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Don't punish young athletes
Published: Saturday | March 26, 2011
THE EDITOR, Sir:
Dr Walton Small and ISSA should not punish those students because their coaches and pricipals - the only decision-makers in their schools - failed to register their respective schools on time.
Yes, notwithstanding your numerous forms of communication to those schools, the athletics students did not fail themselves.
They exhibited time management, practised morning, noon and night. They perspired, they scarificed, they planned and they dreamed. They all wanted to perform on the new blue track at the National Stadium.
Dr Small and ISSA, please be reminded that you invited sponsors, members of the public and foreign athletics scouts to fill the grandstand and bleachers to watch Jamaican students perform, not to see coaches and principals walking around.
Be mindful of the story of The Merchant of Venice, that as you all try to execute your pound of flesh in maintaining your stand against those schools for late registration, you do not spill one drop of blood.
A potential world record-breaker of tomorrow may be denied an opportunity to shine in Jamaica to Jamaicans as Jamaicans. Do not close that door. Some athletes may be in their final school year before going into the senior world. Don't punish the students.
I am, etc.,
HUGH G.D. INNIS Montego Bay, St James
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2.../letters8.html
Published: Saturday | March 26, 2011
THE EDITOR, Sir:
Dr Walton Small and ISSA should not punish those students because their coaches and pricipals - the only decision-makers in their schools - failed to register their respective schools on time.
Yes, notwithstanding your numerous forms of communication to those schools, the athletics students did not fail themselves.
They exhibited time management, practised morning, noon and night. They perspired, they scarificed, they planned and they dreamed. They all wanted to perform on the new blue track at the National Stadium.
Dr Small and ISSA, please be reminded that you invited sponsors, members of the public and foreign athletics scouts to fill the grandstand and bleachers to watch Jamaican students perform, not to see coaches and principals walking around.
Be mindful of the story of The Merchant of Venice, that as you all try to execute your pound of flesh in maintaining your stand against those schools for late registration, you do not spill one drop of blood.
A potential world record-breaker of tomorrow may be denied an opportunity to shine in Jamaica to Jamaicans as Jamaicans. Do not close that door. Some athletes may be in their final school year before going into the senior world. Don't punish the students.
I am, etc.,
HUGH G.D. INNIS Montego Bay, St James
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2.../letters8.html
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