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Dot pride goeth before the fall?
By adamg on Thu, 12/11/2008 - 11:35pm
Channel 4 reports the Dorchester Pop Warner football team could be barred from future national championships after a player bopped an adult official from a Rhode Island team down in Florida - "after several behavioral issues throughout the week." (Ed. Note: WBZ has removed the phrase from its story and added an assertion by a Dorchester coach that the Rhode Island coach struck his player first).
Yes, this is the same team Yvonne Abraham at the Globe wrote so movingly about the other day.
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typical
This is just a perfect example of the youth of Boston. Boston kids, the same ones who walk out in front of you in traffic, sneak onto the T without paying, bump into you and "forget" to say "sorry," are pathetic. Where did we go wrong?
Typical
WE didn't do anything wrong. Perhaps when witnessing these 'youthful transgressions' say something to these tykes. I think you'll see it's bark not bite.
coahing values
If kids participate in sports and learn from their mistakes, its a good thing. Better to learn from mistakes in sports then later in life when the stakes are higher.
That said, its usually the coach who can have the biggest influence on the kid by having consequences for breaking team rules. I wonder what the kids DOT coaches allow to pass as acceptable behaviour.
I spent some time coaching Pop Warner in the greater Boston area. Most of the kids are trying hard to do well and do good. There is a little showboating but you'd be surprised how many kids find that innapropriate.
DOT Pop Warner is a highly competitive and successful football program. I hope they can set good standards for their kids behavior on and off the field. Kids want to be successful and want to know the boundaries. It's up to the adult to make them clear and enforce them with reason and compassion.
WBZ has edited the story
"after several behavioral issues throughout the week" has been removed. I don't see that mentioned anywhere, but if you Google the phrase, it comes up. Sounds like maybe they got a little hearsay...
It's more than a little important to note that the Dot coach says his player was teased and harassed by the RI players *and* RI adults (who definitely should have known better), and *both* teams were ejected from the hotel.
Remember "sticks and stones?"
"Teased and harassed" and they then got physical? Is that what the coaches are teaching these kids? Thank god my kids aren't part of that circus. This whole city needs an enema.
Harassment
That sort of "the victim shouldn't be reacting to harassment" attitude brought us several school shootings.
Try reading "The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander" for more complex and reality-based information on the real mechanics of bullying.
Such cutesy nursery rhymes are simplistic garbage aimed at silencing the bullied and covering up for whole negative power dynamic that neither begins nor ends with "names never hurt me".
Sanctioned, ha ha.
Binding sanctions too. Well I guess the entitlement stops here. These kids are so used to just being slapped on the wrist that it is a laugh to see that they finally got what they deserved. They should have been taught to just walked away when "teased and harassed" (Oh, I forgot that might lead to a shooting. Yeah right)