Yeah ...wait till someone (anyone) in any activity gets suspended....this will be the schools litmus test
Kade Blume
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This is what I was thinking too. How do the other parents allow this? I’d raise hell.
Absolutely disgusting actions by every adult involved, including his parents, to let him continue to wrestle. This isn't a "dumb decision" like drinking, vandalism, etc. I feel terrible for the victim
I suggest starting here and bombarding the Superintendent, AD and coach:
Sick little bastard admitted to doing it to by tried as a juvenile. So it’s not like a let the legal process play out situation. Kid needs a lifetime ban. Coach needs to fired, AD needs to be fired, Superintendent, all of them.
Sick little bastard admitted to doing it to by tried as a juvenile. So it’s not like a let the legal process play out situation. Kid needs a lifetime ban. Coach needs to fired, AD needs to be fired, Superintendent, all of them.
Probably shouldn't forget the school boardI suggest starting here and bombarding the Superintendent, AD and coach:
Sick little bastard admitted to doing it to by tried as a juvenile. So it’s not like a let the legal process play out situation. Kid needs a lifetime ban. Coach needs to fired, AD needs to be fired, Superintendent, all of them.
So the victim had to move away and the perp got to continue on as if nothing happened.
Absolutely makes me sick. This is why I get honestly pissed when old guys start railing on about kids these days.
There are a mountain of adults involved here, all who could make the right choice and nobody is. The adult wrestling coach is probably going to deflect by saying some bullcrap about how it's a school decision to continue to let him wrestle. If something this serious is out of your hands, resign. The AD is going to say it's the school board's decision. If he can't make the decision, resign. The school board, the same thing.
I hope opposing fans give him all kinds of hell all season. I hope his parents have to sit in the stands hearing it every meet. I hope people make signs and stand out front of the school as their bus pulls up. The fact this kid is going to skate by, miss three meets, and that's it is an absolute disgrace. Guys got worse punishments than that for having a beer in the summertime when I was in high school and that was more than 20 freaking years ago.
The coaches lack courage if they are letting this kid wrestle. It doesn't matter where this happened at. We got kicked out of activities all the time for stuff we did away from school. He wouldn't wrestle for me.
They must be afraid of a civil suit? how else can they allow him to wrestle?
Aren't most activities tied to good conduct requirements? We had to sign a form back in the day. It was for all activities. Sports, clubs, etc...
Again, if they feel like they are afraid of a civil suit and they feel like they have no power, resign.
I mean this sincerely I don't care how much my kid loved wrestling (and I have two kids in youth wrestling now) if there was a kid on his team who did this and faced zero consequences he wouldn't be on that team. If he wanted to continue to wrestle he could do club wrestling or he could enroll in another school.
I saw the video of a kid getting bullied/punched at Ankeny on WHO yesterday. Yet the Ankeny school hasn’t done a thing about yet.
If an adult does something like this (see the Beard thread) they get arrested and thankfully he got suspended.
Shame on all the RS staff involved!! I sure hope they are all proud of themselves!
If an adult does something like this (see the Beard thread) they get arrested and thankfully he got suspended.
Shame on all the RS staff involved!! I sure hope they are all proud of themselves!
I'm not excusing the schools or personnel in the schools as I agree these acts of violence/harassments/assault are absolutely horrific and deserve punishment....that being said I think schools are just so hamstrung anymore. My wife teaches at a middle school and she often feels helpless and powerless. Everything is a lawsuit waiting to happen. If kids act out, they are often larger than her and they don't give one damn about getting in trouble on top of very little support/structure at home. The best she can do is get her admin or other teachers to come in and somehow help defuse the student or take him/her away from the classroom. I realize this is more of a systemic issue and not exactly the situation we're seeing at R-S just more of a general observation.
When I was a kid and got in trouble at school even something minor, I was scared to death the teachers would tell my parents. The thought of them enabling or helping me weasel out of situations never crossed my mind.
If I'm the R-S AD, I would absolutely tell the kid he's not wrestling this year and he has to do a large list of community service, punishments ect ect if he wants a shot to wrestle his senior year. I would take a hard stance even if there are lawsuits coming. At the worst you're telling the community you are standing up for what is right. Of course easier said that done.
Working for me. I'm also starting to see people tag R-S Wrestling shaming them and quoting the KCCI story about it....so that's good at least.
Your last sentence, do you mean the victim or the perp? Schools around us, NC Iowa, will hold punishment for issues at previous schools. We had a kid in our school get a year athletic ban and he was told by neighbor schools that it would be enforced at their school also. My son has a kid on his BB team now that is waiting out eligibility until semester break because he received it from another school.
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