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First of all, let me say that I think giving the whining award was a very bad idea, but is this really national news? I work with kids and isn't it possible that this guy was looking for a way to get through to him? I use some sarcasm and a smile at times and it works. Could have this been a "tongue in cheek" award? I haven't followed the story all that closely, but I've never seen the coach's side of the story. Did anyone say that the kid was not a whiner? I have no problem with the guy losing his coaching job, but losing his teaching job is a whole different matter (as many of you have said). Kids that age say far worse things to each other on a daily basis, if this incident is going to "scar" him for the rest of his life, so badly that a civil suit can be filed, the kid has more problems than being a whiner. Just my $.02. I think we all have more important issues to be reading about on the national level.
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