The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta

Author:Tom Perrotta
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Religion, Fiction.Contemporary, fiction
ISBN: 9780307356369
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2007-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Yusuf Islam

RUTH HAD EXPECTED TO SIT DOWN AND BANG OUT HER FORMAL letter of complaint in a matter of minutes. It seemed like a simple, straightforward proposition: Coach Mason violated Article X, Section Y of the Soccer Association Guidelines—i.e., “Coaches are not permitted to inflict their religious beliefs on their players”—and should therefore be punished for this infraction.

There was only one problem: no such rule existed. She scoured the Stonewood Heights Youth Soccer Association Handbook—it was available as a .pdf download at SHYSA.org—and couldn’t find a single reference to religion in the entire twenty-two-page document. Even the surprisingly detailed Coach’s Code of Conduct was mute on the subject. There were paragraphs devoted to the coach’s responsibility for civil behavior on the sidelines (“SHYSA has zero tolerance for verbal abuse or second-guessing of referees”), for ensuring that each player got a roughly equal amount of time on the field, for taking care that players weren’t exposed to severe or dangerous weather conditions, and for providing a smoke-free youth soccer experience for the children of Stonewood Heights. A whole page was devoted to the issue of sexual abuse—Ruth was pleased to learn that coaches had to submit to a background check, and impressed by the Association’s stern and highly specific set of prohibitions, issued under the bold heading, YOU MUST NOT:

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