Sad state of high school track coaching in USA - Embarrasing

So that one example speaks to the state of hs track coaching in the USA to you? Are you retarded?

typical. emphasis placed on football coach etc. but not on track and field: it is just running you do not have to have done that before right ? anyone can coach it. especially if they bluster enough a bunch of 14-18 years olds and have power over them.

yeah this is not surprising and all too typical

earn respect wrote:

Assistant indoor track coach at high school is such a nice guy, as demonstrated in video of his teaching style, screaming at girl student:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8jfZzxDz4Q

And people wonder why the sport struggles.

What the hell does this have to do with T&F?

I wish more teachers would go off like this, I utilize this type of behavior as an attention getter in my track practices atleast once a year, weather they need it or not. It keeps everyone focused.

I used to get their focus back by calmly picking up a dictionary, then slowly tearing it in two. By the end... total silence and cooperation.

Yeah I pre-cut that mddafkka, but it got the point across.

had a teacher in high school used to throw erasers at students, for no apparent reason other than unanticipated anger outbursts. When you could understand what he was mad about, and who, he usually missed that person with the throw and hit kids in the vicinity. He did this all year. Until:

one day he missed again and hit the captain of the cheerleaders in the face and she got all chalked up and coughing. She left the class coughing to freshen up as he got real quiet and kept saying sorry to her. She made a point to walk by the administration coughing and crying and told them exactly what happened. Something went down behind the scenes and he stopped throwing at us, instead he would haul off and throw at the board. Last week of school he lost it again and threw it at a kid in the back, missed again and hit the biggest kid on the football team. Kid got visibly mad and stood up walked to the front of the class with the eraser, teacher about wet his pants, then the fight or flight thing caught the teacher and he said sit down or else, kid looked at him and place the eraser back where it belonged on the board, then looked at teacher and said or else what? Teacher left the class and brought in the admin and everybody to remove the kid.

Later that summer and for years afterward, toilet paper and things would show up in the night at that teacher's house. On at least 2 occasions he was at a bar and encountered former students and was roughed up.

I am not sure which comes first the bullying or being bullied. Either way it is sad to see persons in authority be it a teacher or coach act in a bullying manner especially towards kids.

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Bullshit detector wrote:

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actually no bs at all. had to go back and edit out peoples names when I thought about the fact that everyone is still alive. Big kid played tackle at DI school, later got injured. BIG kid. Still puts a smile on my face recalling it.

Spent 10 minutes trying to google the teacher to track him down today but quit as a common name.

earn respect wrote:

And people wonder why the sport struggles.

By what measure is high school track/XC struggling? Is participation declining? Are performances getting worse?

Last I checked, track was the second most popular high school sport, and kids were running so fast that a sub 4 high school mile is no longer big news.

How is a teacher screaming in a classroom associated with a track coach?

More like sad state of high school kids who can't handle a little yelling.