High school basketball coach accused of whipping players

[Naturally]

<p>Wow, how could he possibly think this was okay?</p>

<p>[Mississippi</a> basketball coach accused of whipping players - CNN.com](<a href=“Mississippi basketball coach accused of whipping players - CNN.com”>Mississippi basketball coach accused of whipping players - CNN.com)</p>

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A Jackson, Mississippi, high school basketball coach is accused of whipping students for “failing to run basketball plays correctly,” according to a federal lawsuit filed this week by three students.</p>

<p>Coach Marlon Dorsey acknowledged he “paddled” students, but he defended it as a way to “save these young men from the destruction of self,” the court filing said.</p>

<p>One senior was whipped “daily and sometimes more than once daily by striking him three times across his buttocks each time” with a “five to ten pound weight belt,” the suit said.</p>

<p>One beating was captured on video, the suit said . . . .</p>

<p>“He told them they had the choice to accept the licks without complaining to anyone or forfeit the opportunity to play basketball for their high school team,” it said.</p>

<p>The coach verbally abused basketball players, calling them “sissy,” “*****,” “wimp,” and “soft,” it said. . . . </p>

<p>“I paddled my students… today, some of [sic] students have lost pride in their school and in their (sic) selves. Students are disrespecting teachers, administrators and other students by stealing cell phones, leaving off campus without permission, disrupting classroom teaching time, late for class and not following dress codes by wearing the pants on their butts and house shoes to school and on-court behavior. I took it upon myself to save these young men from the destruction of self and what society has accepted and become silent to the issues our students are facing on a daily basis.”

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<p>UNREAL.</p>

[run2flyfree]

<p>I would say he probably was beaten as a child. </p>

<p>Second thing is, 30 or 40 years ago this kind of thing would be probably considered OK and as many of the parents on this forum grew up during these times, I don’t know how “unreal” it is. </p>

<p>Also as a student, the things he says that are “verbal abuse” I don’t see as being terribly wrong…</p>

[binks09]

<p>The only reason this guy’s in trouble is because of the public stereotypes associated with disciplining someone else’s child and the fact that a bunch of these parents are greedy gold diggers with $$$ in their eyes.</p>

<p>I didn’t read the article, but I bet they are going after the…
coach
school
district
league for which the school/sport belongs to
city
county
state</p>

<p>Any way to make a quick buck - If it was in California, I would be expecting a lady in a red coat to have had a news conference by now with crying defendants - cough* Gloria Allred* cough</p>

[mom2collegekids]

<p>How bizarre! </p>

<p>What coach/teacher/whatever would ever think this is ok to do? And, why did it go on for so long. The parents had complained to the principal and nothing was done!</p>