Hayfield Football Coach Fired

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So serious question....
Why wouldn't Edison now be awarded the victory, Hayfraud disqualified, and Edison play on in the playoffs?

They didn’t practice or prepare for the game tonight. It wouldn’t be right to put them on the field unprepared. With the next game being this Saturday, there is already little turnaround time to prepare. This whole situation has been completely unfair to 8 teams in region C, to include Robinson who were booted for the cheaters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I emailed my SB rep as a Robinson parent. Highlighted my primary concerns not being the football itself but the horrific handling of the situation and the SB’s renewal of Reid’s contract more than a year early in the middle of her ham fisted attempts to make this all go away.

I got a clear cut and paste email doubling down on everything in response. See below:

Thank you for sharing your concerns about recent events involving high school athletics in Fairfax County. First and foremost, I am truly sorry for the angst caused to our community, and for the erosion of trust in our system.

All students should have equal access to every aspect of public education, including sports programs, and competition should be fair. I regret that there have been unfortunate impacts to many, including on students and families in the Braddock District. As a leader in the system, I take my responsibility seriously and am sorry for any negative results your child may have faced, including student athletes whose season was affected.

I appreciate your patience as I wanted Dr. Reid to have time to work through the initial aspects of an action plan to address the concerns and to engage in further talks with Virginia High School League (VHSL) Executive Director Dr. John Haun. As Dr. Reid stated in her Nov. 12 letter to the community, she and Dr. Haun “agree that the changing landscape of both high school and collegiate athletics will require new standards to be implemented to prevent situations like the one we’ve just encountered. I trust that there will be continuing collaboration with the VHSL as we prepare our programs - and our student athletes - for the future.”

Moving forward, it is vital that our practices and processes meet the needs of the changing reality of high school athletics. As a lawyer, I know that if it seems the letter of the law is not fulfilling the spirit of the law, then we need to examine and update that law. This is why I support Dr. Reid’s plan for a comprehensive, external, independent review to inform potential future policy and practice changes. This additional assessment will include the situation at Hayfield as part of the review of all FCPS transfer and eligibility practices.

Dr. Reid’s plan includes:

“A comprehensive and independent external investigation and review of all student athlete transfers and eligibility practices across all sports and in all of our high schools.
A review and revision, where necessary, to FCPS athletic protocols and procedures. Led by the Office of Student Activities and Athletics programs, and in partnership with coaches and administrators, this will include a divisionwide review of current practices in evaluating student athlete transfers both inside and outside of the Division.”

I am also dismayed that new information has come to light since the initial reviews in August and am monitoring these developments closely. The findings of the comprehensive review will be used to help us establish better policies and practices to prevent these types of situations in the future. I hope any subsequent changes to policy and practice will be good steps towards rebuilding public trust and lead to a better path forward.

Dr. Reid also will host two community conversations and I hope you will be able to participate. FCPS will share more about those meetings soon. Throughout this evolving situation, I have been in close communication about this with the Superintendent and Board colleagues and will continue to be as new developments arise.

Please see the statement from me and my colleagues regarding high school athletics.

Please continue to share your concerns about this or anything else with me at any time.

Warm regards,
Rachna

This is so disappointing. The first statement signed by seven was disappointing. Now the texts are out and we know reid sat on them and sent her second letter after them and Rachna still supports the comprehensive policy review rather than demanding consequences for Hayfield and fcps staff, including reid.

[FrankWinston]

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FrankWinston wrote:Bit of an update:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/exclusive-hayfield-athletic-director-resigns-effective-dec-2-amid-widening-scandal/article_4d1b1cae-ac2a-11ef-be0f-23f1dd3c4b5e.html

Asra is biased.

Asra is thorough and has uncovered more than one scandal in FCPS, including FCPS releasing many of our kids' private information, then trying to hide this.

You don't have to be politically aligned with Asra to appreciate her investigative reporting skills.

Dismissing her because she is not team blue is not very smart.

I don't think this is a case where team blue is dismissing her. This is team Hayfraud dismissing her. They've been doing it throughout and taking petty personal swipes at her as well throughout. I am as blue as they come and I have really appreciated her journalism throughout.

[Anonymous]

Anyone know the dates/times of the community conversations? Have they been put out yet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone know the dates/times of the community conversations? Have they been put out yet?

Community conversations for rezoning all FCPS high pyramids starting in 25/26 school years with no grandfathering for high school juniors, sophomores or freshmen?

Or community conversations for the decision to allow coaches, athletic directors and principals to violate district policy and commit fraud against homeless protections in order to stack a state winning football team with 31 out of district students not paying the $19,000.00/year tuition required from out of district students attending FCPS while bullying actual FCPS Hayfield students to the point that they chose to switch schools senior year to escape the bullying?

So many community conversations...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New uniforms are expensive! Public HS teams need a LOT of uniforms and buy new sets very infrequently.

As the parent of a daughter who is a multi sport athlete in FCPS, the girls teams' uniforms appear to be 15 years old. Meanwhile, the boys teams appear to get new uniforms more frequently.

[Anonymous]

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FrankWinston wrote:

FrankWinston wrote:Bit of an update:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/exclusive-hayfield-athletic-director-resigns-effective-dec-2-amid-widening-scandal/article_4d1b1cae-ac2a-11ef-be0f-23f1dd3c4b5e.html

BTW, I love this line: "marking the first resignation in a growing scandal..."

Asra knows she's going to spill the dirt on everyone and is just biding her time...

A Nike contract?!? for a public HS?

An exclusive deal is highly unusual for a public high school. Possibly illegal? Maybe. But not 100% sure.

[Anonymous]

All kids who are in high school now should be allowed to stay. That's insane they would try to implement something by next year.

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Anonymous wrote:The story I heard from an assistant coach whose head coach was at the meeting was that Reid promised to pull Hayfield once she was shown the texts. The coaches agreed to play with the expectation Hayfield would be removed by FCPS.
When she dicked around for a week sending vague emails and let the Edison game play, a frustrated coach leaked the texts to the FT.

If this rumor is true, my bet is on the West Potomac coach, Chadwick Louisville. Fritts was the head coach and Assistant DSA at Mount Vernon for 7 years before he took the job at Hayfield last year. Louisville was one of his assistant coaches. I heard that he was the coach who organized the other coaches to send the letter threatening forfeit.

Louisville sucks as a coach, he won’t out scheme you, and when he can’t out athlete you he falls apart and he’ll lose it and place blame on kids and assts.

You guys think he’s the one who ratted Fritz out?

No one "ratted out" anyone. The guy Monty was texting with seemed like he understood Monty was getting himself in deep trouble and was trying to subtly warn him off. This guy probably forwarded the text to a bunch of other coach friends months ago. That's why there were rumors about "homeless" fraud since the summer. The coaches had all seen the text when they met with Reid. She is claiming she never saw it.

Again speculation, whomever had the text waited and for what, this type evidence could hv been presented up front and this debacle doesn’t get this far

I didn’t think it was a snitch. I thought somewhere it was said they came to light via a FOIA request. Which takes a while to get so that’s why it’s just now coming out.

The messages were on a county phone?

I've been told in trainings that if you check your work email on a personal phone, the entire contents of said phone are discoverable.

Might go delete my Outlook app now that I'm thinking about it...

I had similar training at the state university I'm working at, but apparently using the native web browser to check it is OK. The other thing we were told is if we use our personal phones for work, they too can be considered discoverable during FOIA requests so it's not a good idea to list your personal cell phone in your signature, even if you work from home.

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Anonymous wrote:The story I heard from an assistant coach whose head coach was at the meeting was that Reid promised to pull Hayfield once she was shown the texts. The coaches agreed to play with the expectation Hayfield would be removed by FCPS.
When she dicked around for a week sending vague emails and let the Edison game play, a frustrated coach leaked the texts to the FT.

If this rumor is true, my bet is on the West Potomac coach, Chadwick Louisville. Fritts was the head coach and Assistant DSA at Mount Vernon for 7 years before he took the job at Hayfield last year. Louisville was one of his assistant coaches. I heard that he was the coach who organized the other coaches to send the letter threatening forfeit.

Louisville sucks as a coach, he won’t out scheme you, and when he can’t out athlete you he falls apart and he’ll lose it and place blame on kids and assts.

You guys think he’s the one who ratted Fritz out?

No one "ratted out" anyone. The guy Monty was texting with seemed like he understood Monty was getting himself in deep trouble and was trying to subtly warn him off. This guy probably forwarded the text to a bunch of other coach friends months ago. That's why there were rumors about "homeless" fraud since the summer. The coaches had all seen the text when they met with Reid. She is claiming she never saw it.

When I was first hired by FCPS several years ago, they had people at Great Beginnings to help new teachers add Outlook to their personal phones. Hard pass for me!

Again speculation, whomever had the text waited and for what, this type evidence could hv been presented up front and this debacle doesn’t get this far

I didn’t think it was a snitch. I thought somewhere it was said they came to light via a FOIA request. Which takes a while to get so that’s why it’s just now coming out.

The messages were on a county phone?

I've been told in trainings that if you check your work email on a personal phone, the entire contents of said phone are discoverable.

Might go delete my Outlook app now that I'm thinking about it...

I had similar training at the state university I'm working at, but apparently using the native web browser to check it is OK. The other thing we were told is if we use our personal phones for work, they too can be considered discoverable during FOIA requests so it's not a good idea to list your personal cell phone in your signature, even if you work from home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All kids who are in high school now should be allowed to stay. That's insane they would try to implement something by next year.

Yes, but if it is a choice between rezoning all high school students who are attending their zoned high school, or returning those students committing residency fraud to their assigned high school, the district should focus on returning those committing residency fraud before entertaining the idea of county wide rezoning.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:New uniforms are expensive! Public HS teams need a LOT of uniforms and buy new sets very infrequently.

As the parent of a daughter who is a multi sport athlete in FCPS, the girls teams' uniforms appear to be 15 years old. Meanwhile, the boys teams appear to get new uniforms more frequently.

My sons fcps basketball uniforms are so raggedy and ill sized that i have had to get them sewn st the dry cleaner just so he can wear the shorts. Two years in a row.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Asra has been on 106.7 The Fan with Grant & Danny, BMitch and Finlay… Asra & Dunne have separately mentioned having “receipts” so buckle up and get your excuses ready. What some PWC folks don’t know about FCPS, it is corrupt to the core.

FCPS is too big & way too powerful. Most parents feel helpless fighting the bureaucracy. This has been the only scandal that seems to have pierced the armor. I think each of the 8(?) regions of FCPS should be an independent school district with their own superintendent and elected school board - perhaps they can have a contract with a central transportation office and other essential services like the City of Fairfax currently has with FCPS. That gives power back to the parents & taxpayers.

St Louis runs special ed as a city/county wide school district that serves all school districts, with everything else as dozens of small, independent school districts of 1-8 high schools each, with their own school boards and policies. It is a far better model than what FCPS does.

Yea that's great for St. Louis. Welcome to Fairfax County, track the wealth gap across how those 8 independent school districts you're suggesting end up looking. Here I'll help you

Mount Vernon-West Potomac-South County-Hayfield plus all feeders. The Lorton crowd will carry the bulwark of the financial resources and because they already know that, they will fight tooth and nail not to be in the same district as MV-WP-Hayfield w/ the feeders.

Let's move on shall we...Edison-Lewis-we could throw Hayfield here instead if we're aiming for threes...well yea there's money's in pockets but there's also less money in other pockets

Let's look at Burke area...Robinson-LB-WS-maybe Annadale - money money money - Annandale doesn't bring a lot but they'll happily ride this district

Langley-McLean-Marshall

Oakton-Madison-Falls Church-Stuart - man this one isn't even hard...you ever seen rich people be totally honest about not wanting to support poor folk...get your popcorn for this one

Herndon-South Lakes - oooof you read what folks say round parts about these schools you've think it was gangland violence

Centreville-Chantilly-Westfield - they'll just all be like umnm okay we're a school district and move about their day with no sadness

Woodson-Fairfax - happily be on their merry way with this

The above doesn't even include the alternative schools like Mountain View-Quander-Pimmitt-Bryant

And then start looking at the middle and elementary schools in all this.

Plain and simple, no matter how much bureaucracy FCPS has...the wealth parts of the county finance the poorer parts in terms of education. If there were 8 separate school districts in Fairfax the absolute wealth disparity would immediately lead to a civil rights lawsuit in some form. And what would be the solution "gerrymander" the "independent districts," shoot we hate that for Congress let alone school districts remember that whole you know bussing black kids to white schools things.

And if you think I'm wrong then you live in fantasy land. Eight independent school districts and the rich folk in the poorer districts will leave for the wealthier district next door leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy of less tax revenue in those districts to help support much needed programs.

Now you're going to say, but Fairfax County would collect taxes and parse them out equally to all 8 districts. Oh they would...the voters in those districts would be totally cool with that you say. You're telling me the rich folk up Great Falls way would just be like yea we're cool with having a whole independent school district that our tax dollars finance but it's cool that we pay for them poor Route 1 schools. If you believe that you still are in fantasy land.

Look it's been talked about before but there's a pretty straightforward clear reason why it's damn near impossible to break FCPS into smaller independent entities and it all comes down to money.

[Anonymous]

Well, at least two of the transfers were designated by FCPS as homeless to make them eligible to play for Hayfield:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/2-hayfield-athletes-homeless-as-parents-call-for-resignations/article_ac2e632c-ac2a-11ef-bc97-5719aa917270.html

[Anonymous]

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FrankWinston wrote:

FrankWinston wrote:Bit of an update:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/exclusive-hayfield-athletic-director-resigns-effective-dec-2-amid-widening-scandal/article_4d1b1cae-ac2a-11ef-be0f-23f1dd3c4b5e.html

BTW, I love this line: "marking the first resignation in a growing scandal..."

Asra knows she's going to spill the dirt on everyone and is just biding her time...

A Nike contract?!? for a public HS?

An exclusive deal is highly unusual for a public high school. Possibly illegal? Maybe. But not 100% sure.

Lol