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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (15338)	6/4/2001 12:42:50 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Last time I was here I mentioned that I'd gotten a call from someone whose daughters go to school in Scarsdale, where they had, that day, prohibited booing. Remembering the kind of good-natured booing that went on when I was in school, that surprised me greatly. But in this article from today's NYPOST: nypost.com It says that "About 15 percent of youth games involve some sort of verbal or physical abuse from parents or coaches, compared with just 5 percent five years ago, according to Fred Engh, president of the National Alliance for Youth Sports." That's up 300% in just the last five years. It is evidently a whole new world out there. There are lots of parents out of control, too, not just students. It is so appalling.