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Parental pressure and the high school coach This is a true story and should be required reading for all parents. Every parent wants their son to play college baseball and get an athletic scholarship but some simply go too far.
The peripheral opponent As parents take a more active role in their child's sport, coaches, naturally, are feeling the pressure. When Mike Lee accepted his "dream job come true" as head coach of the Newbury Park High baseball team, he figured his primary obstacle would be succeeding in the competitive Marmonte League. It turns out he was wrong. The wins and losses, he said, were the easy part. 3 years later, fired from his coaching position last summer, reeling from what he believed were attacks on his character and integrity, Lee remains shocked by what befell him in his baseball job. Parental pressure and dissent -- by what he says was "a small minority" of team parents -- was sufficient to force him out and turn his dream job into an angst-filled nightmare. "I'm very disappointed," says Lee. "This was the job I always wanted. It turns out there was a strong network of good old boys on the sidelines at the school, and I never fitted into that mode. It led to my demise." |
Lee, Thirty, still continues in his capacity as a health and PE teacher at Newbury Park High, still rubbed raw emotionally by his experiences on and off the baseball diamond. He is looking for another coaching job, but wonders if irreparable damage has been done to his reputation.
"All the lies they told -- I don't know how much I'm stained by all that," he said.
These are turbulent times for high schoolsports coaches, administrators and parents. What happened to Lee epitomizes the tenuous and often times stormy relationship that exists between high school coaches and team parents. It has redefined the role of the coach.
Lee's case is probably the extreme, but nearly every high school coach has dealt with angry, frustrated or just plain concerned parents looking for answers for their son's or daughter's playing time, position change or roster status.
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