My coach suspended me for caring about school and my classmates.

No my teacher is female and I am a little upset with her for being so lenient and easy going with her and other people that try to take advantage of her leniency.

Bra-ket wrote:

You should be upset with the teacher. Wait...lemme guess...the teacher is male so you aren't mad at him

People who try to make everything about gender lose their credibility.

OP, you were right and I would be pissed if I were you, but calling her out in front of the class would not have accomplished anything. It would have served you better to gather a few classmates and reason with the teacher.

With that said, IMO, your coach has no business getting involved with school issues.

your weak.

Troll hard, troll harder, troll better!!

GoatZenHeimer wrote:

The Fokus wrote:

I'm guessing your not in the AP English class.

I’m certain you’re not.

Their they're, no cents bean pedantick

It sounds like you may have had a reasonable point but overreacted. Let this be a lesson in a few things: first and foremost study for the love of learning, with good grades as an secondary reward. You should not have hovered at A- prior to this assessment, if it’s just the grades you care for. Secondly, being right is often less important than how you react to supposed injustices. People will respect those with surgical calm. You did not have this. Lastly, don’t look at what others are doing (how they do on tests, 5k, etc) so much - I’m not saying not to do it at all, but not so much as you do - but focus on bettering yourself. Don’t pretend to have fought for injustice on behalf of your classmates. You did it quite purely for yourself. That is okay. You tried your way and lost. Be better.

Pardon the grammar errors / on phone

Aww, now the little boy is getting angry because nobody is picking his side. She missed the day of the test you can't blame her for being sick or having something to do, quit trying to reassure yourself by saying "I was standing up for the class" and not accepting the fact that you're a d!ck. Plus, what does her being a 23 minute 5k runner have to do with anything, or did you just feel like pointing that out to make you think your dong is bigger.

You acted like a jerk. Talent (academic or athletic) should never be an excuse or used as a get out of jail free card. Sorry, kid; grow up.

schlitvro wrote:

[quote]Bra-ket wrote:

With that said, IMO, your coach has no business getting involved with school issues.

Really....that is kind of part of a high school coaches job. If a kid fails a class, they can't participate. Coaches are typically also teachers and if a kid is struggling, they work to get the kids back on track even if it means missing practice. If a kid gets caught drinking/doing drugs, they can't participate even if outside of school. If a kid is not acting within the code of conduct expected of athletes to be part of his team (during practice, in school, or out of school), they can't participate. To say a coach should stick there head in the sand and ignore detrimental behavior is irresponsible. It never ends well for the crappy coaches that do ignore it.

The fact that this kid sees nothing wrong with his actions shows he needed this discipline.

I will say this about quitting the team. You quit the team, you are not quitting on your coach, you are quitting on your teammates/friends and you are showing that you feel you are above them and the team. I wouldn't want you back on the team (track or cross country) if you quit during a season if I were your teammate. Don't let this define your reputation and character.

Kid, you may be OK at math, but you have a lot to learn about scare quotes.

My coach suspended me for "caring" about "school" and "my classmates."

See? Much better.

And We Thought Millennials Were Bad... wrote:

If a kid fails a class, they can't participate. Coaches are typically also teachers and if a kid is struggling, they work to get the kids back on track even if it means missing practice. If a kid gets caught drinking/doing drugs, they can't participate even if outside of school. If a kid is not acting within the code of conduct expected of athletes to be part of his team (during practice, in school, or out of school), they can't participate. To say a coach should stick there head in the sand and ignore detrimental behavior is irresponsible. It never ends well for the crappy coaches that do ignore it.

I understand your point, but at what point do you draw the line? Telling a girl she screwed over her classmates (which she did) is not enough for a coach to get involved, and no reason to suspend the kid. Kids these days are too sensitive; as long as they aren't hurting each other, they are capable of working things out on their own.

I do agree with you on everything else you said that kids shouldn't be a ssholes, but they shouldn't be p ussies, either.

Your story really lacks in description about how you, "called her out". You must have said something pretty bad to be suspended.

What did you hope would happen by calling her out besides feeling better about yourself? Maybe a better course of action would have been to talk to the teacher instead.

deshgquet wrote:

your weak.

His weak what?

OHHHHHHHHHHH you mean you're weak?

No he's not.

I'm guessing YOU'RE not either.

After reading through the thread it sounds like op deserves whatever suspension he got for being a douche as well as an A grade. Its op's own fault that he doesn't have an A+ (shudder the thought of merely carrying an A gpa like some moron) because he did not study enough to get 100s or 99s on every assignment. OP slacked off studying, lazing around posting on letsrun and expects his teacher to bust her ass grading and putting in hundreds of assignments since he didn't bother to study. Furthermore op said some nasty things publically about his poor teammate who can only manage a 23 minute 5k because she's been sick or has obligations, whatever.

Not only does OP sound like a moron, I mean what kind of idiot only makes an A, but he puts down his teammates. Code 1 of xc is looking out for your teammates, if that means fate hands you an A (like op the moron), you get an A. If I were his coach I wouldn't care about triffling points on a report card, but I would care about an athlete putting other athletes on the team down. That doesn't fly even if op were Galen Rupp fast and his teammate ran 30 minute 5ks.

OP, I expect the letsrun cops will be coming to take away your posting license before long, only A+ students can grace our glorious messageboards. I could have bumped you up to a 99.00000000000001 but it looks like the posting quarter closes tonight since I'm going out to dinner and not putting in the posts you made that got scored 100 recently.

OP - Others have said this as well but when you say that you called her out, what did you say (and her response, etc.) and who else was around when you did it? Those are the most important details with respect to your suspension from the team. Until you provide those details, nobody can comment reasonably on the suspension.

In addition, the fact that you talked back to the coach about semantics regarding whether or not she was your teammate was not smart because that took away from the true part of your argument and would have annoyed me too if I was your coach. For the future, let the little things go that don't make a difference and focus on the main part of your argument.

1) She may have been sick. Needing a mental health day also counts.

2) Judging her because your female teammate races 23:xx 5K is foolish. How fast do your female relatives race 5K? I am sure you have female cousins with a 5K PB worse then 23:xx.

3) This is 2018. You need to figure out how to get along with females.

You need to quit your team and quit school. Transfer as a free-agent or it's time to go pro, everyone around you and on this forum is trolling you and holding you back. Let the results from your professional races prove everyone wrong ...

or

You are a douche and should be kicked off the team because you can't stick up for a teammate of yours. The fact that she is on the girls team doesn't make her not your teammate.

Maybe you should become a Mathlete