This. - MS Coach, Lifelong athlete, and parent of K-12 athletes |
Basketball isn't a contact sport, troll. OP go watch practices until you're comfortable that this coach isn't out of line. My kid is super sensitive and as a result not a very reliable narrator, but better safe than sorry. |
7 year olds are not reliable narrators. Were any parents at the practice? Can you attend practices going forward? |
Question for you OP. If you were next to a kid who was falling and you could catch them, would you let them fall or grab their arm to stop them?
Did you ask your kid if he was falling when the coach grabbed him? |
None of us have any idea what actually happened, OP.. everyone is imagining their own narrative. You need to observe the interactions and get multiple witness reports to understand what happened. |
Moron, do you really think an adult male punched a 7 yr old? What would that look like? Wouldn't other people notice? JFC, and you wonder why nobody wants to coach or teach. |
+1 Of course the coach did not punch a kid at practice FFS. Clearly there is something missing in the reporting. 7yos are not reliable narrators as someone else said. |
+1. It’s amazing that anyone would be willing to coach in today’s litigious environment. |
Why weren’t you there? |
7 year olds shouldnt be dropped off at practice.
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Can he draw you a picture of what happened? This has helped me understand exactly what happened to my young child. The account can be verbally incoherent, but you can start to get a sense of the timeline and who was where when you put it down on paper. It can help DC remember more details. |
Does your kid still want to participate? If so, I would just attend a couple of practices. If he is rough with your kid, he is likely rough with others. The coach's explanation sounds reasonable, but I also would want to go watch practice to see him in action. |
If these are 7 year olds there definitely was a parent there. Usually all of them at that age. Go watch the next one and talk to someone. Do you not know a single parent on your DC team? This is all so strange |
I don’t see the problem. Sounds like he was falling, he grabbed the kid, then asked if he was ok and then “fist pumped him.” Your child sounds like a punk. He was crying? For what? Why would he call a fist pump a punch? |
OP said this was an after school program. I'm reading this as a part of the late care. Wouldn't the school be the one to contact about this? |