The Board of Education and the Department of Education are committed to promoting academic excellence and achievement. As such, educators have a responsibility to make every effort to provide academic support and services to help students maintain their grades. Students, in turn, have a responsibility to make optimal use of all the academic support and services made available to them. Parents, too, have a responsibility to work very closely with their children and the school to help insure that all necessary support and services are being fully utilized and that the eligibility requirements are being met. Only with this partnership of parents, students, teachers, administrators, and other community members can the eligibility guidelines be implemented successfully. It is in this spirit of enhancing student academic achievement that the academic requirements for participation in co-curricular activities have been adopted and should be implemented.