Being a school administrator at a high school is more difficult than being a teacher.
My wife is a teacher and I've worked in education for 23 years. I would disagree.
Being a classroom teacher with constant student interaction from 8 am to 3:30 pm, plus bus duty days with little to no breaks, M-F, in addition to using your planning period to remediate students and call parents.
Then, grading papers and answering student and parent questions throughout the evening.
I'm sorry but assistant principals don't even come close to that level of continuous work. You might argue that they deal with parent complaints, but these days, most administrators dodge, deflect and refer parents back to the teacher. If they don't, then the teacher gets yelled at, still not escaping. Remember, everything flows down hill.
This funny because three of the coaches during my high school career taught English, math, & the other history. These days, I do see a lot of PE teachers that are coaches and I see many who aren’t even employed by school system around here anyway.
Over the years, it seems more coaches are getting into "flexible" positions. Ones that don't really impact students' standardized testing.
These positions allow the coaches to take care of their team responsibilities throughout the day without loss of instructional time. I've noticed that Scott Co has several assistant principals that coach. Yet another position that can basically be vacated on any given day to tend to coaching duties.
I wasn't aware there were sports besides football. Mind blown! 🤯 I will have to look into those! 😁
Thinking about football memories. I don't know if there's a worse one than Union/Appo 2017. That one still hurts. There's too many ecstatic ones to list, but as far as unbelievable goes...2013 Richlands/Union, 2016 Dan River/Union, 1989 "The Catch" Lunenburg/PV.
As for weird memories, I'll never forget playing Clintwood my JV year and my pants being black from a nasty, smelly, funky water seeping out of the ground near the endzone. We thought we were playing in someone's cesspool.🤮
I'm not sure if enough retirements, from the School Board Office, have taken place to allow BI to come back to the county, given the real reason behind his resignation.
This is where Ronnie Davis has a leg up, in my opinion. I’m sure he has knowledge on his own, and it helps being a part of two of the strongest coaching staffs in the area throughout his career.
I know we like to poke fun of Union’s backpack crew, but what we sometimes overlook are the volunteers doing the other tasks (water, food, IT, trainers, equipment, etc.) so that the main staff can concentrate on coaching and teaching football.
We make fun of it ourselves, but like the tasks you mentioned, somebody has to do it. There is no shortage of volunteers in Appy/BSG to help out with the football program. THAT is a blessing!
For anyone that hasn't seen Paul Huff in person, he just posted his sophomore highlights. He's not slow, but if he can increase his speed, he'll definitely be getting college offers.
Y'all have so many assistants you could probably make a trade with Tazewell too and still have plenty. But do the backpacks come with the assistants? If not, no deal! 🤣🤣
Backpacks included! As a bonus, there might even be something in them!
AND if you act within the next 30 minutes, we'll even throw in a toot on the train horn!😂
Okay, some have mentioned DC possibilities but what about OC? Does he try to bring Aaron Lowe back? A current assistant? Someone totally different? Maybe one of Union's forty assistants is looking to relocate? 🤣
(We have to keep the thread alive to outdo the one who shall not be named. 🤣😂).
Just trying to do my part.
We'll trade 5 assistants to Graham for Jennings. Have to see what Richlands has to offer before I can make a trade with them. Lol
A whole lot of folks who were recently mad about people recruiting AWAY from Richlands are suddenly going to become ok with the head coach recruiting TO Richlands.
IMO, students are ill-equipped to select a proper school name. Most have little knowledge or appreciation for local history, geography, or fauna. The results are unimaginative and generic names and mascots best suited for a Disney Channel high school.
I would agree, but at the time they were trying to make consolidation as smooth as possible. The thought was since the students were the ones to be truly impacted it would be less controversial if they decided.
Ultimately, I think the goal was to keep as much out of the hands of adults because they were the ones arguing about everything.
Thoughts on that last play before halftime for Essex?
I've watched it about 20x, I can't see the kid step out and it appears that he knocks over the pylon, looks like a TD but official said that he was stopped short.
Wondering what everyone else thought?
Congratulations to Galax, glad they got the win!
I went back and slow-mowed it. Looked like the Essex player's butt was on the ground before the ball broke the goal line to me, but the NFHS angle isn't the best.
lol okay. Union lost to a 5A TN school by 21 that would smash JF or MV, their only loss. If Gretna was so good, why didn’t they beat Glenvar? Radford also beat Glenvar by damn near 40, funny you didn’t mention that. That’s a fact too, sweetheart. Why are you bringing Glenvar or Gretna up then? Gretna didn’t even make the 2C final and Glenvar lost in the same game Union did.
this thread should be about Radford and their amazing season, not this dumb squabbling over who’s 2-6. You decided to try and rank the teams and try and belittle 2D football, I’m sorry you feel the need to do that.
Science Hill is a legit 6A school with 2300 kids. 5A doesn't help your narrative. Haha
Also, Gretna beat 3 win powerhouse Floyd Co by 1 pt in OT, so there's that. 🤷
Central - this one is obvious. It seems every opponent that has visited there has a list of complaints. The only reason I don't want them going 0-10 is loss of PPs.
Appomattox - nothing to do with their success. My dislike goes back to 2014 when Lee beat them, and their fans lit up social media complaining they were "disrespected" because Lee brought their band and inflatable to an away game. 🙄
All the whining about the Giles train horn didn't help either.
Any private/magnet school- any school that can hand pick their students has no business whatsoever competing against a public school.
Honorable mention - Riverheads - even though their fans seem oblivious to it, willfully or blissfully ignorant, any school district that adjusts attendance boundaries to keep a school JUST under the smallest classification cap is not competing in the true spirit of sportsmanship. As far as denial goes, the local paper has published at least one article on the boundary adjustments.
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My wife is a teacher and I've worked in education for 23 years. I would disagree.
Being a classroom teacher with constant student interaction from 8 am to 3:30 pm, plus bus duty days with little to no breaks, M-F, in addition to using your planning period to remediate students and call parents.
Then, grading papers and answering student and parent questions throughout the evening.
I'm sorry but assistant principals don't even come close to that level of continuous work. You might argue that they deal with parent complaints, but these days, most administrators dodge, deflect and refer parents back to the teacher. If they don't, then the teacher gets yelled at, still not escaping. Remember, everything flows down hill.