Saw this one on Fark:

Castro Valley hoops coach can't win
Angry parents get a panel to pick team, cry foul when daughters don't make cut

The results are in at Castro Valley High School. That's where a group of parents were in an uproar over girls varsity basketball coach Nancy Nibarger and demanded that her team be picked by a six-person panel. This week the team roster was posted.

None of the disgruntled parents' daughters made it.

If you think that's poetic justice and the end of things, you clearly haven't been following the situation. The parents are not going to let this go.

See the whole story HERE

Fine, I understand being bummed that your kid didn't make it on the basketball team. I mean, yeah, I'll be a bit bummed if Benjamin doesn't make the 2022 Olympics for the pentathalon. But I'm not going to cry and complain about it and say that rather having the coach pick the team, to have a panel of people choose the team instead. The coach SHOULD pick her own team - she's the one who knows their abilities the best, she's the one who has to work with them, she's the one who will be criticized if they don't win.

But what I find to be the funniest part of this is that the whiny parents' kids didn't even make the cut after the panel decided....and STILL the parents cry foul. Get over it! Your kid sucks!

If Benjamin doesn't make the track and field team, that's fine! We'll move on to curling for the Winter Olympics!

Posted by Yano at December 3, 2006 12:03 PM

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