Excellent interview of a courageous, intelligent, and determined father. This is a must-listen to anyone living in Idaho or Eastern Washington who cares about students and athletics. I hope this video reaches the school board of District 271, the Coeur d'Alene High School Booster Club, and the wider community. Thank you for exposing this. My heart goes out to his daughter and all of the other student athletes who have been treated this way.
I can tell you where to begin. Say who you are. Mr. Lopes makes some valid points. Is all he said 100 percent accurate? I do not think so but I actually think much of it is legitimate complaints. As far as telling him to go to a different school district, that’s not your call. He wants to right what he thinks was an injustice. Why don’t you move?
Where to begin in responding to such an erroneous 40 minute incoherent rant, well I will keep it to the point (of which the interviewee was unable to do). A self proclaimed independent journalist who touts themselves as an activist shining a light on the Marxist Cultural revolution and exposing North Idaho gave “air time” to a lot of hot air. The good news is this 40 minute video is quality proof of defamation of character for many of the names and positions dropped in Mr. Lopez’s “interview”. When you speak about legalities, I certainly hope you are considering that possibility for yourself.
While I can count over 20 false accusations/references alone, I am certain I missed a few. What I will say with certainty is the propaganda and agenda you have is asinine. You know nothing about how most everything you speak about works. You are a parent who wants to see the best in their child and support them with their dreams, and for that I do not fault you. Where you fall short, as many of us parents do is seeing the reality of our children’s gifts, talents and dreams meeting reality.
Please don’t take away the hard work and effort of each and all of the players at CHS over the years you speak about. Please do not minimize the pure difference in talent and gifted ness. Please don’t dismiss the need for a high IQ in addition to skills and hard work that is needed for players to be great. Please do not condemn children and misplace blame.
While I could pick apart your entire incoherent rant, I choose to extend grace. There is a reason all of your attempts to produce rhetoric with credentialed media, school officials, and the state athletic board have failed. It is time for you and your family to move on. If you don’t like how the school and the school district lawfully operate, with integrity, then you have every right to find a different district for your children to receive their free and appropriate public education. However I would caution you, all districts are held accountable to adhere to the moral, ethical and legal expectations.
I certainly hope now that you have “broke” this story that you can let it go. I think the display of children’s faces (while not displaying your own) is completely distasteful and uncalled for. I will one hundred percent address that. I find it ironic that no pictures were surfaced of your daughter absolutely beaming from ear to ear for much of her time as a player at CHS.
I agree with you life lessons are important and I agree that standing up and speaking out is a value I hold dear. So I will close with this:
Hard work, doing what’s right, having integrity are admirable values that help have a positive and productive impact in the world. In addition, those alone are not going to land your dream job, buy you a house or ensure life will be “fair”. I hope that we can start to embrace that fact and prepare our children to be nimble, empowered and realistic and not see themselves as helpless victims without responsibility in all outcomes of their life.
I choose forgiveness, not bitterness, I choose grace and mercy, not condemnation. I choose to not throw stones from a glass house, and not reflect within myself and seek wise counsel from others before contributing to a society full of misinformation and sensationalism. I hope others will do the same.
All ad hominin attacks, nothing of substance in your argument. Daniel actually provided proof of what he is talking about and many other parents have corroborated the culture and bias in sports at Coeur d'Alene School District #271.
Excellent interview of a courageous, intelligent, and determined father. This is a must-listen to anyone living in Idaho or Eastern Washington who cares about students and athletics. I hope this video reaches the school board of District 271, the Coeur d'Alene High School Booster Club, and the wider community. Thank you for exposing this. My heart goes out to his daughter and all of the other student athletes who have been treated this way.
Things never change. If people are dishonest systems become corrupt.
I can tell you where to begin. Say who you are. Mr. Lopes makes some valid points. Is all he said 100 percent accurate? I do not think so but I actually think much of it is legitimate complaints. As far as telling him to go to a different school district, that’s not your call. He wants to right what he thinks was an injustice. Why don’t you move?
Conda Mitchell
Where to begin in responding to such an erroneous 40 minute incoherent rant, well I will keep it to the point (of which the interviewee was unable to do). A self proclaimed independent journalist who touts themselves as an activist shining a light on the Marxist Cultural revolution and exposing North Idaho gave “air time” to a lot of hot air. The good news is this 40 minute video is quality proof of defamation of character for many of the names and positions dropped in Mr. Lopez’s “interview”. When you speak about legalities, I certainly hope you are considering that possibility for yourself.
While I can count over 20 false accusations/references alone, I am certain I missed a few. What I will say with certainty is the propaganda and agenda you have is asinine. You know nothing about how most everything you speak about works. You are a parent who wants to see the best in their child and support them with their dreams, and for that I do not fault you. Where you fall short, as many of us parents do is seeing the reality of our children’s gifts, talents and dreams meeting reality.
Please don’t take away the hard work and effort of each and all of the players at CHS over the years you speak about. Please do not minimize the pure difference in talent and gifted ness. Please don’t dismiss the need for a high IQ in addition to skills and hard work that is needed for players to be great. Please do not condemn children and misplace blame.
While I could pick apart your entire incoherent rant, I choose to extend grace. There is a reason all of your attempts to produce rhetoric with credentialed media, school officials, and the state athletic board have failed. It is time for you and your family to move on. If you don’t like how the school and the school district lawfully operate, with integrity, then you have every right to find a different district for your children to receive their free and appropriate public education. However I would caution you, all districts are held accountable to adhere to the moral, ethical and legal expectations.
I certainly hope now that you have “broke” this story that you can let it go. I think the display of children’s faces (while not displaying your own) is completely distasteful and uncalled for. I will one hundred percent address that. I find it ironic that no pictures were surfaced of your daughter absolutely beaming from ear to ear for much of her time as a player at CHS.
I agree with you life lessons are important and I agree that standing up and speaking out is a value I hold dear. So I will close with this:
Hard work, doing what’s right, having integrity are admirable values that help have a positive and productive impact in the world. In addition, those alone are not going to land your dream job, buy you a house or ensure life will be “fair”. I hope that we can start to embrace that fact and prepare our children to be nimble, empowered and realistic and not see themselves as helpless victims without responsibility in all outcomes of their life.
I choose forgiveness, not bitterness, I choose grace and mercy, not condemnation. I choose to not throw stones from a glass house, and not reflect within myself and seek wise counsel from others before contributing to a society full of misinformation and sensationalism. I hope others will do the same.
All ad hominin attacks, nothing of substance in your argument. Daniel actually provided proof of what he is talking about and many other parents have corroborated the culture and bias in sports at Coeur d'Alene School District #271.