Ravenswood

The Wetzel Chronicle featured a letter from one Mary Martin of Ravenswood taking Magnolia High School students to task for rude behavior. I have a couple nephews who play for Magnolia. I saw two games this year. I cannot say that I ever saw students do anything even remotely rude. The adults, however, are a different matter. The referees never do quite a good enough job and I think they're sometimes a little bit hard on their own kids. It's just a game, shouldn't they be having fun?

I have seen some very bad behavior at high school athletic events. It is almost always from the parents and other fans.

I had a graduate of Wahama High School tell me he once played a football game at Buffalo High School and both the athletes and the fans displayed horrible behavior.....foul language and the like. I attended every home football game at BHS this year and the only bad sportsmanship I witnessed was from an opposing team and their fans out of Ohio. I can't recall the school at the moment.

Another thing I have noticed is that people from other areas of the county say very negative things about BHS, particularly those from the Poca & Winfield HS areas. Some people take this stuff way too seriously and in doing so take away much of the "fun" in high school competitions, athletic and otherwise.

Negative things about the school or the students?

I've said them about the rat trap they call a school but then I was saying that 25 years ago when I was a student at Hamlin, long before I moved to Poca. I don't say that about the students as I know many of them, along with their parents.

Buffalo and Poca make up North Putnam Little League and are closely tied in football and biddy basketball. GW middle school's kids go to both Poca and Buffalo. Your football coach got his start at Poca Middle School (Yes, it's PMS). These two schools and their students are tied together in many ways.

I would be greatly interested in what you mean in your previous statement.