Aw, the kids have to
just blow up the place because
Miss Togar is nuts!
Posted on 10/28/2005 6:03:03 AM PDT by Cagey
Edited on 10/28/2005 6:22:38 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
HOLMDEL, N.J. -- The head coach of the Holmdel High School football team, Joe O'Connor, has resigned along with all nine assistant coaches over what O'Connor says was an undermining of his authority by the school administration.
O'Connor quit Monday, saying the administration had reinstated a player after the coach made him leave the team over discipline problems. On Wednesday, nine assistant coaches decided to resign from the team as well in a show of solidarity with O'Connor.
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You forgot the NBA
It just makes me sick how some parents act these days. There is no personal responsibility - "Junior would never do anything wrong!! He's an angel at home." (Of course, Junior walks all over mom and dad, swears at them, smokes in the house, and is "top dog" at home.) That's what happens when a child is consistently told he or she is right no matter what, that he or she is the most wonderful being ever produced in the history of time, and that THEY are above everything. A child like that, (and parents) have no fear of God, and that is sad.
Administrators frequently undermine classroom discipline in this manner as well - but the public tends to blame teachers for the discipline problems in schools.
Probably did.
Cheryl has been watching too many Goldie Hawn movies
Football is not run as a democracy, nor as a comittee.
Some coaches have rules. Rules are stated during the first practice. The problem is most of todays kids don't think anyone will follow up on them. Glad to see that there are some coaches who still believe EVERYONE on their teams has to come to practice, put in an effort and obey other rules or they can sit out games or get kicked off.
I kinda doubt this was the first infraction by the young man who was kicked off. I've never heard of a coach who actually kicks a kid off the team without giving warnings. It really sounds like they were saying the coach should have documented every infaction...then of course they would have said that he couldn't concider certain things infactions, then he would lose total control of disaplining his team.
Without discipline teams do begin to fall apart....look at what the Vikes have become in a few short years. hehe (a bunch of overpaid brats who think they're really important so do whatever they want whereever they want)
I knew that lineup of parents wasn't a good idea.
I went to a "meet the team's," night about ten years ago, at our local High school. My daughter was on the dance team.
Preseason introduction to the coaches and players representing all the sports teams, drill teams, dance teams, band. Anything competitive. The football program alone had 104 coaches and 500 players involved.
The school itself had well over 4500 students attending at that time. There were well over 10,000 parents in the bleachers for a non game event.
Since the football program has been very successful, Six state championships since 1989, nobody messes with the coaches decisions.
Further to the above. In good conscience, the coaches perform other functions also, phys ed, actual teaching, asst. principals, things of that nature.
Further to nobody messes with the coaches decisions, only as long as he wins. Mostly they do.
If I were the coach, I would let him stay on the team if the school board insisted. However I would not let him on the field. He would ride the bench every game. I wouldn't even let him in on practice. He would be required to be there but would never touch the ball. The college scouts don't care how well he sits the bench.
That's patently absurd ... a high school football program with 104 coaches ... pity the taxpayer in that school district they must be idiots.
I just saw the basketball movie... name escapes me.... with Samuel L Jackson.
Similiar story. Good movie, except for the part where the "heroic" girl aborts her baby.
Anyway, if I was the coach I would make the kid do so many exercises that he was too stiff and sore to play on game day.
You know, I bet this kid wasn't well-liked by the other team members. I wish the team would suit up and walk off the field and leave "him" during the pre-game coin toss.
Exactly. The public school system is set up for, by, and of the statists and their pets, peons, and subjects.
See if you can get more info from her.
This story is useless in providing enough data to tell what happened.
Because, clearly, what was written isn't what really (happened.)
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