I have already agreed that the coach should lose his job as a coach.
However, I’ve also pointed out that the other school bears some responsibility as do the referees/league/system.
If there is no mercy rule, there should be.
Also, I cannot believe the other coach did not know he was in charge of a terrible team in terms of the match-up that day.
No one has commented on the losing coach and the system. They all want to keep repeating that the winning coach should have been fired. OK. I agree he should lose his coaching position.
Oh, he knew. That team was quite used to losing. As far as I can tell the other team has NEVER won a game. They had virtually no chance of winning this game from the outset and the Covenant coach knew it.
Rather than telling his players to show mercy and not humiliate this undermatched team, the Covenant coach presided over a wholesale slaughter of a team which exists for no other apparent reason than to teach their undermatched players to lose with dignity. They did. It is too bad that the Covenant players never realized that they had an opportunity to win with dignity and mercy and instead chose the moment to run up a school record for scoring.
I don't see it that way. The mission statements, purposes and the students of the schools are completely different.
“Our Mission: Dallas Academy restores the promise of full academic enrichment to students with learning differences. Our staff establishes a meaningful connection with each student to overcome barriers to success.
We believe that structure and a caring, experienced staff are the main factors for success at the Academy. The classes provide a quiet, nurturing environment to students who in the past have had trouble with concentration and short attention spans. Many of these boys and girls are very frustrated and have not been successful in previous school settings.”
“Covenant was founded on the belief that educational methodology must be time-tested, agreeable to the student, and effective in producing critical thinking skills. For these and many other reasons, Covenant has adopted the “classical” method of education.
The classical method is centered in the rich cultural heritage of Western civilization and provides a rich and rigorous training. Developed in the Middle Ages and used almost exclusively in the Western world, the classical tradition has proven its effectiveness through the leaders who shaped our culture from the 10th to the 19th centuries.
The classical method consists of three stages known collectively as the Trivium. The first stage, grammar, provides the foundation of knowledge upon which the other two stages build. This knowledge consists of the basic facts of any particular subject. The second stage, dialectic, provides training in logic as a means to identify the relationships between the facts. The third stage, rhetoric, teaches students how to clearly express their thoughts and ideas.
A consistent and thoughtful implementation of the Trivium over the course of twelve years of schooling enables students to develop the skills and habits necessary for them to learn independently, think critically, analyze logically, and express clearly.”
Covenant is held to a much higher standard since its stated purpose is to glorify and honor God through humility, sacrifice, and service in all that it does. To state it teaches “critical thinking” (learn independently, think critically, analyze logically, and express clearly) to a select student body and then confronted by a real life situation their being swept along with triumphal mob emotions at the expense of an over matched educationally challenged team is an embarrassment to its stated purpose and God. It is like the car with a “Jesus fish” decal on the back whose driver gives the finger to someone who cuts him/her off.