Bellevue football parents complain

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Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland Jan 12, 2018

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>Bellevue football parents complain</h1>
                <h2><p>Some parents of Bellevue High School football players, past and present, are telling the School Board that the district's own probe of alleged recruitments, academic problems and excessive practicing is bogus, KIRO-TV reports. The coach is on a two-game suspension after self-reporting problems. The parents said he and</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p>Some parents of Bellevue High School football players, past and present, are telling the School Board that the district's own probe of alleged recruitments, academic problems and excessive practicing is bogus, <a href="http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/bellevue-football-parents-call-foul-school-distric/nngGb/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">KIRO-TV reports</a>. The coach is on a two-game suspension after self-reporting problems. The parents said he and the team would be fully cleared of all charges if the district looked more carefully into the allegations.</p><p>The mother of a former Bellevue student who is now at Stanford, Mustafa Branch, said she and her son picked the school for its academic reputation but people assume he was induced to come there.</p>
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Some parents of Bellevue High School football players, past and present, are telling the School Board that the district's own probe of alleged recruitments, academic problems and excessive practicing is bogus, KIRO-TV reports. The coach is on a two-game suspension after self-reporting problems. The parents said he and the team would be fully cleared of all charges if the district looked more carefully into the allegations.

The mother of a former Bellevue student who is now at Stanford, Mustafa Branch, said she and her son picked the school for its academic reputation but people assume he was induced to come there.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi