{"id":219212,"date":"2025-03-21T09:25:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=219212"},"modified":"2025-03-21T09:29:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:29:45","slug":"investigation-launched-into-firing-of-two-campbell-high-basketball-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=219212","title":{"rendered":"Investigation Launched Into Firing of Two Campbell High Basketball Coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two Basketball coaches at Campbell High School were abruptly dismissed last week, prompting Superintendent Chris Ragsdale to launch an investigation following intense community backlash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd0d <strong>Why It Matters:<\/strong> Families and students are outraged by how these beloved mentors were treated after decades of service, showing how deeply coaches impact school communities beyond just sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udfc0 <strong>The Coaches&#8217; Legacy:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Randy McClure and James Gwyn amassed approximately 1,200 wins during their combined years coaching<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both men served Campbell High School and its predecessor schools before the 1989 merger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udce3 <strong>Community Response:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nearly 4,000 people signed a petition demanding the district examine the dismissal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Former players, current students and fellow teachers spoke at the board meeting in support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd04 <strong>What Happens Next:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ragsdale personally initiated the review that evolved into a formal investigation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The superintendent plans to report findings and potential actions when the investigation concludes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2696\ufe0f <strong>Between The Lines:<\/strong> The situation raises questions about personnel practices in Cobb County schools, as even the superintendent acknowledged the district fell short of its own standards in handling the terminations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=20]\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Basketball coaches at Campbell High School were abruptly dismissed last week, prompting Superintendent Chris Ragsdale to launch an investigation following intense community backlash. \ud83d\udd0d Why It Matters: Families and students are outraged by how these beloved mentors were treated after decades of service, showing how deeply coaches impact school communities beyond just sports. \ud83c\udfc0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":219213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11783],"tags":[17498,11922,17500,17499],"class_list":["post-219212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-campbell-high-school","tag-chris-ragsdale","tag-james-gwyn","tag-randy-mcclure","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}