High School Basketball Coach Accused Of Whipping/Beating Students

[Obama 2012 1,714]

I like his reasoning. At least he's honest about it.

I love how they say calling boys/growing men players "sissy" is verbal abuse. MAN THE ** UP!

The chickification of this nation is sickening and this guy is just trying to make these boys be men! Good for him!

(though if this coach is white and his players are black (no idea).....this isn't cool at all)...

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/11/11/mississippi.coach.whippings/index.html?hpt=Sbin

(CNN) -- A Jackson, Mississippi, high school basketball coach is accused of whipping students for "failing to run basketball plays correctly," according to a federal lawsuit filed this week by three students.

Coach Marlon Dorsey acknowledged he "paddled" students, but he defended it as a way to "save these young men from the destruction of self," the court filing said.

A school district spokeswoman and its attorney would not confirm whether Dorsey has been suspended, but he has not shown up to teach or coach at Murrah High School in recent days, according to the students' lawyer. The suspension was apparently for 28 days without pay, attorney Lisa Ross said.

Dorsey is still employed with the district, spokeswoman Peggy Hampton said late Thursday afternoon.

The students are still attending classes and are playing on the boy's varsity basketball team, Ross said.

One senior was whipped "daily and sometimes more than once daily by striking him three times across his buttocks each time" with a "five to ten pound weight belt," the suit said.

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One beating was captured on video, the suit said.

Jackson School Superintendent Lonnie Edwards Sr., who viewed the video, said it "certainly shows a reflection of inappropriate behavior."

In a Thursday statement, Edwards indicated the matter has been resolved.

"In taking action, the school district considered the seriousness of the circumstances, prevailing policy, input and concerns from parents and the athletes involved, and Coach Dorsey's overall employee performance record. Since this is a personnel matter, no further details will be provided to the public by the school district. We do not want to violate Coach Dorsey's privacy rights. However, you may be assured that this situation has been addressed."

The three students were beaten for "no legitimate purpose whatsoever," but Dorsey accused them of "failing to run basketball plays correctly," the suit said.

"He told them they had the choice to accept the licks without complaining to anyone or forfeit the opportunity to play basketball for their high school team," it said.

The coach verbally abused basketball players, calling them "sissy," "######," "wimp," and "soft," it said.

Dorsey has not commented to CNN, but the lawsuit filing included a statement issued by the coach after the whipping allegations hit the news media.

"I paddled my students... today, some of [sic] students have lost pride in their school and in their (sic) selves. Students are disrespecting teachers, administrators and other students by stealing cell phones, leaving off campus without permission, disrupting classroom teaching time, late for class and not following dress codes by wearing the pants on their butts and house shoes to school and on-court behavior. I took it upon myself to save these young men from the destruction of self and what society has accepted and become silent to the issues our students are facing on a daily basis."

Principal Freddrick Murray is also named as a defendant. The suit claims that students and parents told him about the whippings, but he failed to investigate or stop them.

The school district's website says corporal punishment is prohibited.

[Ricky+Vanessa 43]

This was on the news this morning. I think he's a flippin' liberty taker. Who sends their children to school to get whipped........in basketball practice no less.

How is it his job to make these boys men and how does he accomplish this by whipping them? Whipping someone who doesn't meet your standards is not very manly to me......

ETA: He is stepping waaaaaay over that boundary between student and teacher.

Edited November 12, 2010 by Ricky+Vanessa

[Heracles 417]

Whipping is exactly what these ghetto thugs need.

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Whipping is exactly what these ghetto thugs need.

And what makes them ghetto thugs?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

This was on the news this morning. I think he's a flippin' liberty taker. Who sends their children to school to get whipped........in basketball practice no less.

How is it his job to make these boys men and how does he accomplish this by whipping them? Whipping someone who doesn't meet your standards is not very manly to me......

ETA: He is stepping waaaaaay over that boundary between student and teacher.

I agree. I coach youth basketball and insulting the players is never effective coaching, no matter what age group....even for NBA players, let alone using corporal punishment. Make the players run laps, sit on the bench, send them home or even kick them off the team is they have behavioral problems.

[Heracles 417]

And what makes them ghetto thugs?

You can begin with reading the articles Danno posted regarding both education and births. If that fails, pick up a paper every now and then, in any US city.

Discipline and a parent over the age of 20 is exactly what some need.

Edited November 12, 2010 by Heracles

[one...two...tree 2,762]

You can begin with reading the articles Danno posted regarding both education and births. If that fails, pick up a paper every now and then, in any US city.

Discipline and a parent over the age of 20 is exactly what some need.

A coach insulting and beating players for not executing a play properly is not discipline - it's abuse.

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You can begin with reading the articles Danno posted regarding both education and births. If that fails, pick up a paper every now and then, in any US city.

Discipline and a parent over the age of 20 is exactly what some need.

What makes these specific kids ghetto thugs?

[Heracles 417]

What makes these specific kids ghetto thugs?

no comment.

[Ban Hammer 13,665]

A coach insulting and beating players for not executing a play properly is not discipline - it's abuse.

exactly

[Ricky+Vanessa 43]

no comment.

You haven't actually answered any question just "alluded to" and told people to read Danno's posts. The question was asked of you not someone who is not currently commenting on the thread.....

[Obama 2012 1,714]

A coach insulting and beating players for not executing a play properly is not discipline - it's abuse.

calling a player a sissy/wimp is not abuse.... The only abuse is by the fact that things like that have been bred into this younger genertation to think of it as abuse. They need to man up and stop being little girls.

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no comment.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Here's what happens when a softy liberal coaches a basketball team....

[Ban Hammer 13,665]

calling a player a sissy/wimp is not abuse.... The only abuse is by the fact that things like that have been bred into this younger genertation to think of it as abuse. They need to man up and stop being little girls.

yes, it is abuse. it's not as significant as the physical abuse for failing to execute a play properly, yet it's abuse just the same.

perhaps you should take a shot at marine basic training and let us know afterward if you were verbally abused during it and how it felt.