Do you feel good athletes should be given good grades in school, because the team requires good grades...?

No, and it's illegal to do. Sports help kids try to do well in school and sports is a privilege to play.

No. School is for learning, not sports. If the kid can't get good grades the honest way, he shouldn't be playing in the games. Being on a team is a privilege you earn by getting good grades in school. Not the other way around. When the kid graduates (assuming he does), his prospective employer will be much more impressed that he did well in school than he will by whatever trophies he helped his team win.

What hiring manager is going to go to his boss and say "Well, we should hire Jimmy there for the sales associate position. After all, his Tigers won the pennant two years in a row and he was their main pitcher. He's still trying to get his GED after dropping out of high school, but still: star pitcher of a pennant winning ball team, pretty impressive huh? Yeah, Bob there got good grades and is going to college for a business degree, but he wasn't much of a baseball player in school." Unless you are phenomenal enough to get into the pros, which the vast majority of kids are not, sports is not as important as good grades later in life.

No, just because they are on some school athletic team doesn't mean they can get away with not doing homework. Then they wouldn't learn and if they can't do their work, they shouldn't be allowed to stay on the team. If they are failing classes, then they deserve to be off the team for not focusing on studies.

no, it's as if bad athletes who were good students deserved to be on the team so they could get an athletic scholarship to go to college. no free rides for anyone. if athletes want good grades they should work hard for those too

No but I think they should get less go homewrk because they have practice and they need to practice like me I play softball for my school and I get to much homewrk