the misery might be over « chatter from the Library Monkey

the misery might be over

April 21, 2008 at 11:42 pm | In Blog Babble, Blogging, coaching, student woes |

the misery might be over

Kind of sore from volleyball, which is almost over. I need to pump up the ibuprofen.

I offered to help the modified baseball coach to help him, probably a mistake on my part. The guy isn’t a coach, he is a facilitator. He let a couple of the older boys hit the ball which is always a mistake:

a kid will hit the ball to anyone usually the person who is his friend and asks for it.
a kid will hit the ball when other kids are turned away (in the course of about 10 minutes there were about five kids that got beaned)
a kid has no instructive strategy when he is leading the way
having a kid run practice usurps your control
you never get to see the kid running practice play, nor does he get to practice

I see the same thing happening with the guy in the classroom.

The one thing the kids in my school DON’T need is more chance to be disrespectful — which is what happens when you don’t take control of a team or class

This coach was asking me who I would play in the outfield from what I saw. I felt like I couldn’t really put it in a good prospective. For one thing at the modified level (basically middle school) everyone has to play. For the second thing I was not able to watch the other kids play. This is a coach that believes the outfield is where you put your bad players. To me you put them out there if you want the kid and the team to get hurt

In general the kids were out of control and worse the kids knew they were out of control and enjoy it. The AD’s son is the softball modified coach, I am assuming he is just as bad a coach as the baseball coach…and the Athletic Director instituted a new thing where he reviews the coaches… like to see that review.

Kind of scattered here, but I am tired.

The Tigers win today, sounded like a pretty good game..