Imo Scott high school as a whole needs a better direction. I am friends with a few teacher and they tell me how bad it is and that their hands are tied as far as discipline. I thinks it's a trickle down effect. The soccer program is loaded with talent but all anyone sees is the dirty play, and loud mouth of certain players. This stems from no control from the coaching staff, although they are good people they must not have control over their team. Imo if the coaching staff would stop complaining and start controlling the team/players would be seen for their talents not their down falls.

Take for instance the Cooper/Zane Ross incident, Cooper coaching staff did the correct thing by asking him to leave. Had they let him stay, they would have invited every player on the team to act that way, same with Boone co coach giving extra suspension time to players that received cards for mouthing, both coaches decided that discipline was more important than winning games. I don't think Scott's coaching staff is willing to do this, therefore this argument will never end. You want it to stop? Go to your AD and ask for a new coach!!!!!!!

 

This is where I'm going to disagree. The school as a whole is improving, and no other program is having the issues that the soccer team seems to be having. Only 2 other ejections during the same time period, one for a wrestler no longer at the school and one for a coach. I know many teachers there as well. Much of the hand tying concerning discipline comes not internally, but from the Kenton County School board. Don't let the transgressions of the soccer program taint the entire student body. And to be fair, the soccer players that have been pointed out are all for the most part excellent students (some ranked in the top 15 or so of their class) with no discipline issues to speak of off the field. I can't defend their on field actions, but off the field, these kids are not hooligans and troublemakers.

Like I said it's just what I've been told

Like I said it's just what I've been told

 

I know what the general perception is, and truthfully, unless you're there every day, I can see where one could easily have that perception. It's too bad that the actions of the soccer team help paint a negative picture of all the positive that is happening. And again, the kids we are talking about are good, well mannered and intelligent kids, despite what you see and hear is happening on the field. Hopefully, they can tone things down a bit, and turn that perception they've created around.

Agreed, the perception comes from a coach that takes no action according to the play on the field.

Scott High School junior led the conversation with an impassioned speech about what he wants done for his fellow classmates.

 

"We as a student body are asking for help," said Casey Child, the school's junior class vice president.

 

With parents and teachers behind him, packing the board’s public meeting room, Child painted a picture of out of control students and school leadership unable to institute measures to keep the 1,150 high school student body in line.

 

"If a teacher were to try to give a kid an assignment, often a kid will refuse to do an assignment, and there will be no repercussions," Child said after the meeting.

 

Child is not alone in his assessment of the school’s poor academic progress.

 

In Kentucky’s 2012-2013 uniformed testing report card of Scott, the Taylor Mill school fell in the 41st percentile for scores amongst public schools in the state. The score landed Scott in the “needs improvement” category for the second year in a row.

 

Kenton County’s two other high schools, Simon Kenton and Dixie Heights, both scored in the 87th percentile last year.

Scott High School junior led the conversation with an impassioned speech about what he wants done for his fellow classmates.

 

"We as a student body are asking for help," said Casey Child, the school's junior class vice president.

 

With parents and teachers behind him, packing the board’s public meeting room, Child painted a picture of out of control students and school leadership unable to institute measures to keep the 1,150 high school student body in line.

 

"If a teacher were to try to give a kid an assignment, often a kid will refuse to do an assignment, and there will be no repercussions," Child said after the meeting.

 

Child is not alone in his assessment of the school’s poor academic progress.

 

In Kentucky’s 2012-2013 uniformed testing report card of Scott, the Taylor Mill school fell in the 41st percentile for scores amongst public schools in the state. The score landed Scott in the “needs improvement” category for the second year in a row.

 

Kenton County’s two other high schools, Simon Kenton and Dixie Heights, both scored in the 87th percentile last year.

 

 

There are a couple of other threads about this, so I won't rehash everything. Let's just say nothing ever came from this, and the news organization that ran the story never ran a follow up (and no other news organization ever even ran the story) to report the progress that has been made, and the school is no longer in the needs improvement category. While there are some behavior issues (every school has more than a few), the numbers and the degree to which was stated were greatly exaggerated. In short, this came about mostly because of a small number of folks that are displeased with certain members of the current administration. Again, no other sport has had any issues, and even the student athletes on the soccer team, despite what you may see on the field, are intelligent, decent kids who do very well in school and in the community. I can't defend their actions on the field, and the number of ejections/red/yellow cards. I'm not sure why this has manifested itself on the field, and is embarrassing. It's not representative of Scott High School, students, or other athletic programs.