{"id":35017,"date":"2019-01-23T04:43:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T04:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35017"},"modified":"2019-01-23T04:43:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T04:43:16","slug":"resignation-accepted-thats-the-end-of-it-hardly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35017","title":{"rendered":"Resignation accepted . . . that&#8217;s the end of it? Hardly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Amarillo public school trustees have accepted the controversial resignation of a highly regarded high school volleyball coach.<\/p>\n<p>Kori Clements quit as Amarillo High&#8217;s girls volleyball coach while alleging that she lacked the support of trustees and school administrators. Why did she need that support? A parent of one of the athletes who played for the Sandies harassed the coach because she wasn&#8217;t giving her daughter sufficient playing time.<\/p>\n<p>So, Clements quit after a single season.<\/p>\n<p>Amarillo board trustees heard from disgruntled constituents tonight about the offending parent, who allegedly is a member of the Amarillo Independent School District Board of Trustees. They listened, didn&#8217;t respond to any of the testimonials given on behalf of the former coach.<\/p>\n<p>Then they accepted the coach&#8217;s resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. What does that mean? I hope it doesn&#8217;t mean the end of this tempest. I hope the board won&#8217;t slap the dust off its hands and go on as if nothing happened. I hope trustees will assure its constituents that they will give coaches their support; that they will insist that school administrators do the same; and that they will pass those assurances on to all the coaches and classroom teachers who they entrust to educate the district&#8217;s 33,000 students.<\/p>\n<p>I also hope the district&#8217;s constituents receive a fuller explanation of what caused the coach of a vaunted athletic program to walk away while declaring publicly her frustration with a parent who should have known better than to interfere with the coach doing her job.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amarillo public school trustees have accepted the controversial resignation of a highly regarded high school volleyball coach. Kori Clements quit as Amarillo High&#8217;s girls volleyball coach while alleging that she lacked the support of trustees and school administrators. Why did she need that support? A parent of one of the athletes who played for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35017\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Resignation accepted . . . that&#8217;s the end of it? Hardly<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6251,9,17],"tags":[214,8315,8319],"class_list":["post-35017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-aisd","tag-amarillo-hs-volleyball","tag-kori-clements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35018,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35017\/revisions\/35018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}