Posted on 03/04/2006 7:16:11 AM PST by ncountylee
WIGGINS, Colo. -- Three coaches at Wiggins High School have reportedly been suspended after one of them allegedly taped a student to a weightlifting bench for several hours as punishment for disruptive behavior, according to a broadcast report.
A coach with 30-years experience used athletic tape to restrain the 13-year-old boy, covering his eyes, mouth and whole body, according to the boy's mother Stacy Robinson. Coaches refused to untie the boy even after he urinated on himself, she said.
"(I'm) very angry, there is no excuse for this," said Robinson.
A coach who allegedly tied the boy and two other coaches who witnessed the incident have been suspended with pay, according to Wiggins school Superintendent Sharol Little.
"For this to happen is hard for all of us, so I guess I want to give some certainty and assurance to our parents that we're doing all we can with the facts that we have to make sure that it doesn't happen again," she said.
At least 60 people witnesses the incident.
"You always here stuff on TV about things like this happening to kids and you think there has got to be another side to this story, this kid has to be horrible for something like that to happen, the coach just snapped, that wasn't the case here," Robinson said.
Won't even lose one day of pay.
Any bets on whether the kid deserved it?
Sounds like an A-hole kid and some A-hole coaches...
Suspended with pay. How sweet.
Thanks to McCain, heads would roll in Gitmo.
"Any bets on whether the kid deserved it?"
Depends on what you mean by "deserved it." What would you think would cause a kid to "deserve" such treatment from a coach? Answer that, and I'll decide whether to bet.
What would you say would qualify as deserving behavior?
No comment.
Colorado seems to have symtoms of an educational system melt down!
Perhaps the student deserved it.
But this is a criminal offence according to law.
The school also is now open to a civil law suit of false imprisonment, and negligence.
Would it not have been simpler just to kick the student off the team ?
Public school education?
"Perhaps the student deserved it."
I'm still waiting for someone to explain what behavior on the student's part would justify this treatment. So far, nobody has come up with anything.
The school has procedures for disruptive students, I'm sure. The kid might have deserved to be kicked off the team, suspended from school, or even expelled.
I know of no behavior that justifies this, though.
I'm willing to listen, though.
You forgot the /sarc, right?
I raised my nephew from 16 on in my late 20's. He was a totally out of control, had already been arested, and was on the fast track to loser until I put the fear of ME into him. I only had to make him cry a couple of times, but I would have made him pee himself to save his sorry butt from society. Now he's a 13F in the first Cav. I'm not saying this makes me an expert, but I do have a litle experience in the area of A-hole kids. If the parents aren't going to teach the kid how to be a man, then who will?
We just have one side of the story. Maybe 2 people stood and watched as reported. It would be unusual though.
My parents would have really given the school and the coaches a bad time. But only after they had made me wish they hadn't found out about the incident. But then that was a long time ago.
no bets on this. what the kid needed was a hug and help with his self esteem. BARF!
I would beat the hell out of a coach who did that to my son, whether he deserved it or not.
And I would file charges with the DA.
Beautiful, let the "procedures" and the bureaucracy raise the kids. Using "procedures" is just a way of being a coward - "my hands are tied..."
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