Dung Marrs

Mike Williams of Fork Union,VA military academy. Congratulations,and welcome to the family.

OK guys the meeting is now finalized. It will be at the VFW post 9696 in West Graham, Bluefield Virginia on November 16th from 6:30PM to 8:30PM. We invite everyone who wants a new football coach and athletic director to join us. What is going on at Graham High is wrong and its time for a change.

Recently a group of concerned citizens attended the October school board meeting and discussed the concern for one man holding the titles of head coach and athletic director at Graham High School. This was due to the fact that the Graham home game against Princeton was given to Princeton and played at Princeton on October 1st. This was done so that coach Marrs could go watch his son sit on the bench at a football game in Chapel Hill, NC on October 2nd. John O'Neal has admitted that Graham recieved 60 percent of the gate in Princeton, but our band lost concessions and our sports programs lost 40 percent of OUR money because of one selfish man. After the meeting it was decided that the best course of action would be to formally ask Cookie Johnson to schedule a meeting with Graham principal John O'Neal. At this meeting the group was going to ask for the removal of Doug Marrs as head football coach and athletic director. The date asked for was November 16th @ 7PM. When O'Neal finally got back to us he said Cookie Johnson had a scheduling conflict for that day, and suggested that he would only meet with us during school hours, so that most working people could not attend. So we asked for the 15th and got no response. After several days of trying to get O'Neal and being blown off or not having our calls returned we finally got a hold of Principal O'Neal this morning after the secretary ran him down in the lunch room. His response to our request for a meeting was that he was not going to meet with us at all! And that he would only meet with the parents of football players and only then individually. This is so he can intimidate the parents in our opinion. We are outraged by this, and feel that world needs to know about how John O'Neal is protecting Doug Marrs. There has been rumors that a petition is out there to remove coach Marrs. This is incorrect that was the original idea, but we felt the meeting was the better course of action to do this. We are still having a meeting on November 16th, 2010 at a site to be determined. We are tired of our children transferring to other schools, or not playing sports at all because they do not like or respect the current coaches that do not respect them or treat them well.There are members of the school board who are willing to help us in our cause, but parents of children who have been wronged in the past need to step up with us and fight. If you feel the same about how our children are being treated we encourage you to attend the meeting and stand up with the brave men and women who are tired of this treatment and are willing to do something about it. When we have a location we will post again.