http://nypost.com/2015/08/30/racist...ired-for-enforcing-eligibility-rules-lawsuit/ Racist or doing his job --------------------------- ‘Racist’ Long Island athletic director fired for enforcing eligibility rules: lawsuit A Long Island educator says he was labeled a racist and fired for enforcing academic eligibility requirements for student athletes. Students who are failing two or more classes are ineligible for sports, teacher Robert Cincotta, who served as athletic director for the predominantly black Hempstead school district between 2005 and 2013, said in a Brooklyn federal lawsuit. In February 2013, he began checking grades for all the kids participating in winter sports in the district, such as basketball, wrestling and indoor track, and informing coaches of who would not be allowed to play, Cincotta, who is white, says in court papers. The effort prompted a call from the superintendent’s assistant, who slammed him as a “racist” and told him he was “trying to hurt black kids,” Cincotta alleges. By May 2013, school officials told Cincotta, who began working in Hempstead schools in 1985, that his job had been eliminated for “economic reasons,” although the district continued to hire new employees, he claims. Cincotta is seeking unspecified damages in his discrimination claim against the district, which declined to comment.
If the policy was being applied uniformly to all the students, I don't see any racism here. The real issue is why are the students so ill prepared for school?
Even though it may have seem that he just wanted the black students to have higher standards academically :smt017
I agree with Thunp; as long as the rules are strictly enforced across-the-board the man was doing his job. The school would be doing the kids a disservice by allowing student athletes to continue playing their sport with bad grades. Part of being in sports and being successful is being able to manage your student career along with your God-given talent for sports. If you can't be successful and keep your grades up in school you shouldn't be playing sports.
[QUOTE=Cherok33;985566]I agree with Thunp; as long as the rules are strictly enforced across-the-board the man was doing his job. The school would be doing the kids a disservice by allowing student athletes to continue playing their sport with bad grades. Part of being in sports and being successful is being able to manage your student career along with your God-given talent for sports. If you can't be successful and keep your grades up in school you shouldn't be playing sports.[/QUOTE] I will take it a step furyher. I would take in an area that very ugly. Pretending that everything is above board what im thinking is nothing short of evil done on purpose or by accident but it us evil. This is nothing more than dumbing down our kuds as a whole but black boys especially. It also sends a very bad message to our kids and especially black boys and its not JUST about grades
I don't think that race was the motivation, it is all about the grades. I think that the coach was getting involved in the educational progress of his athletes. Nothing wrong with it at all. Prince Charles had a coach who cursed at him if he didn't perform properly in the field. Why was the coach doing this? He was the only man who was allowed to do this because he was the coach and royal titles do not apply.
