Anyone else notice the Salt River Girls Basketball Team has lost a couple of games?! Some of the girls got caught with illegal substances and only got
suspended for 3 games! So much for Victory With Honor! The AIA might just crown a State Champion who does not deserve it this year!
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Posts: 1 (01/29/09 02:31) |
I am a mother of a girl on the SRHS girls basketball team (not one of the girls who were suspended). They were not caught with drugs. The girls came into
school late and a scecurity guard was suspious of them. They then called the AD to drug test them. SRHS randomly drug tests thier student-athletes, so the AD
who is also the coach brought the girls in who came to school late and tested all of them. They tested positive for THC(Mary-Jane). They were suspended from
school for 3 days, and in the Extra-Caricular Handbook, it states that for a failed drug test that they can be suspended one game to TBD, for a first failed
drug test. The AD who is also the coach suspended the girls for 3 games, this was consistant with what they have done all year for other students, and will
also be tested every week untill they are done with sports at SRHS. This poor decision by a couple of girls hurt the other players on the greatly, but they are
also kids and they made a mistake. I have been around SR my entire life and what the coach did was very stand-up. He could of taken it easy on the Star players
but he didn't. They played the two hardest competition teams (Surrey Garden, Salome), and the girls who didnt make the poor decision steped up and almost
beat both teams. The girls who made the mistake have hopefully learned and the team has to move on.
LoboBlue, what would you sugest we do to kids who make a mitake? So i am thinking that no student at your school (hayden?) you follow has ever made a mistake? Kick them off ? Are kids at Hayden randomly drug tested, if they do test positive what is the penalty? If they did were they not allowed to play again? Now what would that teach kids? Have you never made a mistake? Insted now they are watched even more closely and are held to even an higher standard. So I do think the is WITH HONOR. If you have a buddy who is close to the situation then they should know the SRHS is and what the kids who do attend are like. So let me make it very clear that we as parents or our community do not condone the use of drugs, but they are kids and kids do make mistakes and we are parents are in the business of helping kids not kicking them to the curb if they do make a mistake. |
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Posts: 74 (02/02/09 10:32) All-Conference |
I don't agree with the actions. Drug use with our youths today is a serious problem and the fact that they tested positive for the use of drugs should have
been more than enough for the school to take more serious actions. A similar event occurred in Fort Thomas years back and about half of the starters on that
team were kicked off. It wasn't seen as kicking them to the curve, but rather punishing them for their stupid mistakes and teaching them a lesson. Yeah
kids make mistakes, but what does giving them a slap on the wrist for using illegal drugs teach them?
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Posts: 179 (02/02/09 01:41) All-American |
I am not here to condone this, or to point fingers, but what about the penalties for showing up to school under the influence? Did the students get suspended
from school?
I know of a boys team this year where players were caught at a party by the cops and got 6 games - probably because they couldn't outrun the police as did numerous of their teammates that did not get snagged. I kind of agree with methodical that perhaps the AIA should have bylaws that govern these types of mistakes. I mean being ejected from a game for whatever reason gets you a one game suspension. I know of a case where the student during the season had a wreck and was DWI, but missed no games because he didn't get convicted until after the season was over and still kept his college scholarship.
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Posts: 5 (02/02/09 02:35) |
That is ridiculous! Don't coaches have a responsibility to the kids to help teach them more than the game of basketball? I would have a hard time
allowing my son to play for someone who knowingly skirted the law just to win a few basketball games. Shame on the coach, the parents and the school!
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Posts: 55 (02/04/09 11:26) Player |
I recall reading in the paper of similar incidents over the years on a number of occasions at the larger schools in Phoenix where the kids were kicked off the team. Perhaps a std should be considered by the AIA. This issue is taken very seriously by many families to the extent that I even know of a girl that transferred to a different high school in order to avoid being at team parties where these type of incidents occurred. She transferred because she felt that if something happened, the normal guilt by association reaction would result in the whole team being punished and thus jeopardize her future college scholarship. Here, I wonder if the rest of the team felt let down. I wonder what the reaction of the parents was. |
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