Friday, November 18, 2005
Time For Another SOS Award
Christweb reports on the banning of a post athletic competition handshake. He has some great comments of his own, but I am going to quote from the same story he does.School officials in rural Virginia are trying to prevent fights under the Friday night lights by banning the traditional post-football game handshake.All I have to add is that my senior year in high school, we were really good in football. Undefeated, #1, the whole thing. We shut out several teams by scores in the range they mention in that piece. It never got out of hand. Is the problem the handshake, the people giving them, or maybe their teachers and coaches?
"There have been some instances in the past where the handshaking has gotten a little bit out of control, with kids spitting on each other [and] kicking each other," said Larry Shumaker, principal of Northumberland High School in Heathsville. "We're just trying to prevent situations from occurring before they occur."
"You got beat 56-0 and you want someone to tell you 'Good game' 35 times'" Rappahannock High School Principal Jack Cooley asked. "If you go through the line, there's a possibility that somebody's gonna push somebody, hit somebody, and it's going to be a big problem at the end of the game."
And that is why Principal Jack Cooley et. al. wins this Stuck on Stupid award.
