It does not. Here is a list of covered entities.
I realize it seems like a tangent, but my point is people just throw in HIPAA to make it sound technically reasonable.
OK, Today I Learned.
I think it’s more likely that a lot of people just lump all of those privacy laws together as one thing.
Maybe from ESPN?
Legendary football coach does a team camp in a Texas summer, restricts water, exercises players to and past the point of failure, a bunch of players (wusses!) quit but the “survivors” become a superteam! What’s not to like?
Except that the team went 1-9 that year. I mean, c’mon! But it’s the sort of thing that appeals to the knuckle-dragger type who thinks that kids these days are coddled and wimpy, and need a touch of the old-style discipline to turn them into great players - and, more importantly, great men!
I played football at that level in Texas and my coaches never exhibited such callous behavior towards us. We used to do fumble drills, where three of us line up, a coach tosses the ball on the ground, and we scrambled to recover it first, until someone broke their arm. During one practice, when I was still adapting to the heat of Texas, I was in desperate need of a water break, so I raised my hand right before we were starting a new set of drills to ask for one. Coach didn’t tell me to wait or to toughen up, he just said, “Okay, everybody. Let’s take a water break.” (I got some guff from my fellow players, but it was weak which told me they needed a break too.)
Granted that was more than thirty years ago. But I wouldn’t paint all coaches, even Texas football coaches, as sadist.
That may be fine for people who choose to be ordered around by coaches, but as someone afflicted by coaches I never wanted in PE classes I never wanted, I never had anything other than seething contempt for any of the slack-jawed thugs.
Interesting. In my job I had access to medical diagnoses of employees (we were not a medical entity), and I was always told that HIPAA was the law that applied to confidentiality about that data. No one ever said anything about FERPA. Thanks for the info.
I wholeheartedly endorse this post.
From the school’s website:
Angelo Christian School (ACS) was born in 1973 from a passionate group of parents determined to give their children not just top-tier academics, as well as deep spiritual grounding. From day one, ACS was more than a classroom, it was a place where students embraced Christian values, cultivated Biblical character, and engaged in a curriculum rooted in the Word of God. We envisioned our young people as ambassadors for Christ, ready to shine in their neighborhoods, cities, states, and beyond.
AIUI, in 1995 the forward-thinking Texas legislature created something a ‘Public Charter School’, by which an institution could continue their self-righteous mission but could also receive public money. Which is what this school opted to become shortly after this law was passed.
I think that was pretty common at the time given my limited anecdotal info. Don Shula didn’t allow water breaks in Miami back in the day. I think I recall in the doc I saw the mentality was “You don’t out cold water in an overheated motor because you can do damage, so you want to out cold water in an overheated body.”. Also it was believed that cold water could actually make you hotter as ‘it increases circulation.’
So, a false belief about the harmful effects of cold water means no water breaks period?
I kinda like to know the football teams stats.
Were they a winning or losing team?
Were there complaints about this coaching staff in previous seasons?
Did this head coach have contract discussion if this coming season was losing? Was he under un-do pressure to make a winning season?
I say I want to know.
Y’all can search it out, but I really don’t care anymore.
I just know that school better get the check book out.
They’ll be lucky if they get outta this with any athletic program left.
Court documents claim Walt Landers, CEO and superintendent of Texas Leadership Public Schools and board president of TLC Academy, fostered a pattern of unchecked authority within the school’s athletic program. The filings say he is responsible for “creating the institutional culture that treated children’s bodies as instruments of punishment.”
Court filings also claim Landers used TLCA as his “personal family playground,” employing relatives and concealing incidents of sexual or physical abuse. Landers, who serves as senior pastor at The Life Church, receives nearly $200,000 a year in compensation from TLCA funds provided by the state of Texas. Court filings note that TLCA receives close to $50 million in public funding annually.
I like how they couldn’t get through one single sentence of their blurb without a major grammatical failing. “not just” and “as well as” simply don’t go together.
You can say “this as well as that”. Or you can say “not just this, but also that”. But the combo they chose is somewhere between terminally awkward and flat wrong.
Evidently they’re all products of the Texas school system.
Hey! Some of us actually learned in that system. I learned math, physics, English, and had at least three unit studies on the Alamo.
Their grammar is not my chief problem with these people.
Maybe the trainer tried - and succeeded - in forcing the gay out of those Fine Young American males and henceforthly should be thanked.
…an environment free from those other people ? The time frame maps…
Oh yeah, it has “segregation academy” written all over it.
Did you remember them?
The “no water” mentality dates back a long ways. Based on stories I’ve heard, it was a tradition in major league baseball up until at least the 1950s for players to not drink anything in the dugout even on the hottest summer days. Want a candy bar for a pick-me-up during a long doubleheader? Too wimpy.
Playing through injuries has also long thought to be a measure of dedication, though currently it seems like players are major contributors to coming back too early. “Two months expected recovery time? Not for me, I’m gonna show how tough I am by getting back on the field in three weeks!”
*there have been few cases where athletes have been hospitalized or died by getting overhydrated. Sometimes it’s because they’re told by coaches to drink plenty of fluids even when not thirsty. But another cause of overhydration might have been getting so dehydrated that they drank way too much all at once, instead of taking in smaller amounts of fluid over a long practice session or game.
Twenty, ONCE. Not 20 times 20.