Re: ALEXANDER

[Ed Levine <eddie185@YAHOO.COM>]

Do you think maybe the coach is using his subtle take on "peer
pressure" to get the locker room cleaned up?  Unreconstructed coaches
do compassionate stuff like this all the time ... there's nothing
like a sadistic control freak coach to instill the love of
competition in youngsters.  (Bobby Knight comes to mind.  Is Texas
Tech near Alvin?)

--- Margaret Davis <margd@FLASH.NET> wrote:
> Art,
>
> This is apparently an AISD policy.  I can complain but the
> commissioner
> cannot rule of local policies.  This is Athletics.  It's my fault
> for not
> realizing this.  Somehow my husband signed some form that is coming
> home
> with Katie giving them permission to do this sort of thing.  I had
> no idea.
>
> I had no idea they would consider this sort of punishment
> acceptable.  I
> would have NEVER had her enter the program.  But I suppose this is
> how all
> the athletes are treated if they want to play baseball or any other
> "team"
> sport.  I will talk to Katie when she gets home and see what she
> would like
> to do.  PE is a requirement.  The students MUST have 1.5 years in
> 7th and
> 8th grade.  They said the PE class does not have this code of
> conduct.  So
> let me get this straight....  Coach Perry said she didn't know who
> left the
> items in the locker room but the girls in athletics get punished
> for what
> the girls in PE might have done?????  I don't get it.  Do you?
>
> Margaret
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>
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Art Burke" <aburke@VANSD.ORG>
> To: <ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU>
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 10:31 AM
> Subject: Re: ALEXANDER
>
>
> Margaret ... Is there any way you could move Katie to another
> school?  Art
>
> >>> margd@FLASH.NET 02/15 8:25 AM >>>
>
> If she stays in Athletics then she has to run the laps.  20 today.
> Regardless of my objection.
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Margaret Davis
>   To: ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU
>   Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 10:00 AM
>   Subject: ALEXANDER
>
>
>   Alexander just called me and told me he supports what they are
> doing in
> ATHLETICS and refuses to put it in writing.
>
>
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