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Originally Posted by Raymond
I always did it and was never embarrassed about it.
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I pretty much exclusively work only middle school games and quite often work with very young, very inexperienced partners, very often first year officials.
As a veteran official, a past member of our two local training committees (written rules and floor mechanics), and as a retired middle school science teacher, I take my job in these games as a "role model" and educator very seriously.
I hate it when I screw up in front of these "young'uns".
Even my little "mistakes" bother me, fists instead of hands on hips for a blocking foul, "full time out" instead of "sixty second time out", forgetting the stop the clock signal before signaling a held ball, etc.
I hate it when I'm forced to say. "Do as I say, not as I do", feels quite hypocritical.