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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of you are just plain crazy.  I understand not scheduling a weekly tutoring session during practice, but a one-off make-up session should be totally fine.  If it isn't, you need to rethink your priorities.

I played Varsity soccer and basketball, and there were times when someone had to miss practice.  Unless it was habitual, it was fine.  [b]My senior year, my basketball co-captain was behind on her college apps and needed to miss a week to catch up.  The coach left it up to the team as to whether he would bench her for that.[/b]  As a team, we agreed that her future and her mental health were way more important than a week of high school basketball and asked our coach not to punish her for taking the week off.

There are many things that you commit to.  That commitment doesn't mean that you never miss a single instance.  It means you show up as much as you can and you clearly communicate when you can't. [/quote]
The coach let the team decide whether to punish a player? That’s really not good. 
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His reasoning is that we were the ones affected by the player's absence and if we were okay with it, then he was too.  The point is that we were accountable to each other.  The alternative is that she would have been punished for missing the time, but that wasn't something that we wanted as a team.  On some teams that might be an issue, but it actually worked really well for our team.[/quote]

Yeah. - That was a very very very bad approach.  Never allow that to happen.   It is why you have an adult coaching.  The coach can talk to the player, player’s parents, and the school admin folks on how best to approach the issue.  Never never never are you going to hear, “the best approach will be to let kids decide”.  Letting kids decide was incredibly stupid.

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