A high school coach is in hot water for whipping his basketball players with a belt for misbehavior.
A video aired by WLBT News in Jackson, MS, shows Murrah high school coach Marlon Dorsey whipping a boy as the player passively bends over to accept his punishment.
Attorney Lisa Ross calls the whippings appalling. “Teachers do not have a right to hit you,” she said in an interview with WLBT.
Dorsey and the parents of the boys met recently to discuss the beatings. Coach Dorsey later gave them a written apology. “He can’t even give me a good reason for putting his hands on my kid ’cause I don’t do it” said one outraged dad.
The boys say they didn’t report the whippings — which have been going on since September — because they feared being kicked off the basketball team.
Coach Dorsey was suspended for 28 days without pay.
Paddling students was a routine and necessary means to establish order in high schools in the 80s. Back in those days, we didn’t have guns in school, high pregnancy rates or the gang violence that plague schools today.
Still, it does seem odd that a coach is whipping boys on a basketball court Joe Jackson style.
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