mike_dyer
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ADs too.
It's almost like the ones at the school my kids go to weigh all options and carefully choose the very worst thing they could possibly do, then they go all in on it.
I could write a book about this, but here is the most recent brilliant move in a very long line of brilliant moves.
The football team is terrible. It's a D4 school in a league of D6 and D7 schools. They have won 5 of their last 20 games. None of that matters to me, I'm not involved with the football team. The problem I have is that their lifting program is idiotic, and I wouldn't even care about that but for some reason they think my daughter needs to adhere to it. They do around 30 different exercises per workout, I think my favorite one is the one where they hang rubber bands off of squat racks and pull on them for a little while. The coach told me all about how much he paid for it, he said some pro football player uses it. Good thing he's coaching the Miami Dolphins and he's got lots of those to work with, amiright???
Anyway, my kid does her own thing. She lifts in the basement and she's pretty strong, really. She has a good chance to win state in power lifting this year. The other day she was hitting off of a tee like she does most days, the football coach waddled through and yelled at her for not hanging rubber bands on squat racks and pulling on them for a little while + 29 other ways to not get much stronger. The next day she goes to get the tee and the net and they tell her that since there isn't a coach there to watch her hit they can't let her do it, it's not safe, she's in danger of getting injured, etc.
I'm waiting on a reply from the AD. When he lets me know it's all about her safety I might tell him that I'm going to talk to an attorney about how their negligence has put her in grave danger nearly every day of the week for the last few months. I mean, she wasn't injured hitting a ball off of a stick with another stick, but now that I know it's such a dangerous activity I feel like it's my duty to step in and make sure they don't put any other kids in harm's way like they have done in the past.
It's almost like the ones at the school my kids go to weigh all options and carefully choose the very worst thing they could possibly do, then they go all in on it.
I could write a book about this, but here is the most recent brilliant move in a very long line of brilliant moves.
The football team is terrible. It's a D4 school in a league of D6 and D7 schools. They have won 5 of their last 20 games. None of that matters to me, I'm not involved with the football team. The problem I have is that their lifting program is idiotic, and I wouldn't even care about that but for some reason they think my daughter needs to adhere to it. They do around 30 different exercises per workout, I think my favorite one is the one where they hang rubber bands off of squat racks and pull on them for a little while. The coach told me all about how much he paid for it, he said some pro football player uses it. Good thing he's coaching the Miami Dolphins and he's got lots of those to work with, amiright???
Anyway, my kid does her own thing. She lifts in the basement and she's pretty strong, really. She has a good chance to win state in power lifting this year. The other day she was hitting off of a tee like she does most days, the football coach waddled through and yelled at her for not hanging rubber bands on squat racks and pulling on them for a little while + 29 other ways to not get much stronger. The next day she goes to get the tee and the net and they tell her that since there isn't a coach there to watch her hit they can't let her do it, it's not safe, she's in danger of getting injured, etc.
I'm waiting on a reply from the AD. When he lets me know it's all about her safety I might tell him that I'm going to talk to an attorney about how their negligence has put her in grave danger nearly every day of the week for the last few months. I mean, she wasn't injured hitting a ball off of a stick with another stick, but now that I know it's such a dangerous activity I feel like it's my duty to step in and make sure they don't put any other kids in harm's way like they have done in the past.