A high school basketball coach in Maine was fired recently for delivering an inappropriate pep talk before his team's game.
Essentially, he told them that their game was a test of their "manhood", and instructed them to reach into their shorts and check their manhood.
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As a former athlete, I've heard quite a few "pep talks" in my day. And I have to be honest...the one given by the Maine coach was actually rather mild compared to some of the "words of encouragement" I've received before an athletic contest.
Do you think the coach deserved to be fired?
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The response to the inappropriate comment was overkill.
We pretend that our high school students live in this cocoon that shelters them from realities of the world. Most people call it utopia, but I tend to call it denial.
Personally, I don't believe high school should be this antiseptic environment devoid of peccadillos.
In the real world, people say inappropriate and offensive things frequently. To better prepare our students for these type of scenarios, we should educate them on how to cope and respond to the situation. Terminating good people who have a momentary lapse of judgment instills a papable fear of retribution in both students and faculty.
Such an environment hinders the learning process instead of fostering it.
Our society has grown way to "soft". We live in a day where people put way to much energy into trivial matters. We pamper the boys and wonder why they can't handle anything when they get into the real world. My brothers High School basketball coach curses them out all the time when they mess up but parents don't go Into a frenzy. They are young men, not babies. I can remember when I played highschool football a big back came up the middle and I made a weak attempt at an arm tackle. The guy scored, I came to the sideline and coach asked me if I left my B***s in the locker room. That may not be the PC thing to say, but I knew I had to get tougher. Point is, if we continue to shelter our youth, when they have problems on the job is mommy going to come to the office and give HR a stern talking to? I think it's wiser to put our energy into preparing kids for life and stop setting them back by holding there hands.
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