Booing Ban

This week reports have surfaced that the high school athletic assocation in Washington State wanted to ban booing at sporting events.
A couple things happened here. First is something that happens all the time in the media. Lazy journalists looking for a sensational story, grab part of it, and aren't fair in reporting the whole story. Of 10 banned things, booing was 11th on the list.
Then everyone made it out to be the further siss-ification of America's youth, which jusTON and I vehemently oppose as we promote a platform of "Tough Love for All."
But this story is different and I'll tell you why.
The idea behind the ban was not to protect athletes from the harsh realities of booing. It was designed to create a greater civility at games, in order to avoid fights, and other incidents, and offensive hurtful language.
If the media had fairly presented this as an effort to keep parents of opposing schools from screaming at 14 year olds it would never have been a story.
I would agree with any policy that ejects unruly adults who are treating children-athletes as professionals to the point of name calling and antagonizing the other team's fan.
I'd much rather live in a world with no booing and no on-field brawls among parents than the one we have now.
One other thing that media never mentioned...there were no penalties. The suggested guidelines (and that's all they were, just guidelines) never advocated action such as ejection, it was a suggestion that each school should police their own events to avoid behavior that could lead to brawls...starting with booing and heckling.