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In case you didn't see this. Most here probably remember the ref who made a kid cut his dreads or get DQd.
Well, turns out the state didn't like his interpretation of the rule.
Gone for 2 years
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/highschool/2019/09/18/wrestler-dreadlocks-controversy-new-jersey-referee-suspended-two-years/2367239001/
TexasTowelie
(112,220 posts)gordianot
(15,238 posts)In 2 years schools should boycott any event he appears.
ProfessorGAC
(65,058 posts)2 years OK I suppose, if he actually apologized to all involved.
Not clear that he did
Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)Unnecessarily harsh punishment is an offense against justice itself.
druidity33
(6,446 posts)I say he stays gone until the kids dreads grow back.
malaise
(269,024 posts)Hope the same punishment is meted out to the swimming judge in Alaska _ I don't care that the winner was reinstated - he should be nowhere around people.
oldsoftie
(12,548 posts)knightmaar
(748 posts)You see, step 1, you have a girl with too much butt cheek showing
Then you have a grown man taking pictures of her butt and sharing them, probably publicly over the Internet.
Then you have his wife, and some other mothers of swimmers, worried that their husbands are looking at young girls too much and that this might encourage infidelity.
(That part sounds weird, but I am assured by women that there is a chain of reasoning in which girls are blamed because men can't control themselves.)
Those mothers then flip out, getting angry at the young girl for getting a wedgie.
The other girls in the competition then rationalize that the girl is "breaking the rules", call her a cheater, and get so wrapped up in that bullshit that they lose their races.
So, you see, teenage wedgies lead to infidelity which leads to an angry self-fulfilling prophecy of failure.
Dead simple.
oldsoftie
(12,548 posts)It was about relaxing the rules in Saudi Arabia, I think. Two men (of course) continually commented that the hijabs were for the protection of the women. They COULD have been fake people, but they had a long FB presence & I've seen others make similar idiotic statements on live TV before.
malaise
(269,024 posts)It was racism plain and simple
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)at this behavior that will be noted where it should be around the nation. It also requires state high school officials to receive "implicit bias training."
Strong legal and social disapproval will have had an instructive effect on many, but even those whose reaction remains angry whining will take note of that "unfair" but potentially devastating suspension.
Of course this caused many school district and organizations to amend their manuals and discuss it with their referees long since. Most people don't go into education to victimize children.