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Steve Jefferies (Admin)
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 34
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 2:32 pm: |       |
Is there a lack of good sportsmanship at your school? Are there cases of child/parent/coach aggressiveness and/or violence involving sports? What has been done to stop these problems? Do you think that the actions, and taunting, in college and professional sports are at the root of the problems? Please share your experiences.
(This question extends questions raised in the technology section for March, coming out March 1.)
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Sean William McElhone (Swm4575)
Junior Member
Username: Swm4575
Post Number: 2
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 09, 2005 - 8:05 pm: | |
I graduated from high school a few years ago and i experienced first hand the lack of sportsmanship in physical education class. Mostly from athletes who thought they were the best. I myself was guilty of complaining because all i wanted to play was baseball, basketball, and football in class. I do think pros influence youths because i experienced first hand athletes taunting non athletes in class. Best way to stop this i think is to dock points for unsportsmanlike actions. |
Marilee Waugh (Mlee)
New member
Username: Mlee
Post Number: 1
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 11:19 am: | |
Most schools that I have played sports at have kept "bad" sportsmanship to a minimum; but while playing other schools I have witnessed a lot of "unsportsmanlike" conduct against schools. I found that the main influence on these players is the coaches, and I saw this by how the coach reacted to that particular situation. Coaches can manipulate their team in many ways, and they have the most impact. They see these kids everyday and can be the first to implement punishment. Like parents, they need to admonish and discipline their players. Although the school also has its own rules and regulations on how to deal with unsportsmanlike conduct, a coach can place a different type of respect into athletes. I think schools should be more careful when hiring coaches and look at personality and characteristics as well as how that individual interacts with others. A more thorough investigation into a coach’s prior history and background could save many schools a reputation of bad sportsmanship. |
Karen Malec (Krm0230)
Junior Member
Username: Krm0230
Post Number: 2
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 11:35 am: | |
I graduated from high school 2 years ago and at my school there were a lot of bad sportsmanship. It was not so much the students but the parents. At our basketball games parents would get into huge fights,we would always have to call the police in. Eventually it came down to, if you were in a fight you were banned from attending any sporting event at the high school.
I think that people just need to put things into perspective, its only a game. And most people are there for the kids playing. Just let them play and have fun. |
Travis J. Adams (Tjadams21)
Junior Member
Username: Tjadams21
Post Number: 3
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 6:30 am: | |
I teach at the midddle school level and believe that sportsmanship is to often over looked in our society as a whole. When professional stars are glamorized for over bearing demenor and more emphasis is placed on winning then other aspects such as sportsmanship and fair play suffer. I try to include and promote good sportsmanship at all times in my classes and always have teams shake hands at the end of a competition. |
Joseph Tommasini (Joeyt427)
Junior Member
Username: Joeyt427
Post Number: 2
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 8:48 am: | |
We didnt have to many problems at my high school when it came to unsportsmanship. I think that as long as the coaches keep everything under control there wont be any problems. As for college and professional sports causing the problem, I do some what agree with that. When kids see Chad Johnson doing an endzone dance, they want to do it. When the kids see players they look up to doing those kinds of things, they are going to do them as well. |
Kelli Ann Pittner (Kpml21)
Junior Member
Username: Kpml21
Post Number: 2
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 2:26 pm: | |
Fourtunatly my high school was very much into being good sports to the other teams. I know it wasn't uncommon at all for my team or the other team to help eachother up. I know when I scored 1,000 points at my rivals school all of their players continued clapping the whole time, our district was all in all pretty great with the sportmanship thing! I agree that in other schools this has gone by the waste side! |
Ashley Pujol (Apujol13)
Junior Member
Username: Apujol13
Post Number: 2
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 8:56 am: | |
Good sportsmanship was a problem at my school but not for all sports and it really depended on the coach and the athlete. I did see it carry into the classroom. I believe we need to promote this aspect of athletics to our kids. |
Megan Patkalitsky (Mkp0708)
Junior Member
Username: Mkp0708
Post Number: 3
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 7:03 pm: | |
At the high school I attended, there was definitely a lack of sportsmanship, in all sports. There were sometimes cases of parents being aggressive toward coaches and students that were not his or her own, because every parent seemed to think that their child was the best. Although this was prevalent in my school, nothing has been done. I don't think it is a matter of college/professional sports making these children and parents so aggressive, but just the mere fact that no one can be cordial to one another. |
