A high school football coach in Wyoming has resigned after orchestrating what may be the single-least appropriate motivational tactic in recent years, handing his players a "Hurt Feelings Report" in which students were asked to select from various offensive options to describe why they were upset.OK, definitely inappropriate even if it is a little bit funny--and let's be honest, it is a bit funny. But you want to know what the funniest part of the whole story is?
As first reported by the Buffalo Bulletin, Casper Star-Tribune and The Advocate before being circulated throughout the Internet, Buffalo (Wyo.) High football coach Pat Lynch offered up a questionnaire to his players that offered the following possible reasons for their disappointment, as reported by The Advocate (Warning: Some of the choices are pretty abhorrent):The survey, under a list of reasons for hurt feelings, includes such choices as "I am a queer," "I am a little bitch," and "I have woman like hormones." It asks for the name of the "little sissy filing report" and his "girly-man signature," plus the "real-man signature" of the person accused of causing hurt feelings.
You can see a full copy of the survey here.
After an investigation into the survey, Lynch tendered his resignation on Wednesday, with the Buffalo school board accepting it days later.
Still, the now-former coach will be allowed to continue as a guidance counselor at the school.You can't make this stuff up!
P.S. His "report" is a little reminiscent of things my first battery commander used to say, but as soldiers, we were grown men.
2 comments:
And unlike the Army, school should have adult supervision.
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Sounds like this was a joke that went wrong. Of course, if this was all just a joke, it was incredibly poor taste. As a former high school teacher, I always observed that coaches could get away with things us normal teachers couldn't, like cussing at the players. If I said half the things the football coach said to his players, I would have been fired, or at least, recorded and put on You Tube.
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