Dear Editor,

I write regarding the injustice meted out to the Kingston College (KC) team after the conclusion of the recent Schools’ Challenge Quiz competition.

I have never seen anything like this. In sports, if an athlete uses dope that individual athlete may be banned, the punishment normally stipulated in the governing charter. If the doping is prevalent among an entire team, then there may be grounds for the team to be banned as well.

What crime did the KC team or the institution perpetrate?

Here we are talking about a coach making his objections known in a Facebook (not an official channel for the school) posting and the punishment is not a suspension of that coach for a game or two? Even if Television Jamaica (TVJ) had some reasonable basis for its action, a two-year suspension of the entire team is extreme.

The action taken was absolutely lame and the team should be absolved even if TVJ heard “Absalam” instead of “Absalom”.

Kingsley Mitchell

kingquick2@hotmail.com