Jones - good grades in high school
Jones - Honor roll at UNLV
Jones - Passing ACT while meeting required standards
NCAA - maybe you should look into the ACT scores of player
"The NCAA Eligibility Center cleared Jones before the team's first game against Cal Poly back in November."
"Jackson said the center requested that the ACT look into the test scores of several athletes at the test site in Baltimore." Hint Hint -Why? A good student passed so why did they ask the ACT to look at scores?
"Jones, who said he currently has a 3.25 GPA at UNLV, said he has never spoken to anyone from the ACT or the NCAA throughout the entire process. He said he called the ACT after finding out he was ineligible in an attempt to gain more clarity."
Why would the ACT flag a score and accuse a test taker of cheating (rejecting a test score is the same as an accusation) without even talking to them? Do they do the same on all Ivy league students with lawyers as parents? What grounds did they have to reject his score?
"I took two prep classes before I took the ACT," Jones said. "I took the test. It was me. I didn't cheat. I didn't do anything wrong. I just don't understand it."
With a student who did fine in high school, is on the Honor roll at UNLV, and took prep classes (most students do not go that far), what reason does the NCAA and the ACT have to believe he cheated?
"NCAA red-flagged Jones about eight months ago and offered three possibilities: retaking the test, going to arbitration or throwing out the test score completely."
It is obvious the NCAA is accusing Jones of cheating, by telling him to retake the test, arbitration, or throwing out the score. This would mean a student who is on the honor roll should go back and retake a test from when he was in high school. This also means he would be required to either retake the test or pay for arbitration.
"Jackson said Jones "was provided with three options: (1) voluntarily cancel his test score, (2) re-take the test or (3) submit his case to binding arbitration" and would have to pay a $200 filing fee."
Why would any student agree to retake a test? Why would any kid or their parent agree to pay MONEY to go to binding arbitration? Why would they need arbitration if they believed he cheated?
My son just took his ACT in the last couple of days, and if the NCAA, whatever school he applies to, or the ACT company accused him of cheating, my first thought would be going to court, and the second thought would be to cut off the balls of the person that accused my son of cheating.
