CVHS Needs to Rethink Activities
A couple of recent incidents involving Crescenta Valley High activities has me thinking — and boy, am I getting a whopper of a headache. As life-long supporters of GUSD schools and CVHS alumni ourselves, my wife and I and our two high-school-age sons went to celebrate CV's Homecoming game at Moyse Field (too bad CV's team didn't show up, but that's another story). As we were walking away from the stadium and talking about the "game," we were stopped in our tracks by loud, aggressive yelling coming from somewhere near the stands. Since we were completely on the other side of the field at this time, and the yelling was as loud and clear as if the argument was close by, we couldn't help but stop to see what was happening.
The language spewing from one of the combatants was, to say the least, shocking. Even to my culture-weary ears, I was amazed that an adult (it was obvious the person doing the yelling was not a student) would use such aggressive and vulgar language — so loudly — in such a public place. Then one of my sons said with obvious embarrassment, "Uh oh, that's Coach Eb." As we found out in the newspaper the next day, CV's varsity coach had indeed been involved in some sort of argument with a disgruntled parent (a postal worker?) and actually resigned over the incident. Whether his resignation was warranted or not will likely be argued endlessly in these pages over the next several months.
