Letter: Quit blaming others for son's problems

Regarding the accusations Kimbra Maag has leveled at Elida football coach Jason Carpenter and Superintendent Don Diglia, the Allen County Prosecutor’s Office has cleared both Diglia and Carpenter.

Maag ’s son, Brandon, helped rob a pizza delivery employee and was sentenced to the Allen County Juvenile Detention Center. Elida school policy said he could not play. Case closed.

Mom and friend brought up things at two Elida school board meetings that had been decided previously and whined about how her son was persecuted. Instead of blaming her son, she blamed the superintendent and the coach for her son’s troubles.

Maybe if Mom would have disciplined her son, he wouldn’t have thought it would be fun to rob someone. Why doesn’t Mom accept the punishment her son got and the results of the investigation?

If I had robbed a pizza delivery employee when I was his age, my parents would have taken me to the Delphos police station, let me be sentenced in juvenile court and imprisoned. There would have been further punishment awaiting me at home when I was released. My parents wouldn’t have blamed everyone else. I would have had to accept the blame myself and taken my medicine.