Hayfield Football Coach Fired

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Thompson withdrew the football team from the playoffs today

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Her third letter still doesn’t address consequences for Hayfraud. We don’t need a comprehensive review of policies. We need those who break the existing policies to suffer consequences. Beyond withdrawing from the game. The principal, coach and other hangers on need to be fired. R6 superintendent needs to go. Reid needs to be reprimanded. FCPS actions were shameful and caused harm to all FCPS families and staff. Emails and reviews are not enough.

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Anonymous wrote:Thompson withdrew the football team from the playoffs today

Wow, can he do that?

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does this mean Edison gets to play ???

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Anonymous wrote:Latest breaking news and school board responses via FFXnow: https://www.ffxnow.com/2024/11/25/fcps-handling-of-hayfield-football-train-wreck-questioned-by-some-school-board-members/

Only three signed this statement. 7 signed the full support of Reid letter. Where are the other two?

The three who signed Dunne's statement were the three members in the minority who had called for a more in-depth investigation in August (Dunne, McElveen, and Ricardy Anderson). The statement built on the fact that the signatories had called for an independent inquiry at that time.

Meren and Moon did not call for a more in-depth investigation in August, but refused to sign onto the letter that Frisch circulated this weekend and that was signed by seven members (Frisch, Sandy Anderson, Sizemore-Heizer, Dixit, St. John-Cunning, McDaniel, and Lady).

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Anonymous wrote:does this mean Edison gets to play ???

Sorry Robinson. Lost your shot.

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Anonymous wrote:Her third letter still doesn’t address consequences for Hayfraud. We don’t need a comprehensive review of policies. We need those who break the existing policies to suffer consequences. Beyond withdrawing from the game. The principal, coach and other hangers on need to be fired. R6 superintendent needs to go. Reid needs to be reprimanded. FCPS actions were shameful and caused harm to all FCPS families and staff. Emails and reviews are not enough.

Exactly - this is now her third attempt at gaslighting/sweeping whole thing under the rug. Principal withdrew team because his AD's texts were pretty incriminating. But I don't think Reid should just get to say "hey excellent it all worked out...good job FCPS for working together to get right outcome...." and just move on...

Or point to investigation by her EMPLOYEE as solution to all this (which will take at least a year anyway and whose results the public will probably never see)

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Anonymous wrote:does this mean Edison gets to play ???

No whoever hayfield was going to play will just have a bye

I don’t want to sound like an ass but the in all honestly they likely would’ve lost to WSHS

I can’t in my head get what the 3-6 and 4-5 games would’ve been but

I think the only possible outcome difference would’ve been soco beating west Potomac at west Potomac

Lake Braddock would’ve still won
WSHS would’ve still won
Fairfax would’ve still won

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Anonymous wrote:Is this enough to have state AG take over? It is what’s needed.

That’s no smoking gun and I don’t think it’s damning. It shows the AD expected transfers to come in with Overton and he mentioned homeless kids as an example.

If kids had been caught faking homeless, they may have something here, but I don’t thing this shows any violation being committed.

Nonsense. Why do you think Fritts suggested kids would transfer in as homeless and responded with three "laughing enojis" when his friend said "they better actually be homeless" ?

Moreover why---if kids weren't expected to transfer to play football which is a VHsL
Violation---is the conversation which started discussing hiring Overton then about how 10+ kids will be transferring from ither schools and some pretending to be homeless?

Reading this, I took it like Overton was truly sought after, ok fine, I believe they already had in their minds just like anywhere else with Overton coming in “some” kids would follow, and in my head the mention of 10 starters comment was basically a subtle shot at the players already there not being good enough and that with new coach comes better players.

This doesn't happen, actually. Kids don't jump from public HS to public HS following "their" coach around.

Stop it, please stop lying about a known epidemic, this one is only where it’s at based on the number of transfers not transfer in general

No one is lying. My kid's large FCPS HS got a new head football coach this year and no kids "followed him". "Better players" do not come with new coaches at public high schools, except apparently in shady places like PWC.

You’re definitely fabricating this, but ok for convenience sakes I’ll believe you

Nope!
Public school coaches show up for and coach the kids who already attend that school. They don't bring a three ring circus to work with them.

The fact that you don't understand this is...puzzling.

The fact that i KNOW this to be a lie because I personally hv coached at 3diff FCPS schools and hv witnessed things know other coaches who hv tried things. i dont feel the need to have to prove anything just know i know different. May not be every school and thats simply because the school isn’t good enuf in that sport to even want to transfer to.

Wow. I admit that I am shocked. I didn't know that it happened. It should not. I hope there is a thorough investigation an that everyone gets punished. I am embarrassed that my family in other parts of the country is going to read about this in the news. It is making me lose my love of sports.

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Anonymous wrote:Thompson withdrew the football team from the playoffs today

Wow, can he do that?

He just did so yes

We call this action damage control

You really have to say though, if they’d just accepted their 2-year ban, we probably don’t get to this point

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Withdrawing from the playoffs ultimately punishes the players who worked hard all season, rather than holding accountable the adults responsible for the issues. The players dedicated countless hours to improving their skills and representing their team, only to have their opportunity for success taken away due to decisions beyond their control. These young athletes simply followed the instructions given by the adults in charge, trusting in their leadership. It’s crucial that the consequences for this situation target the adults who caused the problems, not the players who are now unfairly bearing the brunt of the fallout.

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Clueless parent who kept getting these random, confusing emails from Reid. Can someone summarize what this is all about?

(I’ll note that my children do not go to Hayfield and don’t play football, so not sure why I’ve gotten at least three rather long emails.)

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Anonymous wrote:Withdrawing from the playoffs ultimately punishes the players who worked hard all season, rather than holding accountable the adults responsible for the issues. The players dedicated countless hours to improving their skills and representing their team, only to have their opportunity for success taken away due to decisions beyond their control. These young athletes simply followed the instructions given by the adults in charge, trusting in their leadership. It’s crucial that the consequences for this situation target the adults who caused the problems, not the players who are now unfairly bearing the brunt of the fallout.

If you're going to be honest, both the adults and the 31 (!!!!) players who knowingly transferred in, against the rules, should experience consequences.

We have a start. If outraged parents continue to put on pressure, then consequences will continue.

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Last week, several new and troubling text messages were brought to light and are now part of the ongoing review regarding Hayfield Secondary School recruiting concerns. FCPS can only act on the information that it has, and these messages brought new concerns to the initial investigation.

They KNEW about these text messages on the 19th and felt just fine about sending the Edison team out to slaughter two whole days later. The ONLY reason they are appalled now is because the texts were leaked and they ware all CAUGHT. They didn't think they would ever see the light of day and that the could just deny it all away. Can't wait for more evidence to surface, because we all know it's out there.

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Anonymous wrote:Withdrawing from the playoffs ultimately punishes the players who worked hard all season, rather than holding accountable the adults responsible for the issues. The players dedicated countless hours to improving their skills and representing their team, only to have their opportunity for success taken away due to decisions beyond their control. These young athletes simply followed the instructions given by the adults in charge, trusting in their leadership. It’s crucial that the consequences for this situation target the adults who caused the problems, not the players who are now unfairly bearing the brunt of the fallout.

It teaches them right from wrong and that bad decisions have consequences. Let them consider it a valuable life lesson many probably haven't learned yet.