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Coaching youth sports in 2021: God’s work

Since we're in a teacher shortage, I'd say that it's not silly to say that it carries over to the coaching side.

Looks like you can add ANOTHER Field Turf upgrade to Indiana HS Football... Huntington North https://www.wane.com/high-school-sports/huntington-north-high-school-constructing-new-football-stadium/

Teachers Unions Hate School-Opening Science Now That They Can't Influence It https://reason.com/2021/03/23/teachers-unions-hate-school-opening-science-now-that-they-cant-influence-it/ If public school districts in the United States lack the human resources and planning ability to do what their private school counterparts have long managed, then maybe it's time to recognize that those monopoly systems no longer deserve automatic taxpayer funding. You could fill a football stadium with the most effective libertarian education reformers on the planet, and their exertions combined would pale in comparison to how much, in one short year, teachers unions have turned normal people away from public schools. Like vulture capitalists squeezing the last drops of value out of newspaper companies, teachers unions are shaking down the public for one last big payday. Only in this case, millions of kids are suffering as a result. When Randi Weingarten uses "science" in a sentence, the appropriate response is a laugh track—and getting taxpayer money far, far away from people like her. Agreed. When will the general public come to realize that the primary concern of public sector teachers unions is NOT the welfare of the children their members purport to teach, it is to protect at virtually all costs their members jobs, salaries and benefits. That is the primary purpose of any labor union.

This is a really good topic and interesting topic. I am a 30 year old public educator and here are my observations. 1. It gets more difficult every year for kids entering college to justify spending $40k on a college degree to make $40k as a starting salary. I don't think a lot of parents are telling their kids: "Hey, I think you'd be a good teacher - you should go do that". 2. Because of point #1 the candidate pool in many subject areas is almost non-existent. Math, Science, Foreign Language Teachers are very limited. And it seems like it is pretty rare to hire a teacher nowadays who is also an all-in coach/sponsor for anything. It's hard to find teachers and coaches, but finding a student council sponsor isn't a cake walk either. 3. At a smaller school, you're not going to have a 5-6 coaches that are in the building nowadays - if you do, you're very lucky. Having a lot of lay coaches is fine, but whoever is in the building has to be a pretty dynamic person in terms of recruiting the hallways, monitoring offseason work, grades, behavior etc.

There is a shortage of men going into teaching who want to be coaches. There are also multiple concerns for admin when they hire, and many times they feel pressure to hire for some other reason than the fact that the person can coach. Multiple young teachers who do coach do it for a few years and then quit to specialize in one sport, or quit altogether due to the long hours as they start a family, or due to the fact that things didn't work out due to the issues that come up in many school districts. If there are issues, the stipend isn't enough to get them to stay, and they go on and do something else with their time. I dont think covid has anything to do with it....it is just a problem in Indiana right now across the board. DT original concern is a valid one that in a few years the teacher/coach pool will continue to shrink

I actually heard that the whole thing was orchestrated by the Texans primarily to render him untradeable — through no fault of theirs. Secondarily, to “put him in his place.” Love the conspiracy nuts.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/23/politics/biden-gun-control-colorado-atlanta/index.html The President seems adamant the gun control bills just out of Congress will save our Country from any more mass shootings. Which is FALSE. Neither of the laws would have stopped either the Atlanta or Boulder shooters. While I can agree in principle to the Universal Background Checks, I am still waiting on an official "Assault Weapons" definition before I can have any support for a ban.