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Bellevue High School parents, boosters push back against damning report

May 13, 2016, 12:31 PM

Bellevue High School Wolverines...

An independent investigation found a series of potential violations on the Bellevue High School football program. (Image courtesy Bellevue Wolverines Facebook)

(Image courtesy Bellevue Wolverines Facebook)

Just weeks after a state athletics investigation accused Bellevue High School football coaches and district administration of corruption from top to bottom, parents and boosters are releasing their own report to push back.

Bellevue football boosters are backing up what they’ve said for months: they’ve done nothing wrong.

Debate: Are the parents to blame in the Bellevue football scandal?

Investigators for the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association claimed coaches illegally recruited players and paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to coaches.

But boosters for the Bellevue Wolverines Football Club say the investigators skewed the facts to make the district look bad, and hounded students and parents in “interrogations” that went too far.

The Bellevue report also says if their program is in the wrong, then all other schools must be. Since nearly every school in King County raises comparable amounts of money. And other schools also use that money to pay coaches, subsidize training camps, and even provide student scholarships to private schools and college.

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Bellevue High School parents, boosters push back against damning report