Just hours before the big game with Indy and West Charlotte in football, we find out that two more players have been found to not be telling the truth about where they live. The two players were removed from tonight's game, but the teams will not be punished. (quiet..don't tell the South Meck kids)
You see South Meck's football team was thrown out of the playoffs when it was revealed the school had missed a form in their situation. The kid in question had been up front, no one was playing a trick or lying for that matter.. yet the entire team had their season yanked away from them...
One could reason that the best policy is to lie and hope you don't get caught as that will only result in losing a player, not the season. We don't suggest anyone lie about anything, but it sure worked out better for West Charlotte and Indy than it did for South Meck.
The best punishment is removal of the kid from the team as well as from the school. We have a hard time finding a reason to punish an entire team that followed rules but was let down by a mistake from someone else.
I don't think this is an issue that is going away anytime soon. In all reality there are many other kids crossing school boundaries. Some legally, some not so legally. Dr. Gorman is going to have to step up and fix the system instead of simply responding everytime the Observer uncovers an issue. It's not fair to the kids or the school and it certainly hasn't been fair to the South Meck football team to sit back and watch the light punishments handed out for kids and parents struggling to tell the truth.
As we guessed, the big game will go on tonight, no way a decision was going to be made to cancel either one of the teams seasons..... that would be wrong..... right?
PS Sending out a wish of Good Luck to the Cougars tonight! Hold up the tradition of Cougar Football and move on the the state title!
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