As a proud graduate of the Sun Valley Polly High School in 1976 and a person who followed its highest levels and lowest levels in the Los Angeles Unified School area since then in reporting its sports programs, I can say frankly that the statement sent to me on Thursday morning tops everything.
In response to Football coach Control Manuel Guevara In protest against the ban imposed on any football exercises (including weight and speed training), a spokesman for the LaUSD reported the school policy of training during its peak in an attempt to encourage students to participate in multiple sports.
“The decision to reduce training outside the season for football players in the learning complex is unique Schools in this campus were unanimously identified by school principals after receiving notes from students and trainers.
It is great that they want to support multi -sports athletes, but dictate and not allow coaches to help players who want to improve specifically in one sport is ridiculous. How can you have a football team that cannot meet until the summer to prepare for a season without weightlifting to help become stronger, which helps prevent injuries? How can Contrames teams compete safely against other schools that strengthened their lists through training outside the season? What is the coach who will agree to such restrictions?
Guevara said that students are welcome to play other sports, so this attempt to deny opportunities for students who want to play and train only in football looks like a child in the brain for a person who has hidden motives to help favorite sports improve sports.
It is unusual that Lausd did not intervene to stop this nonsense. Any sane father will be left immediately for another school. Unfortunately, the Contraras is in one of the poorest Los Angeles, and students who transport schools are likely to be very expensive for families in the area to consider. One of the parents wrote in a written letter in September, “Our students already live in a neighborhood surrounded by gangs and drugs. It is located one tendency to the west of this school, a garden with homelessness, gangs, violence and simple words, a sad fact of what we try to prevent it from these students away.
Football was the heart of the tradition of schools from unity and perseverance. High school students aspire to be part of this team
“Stay away from school sports does not only affect students and trainers, but also affects the grades, but also affects friends, families, societies, and the general performance of the school. When you take from a child that makes them a child, you take away their desire to strive for the better, and their creativity, And their inner child, who allows them to dismantle and know that life is not just a job. “
This year, the great football coach for Contreras Eder Puga Garcia He resigned after the team was directed to the city title last season. He said that the restrictions of its season led to a step down.
Lausd has lost students for years, and if this is an example of the applicable driving, the future is dark. Parents need to speak. students The petition started.
