What I do want is, for once, just ONE DAMNED TIME in the history of you being on this message board to not place the blame on anyone and everyone else you can possibly dig up and find to deflect from the UTTER F"ing ignorance and lack of good judgment of some people from this school district.
I do defend the district and my city Speak. I think you'll see there have been occasions when I fired a few verbal bullets at both. I've lived here pert near 70 years now and this city has been good to me and mine. Me, my brothers, Mrs. O and both our kids went through this school system and all turned out pretty good. Are they perfect? Hell no! Do they make mistakes daily? My guess is yes. Did this soccer coach screw up big time? Yes indeed. He should not have put himself and his players in the position he did.
I try to look for ulterior motives (force of habit) I ask myself, why this player felt the need to film the coach doing what he did. I find myself wondering why the mom didn't march down to the principals office and demand a meeting with the coach. I find it odd that she went to the news over something like this.
To me, and again, it's my humble opinion, parents tend to be overly protective of their kids these days. They try to shield their child from every little issue. It's how they learn. It's how they grow up to fend for themselves after we're in the ground.
Again, the coach is clearly wrong here. No way in hell he should lose his livelihood over this. If he was fired I would imagine a lawsuit would be forthcoming from him and the union.
All this being said I am so pleased to see you and LIG back. You are two of my favorite folks on here and even though I've had a few battles with LIG, I love the passionate way she stands her ground. I admire folks like that.
Lib has come back a few times. Speak, LIG and WUS are starting to surface again. I swear if Metal and a few of the others come back, I can die happy. I so miss the good old hard core debate on here as opposed to, "my cat is missing".
Okay guys fire away. I'm wearing my heavy pj's tonight. LOL