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View Poll Results: Mentor field coach or not?
All students, all the time. 90 35.29%
All students at least 50% of the time 19 7.45%
Adult coach at least 50% of the time 21 8.24%
Adult coach all the time 125 49.02%
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Re: Adult coach?

From my experience:

If you give a mentor a job, you are taking it from a student. If we have a teacher weld, it is taking it from a student who can weld. The only time we have a mentor working, is if there are safety reasons(the school complains) or if the only student that can do that job is busy with a different job. I agree with some of you when you say that the Adult Coach is working 'with' the drive team. However he is only working with the 3 kids left on the field. What about the kid that could be the Coach? He got replaced. He is working with three of the kids, but he is working for one of the kids.

A little story:
Have any of you played sports when you were little? I did, I used to play soccer. There was always the parent on the sidelines yelling at the kids and telling them what to do. We didn't enjoy this guy yelling at us. In fact, I don't care if he was right. Maybe I did miss something that would have helped my team to win. The only thing is, that my team was not there just to win. We was there to have fun. Any time you put an adult on the field, you are just taking a chance of taking the fun away. I have seen many adult coaches yelling on the field, I have yet to see a student coach yelling on the field. I am not asking you to have a student on the field necesarily, just try to make sure that whoever you choose to put out there is not taking away from the fun.
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