CaCO3Girl posted:hsbaseball101 posted:I had a parent get into my face the last game and basically threaten my job, very close to a physical threat too considering how aggressive and condescending his tone of voice was over his son not starting the game (despite getting some playing time in over half of the games so far and averaging 2 errors/game). I thought I was being a too kind to a kid who has no business playing baseball but wanted to learn the game and enjoy some time with friends. KId's a freshman, never touched a baseball before this year, is not an athlete at all, but the previous coach didn't cut him so when I took over I didn't think it was right to start making cuts mid season. I think I'll fire myself after the end of this season, if I don't get shot before then at least.
HSbaseball101...rather than fire yourself you could educate the parents up front next year. My son's coach has a parent meeting and flat out tells us all he will NOT talk about "your kid with you". He wants to talk to me fine. you don't like that and you still want to talk to me, you can take it up with the AD, you still don't like that then we can have every available coach plus the AD plus the principle have a meeting with you about why your son isn't playing, but I'm telling you right now, that will not increase his chances."
We all kind of did the wide eyed expression thing while bobbing our heads up and down and had a collective..."mmm k" moment, but we knew up front.,..it was seriously in a power point presentation and handout.
Sadly, there are way too many admins who will not stand behind a coach that implements the kind of policy you described.