Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Dealing with coaches I work at a school where sports are emphasized in a major way. Students leave early for games on a fairly regular basis, and to make up for this, Tuesday is a make-up day for student athletes. It is unofficial and not enforced by the administration but most teachers stay late this day to allow students to make up work they may have missed. The set-up works out great, until. Until a coach comes, like one did to me, and demands the student come away from making up a test and come to practice. The coaches are also co-workers, and one would think they'd understand the emphasis on academics but that often seems to be over-shadowed by the importance of athletics. The question is, how would you handle it, if a co-worker (who also happened to be a coach) came to your room during a tutoring/make up time, and demanded the student-athlete leave early to come to practice? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) If I was in this situation, I would pull the coach outside in the hallway so that you are not discussing the matter in front of the student. I would then explain to them that the students academics needs to come first because without a passing grade, the student will not be able to participate in the sport that they are in. You could even ask the coach to make a suggestion as to when they would like the student to work on their class work and maybe you two could come up with an arrangement.