Rise and Shine, Park Cities (5-23-11)
1. A reader who attended the YMCA track meet Saturday sent this photo of the back of the jersey worn by a 4th grade boys team (and their coaches) from an HPISD school. She wrote, “Guess humility and sportsmanship were not the lessons being taught. Disappointing that this is becoming acceptable in our culture.” What do you think?
2. Granola-ish nutrimoms are raging. A UP Elementary mom claims she was booted from the school library for nursing while covered with a blanket. HPISD’s Helen Williams responded:
Billie Kissinger said that over the years, when mothers are nursing on campus, she and Dr. Carter offer a private place for them to nurse. They do this both out of consideration for the nursing mothers and for the children, faculty members and volunteers who are in the libraries, classrooms and other public areas.
3. Today is packed with mixed emotions for area parents. To some, it’s the last Monday of peace before summer. To others, it is the countdown to fun. I’m somewhere in between but certain I should be savoring every last second.
33 comments to "Rise and Shine, Park Cities (5-23-11)"
Sounds like schools should make known their private places for nursing, to avoid throwing moms out of other places.
If anyone paid attention at the meet(and not just take a pic and send it in anonymously), our boys congratulated everyone they ran with and against.
All I heard from other school’s parents was that the shirt was funny. The Y officials at the meet thought it was funny. No one but the sourpuss picture taker took this seriously.
Please send me your contact info(or just give it to Merritt anonymously) so I can clear all future wardrobe and uniform decisions. On second thought, no, don’t. Political correctness has run amok and I’m tired of it.
“Guess humility and sportsmanship were not the lessons being taught. Disappointing that this is becoming acceptable in our culture.”
Humility, sportsmanship and self-deprecating humor were being taught.
I was there. Our other 2 coaches were there. Did you think to ask one of us what the deal was? No, you simply took a pic(love the angle-symbolically from above on your ivory tower) and took a cheap shot at us.
I teach my kids that when someone says or does something that’s not nice, he/she is usually unhappy with him/herself.
Here’s to you finding happiness…
Mike Corwin
2) This one is tough because it depends on the circumstances at the time. If the mom’s breastfeeding was attracting attention from kids who were supposed to be reading, then she should have taken it upon herself to go somewhere more private. If no one was taking notice, then all potentially offended parties need to get over themselves. If they can’t handle the sight of a blanket over a baby’s head, then I’m concerned for them.
3) I’m feeling a bit of both. Hello, sleeping in…goodbye, ability to schedule anything for the next 3 months (unless they’re at camp).
More surprising were the number of kids with track spikes. A 9 year old girl with track spikes? How ridiculous is that?
Your bad attitude gets press and starts putting a negative light on events that are run by gracious volunteers. Sadly, it will ultimately effect your child because people will stop participating and stop volunteering their time if you continue to find minor flaws in every single thing we do. Please adjust your attitude and start thinking about the best in people instead of the worst.
I truly love this event and thank the Y for going to the great legnths it takes to put this on. I will say i was appalled by the amount of trash left behind by the parents. they left the place a total mess and the Y people were the only ones left to clean it up.
Hey, Mike, do you remember that spring flag football game where you tried to talk me into coaching the 4th grade track team because you didn’t have enough time. You said there was absolutely no way you’d have enough time and you weren’t going to let the YMCA talk you into it.
I guess no other parents stepped up and so of course you made the sacrifice.
Thank you, Mike.
Steve Cooke
When are they going to go back to Quick Scores? AllPlayers is awful.
ps. more importantly, do we have any results??
pss. shame on you matt for making fun of a child! innocent at that.
I also loved your reply.
By the way the “good clean fun argument” is the same used in all those little girl pagent shows where one mom was just in the news for using Botox on a 5 year old.
Good clean fun.
And Whatever has a good point – if you dish it out… be ready.
The meet was a great event for the kids but there was, however, a dark side to the meet. I personally witnessed one mother CHEERING FOR HER OWN CHILD. By cheering for your own child you are, logically, cheering against the other children. Appalling and offensive. This is the type of behavior that destroys the self-esteem of all children and should not be tolerated. After researching this for several days, I calculate that there is a 25% chance that this cheering person was in fact a Hyer mom. This highly probable result is consistent with the theme of the “See Ya” t-shirts that were vigilantly brought to public attention by the anonymous reader. There is a pattern here that we, as a community, cannot ignore and cannot continue to tolerate.
On a separate note, I am thrilled to report that we have finally gotten HPISD to remove dodge ball and other self-esteem killing competitive games from the gym curriculum. Special thanks to Mk, Nice Mom, Whatever! and L. We could not have done it without your efforts.
Nothing is wrong with the tshirts. They didn’t provide an unfair advantage. Moreover, they are funny given the context of a race where one would assume the objective is to run faster than the other runners, who, before the self esteem movement, were known as opponents, and sometimes even (gasp) adversaries.
It’s just not neccessary, even if it’s not offensive to you.
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