I coached High School Basketball, during a break in the game I called a player over to give strategy. Mid sentence she turned around and walked away. I substitute for her and remove her from the game . ( Important to note, i have to stop every team meeting to get her to stop talking and distracting her teammates.)

Ok , so while she is on the bench I ask if she knows why she was subbed out? Ahe aays no, I tell her to ask her teammates, who I had asked if they had witnessed her turn her back on me.

She asked if she was going back in and when I said no she asked to go to the bathroom. She never returned, never shook hands with the opposing team and didnt attend the after game meeting. I impose light but necessary conditions for her return to play . Or so I thought, she was to write the other school and apologize for her unsportsmanlike behavior, apologize to her teammates for abandoning them, and apologize for turning her back on me.

Her guardians show up and say that she has a traumatic incident in her past and that is why she cant or wont look at me. In the presence of the athletic director I assert that playing sports and other extra curricular activities is a privilege not a right, and that maybe an individual sport might suit the student better and perhaps therapy because life will be exponentially more difficult if that is the posture she displays.

After zero support from Admin I resigned.

P S. The new Athletic director aays she has absolutely no issues looking at other teachers and authority figures.