required blog: hypothetical situation #2

After school ends for the day, you coach an athletic team until around 6 pm. Many of your athletes live miles away from school, and their parents often have more-than-part-time jobs. The school district does not run any after-school buses for lack of funding. Some of your athletes can't find rides home at night. (One walked for 45 minutes after the first day of practice). You know that the football coaches drive students home routinely, so you begin driving 2-3 of them home a few times a week.

A month later, you receive a memo from the superintendent. "At no time should a student be in a teacher's personal car". You tell the students, and a few begin missing practice.

Later that same week, you run into a problem. The biggest competition of the year is on Tuesday. You have an important practice scheduled for Saturday, the last time you'll be able to really work with the students before the big day. Your best athlete calls on Saturday morning: his mom is gone for the weekend, and he won't be able to come to practice because he has no ride, and no team member lives anywhere near him.

Do you go pick him up?