[Hawks Coach]

I think you have to let the kid shoot the FTs, explain that to the coach, and stay out of anything else. The ref shall not send a player to the locker room unescorted. However, if the coach says go, it is now between the coach and player (and game managment if this is the visiting team). If this is the home team, these kids go all over the school without an escort - if a responsible individual from the school allows this to occur, the ref has no business involving himself in this issue.

Try it another way - the player is escorted to the locker room, and the escort returns immediately and sits in the stands. Are you sending him back? Where does this line of reasoning logically take you?