I never actually sent the email. I am not sure how to address my concerns with the inequities. Myself and the other freshmen coach both have a gut feeling that the booster club paid for varsity's stuff, but yet the parents are being asked the "foot the bill" for the freshmen goodie bags.

But hey, my friend who works for UCA said that we can do a camp for a really cheap price, if I can try to get booster club to pay for half of it, I'll call it "even" on the goodie bags :D

I agree w/ UGA that the Booster Club is overstepping their bounds and should have come to you as the coach first before they did anything. If they want to do something special for the SENIORS ONLY, that's one thing, but that usually happens at the end of the season, not with goodie bags. (Actually, I think the whole concept of goodie bags is silly in general, given how anal girls can be about what products they use.)

To me, the whole email thing is an absolute nonissue. That's like saying if a client calls our president on our president's personal phone line that what he says doesn't count - which of course is ridiculous.

Oh, and is varsity judged by age or by ability?

Notes, emails etc are so easy to misread since you can't hear tone or see body language. I'd much rather talk to a parent in person than write to them but it's not possible to do that every day after school. We keep all our personal info private and only communicate via school telephone & a notebook we communicate to a few in every so often. I HATE writing in the NB :(

As a coach you have to have an opinion on matters relating to the team, like goodie bags, and hopefully you will be respected for this. If she replies and it seems like she's upset I would stop emailing her and try to talk in person. And also let your supervisor know, hopefully before he/she finds out from the booster!

If teachers sending emails to students is wrong, then there are a few teachers at the cousin's school who need to be reprimanded.

Some of my cousin's teachers email my aunt to essentially "tattle" on my cousin.

At the University level, they provide us with a website and a "epost" session, kind of like GC forum format. Students can discuss as needed. They can email me and tell me if they are unable to come to class or turning is some homework exercises.

I think discussing extra-curricular activities is different from academics. On some level I would use one exposure with my work email and a personal email for other issues.

We recently had to terminate someone for sending harassing/threatening e-mails to his supervisor repeatedly after being told many times to stop. He was doing it at home in the evenings from his yahoo account and just couldn't wrap his brain around the fact that it wasn't ok to do such things even if it's from your home computer. As others have said, if you're acting on behalf of the school or cheer squad, it doesn't matter which computer you're using, if you act inappropriate, you can be reprimanded.