An East Forsyth High School student used his cell phone to record a confrontation with the school’s softball coach over texts the coach was sending to a female student.
Short version— Mike Muse, who teaches gym in addition to coaching the softball team, confronted student Dillon Tshrnko over text messages he was sending the female student, who is a friend of Tshrnko’s. Apparently Muse believed Tshrnko was spreading rumors about him and the female student.
Muse describes himself as a “God-fearing Christian man.” Still, he uses some colorful language, as this excerpt form the confrontation shows:
I got enough problems as it is already and being the girls softball coach, guess what, I got 46 girls in my program. You think I’m not going to text any of them? You think I’m not going to be their surrogate daddy? Cause some of them don’t have daddies. You understand where I’m coming from and I swear to God there’s enough (vagina) out there that’s 21 and older that I don’t need to dip into an 18-year-old and younger population. That plus the fact that I’ve got a wife that I’m pretty passionate about. And I have two daughters and a son. Why would I treat these girls any differently than I’m going to treat my own daughter and my own son?
Muse told the Winston-Salem Journal that he acted out of anger —it happens to us all — and that he has apologized to both Dillon and his parents, and that he has been disciplined, although the discipline is undisclosed and he continues to teach and coach at East Forsyth.
