Escalation at Claremont High School
It's looking more and more as if the best show in town tonight will be the Claremont High School Baseball Booster Club meeting, at the high school library, this evening, April 28, at 6:00 p.m. As a matter of fact, the temperature of this meeting seems to be going up with each passing hour. It threatens to go thermonuclear.
We would go, but as a 97-pound weakling hiding behind a veil of anonymity, we know we would not be welcome and would be easily identified. Heck, as in most domestic disputes, both sides might gang up on us.
How does this sound for the start of an email from what appears to be a CHS staff member to a parent (again, we stress, we can't confirm with certainty that the email is from a CHS staff member, but it seems authentic; in any case, we will omit the name except to say it is not attributed to Coach Lee):
Dear Coward...you know who I am. Step forward and man up.It goes on. We can't say it gets worse. What we excerpt from just the first paragraph is pretty strong stuff when directed from a school employee to a parent. Is it our imagination, or did this staff member make a dig at the parent by bringing up the issue of the son's playing ability? Fortunately, the writer gets quickly back his main task, questioning this parent's ability to parent.
...It is a good thing you were not here when we made our run deep in the playoffs a few years ago...you would have been laughed out of the program for your comments and actions, not to mention that your son...would have a hard time adjusting, if he would have made the team at all.
...The difference, I guess, is the lack of backbone in how you raise your kids. That in itself is not wrong, don't mishear me...
Stay tuned.
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