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Kudo’s GP Northshore For Doing This!
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<blockquote data-quote="Gehörnter Frosch" data-source="post: 2816000" data-attributes="member: 79"><p>If they require kids to sign a waiver before the season starts, and the phones are taken up the night before every game, then I am okay with this.</p><p></p><p>As is, it seems completely arbitrary to take every students' phone before the last game of the season. Again, it is impossible for any coach to know what is best for every player.</p><p></p><p>Finally, if the issue is being on social media, then make that the issue, and tell students they have the right to free speech...but the coach has the right to suspend them. Have someone monitoring their social media, and if they post during the excluded period, then suspend them.</p><p></p><p>So basically, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. They should be able to keep their phones (especially if they are 18) and the coaches should restrict what the players can post. Players should sign a waiver at the beginning of the season acknowledging that this can happen. </p><p></p><p>Then, punish the behavior. Otherwise what lesson are we teaching these young people? That is is okay for an "authority" figure to take demand their property, to be subject to privacy breaches, and non-compliance means punishment? I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks this is a good thing should not be involved with "raising" anyone else's children, and I feel sorry for their own kids.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gehörnter Frosch, post: 2816000, member: 79"] If they require kids to sign a waiver before the season starts, and the phones are taken up the night before every game, then I am okay with this. As is, it seems completely arbitrary to take every students' phone before the last game of the season. Again, it is impossible for any coach to know what is best for every player. Finally, if the issue is being on social media, then make that the issue, and tell students they have the right to free speech...but the coach has the right to suspend them. Have someone monitoring their social media, and if they post during the excluded period, then suspend them. So basically, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. They should be able to keep their phones (especially if they are 18) and the coaches should restrict what the players can post. Players should sign a waiver at the beginning of the season acknowledging that this can happen. Then, punish the behavior. Otherwise what lesson are we teaching these young people? That is is okay for an "authority" figure to take demand their property, to be subject to privacy breaches, and non-compliance means punishment? I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks this is a good thing should not be involved with "raising" anyone else's children, and I feel sorry for their own kids. [/QUOTE]
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