Administrative support over parental concerns regarding playing time
I thought I would share an e-mail exchange that my Principal sent to a parent who had complaints over his son's playing time. The parent responded to the Principals first email, offering *videotape proof*, which precipitated a follow up message by the Principal to make his position clear. It is really good stuff, so I hope you bear with the length. I really appreciated the administrative support on this issue. Names have been deleted to protect the ***guilty*** !:?) Here goes: #1 Dear Mr. ********: Thank you for the email with follow-up information following our telephone conversation of yesterday. As I suspected, and your email confirmed, the "problem" that you wanted to discuss is a matter of playing time and/or role on the team for a particular student-athlete, your son ********. You need to be aware that our policy is that it is totally the coach's decision as to whom and how much an individual student-athlete should play. Since yesterday I did have the opportun...