Just a word of caution.
My brother-in-law is a skating coach. He coached a young skater who went on to the Olympics.
We were talking about the swimming coaches situation, and he commented that as a coach he has to be extremely careful with his relationship with skaters and their parents. Not because of any sexual issues, but because of the THREAT of them using supposed sexual issues to get back at him if they don't like something he has said or done that is not related to sexual issues.
He's seen it happen to innocent coaches before. It's called blackmail.
I'd hate to see this turn into a witch hunt, and I would hope that those who are complaining about a coach are willing to take it to court so that both sides get their say, unless, of course, the coach admits fault. In our country you are innocent until proven guilty.
This exact scenario just happened in Northern Virginia. Below is a link to the article that came out today. The gist is a 12 year old girl accused the teacher of molesting her but the teacher was found not guilty after about 10 minutes of deliberation. Come to find out the girl was mad at the teacher. Meanwhile he gets his name and picture in the paper for several months as an accused child molester and was suspended without pay for the past 4 months.
www.washingtonpost.com/.../AR2010052703259.html
Just a word of caution.
My brother-in-law is a skating coach. He coached a young skater who went on to the Olympics.
We were talking about the swimming coaches situation, and he commented that as a coach he has to be extremely careful with his relationship with skaters and their parents. Not because of any sexual issues, but because of the THREAT of them using supposed sexual issues to get back at him if they don't like something he has said or done that is not related to sexual issues.
He's seen it happen to innocent coaches before. It's called blackmail.
I'd hate to see this turn into a witch hunt, and I would hope that those who are complaining about a coach are willing to take it to court so that both sides get their say, unless, of course, the coach admits fault. In our country you are innocent until proven guilty.
This exact scenario just happened in Northern Virginia. Below is a link to the article that came out today. The gist is a 12 year old girl accused the teacher of molesting her but the teacher was found not guilty after about 10 minutes of deliberation. Come to find out the girl was mad at the teacher. Meanwhile he gets his name and picture in the paper for several months as an accused child molester and was suspended without pay for the past 4 months.
www.washingtonpost.com/.../AR2010052703259.html
