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Such harsh punishment. /s

You're right, physical abuse of a child is far less egregious than driving drunk. What was I thinking? /s I'll say it again because you seem to be pretty dense. Two wrongs don't make a right!!! Whataboutism has no place in the discussion of child abuse. By the way, justifying the physical abuse of a 15 year old kid based on something that happened in a college basketball game 32 years ago is pretty absurd!

Appropriate behavior for public school employees when dealing with public school students, whether those students belong to them or not, is something that is clearly defined by state law within the public school ecosystem. Kevin Clifford was fired instantly from Patrick Henry - Roanoke more than 20 years ago for grabbing a football player in a similar fashion. Does a drunk driver get a pass when he crashes into a family of four because he's never crashed into anyone before? Maybe a better analogy, would the Algebra teacher be forgiven after grabbing a student by the chest, screaming in that students face, shaking them, and slap punch them in the back as they shove that student down the hallway? Why should rules differ because one is in a classroom setting while the other is on an athletic field? Rules are in place to handle these situations and shouldn't be ignored based on who the child/victim was or who the aggressor was. As I stated above, two wrongs never make a right!!! I'm not going to advocate on a meaningless message board for someone losing his job . But if I were a member of that community, I would be questioning those elected to govern the public school system in Bristol pretty hard.

Whataboutism has no place in this conversation. Two wrongs never make a right. And neither wrong should be ignored because one is slightly less egregious than the other.

Yes. Galax's is the same way. https://astroturf.com/maroon-tide-rolls-on-new-astroturf/

Runoff is required by federal law to be contained onto the property under construction and cannot, for any reason, encroach upon adjoining properties. As a matter of fact, post-construction runoff isn't permitted by law to exceed pre-construction runoff. It has to be contained (piping, underground vaults, permanent sediment basins, etc.) and slowly released back into it's natural flow patterns. If true, this isn't going to be an engineering issue. It will be a construction company negligence issue. I've seen it dozens of times. Contractors get lazy (or intentionally attempt to cut corners) by not installing proper erosion and sediment control measures prior to beginning construction. The inevitable happens and they attempt to blame anyone and everyone they can. It never works because engineering plans are scrutinized to the nth degree before construction permitting is issued.

Coaches coach!!! Players play!!! Parents shut the hell up and enjoy watching your kid!!!

Doesn't matter if it's his son or not. The coach is WAY out of line and should be unemployed, and possibly unemployable as a coach going forward. I had to testify in court in a similar incident 15 or so years ago. Coach/dad beat the crap out of his catcher/son in the dugout between innings after the catcher attempted a pick-off on 3rd and airmailed the ball into left field allowing two runs to score. I was the plate umpire. Mama bear had coach/dad on the ground begging for his life before we even realized anything was going on. Coach/dad was arrested on the spot. The moral of the story, you cannot, under any circumstances, put hands on a kid!

It will if the post before mine, the one I was responding to, happens. Lebanon, Marion, Richlands and Graham all drop to Class 1. That’s a big “if” but based on the question the previous post was asking, something would need to change. Most likely a redraw of traditional regional boundaries. It’s more likely, nothing really changes.

1D currently has 16 teams. 2D currently has 12 teams. 1C currently has 13 teams. 2C currently has 12 teams. 1B has 12 2B has 11 1A has 13 2A has 14 Traditional regional boundaries will have to be adjusted if many teams move up or down a classification at the same time.

If I remember correctly, ADM is taken every March even though each cycle is 2 years. The current cycle is 23/24-24/25 so the fall of 2025 would be the next cycle.

The next Executive Committee meeting is May 2nd. I assume the new ADM figures for the upcoming cycle will post sometime after that. I could be wrong too. The March 31, 2022 ADM figures were posted July 31, 2023. The moral of the story with anything concerning VHSL, who the hell knows?!?!?

AJ Ashworth of Galax signed as a preferred walk-on with ODU.