trash talking

Implemented in June, this is the first academic year since a trash talking ban was put into effect on high school athletes in New Jersey.

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The day is at hand when some legislator will come up with a bill mandating that everyone be nice to everyone else. Direct nothing toward anyone that’s going to hurt their feelings and the like. It is in this spirit that there’s a move on to curb trash talking between members of opposing high school sports teams; saying it’s a part of the anti-bullying mandate of the state...

We’re getting to the point in New Jersey where the next war will not be fought with weapons, there will be no guns, knives, bombs, or missiles. What’s going to happen is the enemy will just show up and call us names and we will just shrivel up and die.

Starting in September, if your son or daughter engages in trash talk during a high school sporting event, they may face personal discipline, their school team could be fined or suspended, and the student could wind up being investigated by the New Jersey Division of Civil Rights.

Question right out of the box: Isn’t trash talking part of the game in any sport? Tom Hanks said it best in “A League of Their Own”. “There’s no crying in baseball!” So now we have a rule banning trash talking in high school sports here in the state...