Coach wants to make a living off Little League families?
I am wondering about whether this is common practice in your district:
one of the coaches in our district also makes his living running a business (sole proprietorship type) where he charges families for participation in a ball team that he coaches, and he also runs (for profit) summer camps.
I think it’s inappropriate that at Little League events like Jamboree he has set up a tent and he has been actively hawking his business to cash strapped Little League families. The implications to the kids on his League team whose parents may not also be able to afford his extra coaching don’t need explanation here.
More troubling, he is also soliciting unpaid ‘volunteer' high school coaches online for use in his business, promising them that they can earn ‘volunteer hours’ for college applications.
So, not only is he trying to siphon off the young volunteer Little League umpires, who could instead earn their volunteer hours with Little League, but (per Google search), for-profit businesses cannot legally use unpaid volunteer labor for commercial activities, so I don’t think this is even legal.
Have you seen this kind of thing in your district?
How has your board dealt with it?