The Blog Entry that was Banned in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma
Well, I guess you may have heard the football snafu that is going on here in my town. In case you haven't, a young man (the quarterback who is also the coach's son) was suspended for kicking a fellow on the other team. Apparently, two members of the other team were picking on folks from the Shawnee team. He and his father appealed the ruling, and he was reinstated. So now the OSSAA is appealing it to the Oklahoma Supreme Court.
Well...I think it has gotten out of hand. The kid kicked the person. Let him serve his suspension and move on from there. It doesn't need to go to court. And it sure as Hades doesn't need to delay the football playoffs for two teams that weren't even involved.
This reminds me of a snafu that took place my senior year of high school. We had a rule at our homecoming that the escort could not kiss the homecoming queen. The rule was made ten years prior when a basketball homecoming queen candidate was escorted by a young man who was African-American. Her father didn't want him kissing her, so the school made the rule that no escort could kiss a homecoming queen. (The joys of living in a small town south of the Mason-Dixon line...)
Anyway, fast forward to 1996. A friend of mine won Homecoming Queen. Her escort (a close friend of hers who probably privately liked her) kissed her. As a result, he was given three days in-house suspension.
He and his parents both supported the actions of the athletic director. Neither of them appealed the decision. However, the student body was in an uproar. Of course, most of them wanted to befriend him and the Homecoming Queen, so they supported them. Myself included.
Oh, well. News of the Weird, I guess.
Well...I think it has gotten out of hand. The kid kicked the person. Let him serve his suspension and move on from there. It doesn't need to go to court. And it sure as Hades doesn't need to delay the football playoffs for two teams that weren't even involved.
This reminds me of a snafu that took place my senior year of high school. We had a rule at our homecoming that the escort could not kiss the homecoming queen. The rule was made ten years prior when a basketball homecoming queen candidate was escorted by a young man who was African-American. Her father didn't want him kissing her, so the school made the rule that no escort could kiss a homecoming queen. (The joys of living in a small town south of the Mason-Dixon line...)
Anyway, fast forward to 1996. A friend of mine won Homecoming Queen. Her escort (a close friend of hers who probably privately liked her) kissed her. As a result, he was given three days in-house suspension.
He and his parents both supported the actions of the athletic director. Neither of them appealed the decision. However, the student body was in an uproar. Of course, most of them wanted to befriend him and the Homecoming Queen, so they supported them. Myself included.
Oh, well. News of the Weird, I guess.
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