 50 gives you some credit.

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No its not the same, having a 50 still gives you points that add to your average instead of just a 0

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"the carter cowboys had been saved from the electric chair" is an analogy

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A 50 is not the same as a zero because even if its not passing it has more value than a zero

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Is a 50 the same as a zero?

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Proved that he failed

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"until the anonymous phone call"- foreshadowing

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"That came in football (the actual name of the course), where he got a 100." All that Gary Edwards cared about was football and it's apparent. He realized that if he could just get by with doing the very least, he could play and so that's exactly what he did.

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Anathema? early 16th century Latin

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Something or someone that one vehemently dislikes.

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Anathema is someone or something that someone strongly dislikes. It has a greek origin meaning "a thing devoted to evil".

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Anathema has a greek origin

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Do his grades proved he passed or failed?

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Anathema? Origin of this word?

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" But he was a high school football player. And it therefore made all the difference in the world.

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"But he was a high school football player. And it therefore made all the difference in the world."

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You shouldn't be able to pass without passing a test. The school is showing favoritism towards the football players.

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No, because the test is over what you were taught & if you pass you can't pass the test who knows if you actually did the work given.

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No, its not fair to everyone

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No because if you dont pass the test it means youdidnt really uunderstand what you were learning. It would be unfair.

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You need to take the test.

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if they didn't pass the couldn't play and practice due to the "no pass, no play" rule

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No, isn't it illegal to just be given a good grade if you don't take the test?

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Should you pass without being able to pass a test?

A useless school plan?

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no, because football should be a privilage

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No, you need to take the test even if you don't know what you're doing.

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¨college recruiters begging for them as desperately as a baby begs for his mother's milk¨- simile

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assassins on the field is a metaph

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"as much as a baby begs his mother for milk" simile

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Bevy

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The teachers broke the law to give these players better grades, risking their career, did administration condone this? How far up the school system was this allowed?

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"I was getting nineties, eighties, whatever, they just give me a grade."

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Assassin on the field is a metaphor that tells us how Edwards had an advantage because of hs size and how good he was. I guess you could say he was 'killin' it'. ;) (assassin joke)

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"hands in the cookie jar" is an idiom

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This was just a way for the school to be able to get around the no pass no play rule.

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a player that stood over the quarterback after he lie crumpled on the field

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Assasin on the field is a metaphor

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Derric Edwards was describbed as an assasin on the field because of  his size and abuility to tower over people

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¨caught with their hands in a cookie jar¨ -idiom

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derric was an "assassin on the field"

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Assassin on the field?

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Couldn't break rules because there were no rules for football players.

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"A few teachers tried to stop them...Gary was sent to the principal's office....marched right back to class as if nothing had happened"

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"There were no rules for football players"

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"princes of the City" is an allusion to?

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Gary was given an answer sheet, which no one else was given. The teacher even showed him and told him that it was an answer sheet because he thought Gary might not know what it was.

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Gary was treated better than others due to his physical prowess

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"Don't Worry, Be Happy"

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Derric was a assassin on the field because of his size. Its a metahpor

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"don't worry be happy"

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"One college scouting service rated him the second best defensive back prospect in the country..."

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The football players are "untouchable"

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assassin on the field is a metaphor

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They called him an assassin because of the way he played football. Playing fast and hard!

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Saying that he was an assassin on is a metaphor

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"Football coaches hated the rule. They thought it was unfair."
pg. 316

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"he was no fool about any of this. he knew he didn't get treated this way because he had any special intellect, because he was a merit scholar, because he had the chance of an academic scholarship to stanford or rice, because he was a poet or a painter or a musician."

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"It was football that gave Gary Edwards a halo and made his whole life there like a ride in the backseat of a limo, and he wasn't about to pass on it." This tells us that the permian players were really privileged simply because of who they were. This has been a really prominent theme since Chapter one.

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its.....time to go:)

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"the carter cowboys had been saved from the electric chair"

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did they fire the teachers? new curriculum? ... i need to know! Mrs.V!!!

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sports were more important then academic excellence to the carter cowboys.

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the rules had no meaning

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They fired the algebra teacher with pay in concern of his safety

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Quagmire means trouble.

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Is it just football players that got to have special treatment of is it other players

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root word for anathema is "accursed thing" it comes from the Latin

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"no pass, no play"

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gigidy gigidy

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Quagmire?

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since Gary Edwards was playing for three weeks ineligible Carter had to forfeit those three games and was out of the playoffs

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is he saying it sarcastically

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did this school go down at the end of the book? did it get shut down?

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"Grades plucked out of the air?" Tone?

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The football players a higher grade to play football.

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they did not receive grades for homework.

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Gary Edwards was failing school, he would not be able to play.

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most teachers at the high school would not test certain students due to their football abilities

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Anathema? Define. Root of this word?

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You can fail every test of any week, but the end finals you will still pass that class.´- basically saying no one did anything but show up and still passed.

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Gary Edwards' grade in algebra ll made all the difference in the world

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the only reason anyone cared for Gary was because he was a football player, if it wasn't for that he would be no one.

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they didn't need to be smart to play

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''all these issues spilled out in the open'' this quote is an idiom

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anathema - to be disliked or shunned

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I mean i take in part of the FNL just as much as football players do. Im at the practices just as long as they are and I get back from each game at the same times. If i can get my work done then there would be no exception for the football players not to be able to get it done also.

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the school futility plan seemed like a desperate attempt to not lose its finest players

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Gary edwards is a lucky man

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since Gary was a football player the No pass No play rule mattered to everyone (the team)

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What do you meaan take in

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The useless school plan

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ashley: they got everything handed to them

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ashley: they got everything handed to them

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"...his mother's milk-- regardless of their performance in or out of the classroom."