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Did the coach’s seventh-grade son really practice with the varsity?

I’m working on a news story that’s hard to believe, which goes like this: a varsity head football coach at a local high school, recently hired, is already under the gun, so to speak, because he let his son, who is only in the seventh grade, practice with the varsity squad he coaches.Allegedly, someone blew the whistle on him, pardon the pun, and he was officially reprimanded by the school district that employs him.Apparently a teachers union is unhappy, believing the coach’s breach of protocol deserved something more than a written reprimand.I’m not naming the school or the ISD because ...

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