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Originally posted by mplagrow
Yes, I am the administrator of a private school. However, I am also an official, so I am just trying to see all sides.
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The accepted principle has been outlined in the rulebook for many years. It tells you exactly where the responsibility lies.
Rule 2-8-1NOTE- "
The home management or game committee is responsible for spectator behaviour, insofar as it can reasonably be expected to control the spectators".
I think that officials assigned to any high school game should have a "reasonable assurance" that they will not be assaulted by fans. If an incident like the one described above occurs in our officials association's jurisdiction, we would
not send officials back to this school until we are 100% sure that there will not be a repeat of the problem. I'm not being smart,but if a school administrator is "up on the fence" over a problem like this, we would just tell him "Fine, see if you can find some officials to do your games while you're up there. The ones down here aren't going to do them until we have complete assurance that something like this will never happen again".
As far as I'm concerned, there
isn't two sides when it comes to assaulting officials.
Sun Oct 26, 2003, 08:02pm
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