Aw, the kids have to
just blow up the place because
Miss Togar is nuts!
Good job, Coach! Rules are rules!
Good for the coach! Stick it to them!
Good for the coaches.
Wonder if the school has enough insurance to cover an injured player, when the supervisors (coaches) are not qualified/trained in the area of expertise???????
Obviously, this kid didn't say anything derogatory about gays.
This school district and the team haven't seen the end of this yet. I've coached at the high school level and usually it is the parents that are the problem.
My brother-in-law was the head football coach in an upscale small town.
The parents (wealthy contractor) of one of his players complained that their little johnny wasn't getting enough playing time... to the princple (1st year female princple).
The principle requested that B-I-L sit down with the parents and her to discuss it.
B-I-L refused.... said it was his decision as to how the team was run. The principle then demanded it. B-I-L resigned.... both from coaching (immediately) and the district (at the end of the year - he was an english teacher).
Other parents of players tried to talk him into coming back... no way. The parents of the player in question pulled him from the district a couple of months later... no matter what the district did it wasn't enough for them.
B-I-L had taken over a troubled (non-winning) program and turned it around... and it went back downhill after he left. He attributes his decision to the administration failing to support their staff... if it worked that way for football, it would work that way for the classroom.
He had a tough time getting another teaching job - finally got on 45 minutes away with a $20k pay cut. But the students are well behaved and good to work with.
The symbol of an authority figure is a football coach. If football coaches cannot exercise authority, then the lawyers, soccer moms, and eunuchs must have taken total charge of running the asylum.
He(the student) must the deans source for grass.. or members of the school board...
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.
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.
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.
School officials have declined to say why the player was reinstated. The school has a progressive discipline policy in which players are supposed to be given official warnings for disciplinary violations such as skipping class, according to Franceschini. If the violation is extremely serious, the discipline may exceed a warning.
The player who was dismissed from the team and reinstated had also missed classes and practices before the argument, according to O'Connor. However, sources close to situation said that the player never received any official warnings before he was dismissed from the team.
Maybe the coach should have just benched him for the remaining games and made him the water boy during practice.
Holmdel High got whooped Friday night, 35-0.