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From: 49abcnews.com

Story by CNN

Dallas, TX - He's not exactly a video game MVP, but he wants every school-age client to know about another set of letters, the ABCs.

"He needs to be reading a book. He knows how to play Madden before he knows how to do his ABCs and 123s - that's backwards," Brandon Scott, a game store manager said, of certain customers.

Scott manages a popular Gamestop in South Dallas and started a new policy this summer on his own: no school-age customer can buy a video game unless an adult confirms that the child's getting good grades in school.

Gamestop doesn't endorse or even know about the good-grade rule.

"I'm probably going to get in trouble for this, but to me it's worth it, because the kids understand that somebody cares," he said.

So far, parents and other adults like the concept.

"Well, it makes sense. Why reward a kid with a game when he's not doing good in school," Robert Coulter said.

"I thought at first he was just playing. But it turns out he was serious," one parent said.

Scott has refused about two dozen sales. But he says most of the students come back later, with good grades, to make a purchase.

He's even pledged to buy any video for a student on one condition.

"If you give me straight As with your teachers signature, endorsing it and your parent up here, I'll buy you a brand new game," Scott said.

That is perhaps the worst manager in the history of store managers in my opinion. I wonder what he was smoking when he came up with that ****.