Advice, please?
Jun. 6th, 2009 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mereilinToday Daniel apparently was disrespectful to his coach. Instead of benching him or ejecting from the game, the coach cornered me in the snack bar (where I was "volunteering"). He was visibly angry, and he's a big guy.
I don't know what the original problem was, but apparently Daniel's verbal response was unacceptable. And then he had to spit out a sunflower shell. Only he didn't turn his head so he kind of spit it at the coach.
Yup, bad choice. But instead of benching him or ejecting him from the game -- or anything that might be fair and appropriate consequence -- coach comes over to me and orders me to have a talk with him.
Here's my problem. I feel like the level of anger vented at me was out of proportion to the offense and taught Danny nothing. I also felt personally attacked, and it isn't the first time this coach has gotten in my face about something Danny did that frankly I thought he should have just handled, as the coach, and been done with it.
When I told the coach (a little less eloquently than I just wrote it), he just said "fine" and his "apology" sounded more like "whatever, bitch" in tone.
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I don't know what the original problem was, but apparently Daniel's verbal response was unacceptable. And then he had to spit out a sunflower shell. Only he didn't turn his head so he kind of spit it at the coach.
Yup, bad choice. But instead of benching him or ejecting him from the game -- or anything that might be fair and appropriate consequence -- coach comes over to me and orders me to have a talk with him.
Here's my problem. I feel like the level of anger vented at me was out of proportion to the offense and taught Danny nothing. I also felt personally attacked, and it isn't the first time this coach has gotten in my face about something Danny did that frankly I thought he should have just handled, as the coach, and been done with it.
When I told the coach (a little less eloquently than I just wrote it), he just said "fine" and his "apology" sounded more like "whatever, bitch" in tone.
[Poll #1412045]
