This New Texas High School Football Rule Will Get Some Parents Kicked Out

Enjoying youth sports in Texas should be a fun experience for everyone. Maybe this new rule will help that be true once again.

Bad Parent Behavior

Youth sports are designed to help build the character of a young person. It teaches the value of working as a team, the value of taking care of your specific responsibility and the value of good sportsmanship. Learning all of those qualities helps lead to a victory against the opponent.

Winning is great, by the way, but is not the point of youth sports. That's where some parents take things to the wrong level, it's about learning, not winning.

Sadly, as we attend high school football games this season, we'll witness some behavior from certain parents and other spectators that is unacceptable during these sporting events. Because of that bad behavior, some school districts in East Texas have implemented new rules for those bad-behaving fans.

District 21-3A

District 21-3A includes the East Texas high schools of Diboll, Huntington, Pineywoods Community Academy, Central Heights, Newton, Central and Woodville. For this 2024 football season, and any sport for the rest of the school year, a disorderly fan can be ejected from the stadium. If this happens twice during the year, that fan is banned from all extracurricular events for the rest of the school year (lufkindailynews.com).

I. Love. This. Rule. It's sad that it's needed but the rule is welcome. I hope that other districts in East Texas, and across the state, will adopt this rule and make it permanent. There is nothing wrong with being excited or passionate about your team and the players. It turns wrong when that fan becomes unruly and disrespectful to everyone around them.

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