On Thursday, February 1, 2018, Ludington High School's girls basketball coach resigned, a fact that was noted without any other comment on the City of Ludington Daily News (COLDNews) and the WMOM Sports FB page. 

No explanation was given that day by the school or by Matt Millspaugh, the coach, nor has it since until this evening 15 days later where the COLDNews reports on a letter from Superintendent Jason Kennedy (pictured above):

Ludington Area Schools responds with apology following resignation of Ludington girls basketball coach

Ludington Area Schools is responding after girls basketball coach Matt Millspaugh resigned Feb. 1.
The Ludington Daily News had asked for a response on that day and Superintendent Jason Kennedy responded that he was looking into the situation and would reply as soon as possible.

Kennedy did reply with the following letter on Friday, Feb. 16:

"Ludington Area Schools received the resignation of Head Varsity Girls’ Basketball Coach, Matt Millspaugh (“Coach”), on February 1, 2018. This resignation took immediate effect. The District has had no knowledge of any allegations of inappropriate activities by the Coach; however, it is important to recognize that during the course of personnel management in an organization, discourse and disagreement may occur.

"In no way, was it the intention of the District to cause hard feelings toward the Coach, our student-athletes and their families, our community, or our school. If this has been the case, please accept this apology on behalf of myself and Ludington Area Schools.

"We care deeply about the success of our students and staff. Moving forward, please know that the District is committed to providing the absolute highest quality educational experiences for its students and student-athletes, and that we will continue to review and reflect upon our practices, procedures, and policies to ensure that we continue to do so."

Respectfully,

Jason J. Kennedy
Superintendent

In the era of the me-too movement in the state where MSU's Larry Nasser (above) groped female athletes for over 20 years, it seems patently irresponsible of Ludington superintendent to wait fifteen days until answering a simple question about why did Millspaugh resign.  Even more irresponsible is the vague and mostly meaningless letter written by the superintendent.  

If there has been no allegations of inappropriate activity by the former coach, why wasn't this immediately acknowledged by Kennedy?  For fifteen days, people in the community may have suspected the worse about Matt Millspaugh coaching high school girls, but in a late Friday afternoon release, they finally decide to absolve him of this burden.  This is grossly unfair to Millspaugh.

Instead of offering anything specific regarding the cause of the resignation, Superintendent Kennedy tells us 'discourse and disagreement' can occur during the course of personnel management.  Even when you understand that this educated school superintendent meant 'discord' (i.e. quarreling) rather than 'discourse' (i.e. conversation), you realize it reveals nothing as its a general observation.

The next paragraph isn't comprehensible; he apologizes at the end of the paragraph for some unclear transgression after saying the district had no intention of creating hard feelings.  For what, Superintendent Kennedy, your inability to address the still-obscure issue immediately and with proper leadership?  

The last paragraph of his letter is surprisingly more devoid of content than the previous paragraphs.  One is left with the impression that a coach resigned 15 days previously and the school just doesn't want to tell the public why, just tell us how great they are doing their job and how lucky you are to have your kid in such a school district.  

Where they can't even give a simple answer to the public 15 days later about why their girl's basketball coach resigned, and create more questions with some letter dotted with flowery generalizations that effectively explain nothing.