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Very well said. Parental involvement isn't a bad thing and the right amount is actually very good and necessary. It is the over involvement that has created an entitlement issue with this generation (my generation)Originally posted by atcshrk:
There is absolutely no question about it - parents are overstepping their boundaries all over the place.
They are showing up with their kids to job interviews. They are calling bosses to ask why their child didn't get a raise. They are writing their kids' admissions essays. They are calling college professors about their child's grades. They are calling college coaches about playing time. They are talking their sons into transferring rather than buckling down and winning playing time. They are hanging out in HS principals' offices...in long lines, in attempts to make teachers teach 30 different customized programs to 30 kids in a class. They are involved in HS coach hiring and firing when the only issues have nothing to do with safety or ethics (actually sadly, they seem to ignore some of those - are we opting for performance over integrity? Thats a worry of mine).
Yes, parents are the 'stakeholder' and have a role. But they've gone too far. We see it now with our younger employees where I work. They're used to mom and dad doing it for them. Its rather incredible to observe.
Has your son ever had a 1-on-1 with his coach about whatever?
I know nothing about this coach, this situation although he was a friend of our older son when they played against each other in HS. I would guess Mountain View's average tenure for a baseball coach over the last 15 years to be less than 2 years. Parents have been involved in that low tenure rate. Its sad. Its too much.
What are the results? Too many young adults who haven't learned life skills and are ill prepared to enter the real world. Even ill prepared to enter college life including baseball...mentally at least. And lastly, we're losing our best HS coaches because of this behavior.
Keep it up if you want. You will continue to sleep in the bed you make.
One fundamental flaw in the reasoning, and makes the assertion on nonsense to be clear "nonsense," is that an education under our laws is a "right." Athletics is a privilege.Originally posted by 1giantsfan:
Imagine a classroom teacher who didn't want to have to deal with parents. A HS coach is a teacher, whose classroom is the playing field. Parents come with the turf. You act as though you think HS sports are not part of the educational mission of a school, but something else, a thing unto itself, where the coach should be insulated from parental scrutiny. That's nonsense. A coach is a teacher. And just as teachers have to be responsive to all stakeholders in education, so do coaches. And I'm sorry if some coaches don't appreciate it, but parents are legitimate stake holders in the athletic education of their sons and daughters, just as they are legitimate stakeholders in the academic education of their sons and daughters.
This post was edited on 6/24 10:04 AM by 1giantsfan