Interesting story from Friday Night Wives.https://fridaynightwives.com/high-school-coach-resigns-due-to-parent-politics-and-its-time-to-say-something-out-loud/In her statement, Clements explains, “I cannot
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Sharing thoughts with my PPS Board Member in Feb 2019
Video testimony from Fall 2016 about experiences with Obama sports. We need support Water Polo. Statement to PPS Board.
In October 2016, Coach Mark Rauterkus asked the PPS School Board and the new Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Anthony Hamlet, to support the kids and the sport of water polo instead of the varsity golf team with its ONE athlete in 2016.
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Slide decks, new and old
Testimonials from some students
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More Ranting
Dystopia.4Rs.org is often about the opportunity gap
Activities in the city are harder to find. Networks are with looser connections and not as tight as elsewhere. Efforts to aid discover-ability are valued and the main site, 4Rs.org, help with its calendar.
Game day pressure need not be only for the privileged while life-long pressures abound in the poorer neighborhoods. Stress is often how you interpret it, but some stresses can't be denied.
Sports can help to meet people where they are. With sports and coaching, we can talk eyeball-to-eyeball. With sports we can build the mental bandwidth that can be both an escape as well as a capacity building exercise for confronting things that we could never hope for throughout life. Create connections. We strive for helping kids become better people through athletics. Grow as a person into an adult and bring individuals together in new ways.
Decision making, compromise, planning, balance, leadership, project evolution, innovation, skill discovery and development are typical confrontations within good sports. When things get sideways, it turns to dystopia sports. Let's be clear as to how to run a program and when there are bad deeds, bad outcomes, bad motivations, shine a light there. Mistakes are made, but can be lessons too. Mistakes need not be repeated so frequently. Seek clarity. Ask questions. Let's not throw aside opportunities. Let's point out the road blocks and remove then when possible. Let's devote resources to those who need them the most and monitor fidelity and improvement plans.
Coach resigns in TEXAS due to parental politics
Coach gets jumped by own players
TMZ has the video.https://www.tmz.com/2020/02/07/high-school-basketball-teens-coach-attack-cops-investigation/In other news, a coach does the fighting.Animosity between
Bench clearing fight gets suspensions and not enough players to field a 5-player team in the next games
Details welcome. Video link?Seems as if there was a bench clearing fight
City teams, even in Texas, getting blown out in games. Article in Dallas.
Sports reform with schedule adjustments are welcomed.ArticleInner-city football teams are getting blown
Article in a school newspaper paints a picture of things “getting worse” at PPS
The full text of the article is at the school's newspaper website. https://www.obamaeagle.org/all-posts/news/2019/12/30/expert-pps-racial-disparities-are-bad-and-theyre-getting-worse/
AD and football staff fired and season suspended at Cardinal Ritter in MO
Is the NCAA acting like the RC Church and using an abundance of transfers for predators?
Rut row. An investigation by the USA TODAY Network identified at least
It is very bad when the faculty raises a vote and elects a no-confidence message saying, “Fire the Athletic Director!”
Faculty Council Advises Rutgers to Fire AD Hobbsby Paul Steinbach, Senior Editor of
Schools where kids belong. Sounds like we need more sports.
The corrosive effects of students being “othered”Lack of belonging is conveyed through
Betting on sports isn’t allowed by its players, even if injured
NFL Suspends Arizona Player for Gambling on Gamesby Brock Fritz December 2019
This is not a sign of emotion worthy at a sporting event
Girls Swim Team at Obama stays in Class AAA for the next two years. Ugh.
The PIAA enrollment numbers for the schools have been published for all
Two major policies changed for this year’s (2019-20) Obama Varsity Swimmers
Check out the swim schedule for the Obama High School swimmers: High
Ugly game-ending fight in high school football in PA’s Lehigh Valley
Use our schools. The Brits are kicking our tails.
Macro and Micro views from around the globeThe sporting landscape in Pittsburgh,
Hazing. Dang it. Don’t bring each other down.
Hate to see this happening at any college or university. Good to
Student fans at Harvard vs. Yale football game got on the field for a protest due to investments in fossil fuels
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/23/us/harvard-yale-climate-protest-trnd/index.html
Runaway travel costs for big shots at PPS is a lead story
Perspectives matter. Travel is awesome. However, this travel is not for the
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