What Really Happened with a Lauderdale Coach?

 

There's been a great deal of online chat about a certain Lauderdale coach involving a student and discipline meted out. Everyone has a different story, so what really happened? We knew which horse to ask (pardon the analogy). Here is what we believe to be the truth, direct from the scene:

There is a whole lot more to the story and a whole lot that has been sensationalized about what really happened. Let me get my thoughts together and let's swing this story another direction. You know I love it when you play the devil's advocate and tell people what they need to hear instead of what they want to hear. It's time to address undisciplined kids with no respect for any authority including teachers, coaches, principals, police officers, adults or other people. 

In this situation, the student (I think it's a 3rd or 4th grade kid) kept calling the teacher/coach by his first name but adding a slur to that name then the kid threw an object at that teacher/coach striking him in the head. That is when the teacher/coach said to this kid, "if you were my kid, I would whoop the dog piss out of you." Now after that, the teacher/ coach made that kid go over and pick up the object that he threw at him and bring it to him. (That is where the bull crap part of the story comes in to play that the teacher/coach made him fetch the object like a dog which was actually a comment made by one of the other students referring back to the dog piss comment, which I agree was not a good choice of words by the teacher/coach.) Keep in mind too, these are 3rd and 4th grade kids who don't pay very close attention to what's happening in their universe especially in an unruly setting created by the bad behavior of the kid who caused all this commotion.

Now, the flip side of this is that this kid's dad coached youth league baseball last year at Lexington and it has been told to me that he was a terrible coach who often screamed and yelled awful comments at the players and used terrible judgment to these 7 and 8 year old kids that were on his team. It was so bad that parents requested that the youth league ban him from coaching this coming year. Isn't that interesting? Also, this guy is from a family who are known for always causing a ruckus and making their business known to everyone. They love some Facebook drama and think their kids never do anything wrong. In my opinion, the parents of this kid have totally put a red flag on their kid so that everyone knows "this is an awful undisciplined kid with stupid parents." 

Now this parent takes to Facebook encouraging everyone to pile on the bandwagon and add their 2 cents worth, calling the superintendent, school board members, newspaper, Shoalanda, all of his aunts and uncles, cousins, people who love controversy and anyone else that will listen to his one-sided story. Even though the teacher/coach requested a meeting last week to discuss the incident with the parents, admin and himself, and from that meeting the teacher/coach was punished for his role in the incident, still the parent keeps trying to cause more and more trouble. I'd say that all these parents have done is put a stigma on themselves and their kid from now on as "trouble makers" with an awful undisciplined kid who everyone needs to steer clear of at all costs.

Of course, this whole episode is one of these cases where the wrong story gets told over and over with someone adding their twist each time saying this coach has been fired at 4 different schools etc etc etc which is not true. Whatever happened to the days where if you got in trouble at school, you also got in trouble at home? 

We need to stop with teaching our kids to be big babies their entire life and taking up for them regardless of what they do wrong. Look at the current situation at James Clemens High school where a student started an altercation with an Assistant Principal. That man was defending himself when the student struck him with a punch in the face. Now people are all pissed off at the Principal when everyone should be mad and upset with the unruly student.

We have got to stop with the making of big whiny kids who never do anything wrong because these kids never grow up and realize that not everything is all about them. 

Rebuttals are welcome.