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Parents, students press Gettysburg Area School District over annual coach-posting policy, urge retention of football coach
Summary
Dozens of parents, students and volunteers urged the Gettysburg Area School board to stop the district's practice of annually posting coaching positions and to confirm Matt Heizer as head football coach, saying the policy harms student athletes and program continuity.
Dozens of parents, students and volunteers urged the Gettysburg Area School District board to abandon a 2023 policy that requires annual posting of coaching positions and to confirm Matt Heizer as the high school's head football coach.
Speakers at the citizens' participation portion on March 17 said the policy leaves coaches and athletes in limbo and damages team culture. "The policy of making our coaches go through this every year needs to be reworked," said Jill Grama Whitmore, identifying herself as a parent of an eighth-grader involved in football and wrestling. Whitmore said the board should rely on an athletic director, principal and superintendent for hiring decisions rather than intervening in annual coaching postings.
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