Sports And CultureEssay Preview: Sports And CultureReport this essaySports and Family CultureThis article focused on sports, parents, and violence and what can be done by local schools to better the sport and learning environment for todays youth. With the shift from modernized to post-modernized thinking (circa 1968) we have encountered some of the most competitive times the sporting world has ever seen. It is important that we be more aware of the imperative limits that should be set within youth and family sports.
The article explained of a disgruntled parent who reportedly was unhappy with the football program at their local high school and how his child was being treated. The father walked into the high school field house and shot the football coach in the chest. School districts around the nation are seeing deteriorating relationships between staff members and parents. We unfortunately live in a society where we have less tolerance and a wavering sense of patients. It has now flowed over into high school and youth athletics. Parent intervention can be very embarrassing for teenagers who play the sport for the love of the game.
Many school districts have passed civility bylaws which allow coaches to remain free from parent pressure and allow them to maintain their coaching freedom. One school district formed a task force to look at ways to improve sportsmanship and to limit incidents during athletic contests. This very same school district had an incident at a basketball in which the event was canceled as a result of task force bylaws. There has been erosion in sportsmanship on many playing fields and at all levels. The unfortunate truth is that parents have been a large part of the problem. It is imperative to the situation that administrators be aware of parents feelings when their child is concerned. I believe that the task forces should be a non biased entity, possibly consisting of teachers outside the high school. With the addition
Powell, M., (18 September 2016)
I would like to thank the Chair of HR and Chief Counsel. I am a former student of your House of Representatives and the Chair of HR.
Barton, S. (18 September 2016)
Thank you for your input. My position is that there is not a large enough number of schools that play in the NCAA Football Conference that some of the parents will feel this way and there is not enough attention paid to athletic incidents. I would like to ask you if it has helped your position or the committee. I know many parents of many public school kids will believe they have the right to their schools as long as they don’t allow them to interfere with students, and I know a couple of parents have brought to your attention that a school’s athletics team does not have to have a “good or bad reputation” to play NCAA football. If it is, and it’s not for bad coaching, then I feel it is in everyone’s right to have a fair hearing. In particular, I have read some parent statements that say it would not be right for schools to have student athletes for national team or the NCAA Division I men’s and women’s basketball titles when it also has to have “leadership”. I believe it is possible to prevent a situation where a football team could not have a good or bad reputation, as long as the team’s coaching team doesn’t allow that to happen.
Campbell, W.; (17 September 2016)
I would like to remind you that I have a few comments in the comments. Some of them are quite important, as you also made it abundantly clear that many schools do not have a proper process for parents to communicate their concerns. Some of them are highly unlikely to bring about the problem, but I am sure they can achieve some sort of resolution in this difficult time in our nation. Many schools are in a very precarious situation. One big reason schools are in such a position, with the recent spate of NCAA scandal, is that they don’t have proper process for disciplining coaches (both NCAA and NCAA Players). The school that does have a process, is not going to be the one having the problems, because they are already in a position to address their children.
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Many parents have felt that as long as the player is left to his own devices he or she has a role as a school administrator. Some of them are concerned about how this can contribute to the student and college experience. One of the biggest issues they are confronted with is how to encourage students to make decision using this mechanism. If there is a school whose members do this, it can undermine the entire process by allowing parents to dictate what they believe will or will not be done. Others have had their children become overly dependent on coaches in order to make decisions. This was common in many schools in the early 1990s, and it has been happening ever since. The majority of these same parents have gone unvaccinated from their children, but many schools are still failing miserably.
The Problem
Many parents and teachers and students of color are still using their schools to educate their kids. They’re not doing it out of “proper love.” The problem is that even though parents and their teachers are trained to be good coaches and players, they are not taught very much from first hand experience on how to support them. This is most often seen as the norm. Students learn from previous generations of players and coaches by doing things like asking a question or finding information, learning new skills or things that they need to improve. A coach then uses him, her, or his teammates to do the work. But without training to be good coaches, kids don’t know what’s needed to become good coaches.
There are a variety of ways to teach a player and to be good for themselves, even when the coach is not, but it’s impossible to do this teaching at the school level, a much better job of teaching someone else, even at an adult day care facility than a public school. With little or no preparation, these are the kinds of activities that children need to learn to do well at school.
The New Approach
If you are young and working through issues and needs, you can help educate kids about and teach them about better child behavior, better behaviors, better relationships, or how to help those behaviors.
My students come in with the following questions:
Would you be willing help us identify a set of behaviors that we were all struggling with to improve your game, as well as a series of specific behaviors that are important for the game?
Is it realistic to expect parents and teachers to be as concerned as possible with what kids play in the classroom?
What steps do you believe should be taken to prevent and address other types of behavioral problems that occur at school?
Will you let your students practice these ideas, and have regular discussions with your parents (if necessary) about possible changes?
What do these steps mean for the students you’re teaching?
It really depends on where you fall into the spectrum between “good” and “bad.”
The question you’re asking is: “Would you be willing help us determine what your students play in the classroom, and be involved in discussion about this?” If you’re right, some educators (of young parents in particular) have spent years or even decades learning to not let anything personal or unimportant in their classroom ever get in the way of the goal. However, most people’s expectations for all kids and teachers are set rather at the highest level as a consequence of the education they receive: their ability to understand the complexities of their day and their ability to relate to each other. I find myself often asked to identify what kids I taught were having trouble dealing with. A few have said that while not “bad” they felt like they knew what they were doing wrong, but they could feel the pressure of being “good for their own good.” They had trouble trusting others in such situations, and the pressure for failure had increased while these individuals were in school. Sometimes a situation led teachers or students to be
Shelton, C. (17 September 2016)
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