This is insane. It should be super easy to have abusive coaches face consequences. These are kids. End of story. They should be protected by all. But instead predatory coaches are allowed to go around ruining children. How can skate canada look at themselves. They are literally the top level of Canadian skating. AND it seems they are responsible for accrediting coaches. So if not them, who??
It's not just Skate Canada and it's been going on for a while. A very long while. I remember skating in the 90s and a club official told me how the club ran Richard Callaghan out of town because of what he was doing. They were very proud of themselves for what they did because they "didn't want that going on here." But did they report him? No. No one reported him until decades later.
Callaghan most definitively had reports against him in the late-90s. Maurizi first reported it around the time of 1999 Worlds, because that was one of the big stories coming out of the event. The FOX skating documentary-exposé show even referenced it; pretty sure it was called On Thin Ice: The Dark Side of Skating but it could have been one of the other ones that also aired around that time.
Well in any event, it wasn’t ‘decades’ later (from the 90s reference) and it wasn’t first brought up during the 2018 Olympics or whenever it was that Maurizi made (well.. started to make) the headlines again.This was early 90s. I was trying to be vague.
That you are part of an abusive atmosphere and unwilling to change or admit wrong doing? Prancer didn't need to delete your post for the rest of us to confirm that.
I'm just making our stance on anonymous complaints made about people in the skating community clear since you are new here and possibly not familiar with how things work. This policy was true before you arrived and will be true when you are gone.
What you said about the difficulty with problem coaches when they are independent contractors is true. But FYI, rinks and clubs do have liability insurance. But they understandably don't want to have to use it, or pay legal expenses for a lawsuit. For that reason, it's pretty rare for a coach to be kicked out of a rink without a lot of evidence, repeated warnings, etc. And coaches generally have no problem moving from rink to rink unless what they've done is so egregious it results in a SafeSport suspension. And as we've heard, that process takes a long time.
So if this all true, that will come out in the investigation and everyone will be cleared, yes?
We should hope so, anyway, but things don't always work out that way.
who hurt you
I hope that answers your question?
There are always (at least) two sides to the story, and things aren't always as they may be stated by one party. I can point to a very recent example that was big news for a few days, and then seemingly everyone went on their merry ways and continued to cheer for involved skater based on event PBPs.
Except that you're NOT the only person skating in this environment or others that are similar, and there are others participating in this thread who also assert that they are intimately familiar with the environment at this rink in particular. So, who should be believed? Just because you are figuratively stomping your foot and demanding that we dismiss everything else doesn't mean that rational, independent-thinking people will do as you say.
And this is what is known as a sick system right here. If I didn't think there was something rotten in that rink before I sure do now.
