Twanda Gatlin was a member of the girls basketball team at Bogalusa high school from 1988 to 1992. But recently she offered to help the team by coaching the first few weeks of the season. The reason she offered to do this in the first place is because the head coach is also the football coach. Due to this he is unavailable to coach during the first few weeks because football is usually still in season. The school denied Gatlin’s request though because they said the head coach had to always be present for practice and games. In order to help out the team Gatlin was thinking about filing a lawsuit but since she is not affiliated to the school in any direct way she cant. One of the kids on the team or their parents could file something against the school if they decided to though. However, Gatlin could still file a complaint at the Department of Educations office if she wanted to.
The school is very wrong in not allowing the girls basketball team to start its practices until the football season ends because sometimes that can last forever if they go to states. The girls team also needs those first few weeks because usually games start after just one week of practice and if they don’t get to play then they are way behind. I don’t understand though why they cant hire an assistant coach that can run practice the first few week and then just help out the rest of season. It would not hurt anything to do that because the head coach could still talk to the assistant and let him know what the team needed to work on.
