“I know that my basketball players, members of the D-R community and staff, and Doug Kelley — my athletic director, are very upset by all of this,” said Cuthbertson, who will meet with D-R’s Title IX administrator on Thursday to review the allegations.

“Favoritism and verbal abuse.”

Translation – some parent thinks Johnny is a lot better than he really he is and claims he should’ve been starting, so he went and whined to the gutless principal that the coach was too mean and yelled at kids during practices. Yea, this guy looks like a real monster.

Look at those kids!! They look horrified!! God knows how many mean words he said to them when they did something wrong!!

Dighton-Rehoboth Regional School District Superintendent Dr. Anthony Azur said in a prepared statement that “after discussion with Dr. Gould, our High School Principal, we have placed the Boys’ Varsity Basketball Coach on paid administrative leave while we review matters that have recently come to our attention regarding the basketball program.

Principal John Gould told Cuthbertson that one of the allegations is that (Cuthbertson) “yelled at and berated the team after a handshake line at a game within the last two weeks.”

Oh no!! Not yelling at children!! Coaches are never allowed to do that. God forbid kids are taught (gasp) discipline!! But, but, but….FEELINGS!!

And of course there’s no due process or anything remotely resembling it….

“But when I asked him when this happened, and where the incident occurred, Gould told me, ‘I don’t know.’ When I asked him who had made these allegations against me, he would not tell me. I’ve been sitting here for a month with this situation hanging over my head,” Cuthbertson said. “I know my players are hurting because of the upheaval all of this has caused. My heart breaks for them.”

This is how schools work. A parent makes a baseless anonymous complaint, gets to stay hidden, and the coach loses his job while he’s “investigated” during the middle of a season. How does this benefit kids again? Oh right, it doesn’t. It just benefits the ego of the parent who thinks he’s the coach.

And of course this:

An initial complaint was filed Jan. 7 against Cuthbertson by a parent who felt that his son was not being given sufficient playing time.

Playing time. God I hate this.

The fact that they get to remain anonymous is complete and utter bullshit, considering the destruction their selfish actions cause. Of course that’s just school policy. Luckily we have a different policy – name and shame. We found out the names of all three Braintree parents, and the Andover father who caused all the problems. Let’s find out this one too. If you know who the parent is who is doing this, let us know by emailing turtleboysports@gmail.com, or message TBNews on Facebook, so we can make them Turtleboy famous. This kind of behavior needs to end.

As many of you know I taught and coached for 11 years in the public schools. Luckily it was track and field, where for the most part there are no starters, but it still came with plenty of out of control parent drama.

At Doherty High School one of the kid’s I coached had a mother who taught gym and wanted the job. So she complained that I miscounted her son’s laps in the 2 mile when he thought he ran a 45 second personal record, which he didn’t because he missed a lap. After that he told me he didn’t have to listen to me because his mother was gonna take my job anyway, and he ended up being right.

At Millbury High School I coached winter track, and you have to run outside during winter track. One parent of a 7th grader demanded that kids only run on routes that he approved of. I did my best to accommodate, since he was active in town politics, but with the snow sometimes certain routes were impossible. I was let go after winning the league title at the end of the season because it was easier to get rid of me than it was to stand up to him.

At Shepherd Hill it was constant parents whining that their kid was faster than another kid and should’ve been in the 4×400 relay instead of the 4×800. Others complained that my Worcester-style coaching discipline hurt their kid’s confidence. I had to deal with insane parent emails all the time (read the book if you haven’t already), so I totally get where these coaches are coming from.

At these schools it’s ultimately up to the principal to make all decisions. Athletic Directors work for them and do their bidding. And if you get a gutless one who likes to give into parents instead of standing up for their coaches, the kids suffer. That’s what’s happening at Dighton-Rehoboth. Principal John Gould is only in his 2nd year there, while coach Cuthbertson is in year 41. He obviously doesn’t value positive role models for children and would rather cave to the demands of one out of control helicopter parent.

Snow ball prevention!#GoBigGreen! pic.twitter.com/Rf9k2Yc19M

— John Gould (@DHSPrincipal555) January 31, 2017

Gould used to be the principal at Dartmouth High School, where he got himself into a bunch of controversy when he did the same thing with well liked school resource officer Paul Arruda. What did the Dartmouth cop do wrong? The school tried to keep it hush-hush, but according to people in the know the police officer was trying to keep the doors closed in an era of school shootings.

Some parents said the incident happened on Dec. 4. and involved Arruda refusing to prop doors open in the building. Principal John Gould disagreed with him about the doors and had him removed as SRO. Arruda did not come in Monday, they said. Other parents said they and their children were not aware of the incident until a resident posted a sentence about it in a closed Dartmouth Facebook group Tuesday at 7:07 a.m. The post had 190 comments by 7 p.m. Wednesday.

“The problem is that apparently an officer was forced from his post by a principal who isn’t complying with practices put in place to keep our children safe. There was no public address about this,” said one comment.

So basically the cop didn’t want to keep the doors open, which is the protocol, the principal did, the cop didn’t listen to him, and he was fired for trying to ensure the safety of over a thousand children. It’s clear at this point that John Gould actively works against the best interests of kids wherever he goes.

Also at Dartmouth this happened:

Mr. Moulding’s story is confirmed by the 400 kids who showed up to support him at a School Committee meeting after Gould got rid of him for no reason.

So what was his reason for leaving Dartmouth for DR anyway? He wanted to be around his kid:

John Gould, the new principal at D-R high school, used to work in Dartmouth and wanted to be closer to home so he could see his daughter’s games.

Kind of like Shelley Berman at Andover. This guy becomes principal at a school he really has no historical ties to, and one of the first things he does is gutlessly suspended and investigate one of the most well respected coaches in the state, and all because one whiny parent thought his kid wasn’t getting enough playing time.

Let’s find him.

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