I can't speak for Kansas, but in most of the U.S., schools hire coaches to coach. Often, bandleaders are hired as well. Some of these people are teachers, but coaching is an actual job.

And with a few exceptions (such as, I believe, Alberta), most Canadian teachers don't coach to fulful an extracurricular requirement; they coach voluntarily, same as the guys who coach most kid sport leagues.

And with a few exceptions (such as, I believe, Alberta), most Canadian teachers don't coach to fulful an extracurricular requirement; they coach voluntarily, same as the guys who coach most kid sport leagues.

Yes, in Alberta, teachers are required to fulfill some sort of extracurricular requirement. Coaching is one of their options to fill that requirement. This may simply be because the provincial government keeps cutting the education budgets, and they can't afford dedicated non-teachers. They can't afford all the teachers they need. (To be fair, they put more money back in the system this year, as it's an election year, while conveniently forgetting to remind us that it's only enough to hire back half the teachers that lost their jobs three years ago.)

And with a few exceptions (such as, I believe, Alberta), most Canadian teachers don't coach to fulful an extracurricular requirement; they coach voluntarily, same as the guys who coach most kid sport leagues.

Yes, in Alberta, teachers are required to fulfill some sort of extracurricular requirement. Coaching is one of their options to fill that requirement.

In fond memory of my cruel coaches...yeah, I'm bitter ;-)

I can't speak for Kansas, but in most of the U.S., schools hire coaches to coach. Often, bandleaders are hired as well. Some of these people are teachers, but coaching is an actual job.

And with a few exceptions (such as, I believe, Alberta), most Canadian teachers don't coach to fulful an extracurricular requirement; they coach voluntarily, same as the guys who coach most kid sport leagues.

I can't speak for Kansas, but in most of the U.S., schools hire coaches to coach. Often, bandleaders are hired as well. Some of these people are teachers, but coaching is an actual job.

This is a very regionalized thing in America. There are some municipalities that value their football team, basketball team or band to hire coaches and there are others where it is either a teacher or parent who does the job.

Here in Portland (Oregon), for example, coaching teams has usually been done by teachers who are, in theory, coaches second (some actually, surprisingly, are even teachers first in fact as well). This is probably the reason that a good many high school state championships are owned most years by smaller communities - like Smallville...I suspect that this happens more in bigger cities for the simple reason that they have a larger student population on which to spend limited funds.

Yes, my original post really should've read many U.S. schools, rather than "most."