The former varsity basketball coach at Coolidge Senior High School is entitled to have his job back after an arbitrator ruled that D.C. Public Schools wrongfully removed him. Bryan Crumpton’s principal told him the team’s poor record and the low college entrance rate of its players were grounds for his removal — measures that coaches are not typically evaluated on and that no other Coolidge coaches were kicked out for, according to the ruling.

Furthermore, Crumpton’s replacement was friendly with Principal L. Nelson Burton from their time together at M.M. Washington Career High School, and filled the Coolidge team with transfer students from his old high school — displacing Coolidge students and ruining their chances at playing college ball.