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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, it's softball.  The parent is horrible.  She's been horrible all season.  We like the kid and we want her to have a good experience.  We want all our girls to have a good time.  (We are a rec league made up of over 100 girls.)

The parent in question was team mom/sometime asst coach.  After a few weeks of snotty behavior, she Mom2 her kid sucks and that's why she doesn't get playing time.  Mom 2 threatens with violence.  All of this happened in front of their daughters.

Board meets with both moms a couple of days later.  Mom 2 is super apologetic, sincere, remorseful, embarrassed etc.  Team mom was given a couple of opportunities to "correct" what she meant, and to apologize.  She doubled down and again repeated 2x your daughter sucks and she'll never be a pitcher.

I don't care how parents feel about each other or the girls, frankly, as long as they're civil, supportive, positive and keep their mouths shut.  But for a team mom/asst coach to tell a parent 3x, with the kid hearing once, her kid is terrible, our board wouldn't tolerate, so we fired her from the position.  Both moms were suspended for the next game.  Mom 2 stayed away.  Ex-team mom not only showed up and perched herself in the visitor stands, she went out onto the field to take pictures (supposedly for the team scrapbook).

This team mom has stated 2x in the past that the board will not punish her for x, y, z... long stories, but truly b-tchy, but not punishable, things.  So we know she's just openly defiant and the only way we can shut her up is to bench her kid.

We hate doing it, but have no other recourse.  What are we going to call the cops if she shows up?  That's insane.  If we let it go, the other parents know there aren't repercussions to being an a-hole, and their girls don't feel protected.

So, the FFS poster, what do you suggest doing if not punishing the kid?

PS we did it.  We let her know the kid is suspended.  There's been radio silence which suggests to me this lady and kid are going to show up to practice tonight and cause a scene.  I'm totally unprepared in what to do.  I've never before worked with such an evil entitled person that will be so openly defiant.  I don't even know how to handle it when she shows up.  I'm not going to say "hey kids, don't throw to Iris, pretend she's not here".  But I also refuse to let this woman bully her way out of punishment.  What would you do?[/quote]

I would def ask for a league authority to be present at practice tonight in case she shows up.[/quote]

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