Staples High School

He's being charged with third-degree assault, second-degree strangulation, and a risk of injury to child.

He is the varsity girls basketball coach at Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut.

He has resigned from that position.

Bummer.

And this is because this could be something that was in one of your books.

Um, There's a documentary called Rock and Roll High School, which is actually about my high school, Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut.

And just a little before I was there, these two juniors decided they wanted to raise money for the junior prom by putting on rock and roll shows at the high school.

And they were fanatically successful at this.

And yeah, I come from the Gold Coast, Fairfield County.

I go to Staples High School, okay? I'm not an outsider to the world either.

So don't take this as a complaint from outside the gates.

My high school is the best public high school in Connecticut, according to the rankings last year.

And the reason why people should do it is because that's how we break this culture.

Standing by people under siege, under the siege of cancel culture, is how cancel culture breaks.

And look, at this point in time, I think that real progress has been made in terms of breaking the cancel culture that exists at Staples High School.

Why do I think that? Because a large extent of it has blown over.

At the same time, uh, I was working for, um, for a gentleman named Al Pia.

Uh, Al ran five theaters in Connecticut, but he was, uh, responsible for the theater, the theater company in my high school, um, which was called Staples High in Westport, Connecticut.

Now, here's the thing about, about...

Again, it's an artist community, right? The th- the whole high school was built around a preexisting theater where The Doors had played, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin.