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Reply to "Parents call cops on coach, coach arrested"

Some of you are getting too wrapped around the axle over this.

First of all, while it's true that a battery is "any offensive touching," that is really a test more for civil law suits than for criminal court.  There's no criminal court in the land that's going to convict this guy.  I hope he refuses to agree to plead or anything like that.  We need more people to stand up to this kind of abusive misuse of the legal system.

Second, I see all the comments about how everyone knows you can't do this any more because of today's climate.  But if everyone would stand up to it, we could restore order to the situation.  Today's climate is of fairly recent vintage and is not irreversible.  Sometimes pendulums swing back the other way -- if you make them.

The appropriate response to this is for every other family on the team to tell the AD that they refuse to continue with the season unless the player is removed from the roster and the parents are banned from school athletic contests in which any of their children participate.

In short, there's always a way to stand up to bullies.  Here, the bullies are the parents who filed the charge, not the coach.  Like all bullies, the parents are trying to perpetuate a wrong (their son's behavior) through threatening behavior and more.  The only question is whether we have the courage to look those people in the eye and tell them that we're standing up to them.

It's true that too few do, but that's not an argument for the rest of us throwing in the towel.  We can't let the inmates run the asylum.

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