Dad banned for life from youth football league after verbal tirade loses teaching license for 3 years

Updated Aug 27, 2019; Posted Aug 27, 2019

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By Avalon Zoppo | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

A XXXXXX school business administrator who cursed out a 16-year-old flag football coach in front of children has had his teaching licenses suspended for three years, the New Jersey Department of Education said in a decision published earlier this month.

Mr. X pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in 2017 after he cursed at a peewee coach  on XXXXXX Field at XXXXXXX Middle School because his son was rotated out of the quarterback position. Mr. X was also accused of simple assault for allegedly putting the teenage coach in a chokehold, but that charge was later dismissed.

The incident occurred in front of about 75 people, including kids between the ages of six and eight-years-old.

Mr. X’s  conduct in using profanity in front of minors as young as six years old and being charged accordingly, clearly indicates a serious lapse in judgment,” the State Board of Examiners said in its suspension order published in August.

Following Mr. X’s outburst, the North Jersey NFL Flag Football league banned him and his family from games for life.

In written statements to the state board from February, Mr. X said he was responding to a “rude and dismissive hand gesture” the assistant coach made toward him that day, according to the board’s decision.

He noted that he received no discipline in the 11 years he worked for the district and his disorderly conduct charge was later dismissed through a “conditional dismissal."

The XXXXX Board of Education sought to remove Mr. X from his job in 2018, a position he held since 2007. He made a $171,136 salary.