Kicked off the Team

[ariastar]

My brother was a star baseball player. Amazingly good. His coach had some strict rules regarding behavior, including respect, that went for both during games and practices as well as in general life. Coach said that the boys on the team represented the team, and that their actions even off the field would reflect on the team as a whole.

You cuss during a game or practice, you got suspended for the next two games, no matter what those games were. My brother cussed, and was suspended during a playoff game.

You break any laws, and you're suspended until you've paid your debt. My brother and a couple of his friend tipped a port-o-pottie and they were all suspended until they had personally cleaned up their mess and made appropriate amends.

The list goes on.

That team of boys was one of the best-behaved groups you can imagine. They did their homework, and their behavior was, all in all, very good, save for a few slip-ups, like my brother's. The boys were respected, the coach was respected. No one made excuses.

Yeah, our dad was a great coach.

I'm glad to see your son's coach isn't willing to bend the rules just to allow an athlete to play. All too often athletes think they're immune from the rules governing the rest of us, and it's thanks in part to parents like you who try to find loopholes to not make him pay for his behavior. He knew the rules, he broke them, he's paying the consequences now. You break the rules on the field and it's called cheating. You don't get away with it. He's not.

Good for the coach. Shame on you for trying to bend the rules for your special snowflake.