The director of a secondary school where many students were having severe academic problems impaneled a committee to study the matter  The committee reported that these students were having academic problems because they spent large amounts of time on school sports and too little time studying  The director then prohibited all students who were having academic problems from taking part in sports in which they were active
He stated that this would ensure that such students would do well academically
at least some of the time the students will save by not participating in sports will be spent on solving their academic problems