A 29-year-old assistant football coach at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach was arrested after deputies say he struck multiple students during practice and now faces four counts of child abuse without great bodily harm. Broward Sheriff’s deputies responded to the weight room after a reported battery and took the coach into custody, leaving parents and taxpayers stunned.
According to the arrest report obtained by local outlets, the confrontation began after a student admitted to posting something negative on social media about someone associated with the coach, and the situation escalated into punches being thrown and a cracked mirror in the weight room. Witnesses describe the coach swinging at players after being surrounded, and deputies found him sitting in a locked locker room with the lights off when they entered. These are not garden-variety, playground scuffles — they involve adults in authority losing control in front of teenagers.
Disturbingly, this is not an isolated allegation: prosecutors and school officials say a separate video surfaced showing the same man involved in a violent incident at Monarch High School earlier in the month, a clip the district says it only learned about after the recent arrest. If true, that pattern should have set off alarms the minute the first incident occurred, not after social media and public outrage forced action. Parents deserve to know why warning signs were ignored until things blew up.
Broward County Public Schools told reporters the employee is being reassigned while the matter is reviewed and that he will no longer serve as an assistant coach at Blanche Ely — language bureaucrats use when they want to appear tough while avoiding immediate consequences. Reassignment pending review frequently means the employee remains on the payroll while taxpayers foot the bill, which is galling when the safety of children is at stake. School districts must stop hiding behind HR euphemisms and act swiftly to remove unsafe adults from campuses.
A judge set bond at $30,000 and ordered strict conditions if the coach posts it: house arrest with a GPS monitor, surrender of any weapons, and a ban on contact with the alleged victims and other minors. Those are appropriate short-term measures, but they are no substitute for accountability from the very institutions paid to protect kids during the school day. Criminal process will take its course, but the district’s handling deserves independent scrutiny now.
Americans who still believe in law and order should be furious that a grown man entrusted to protect teenagers allegedly became the aggressor — and that a school bureaucracy moved slowly while parents were left in the dark. This is the predictable result when woke administrative cultures prioritize process, politics, or employee protections over student safety. We should demand zero tolerance for physical assault by school employees, regardless of their role, muscle or resume.
The solution is simple and unapologetic: swift termination for employees who assault students, immediate suspension without pay during criminal investigations, transparent reporting to parents, and real consequences for administrators who fail to act. School boards must stop reflexively protecting staff and start protecting children; taxpayers should demand transparency at every step. If districts won’t police themselves, state legislatures should step in with clear, enforceable rules that put kids first.
Parents must turn their outrage into action — attend school board meetings, demand copies of personnel and incident reports, and insist on clarity about who is being paid and why. This isn’t a partisan plea; it’s common-sense conservatism — family, safety, and accountability. Hardworking Americans won’t tolerate our children being put at risk while bureaucrats shuffle the same people from campus to campus.
