Our county sponsors Rec and Travel leagues for youth players. Both leagues require each player to have a signed parent Code of Ethics from NAYS - started this policy about 2-3 years ago. Both leagues also suspend coach one game for an ejection, and I know the travel league has a two game suspension for parents, with the parent required to have a talk with the league director prior to being reinstated. The league director is a college ref (division I mens) and he knows how to handle these things. He says he makes them explain why they had to be ejected from a kids game, i.e., what compelled them to behave so badly as to be ejected and how are they going to comport themselves in the future?
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