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Students and a coach press Nantucket School Committee on football program conduct and pay practices
Summary
A high-school student and a JV coach told the School Committee they experienced or witnessed hard coaching, repeated player injuries, and alleged irregularities in how coaching positions and pay were handled.
A Nantucket high-school junior and a former JV coach used the public-comment period on Jan. 21 to tell the School Committee they had concerns about the football program's culture, player safety and how coaching positions were paid this season.
"We, as a team, were constantly singled out and belittled," Brock Beamish, who identified himself as a junior and an athlete on football, hockey and baseball teams, told the committee. He said he sustained a…
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