Grade Point Average? GPA.?

Education is first and foremost the most important part of a school. Athletics and everything else should come second to studying, homework, tests and grades. Schools make it so student athletes need to maintain a certain GPA in order to play a sport because they want to stress that education should come first. Athletics shouldn't get in the way of a student's education. In order to make sure that student athletes are taking their schoolwork seriously and not just forgetting about it to do something more fun like play basketball, schools require they maintain a certain GPA.