2021 DMV Boys Outlook

[Anonymous]

Easy to make claims. The heads want to get the kids back on the fields and playing. The Heads also have to proceed with caution for fear of legal exposure. Maybe you should direct your ire at the lawyers, because if a student gets COVID and dies, unlikely, or a student gets COVID and gives it to a person in their family at risk, you can bet the school would be at risk. Heads are going through due process to make sure they can get the kids playing and avoid legal exposure. While some teams have had a lot of practice, others haven't. Taking a kid sitting at a desk for 6-8 hours a day and then having him run full field is a recipe for pulled muscles or worse. For the sake of the kids, the coaches have to ease into it..

Save your ire for the lawyers and the Ivies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Easy to make claims. The heads want to get the kids back on the fields and playing. The Heads also have to proceed with caution for fear of legal exposure. Maybe you should direct your ire at the lawyers, because if a student gets COVID and dies, unlikely, or a student gets COVID and gives it to a person in their family at risk, you can bet the school would be at risk. Heads are going through due process to make sure they can get the kids playing and avoid legal exposure. While some teams have had a lot of practice, others haven't. Taking a kid sitting at a desk for 6-8 hours a day and then having him run full field is a recipe for pulled muscles or worse. For the sake of the kids, the coaches have to ease into it..

Save your ire for the lawyers and the Ivies.

Disagree. I'm not the PP, but to think the kids need to "take it slow" is nuts. Every kid out there is playing, working out (Healthy Baller anyone??) and practicing as a team when they are allowed. ISL teams are playing next weekend. As are teams in Baltimore. But for whatever reason, things are different in these few IAC schools?? Nah...incompetence combined with a lack of spine along with an unwillingness to fight for the kids. Lastly, I guess lawyers are just smarter here as the other parts of the country that are playing sports, have been in school all year are in areas with immune to lawsuits...? Nah..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Easy to make claims. The heads want to get the kids back on the fields and playing. The Heads also have to proceed with caution for fear of legal exposure. Maybe you should direct your ire at the lawyers, because if a student gets COVID and dies, unlikely, or a student gets COVID and gives it to a person in their family at risk, you can bet the school would be at risk. Heads are going through due process to make sure they can get the kids playing and avoid legal exposure. While some teams have had a lot of practice, others haven't. Taking a kid sitting at a desk for 6-8 hours a day and then having him run full field is a recipe for pulled muscles or worse. For the sake of the kids, the coaches have to ease into it..

Save your ire for the lawyers and the Ivies.

This wins for the dumbest post of the day and that's saying something. I am a coach in the IAC and the Heads have completely folded and are fighting tooth and nail to shut it all down in the name of equity and social media fear.

"because if a student gets COVID and dies, unlikely..." - 0 people under the age of 20 have died in Maryland

"student gets COVID and gives it to a person in their family at risk, you can bet the school would be at risk" - Most of the privates are already going to school in some form or fashion. The option to sue is not available if you choose to send your kid to class

"While some teams have had a lot of practice, others haven't." - The teams who haven't had a lot of practice don't have to play those that have.

"Taking a kid sitting at a desk for 6-8 hours a day and then having him run full field is a recipe for pulled muscles or worse." - This post gets dumber and dumber

"For the sake of the kids, the coaches have to ease into it.." - Whoops, it just got even more dumb. Go back to your basement. These are healthy teenagers not geriatrics. The numbers have plummeted, The science on spread has evolved. Masks are ridiculous for a school population getting tested and playing outdoors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Easy to make claims. The heads want to get the kids back on the fields and playing. The Heads also have to proceed with caution for fear of legal exposure. Maybe you should direct your ire at the lawyers, because if a student gets COVID and dies, unlikely, or a student gets COVID and gives it to a person in their family at risk, you can bet the school would be at risk. Heads are going through due process to make sure they can get the kids playing and avoid legal exposure. While some teams have had a lot of practice, others haven't. Taking a kid sitting at a desk for 6-8 hours a day and then having him run full field is a recipe for pulled muscles or worse. For the sake of the kids, the coaches have to ease into it..

Save your ire for the lawyers and the Ivies.

Disagree. I'm not the PP, but to think the kids need to "take it slow" is nuts. Every kid out there is playing, working out (Healthy Baller anyone??) and practicing as a team when they are allowed. ISL teams are playing next weekend. As are teams in Baltimore. But for whatever reason, things are different in these few IAC schools?? Nah...incompetence combined with a lack of spine along with an unwillingness to fight for the kids. Lastly, I guess lawyers are just smarter here as the other parts of the country that are playing sports, have been in school all year are in areas with immune to lawsuits...? Nah..

Exactly. If Heads were worried about legal liability, that would be an issue for every Head across the country, or at least the State. Which, of course, it is not. Private and public schools have been playing sports and going to school in many of the states (if not most). It isn't liability...it is a lack of leadership. They are weak minded. Sad.

[Anonymous]

To all parents of kids in IAC and WCAC, some parents are starting to reach out around doing a club event in March. I am not sure the format (league, play-day, tournament), but HS teams would play as a club with different coaches.

Reach out to parents you think would be in the know from your HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Easy to make claims. The heads want to get the kids back on the fields and playing. The Heads also have to proceed with caution for fear of legal exposure. Maybe you should direct your ire at the lawyers, because if a student gets COVID and dies, unlikely, or a student gets COVID and gives it to a person in their family at risk, you can bet the school would be at risk. Heads are going through due process to make sure they can get the kids playing and avoid legal exposure. While some teams have had a lot of practice, others haven't. Taking a kid sitting at a desk for 6-8 hours a day and then having him run full field is a recipe for pulled muscles or worse. For the sake of the kids, the coaches have to ease into it..

Save your ire for the lawyers and the Ivies.

This wins for the dumbest post of the day and that's saying something. I am a coach in the IAC and the Heads have completely folded and are fighting tooth and nail to shut it all down in the name of equity and social media fear.

"because if a student gets COVID and dies, unlikely..." - 0 people under the age of 20 have died in Maryland

"student gets COVID and gives it to a person in their family at risk, you can bet the school would be at risk" - Most of the privates are already going to school in some form or fashion. The option to sue is not available if you choose to send your kid to class

"While some teams have had a lot of practice, others haven't." - The teams who haven't had a lot of practice don't have to play those that have.

"Taking a kid sitting at a desk for 6-8 hours a day and then having him run full field is a recipe for pulled muscles or worse." - This post gets dumber and dumber

"For the sake of the kids, the coaches have to ease into it.." - Whoops, it just got even more dumb. Go back to your basement. These are healthy teenagers not geriatrics. The numbers have plummeted, The science on spread has evolved. Masks are ridiculous for a school population getting tested and playing outdoors.

Well stated - the original poster has no grasp of context or common sense. There is no such thing as a "zero risk" environment and that is not the standard to let healthy teenagers play sports - if it was, there would NEVER be athletic competition!

[Anonymous]

I'm hearing the AD's are also complicit in the overall lack of strategy, planning and execution of the sports programs within the IAC.

Funny...they all portray themselves as "sports" people, but in the end, they are just as spineless as the HOS as they are unwilling to stand up for the athletes in their respective schools. Just a bunch of zero's.

[Anonymous]

most IAC Heads are grossly overpaid.

Entitled, elites, who were handed their job due a connect with the current BOT.

total lack of leadership across the top.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Easy to make claims. The heads want to get the kids back on the fields and playing. The Heads also have to proceed with caution for fear of legal exposure. Maybe you should direct your ire at the lawyers, because if a student gets COVID and dies, unlikely, or a student gets COVID and gives it to a person in their family at risk, you can bet the school would be at risk. Heads are going through due process to make sure they can get the kids playing and avoid legal exposure. While some teams have had a lot of practice, others haven't. Taking a kid sitting at a desk for 6-8 hours a day and then having him run full field is a recipe for pulled muscles or worse. For the sake of the kids, the coaches have to ease into it..

Save your ire for the lawyers and the Ivies.

This wins for the dumbest post of the day and that's saying something. I am a coach in the IAC and the Heads have completely folded and are fighting tooth and nail to shut it all down in the name of equity and social media fear.

"because if a student gets COVID and dies, unlikely..." - 0 people under the age of 20 have died in Maryland

"student gets COVID and gives it to a person in their family at risk, you can bet the school would be at risk" - Most of the privates are already going to school in some form or fashion. The option to sue is not available if you choose to send your kid to class

"While some teams have had a lot of practice, others haven't." - The teams who haven't had a lot of practice don't have to play those that have.

"Taking a kid sitting at a desk for 6-8 hours a day and then having him run full field is a recipe for pulled muscles or worse." - This post gets dumber and dumber

"For the sake of the kids, the coaches have to ease into it.." - Whoops, it just got even more dumb. Go back to your basement. These are healthy teenagers not geriatrics. The numbers have plummeted, The science on spread has evolved. Masks are ridiculous for a school population getting tested and playing outdoors.

I have no stake in this, but perhaps the Heads have decided they're getting sued no matter what, and they're less likely to loss if they don't have games than if they do? Or they can use the vocal "let them play" parents to force games to happen?

[Anonymous]

I have no stake in this, but perhaps the Heads have decided they're getting sued no matter what, and they're less likely to loss if they don't have games than if they do? Or they can use the vocal "let them play" parents to force games to happen?

You are correct and there is a chance of a lawsuit but not in the way people in the DC area think. Schools are in danger of being sued over not [u]opening. There are now dozens of lawsuits across the country in red and blue states over school districts not following government and CDC recommendations to reopen schools. One of the largest ones is San Francisco suing their own school districts over the refusal. There are also a number of athletic competition suits where the claim is the schools have caused financial harm to athletes and their inability to get recruited. Then there are the obvious suits over educational and emotional harm being done to the general student population. The general population in the DC area is now the most sheepish in the nation by any standard and truly exemplify the old saying of "cutting off their nose to spite their face."

[Anonymous]

In the end, the Heads and AD’s of the IAC (and WCAC and public’s) have let our children down in a big way when it comes to athletics as a part of a well rounded educational experience. A complete failure of which there will be little accountability. They know it and we, as parents, know it. The degree of incompetence is alarming, but now obvious to us all.

Go ahead and give them a pat on the head the next time you see them and say “nice try little guy...maybe next time you’ll figure it out...let’s go get some ice cream...”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the end, the Heads and AD’s of the IAC (and WCAC and public’s) have let our children down in a big way when it comes to athletics as a part of a well rounded educational experience. A complete failure of which there will be little accountability. They know it and we, as parents, know it. The degree of incompetence is alarming, but now obvious to us all.

Go ahead and give them a pat on the head the next time you see them and say “nice try little guy...maybe next time you’ll figure it out...let’s go get some ice cream...”

Ha...funny...that's about right. To be that bad at your job and still look people in the eye and say you did everything you could?!

[Anonymous]

The IAC is likely to play home and home in lacrosse with a tournament, and then schedule what you can if you can. Monitoring the outbreak situation might impact the schedule. Is COVID making NBA teams miss games? MLB? NHL? There is lot of money to be gained and lost there. The stakes are a little different with HS athletics. I think every reasonable step should be made to get kids on fields playing games.

[Anonymous]

I have no stake in this, but perhaps the Heads have decided they're getting sued no matter what, and they're less likely to loss if they don't have games than if they do? Or they can use the vocal "let them play" parents to force games to happen?
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They aren't getting sued in this area. 60% of people polled don't even think kids should be in school. The privates are led by a bunch of sheltered sheep herder heads of school living in a cocoon and a good amount of people going to the privates are scared of their own shadows. There is a 30% stay at home rate at my child's private school.

[Anonymous]

Are DC privates able to practice yet?