Is English your second language?
Is English your second language?
theJeff wrote:
oturn wrote:
"We cooperate with parents"
It is easy to speculate on this but I am asking specifically of either coaches who have said this to parents or parents who have been on the receiving end of these comments. What does that mean? Give me the specifics.
Is that offer extended to all parents in a given team or just some? Is there any expectation/responsibility of the parents who receive this offer?
Please state if you are a coach or a parent when you respond.
son is in the 8th grade and a pretty good runner.
Coach here. It is a dumb thing to say.
I coach athletes, not their parents. I expect for athletes to communicate with me, and I expect for parents to encourage their kids to develop the life skill of communicating with adults / superiors.
What about their inferiors. Don't leave them out!
Just a guess, but my thought is that they want you to think that they're reasonable people so that they can get a little bit on your good side and that you'll either let things go or talk to them when you get irked about something and not go crazy calling the administration saying practices are too long, the coaches play favorites, etc., etc.
Doclove wrote:
theJeff wrote:
Coach here. It is a dumb thing to say.
I coach athletes, not their parents. I expect for athletes to communicate with me, and I expect for parents to encourage their kids to develop the life skill of communicating with adults / superiors.
What about their inferiors. Don't leave them out!
I believe you mean "subordinate", which in this case would be the student athlete.
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