Cheer Coach Removed for Screaming at Students and Calling Them ‘Heifers’
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Jonathon M. Seidl
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A TX cheer coach has been removed from her position after a student recorded her screaming at her cheerleaders and calling them “highfalutin heifers.”
“Who do you think you all are? Highfalutin heifers. You can just come and go as you please? Fire me!” the coach, from the Houston area, was heard screaming.
But that’s not all. She also found a way to work her mortgage into the diatribe. KPRC-TV (via Yahoo!) has more of the recording:
“I think that’s too much,” parent Khristina Melton told KPRC. “Even though they’re in high school, they shouldn’t be called anything different.”
“The term ‘heifer’ basically means overweight or obese,” Abel Olivares, the father of the girl who recorded the rant, said. “It’s definitely a negative term.” He wants the coach fired from her teaching job, too. Apparently the incident was just one of many.
But the coach isn’t the only one who got punished. Olivares’s daughter was sentenced to two days of detention because she used her cell phone to record the episode on school property and shared it with friends.
“They’re supposed to be there to learn, feel safe, feel that the teacher is going to have a high standard, just like they’re expected to do,” the dad added. “If nothing else, that audio protects another kid from being yelled at or verbally abused, then you did a good thing.”
But not everyone is buying it. One student told KPRC that yelling is just part of what coaches do.
The coaches name has not been released since she is not being charged with a crime.
What do you think? Should the coach have been removed, and possibly fired, for yelling at students?
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Comments (75)
Pearsontech
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:26amParents need to STOP babying their children so much. No wonder we have 99′ers and the like. Too many parents giving out participation trophies and kissing the smallest of boo boo’s. Need to teach our kids how to get back up and dust themselves off and move on with life. Too many whiny people in the world get over it.
Report Post »DrFrost
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:00pmIf you‘re fat the coach tells you that you’re too fat.
If you’re slacking off during practice the coach tells you to quit being lazy.
And when you do well, the coach praises you for it. And it actually means something because you’ve learned that the coach is honest with you.
My football coach was honest with us and I’ll always respect him. My track coach praised everyone, regardless of whether they deserved it or not. The track coach was a nice guy but I honestly don’t even remember his name. I wouldn’t trade one of the former for ANY number of the latter. I learned lessons in football I’ve carried throughout the rest of my life. I didn’t learn anything in track.
To answer the article, I would NOT have punished this coach.
Report Post »qzak491
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:07pm.
Report Post »What’s a BOO BOO, that’s a new one for me. I always thought a boo boo was a mistake, how do you kiss a mistake. I guess if if the mistake is a kid you could kiss it???
Detroit paperboy
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:12pmWe need cameras in the Classrooms , to keep a close eye on the indoctrinators.. The technology is cheap and available….. The unions would fight it tooth and nail…
Report Post »brother_ed
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:30pmThere are myriad ways to inspire people to do their best, some believe belittling works best. I do not.
These are young ladies who need to be treated with respect.
I remember a story from a girl’s soccer coach.
He said that when you tell a team of boys that someone isn’t hustling hard enough, the boys look at each other and say ‘he’s talking about you”.
When you tell a team of girls someone isn’t hustling enough, they think “he’s talking about me”.
Girls think differently than boys, therefor they need to to be coached differently.
Report Post »RagingJudge
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 1:41pmDon‘t forget that it’s the parents whohave the right and responsibility to determine what sort of education their kids get. If they want the coach out, she needs to go. I personally had no real problem with her, and don’t think she should have been punished, but on the same note I‘m glad that the parents for once stood up agains something they didn’t like in their school system, and fixed the problem.
Report Post »Machtyn
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 3:34pm@Detroit_Paperboy: It would also protect the teachers from manipulative, evil “snowflakes”. You know the ones… the girls that will cry rape if the teacher gives her a bad grade or the boy that will cry abuse when he‘s told to sitdown and shutup when he’s swearing and disrupting the class.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:04pmIt’s clear to me very few on the blog have handled cheerleaders. My grandaughter signs a contract with the school, the coach, that she will be at practice, work hard and be at games and functions. Only so many times absent. Parents are involved and it is taken seriously, enough to qualify as a letter in athletics. No babies need try out, it’s a tough game. Getting chewed out is part of it when you don’t give your best. Same as the big boys on the football team. I read the blog yesterday on the ATT newspage. Not one supported the girls, especially the one who was from the town. There is much that is missing from the story on the Blaze, especially about the young lady and her parents. Safe place my heine-my grandaughter couldn’t believe how disrespectfull and “mean and stupid” the girls were. Her quote-and she has lettered and is on the competition squad. Can’t have it both ways, big girl or whiney little girl, what do you want them to grow up to be? Oh, yeah, shame on me-it‘s everybody get’s a trophy world, right?
Report Post »HotFixIt
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:05pmIf you listen to everything this teacher says and the complaint of the student… this has been going on… and for a reason. There is more behind this sory than a single incident and it involves more than a teacher just yelling… she is not yelling for the fun of it… she has been pushed into this situation by the girls repeated actions and attitudes. I believe all involved need some education and respect for each other.
Report Post »TEXAS-T
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 6:38pmYou think that is bad! You should come out to a Humble High School baseball game and hear coach Sitten “motivate” his baseball team. Bring your ear plugs and leave you small children at home. I’ve seen and heard him “motivate”( GD and SOB”s) his players in the outfield using various “colorful mediators” while the district AD was standing at the fence next to the football coach and neither one batted an eye. If you have seen “Full Metal Jacket” and the exchange between the DI and Pvt Cowboy, then you will have an idea of what It sounded like. This “motivation” is a daily thing. But don’t take my word for it. If I said those things to my kids, CPS would be all over me.
Report Post »Bloody Sam
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 4:25pm“The term ‘heifer’ basically means overweight or obese,” Abel Olivares, the father of the girl who recorded the rant, said. “It’s definitely a negative term.”
Wrong Abel. A heifer is a young cow before she has had her first calf. No more. No less.
Report Post »Obesity has nothing to do with it. Sign your daughter up for 4H and let her learn something useful.
AmericanStrega
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:17amHeifer (as in the bovine type) is a female bovine who has not yet been bred. Maybe this coach was paying her cheerleaders a compliment. Just saying….
Report Post »nosharia
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:04amShe thinks she’s Sue Sylvester.
Report Post »schroeder123
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 10:56amThat is just the way a black coach talks…nothing wrong with dat.
Report Post »loveliberty83
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 10:39amit seems the girl doing the video should have been suspended, maybe if she was lifting her legs & doing the drills instead of using her phone (which should have been taken away for a week) & not acting like cows do standing around eating & doing nothing yes cows are lazy it is a good term for these non compliant teens
Report Post »bigfatslob
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 10:19am…and you just know it was a thunder thighed young lady that recorded it :)
Report Post »BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 10:06amIf you are large…..is is wrong for someone to call you a heifer?
If you are a dolt….is it wrong for someone to call you a Democrat?
If you are a Communist…..is it wrong for someone to call you an a**hole?
If you are a Marxist…..is it wrong for someone to call you the President of the United States?
Although unkind and ugly at times….the truth has a place in society.
Report Post »louaap
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 10:11amAAAAAAAmen to that!!!!
Report Post »DrFrost
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:49amDoes the first officer concur?
I do indeed WHOLEHEARTEDLY concur.
Report Post »EchoHawk
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 2:29pmAnd if you’re a fundamentalist from the lunatic fringe of the right you call yourself a patriotic American, but just because you walk around with feathers sticking out of your ass, that doesn’t make you a chicken. Jesus, what a whiny bunch of sycophants. No one thinks more alike then conservative water boy’s
Report Post »Watchyer6
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:55amOMG! The coach should be fired for that? When I was a high school wrestler, the coaches were like Marine drill sergeants. I didn’t suffer any emotional scars. On the contrary, it made me tougher and helped me learn to deal with adversity later in life.
Report Post »Faith1029
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:36amNo, I don’t agree. Yelling at them is one thing but name calling is abuse. I wouldn’t be very happy if my daughter was called a heifer would you?
Report Post »RagingJudge
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 1:51pmYou ever had any military training type experience? I’ve had plenty. The namecalling is there to break down your pride and humble you. To take your head out of the clouds and place your feet squarely on the ground, in the real world. I’ve had drill instructors call me and people around me all kinds of vile, demeaning (and quite humorously creative) names. I can positively tell you that the training regimen as a whole, name calling included, has helped us become more responsible, condiserate human beings.
The world ain’t sunshine and lollipops. Someone someday is gonna call you a name you don’t like. You gonna kick their ass, cry about it, or shrug it off and move forward? Without these tough experiences, you‘re likely to pick one of the first two because you don’t understand how meaningless and significant a name is. “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me”, remember that?
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:52amWell, ted kennedy proved that you COULD go through life drunk, fat and stupid!
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:59amMy girls took a cheer camp and I was shocked to see how chunky some of the cheerleaders teaching the class were. I was also shocked when I was at the YMCA pool to see all but ONE of the lifeguards fat and out of shape. So, these girls will do just fine. And the lawyers who sue the school.
Report Post »Missouri Mule
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:35amheif·er [hef-er]
noun
a young cow over one year old that has not produced a calf.
That about covers it.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:32amThis is exactly why obesity is the problem that it is. Social pressure once kept obesity in check. It was an embarrassment to be fat. Remove the control and get the result. Fat, lazy, slobs, should be called fat, lazy, slobs.
Report Post »If you don’t like it… change.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:43amNot to mention the feeding frenzy of lawyers out there that sue at the drop of a hat every time a child gets a scratch or bump on a playground or while working out during PE in middle and high schools.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 10:15amNot to mention that “Heifer” has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with weight. For all you non-southerners, what the coach was saying is “You are a bunch of little snoots who think you are all grown up and that you know everything”.
“Highfalutin heifers” covers all that and is a much more efficient way to say it.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:32amWell, the parents and school just enabled more spoiled brat behaviour. In this case I feel bad for the coach, this apparently very frustrated coach.
Report Post »And heifer is not a dirty word.
SREGN
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:32amVouchers would solve this. The problem is that the public school system is not accountable to student or teacher. Bring some free-market principles into the equation and it’ll take care of itself. If the coach yelling is a good thing students and parents will embrace it. If the coach just gets his/her jollies by screaming at kids, students and parents will have the power to address it. NFL coaches scream and yell too. I don’t see any of the players crying about it.
Report Post »USPATRIOT101
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:23amThis is about “cheerleading” right? Friggin “cheeleading”???? All I can think about is the SNL skit where the Spartain Cheerleaders exposed Jim Carey for “fake spirit” totally hilarious As for this coach, get real. How about getting this passionate about something as silly as , ummm I dunno, GRADES!!!
Report Post »b00x
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:23amIf we don’t allow our children some mild knocks and insults when young, how do we expect them to negotiate the world of adulthood, in which the knocks and insults are not nearly so always mild? Falling down and skinning knees on sidewalks teaches kids to cope, as does coming in fourth in a race, or being ranted at by a cheerleading coach. They all thicken the skin and build character. We continue to build a society in which no child is allowed to lose, no child is allowed to cry, and no child is allowed to develop a spine. Shame on us.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:21amGoes back to that tough love NC father. LOL, I had coaches yell at me when I was a kid. Then had drill sergeants do the same thing, Get over it, and straighten up!
Report Post »loveliberty83
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 10:43amvideo taken teen was defying teacher she should have been doing drills phone shhould have been confiscated for a week & she should have been suspended, she was acting just like a lazy cow, no won said obese just plain lazy yes I would have yelled @ all of them one non conplying teen can ruin the class
Report Post »CHEERalum
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:21amSometimes a coach is the only adult in a kid/young adult’s life that is actually requiring any discipline from them. Yelling, if the point you are trying to make needs to carry some serious gravity, is certainly on the table. They have to know you mean business – and sometimes being the loudest in the room is just the right medicine.
My connection won’t allow me to watch the video (maybe someone can fill me in) – but I will say this – there is a point when yelling to prove a point becomes yelling to degrade and tear down. As a coach (and a cheer leading coach at that) I try my hardest never to reach that point.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:20amWhat do you want to produce strong women or pansies? I remember in high school our gym teacher would give you a pretty good shot to the chest (boys only) if you screwed around to much,today he’d be locked up.Nobody got killed or injured he just got the attention of a few idiots and they got the message.
Report Post »RagingJudge
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 2:04pmProblem is that stay-at-home mothers are often the best examples of strong women we have, yet the left has made them out to be “slaves to their husbands” and encouraged young girls to look elsewhere for inspiration. Guess they never lived in a real family long enough to know that “the man is the head, but the woman is the neck and can turn the head whichever way she wants”. And what do “independent”, “professional” women do? They have meaningless sex with numerous men to try to prove to themselves that they’re “worth something”. They are slaves to their own self-consciousness. This is what women in my generation are being taught to become.
Report Post »aquablue
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:20amforget the pep talks, it’s time for mr. rogers. they went over the line on this one. heifer? oh give me a break.
Report Post »BONETRAUMA
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:18amhow sad, they will never be Marines…..maybe they can extort some money from the school district
Report Post »AzSage
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:18amToughen up little girls. Live is going to throw a lot worse at you.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:16am.
Report Post »She has a point. I have never seen so many “Fat, Highfalutin Heifer” Cheerleaders & Dance squads in my life, til we moved to Texas…..
Gonzo
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:19amI thought you were in Louisiana?
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:30am.
Report Post »Been living in the Houston area for 15 years. But Louisiana is Home…..
Gonzo
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:35amThat has got to be the hottest city I have ever been to. I guess you’re used to it.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 10:05am.
Report Post »Hot & Humid as Hell, never get used to that….Last summer we boiled crawfish in the pool…….
Gonzo
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 10:14amIn July do you vacation in the Congo to cool off?
Report Post »yiska8
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:05amAs a native Texan, who went to K-12 and college in Texas, I’ll tell you that there are some “healthy” girls in Cheerleading and Dance team and even Pep squads. Every school has that handful of chubby girls on the squad, but many lost the weight over the long haul. But it seems much more prevalent now. I’ve seen girls show up in parades in downtown San Antonio and WOW. They would have never been invited onto any squad of any kind at any time, no matter how bubbly or flexible they were. Now it’s very different. Now the heavier girsl outnumber the thinner framed girls! Must be all that McDonald’s Brisket, potato salad, chips, tacos, burgers, hot wings, and Starbucks Cappuchinos. Oh, and BIG RED soda! Oh, to eat like a teenager again!! If you eat like a heifer, be prepared to be called one, on or off the squad. Not fair, mean, and nasty, but such is life at times. The coash will probably keep her job, just hope none of the girls develops and eating disorder.
Report Post »BONETRAUMA
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:15amThat is so hurtful. I hope the little girls don’t need medication and therapy. They can never be Marines now…..really makes me sad.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:29amThey could use some Sister Mary Elephant.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:30amThey are scarred for life. Somebody yelled at them. They should sue for total disability for the rest of their lives.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:37amNice C&C reference RJJ! That was funny stuff.
Report Post »yiska8
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:10amTry having an ultra competitive South Texas band director yelling and cursing at 200 kids and color guard members in 105 degree heat in August from a band tower. These girls being called this may be cruel to some, but to others this is just a sweet little cake walk compared to what we were called.
Report Post »B_Will_Derd
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:15amhighfalutin heifer: def. – female that is out of control as in a young female cattle that is difficult to manage and unruly. I’ve dealt with enough of the bovine and human types to know this well.
Report Post »OhSuzieQ
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:14amIf you can’t take the heat….get out.
Report Post »dheard
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 10:49amSo what if these girls are overweight? That means they should be called heifers? Maybe some of you don’t realize it but being a teenager these days is a lot harder than it used to be and if you are overweight you can compound the difficulty factor. The last thing these girls need is an adult yelling at them about how horrible they are. If they need to improve, stop yelling and be a coach and figure out a solution. Some of you will say that that’s what coaches do is yell. Well, my high school basketball coach never yelled but we knew if we didn’t listen or perform like we should that we would pay for it by running the stairs of the football stadium w/ a 45lb weight. An effective leader doesn’t need to yell or belittle to get results. Some of you are a little callous in your assessment of this situation and others. Yeah, there are a lot of spoiled punk kids out there but tough love is what they need, not just the “tough” part – that’s where prison comes in. This coach didn’t seem to be helping these girls understand that she cared about them b/c this yelling was a common occurrence it seems.
Report Post »9111315
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:01pm“So what if these girls are overweight? That means they should be called heifers?”
Yes. The only other option is to lie.
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