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Originally Posted by Tim C
The OSAA is made up of representative educators, superintendents, principals, coaches, teachers, and school board members.
It would be my view that the new "sportsmanship rules" were established by the exact people that you have mentioned in your post.
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If that's the case, then why don't all the individual schools already have those rules in place?
And, you did leave out one very important person that is not included in the OSAA - the parent. And, isn't that who is ultimately responsible for teaching behavior?
I guess I feel legislation should be used for what the vast majority agrees upon. In this case, (as is the case many times), a select few determines how many should act, without a clear consensus. There is, for example, a clear consensus on racial comments. That is fine to legislate. There is not a clear consensus that reading a newspaper during player introductions is bad behavior. Therefore, that behavior should be left up to the individuals directly involved, not a quasi-governing body who quite probably has never even set foot anywhere near the school involved.