TISHOMINGO, OK (KXII/CNN) - Two high school basketball coaches in Oklahoma have been fired for using a school bus to make a beer run. It happened while Tishomingo High School was attending a basketball camp out of town.
“It sort of just disappointed us all,” said student Kyle Miller. That's how Tishomingo basketball player Miller felt after learning two of his coaches had been fired.
A school board member confirms the boys basketball coaches were fired for using a school bus to drive to a local convenience store to purchase alcohol while at a basketball camp at Connors State. "We noticed that the school bus was gone but he had told us to stay in our dorms. And so we proceeded to do that and we just didn't find anything out until the next day,” Miller said.
"I think it's very disrespectful to our community, to the future of our kids to think it's OK to do something like that,” a woman said.
A school board member says a store clerk reported the coaches to Connors State officials. The college doesn't allow alcohol on campus. Once Tishomingo school officials were notified, the coaches were immediately fired.
"We were pretty upset because we paid money out of pocket to go that camp, because we had to stay for three nights and we had to end up leaving on the second day," Miller said.
"Them being with students, having a school bus to drive around in to purchase it, is just wrong, it's really wrong," a woman said.
Another school scandal rocked Tishomingo at the beginning of the school year when cheer coach and wife to the superintendent Shelley Duncan was arrested accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old boy.
Miller says it's tough being a Tishomingo student. "Anywhere we go we have kids asking us about what's going on with Mrs. Duncan, what's going on with the coaches, just anywhere we go it's always something else," Miller said.
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