A high school basketball coach, out in Kansas City, told one of his students that he would be a ‘Future Welfare Recipiant’ and he told the kid this in range where the student could tape it on his cell phone…..
Basketball coach Derek Howard caught on tape telling Marcus Williams Jr. that he would be a future welfare recipiant…….This coming from a high school teacher and a coach???
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I didn’t click on the whole story….but really……..whose parents didn’t tell their kids they’dl wind up on the streets if they didn’t get their act together. We are becoming very soft. We cry when someone gives us the hard truth…..then we cry when we discover the truth the hard way!! Soft and way to PC!!
In this case you have a coach/teacher making the comments and not family/parents…..Seems more serious as you see and hear the tape and the backgound between the folks involved….Teachers/coaches should be encouraging their players/students unless they are carrying on with some fun, and this inciident didn’t appear to be a fun setting…..Just some thoughts on the situation……
Andy…..I’m certain the guy who just won more college games than anyone else has had very tough conversations with some players…..I’m certain someone would criticize him if some heated interactions with his players were caught on tape. Sometimes it’s called tough love…..we are too soft.
We never ask why a kid pushed a coach, teacher, parent to make a small mistake…..we only question the small mistake. We cry, we sue, we blame, we point…..used to be we always looked inward for answers.
I completely agree with Really? Kids have become INCREDIBLY soft over the past 16-17 years since I graduated from high school. A healthy fear of a tongue lashing is ok……..telling a kid that he/she is lazy is ok……….parents get involved with your kids but not overly involved to where they are Mama’s Boys or Daddy’s Girls……As a teacher/coach I believe toughness can’t be taught or coached…..its from within and there is NOTHING wrong with feeding a kids fire and getting them to maximize their potential whether its in the classroom or on the playing field. So people get over it…….if I put some remarks that my high school AND college coaches said on this site most people would shutter in disbelief…..
Looks like in this instance the coach went past the sports realm and got into the kid’s personal business and that’s none of his business…..I am with you all the way on the coaches that are sincere in their efforts to help these kids, but smart remarks don’t make for good sense…..Seems like there may have been a personal conflict between these two and that the coach had no real boundaries and he care what he said…..
I see both sides. For one coaches are suppose to be a parental figure to there athletes, in some instances that only positive one they have. Sometimes you can and will say some things that can be taken too literal, out of context, or the message completely misunderstood. Kids today are way too soft and take things way too literal and personal. With that said, coaches are adults that should have the common sense to know what to say and when to say it. Why did the kid have the camera going to begin with, sounds a little disgruntled to begin with. We have a lot of kids that do not get a reality check or the truth at home, so where else are they going to get it? Sometimes the truth hurts.