Parents demand, get panel to pick team — but none of their kids get picked

[Oeditpus Rex]

And now the parents are yelling "Conspiracy!" :eyes:


The results are in at Castro Valley High School. That's where a group of parents were in an uproar over girls varsity basketball coach Nancy Nibarger and demanded that her team be picked by a six-person panel. This week the team roster was posted.

None of the disgruntled parents' daughters made it.

If you think that's poetic justice and the end of things, you clearly haven't been following the situation. The parents are not going to let this go.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/11/30/MNGDFMM7I032.DTL

[petronius]

1. Jeebus! Waah! Waah! Waah!

That sounds like some incredibly ridiculous bullshit - it's sad that those kids may never realize how embarrassed they should be by hteir parents behavior...

[reyd reid reed]

2. Nope.

That's the kind of parent who won't let go until their little darlings are all named as starters and then named to the all league teams.

First teams. No second teams or honorable mentions for them.

And heaven forfend their little precious doesn't get AOW at LEAST once during the season.

And then they'll scratch their heads and wonder why the team doesn't make the playoffs.

I hope the panel doesn't budge.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. You read all of it?

Down to the part where the entire football coaching staff quit over the bullshit?

[reyd reid reed]

5. These parents don't give a shit about the school,

the sport or the team. They're just worried about their little baby girls getting what they want, when they want it and how they want it.

Makes me worry for the kids. All of 'em.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. 'And after Daddy got me on the team

he bought me a Lexus because he's so proud of me!"

[reyd reid reed]

7. Yup.

Nauseating, isn't it?

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. What's nauseating

is that these parents think they're doing the Right Thing. They can't see anything wrong with it.

[reyd reid reed]

9. No, what *that* is,

is scary. Terrifies the living chit outta me. And it makes me kinda sad, too.

Then there's the pissed off part...

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. Eh, that don't scare me

Makes me sick, is what it does.



Also makes me want to pummel said parents with heavy, blunt objects.

[reyd reid reed]

11. It scares me because it seems to be a pattern...

each generation tries to do more 'for' their kids than their parents did.

I'm afraid of what these girls are going to do in 25 years when it comes to their own children.

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Introduce them to their father?

Who's also their grandfather?




:hide:

[reyd reid reed]

13. Ewwwwwww....

*THWACK*

[Kutjara]

4. Parents living vicariously through their children.

I believe there's a special part of Hell reserved for such folks. A deep, hot part.

[seaglass]

14. Something more is going on here I think. My kids have

been involved in sports since they were 5 yo., in rec league, select teams and High School. I have definitely seen parents go over the top to get something undeserved for their kids, have heard a lot of complaining about coaches etc. My kids have also been coached by bad coaches and just sucked it up for a season.

The only time I have seen a group of parents object to a coach was for a select team - and the coach WAS bad. I could give a million examples why. My daughter was a starter and I was on the board for one season - so it is not sour grapes. The result of the bad coach - the parents formed another team. Not something that can be done in HS.

When the writer of the article notes that the coach might have a communication problem - I think that might be an answer. It was very petty of the coach, an adult, to ignore the former player that was mentioned in the article. Something is odd here.