Charges Dropped in MCPS football fight

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like the Gaithersburg HS AD has dropped charges against the 2 Northwest coaches.
Hopefully the head coach is reinstated. Germantown needs all of the positive, young, black role models it can get right now and the firing was both unjust and deflating to the youth players. I really saw the unjust firing as yet another example to young black men that the system is unfair and you just can't win working within it so why bother.

So when do the white players get a white role model coach? Why is there an all black coaching staff?

The entire rest of their lives is “white role models,” but then, you already knew that.

Plenty of black male coaches in this county who can coach while showing some class and keeping their cool.

Where?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is it that we care so much about coaches as role models? Does the kid who gets cut or doesnt play a sport just not get one?

Many kids do not have any positive male role models (of any color) in their lives.

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Anonymous wrote:Gaithersburg AD also lost his position as result of the fight. Seems like consequences were handed out to both teams.

I doubt anyone would have lost their job if he had not filed assault charges. He put the public spotlight on it

You mean if there wasn't any video. The charges had nothing to do with it. They weren't filed by the police.

Don't tell me what I mean. The incident became national news because charges were filed. There are fights on football fields all season and no one is fired but the national spotlight came when it turned into a legal case and that was 100% the fault of the AD.

Because there was video. National news doesn't care if one AD files charges against a coach. But they love video of a fight. Video will get the coverage every time.

FYI there’s video of every football game thanks to the paid for streaming service MCPS contracts with. Same for high school basketball games. There have been videos of other fights at MCPS athletics events including the brawl at a Churchill basketball game last year. The scope of arrests at the Gaithersburg football game led to the national media coverage.

MCPS athletics has propaganda and the “We RAISE” slogan but very little has been done to screen and train coaches. Coaches that set bad examples of behavior for their players and coaches that allow students to violate basic codes of conduct do more harm to students than good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Gaithersburg AD also lost his position as result of the fight. Seems like consequences were handed out to both teams.

I doubt anyone would have lost their job if he had not filed assault charges. He put the public spotlight on it

You mean if there wasn't any video. The charges had nothing to do with it. They weren't filed by the police.

Don't tell me what I mean. The incident became national news because charges were filed. There are fights on football fields all season and no one is fired but the national spotlight came when it turned into a legal case and that was 100% the fault of the AD.

Because there was video. National news doesn't care if one AD files charges against a coach. But they love video of a fight. Video will get the coverage every time.

FYI there’s video of every football game thanks to the paid for streaming service MCPS contracts with. Same for high school basketball games. There have been videos of other fights at MCPS athletics events including the brawl at a Churchill basketball game last year. The scope of arrests at the Gaithersburg football game led to the national media coverage.

MCPS athletics has propaganda and the “We RAISE” slogan but very little has been done to screen and train coaches. Coaches that set bad examples of behavior for their players and coaches that allow students to violate basic codes of conduct do more harm to students than good.

The arrests made were not any MCPS staff or players. They were outside the gates after the game had been called.

But yes, the coaches set a bad example, and that absolutely matters.

MCPD were not on the field when the fight broke out. Nor did they see the AD get hit. They were up by the gates, and it took some time for them to get down to the field.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it that we care so much about coaches as role models? Does the kid who gets cut or doesnt play a sport just not get one?

Many kids do not have any positive male role models (of any color) in their lives.

And when they get one the school board fires them. Great job mcps