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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a coach for a high school athletic team.  Somehow I get a bunch of teenage boys to show up on time and with the proper equipment with no exceptions and only rare communication with their parents.

Figure it out, OP.  You are all adults.  Either what you are saying you want really isn’t that important to you, or you are not communicating effectively with the people you are supposed to be leading.  [/quote]

Well sure, you are good at your job.  Most of us are.  I'm sure many of us have a hierarchy - job items first, then medical, then recreational, and do the best we can to check off everything on our list.  But sometimes those things a little down the list (like remembering to have your first grader wear green on school spirit day) might fall through the cracks every now and then even when your job to-do's are all on target.[/quote]

This isn’t my job.  I’m a physician and a father of four.  This is a hobby.

Anyway, my point honestly isn’t that everyone should remember to have their first grader wear green.  It’s that there shouldn’t be a school spirit day.  Because obviously no one cares about it.  The kids don’t care enough to remember.  The parents (myself included) don’t care enough to look out for it.  And the people organizing it don’t care enough to make sure it is communicated in a way that it will actually happen.  
I am sure that someone at some point cared about Green Day, but they are gone now, so just stop.  There is someone at my kids elementary school right now who is very passionate about the landscaping of the school, and he organizes school clean-up and planting days, and you can be sure that we all know when they are, and tons of people come out to help.  But when he goes, someone else who doesn’t really care will probably take it over and then blame the parents and the kids for not showing up and helping.  [/quote]

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