Hayfield Football Coach Fired

[Anonymous]

Its absolutely shocking to me that no one has been fired and only one person has resigned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone is getting hung up on the football end of things and ignoring the FAR larger problem...in this day and age of school shootings, bomb threats in schools, etc. someone with literally ZERO experience in school security got hired to be essentially the director of school safety at Hayfield? Darryl Overton's prior role at Freedom (outside of coaching) was that of an office assistant and Thompson thought Overton was qualified to handle threat assessment, active school shooter safety plans, and other critical details to keep the school’s faculty, staff, and student body of about 3,100 children safe? No one else had to vet this guy for the position? That is mind-boggling to me. Get them both out ASAP.

Yes! This part is absolutely nuts. People worry about this to the point they argue their kids need full access to their phone at school in case something like this happens.. yet, fcps is more than happy to have an unqualified person in charge so long as they win football? Absolutely backwards priorities. Without question, safety should come before football.

This needs to be brought to more people's attention.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone is getting hung up on the football end of things and ignoring the FAR larger problem...in this day and age of school shootings, bomb threats in schools, etc. someone with literally ZERO experience in school security got hired to be essentially the director of school safety at Hayfield? Darryl Overton's prior role at Freedom (outside of coaching) was that of an office assistant and Thompson thought Overton was qualified to handle threat assessment, active school shooter safety plans, and other critical details to keep the school’s faculty, staff, and student body of about 3,100 children safe? No one else had to vet this guy for the position? That is mind-boggling to me. Get them both out ASAP.

Wasn't this part of the school board member motion last night? Or at least I took the bullet point about hiring qualified people and training them to be pointedly directed at Overton's lack of qualifications for this job.

But I imagine that nobody wants to deal with the inevitable EO complaint with firing Overton from the security job right now. They need an ironclad angle for getting him out based on the accusations of racism being thrown around. Otherwise removing him will be mired in equal opportunity office review for years and years and will require extensive write-ups.

[Anonymous]

Did all of Dunne’s motions pass last night? Any that didn’t?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t BELIEVE one Hayfield booster parent likened the current Hayfield Football situation to the movie “Remember the Titans” about the 1970 something T.C. Williams HS football team that did win a state championship the right way. “Remember what side you were on.”

Well, I will always be on the side of morals, ethics, integrity, team building and solid coaching and mentorship. None of those exist in the current situation at Hayfield. It was a very poor comparison and I had to laugh out load when she was speaking, and was then cut off.

Some at Hayfield, including Apostle Karen, started promoting the hashtag Remember the Hawks while ago. 100% believe they hope to get movie and book deals out of this.

Along those lines, one of the aspects of the shameful situation at Hayfield are the football parents of the imported played who clearly see their non-scholar children as their meal ticket via football. Its gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone is getting hung up on the football end of things and ignoring the FAR larger problem...in this day and age of school shootings, bomb threats in schools, etc. someone with literally ZERO experience in school security got hired to be essentially the director of school safety at Hayfield? Darryl Overton's prior role at Freedom (outside of coaching) was that of an office assistant and Thompson thought Overton was qualified to handle threat assessment, active school shooter safety plans, and other critical details to keep the school’s faculty, staff, and student body of about 3,100 children safe? No one else had to vet this guy for the position? That is mind-boggling to me. Get them both out ASAP.

Yes! This part is absolutely nuts. People worry about this to the point they argue their kids need full access to their phone at school in case something like this happens.. yet, fcps is more than happy to have an unqualified person in charge so long as they win football? Absolutely backwards priorities. Without question, safety should come before football.

This needs to be brought to more people's attention.

McKenna hit on it in his piece. I am surprised that Asra hasn't been more vocal about it in her articles. Overton obviously no longer has any business running a program. He's now gotten two AD/DSA's canned, violated god knows how many policies, been fined multiple times by PWC... But he definitely has no place heading up security at a school of any size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did all of Dunne’s motions pass last night? Any that didn’t?

All, unanimous on every vote except that Meren abstained on adding the clause about the external law firm having to have not done work for FCPS in the last 10 years. Not sure if she was worried about it being more expensive to hire a new firm or if she's just in the pocket of the existing firms or if it's something else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did all of Dunne’s motions pass last night? Any that didn’t?

All, unanimous on every vote except that Meren abstained on adding the clause about the external law firm having to have not done work for FCPS in the last 10 years. Not sure if she was worried about it being more expensive to hire a new firm or if she's just in the pocket of the existing firms or if it's something else.

McElveen’s motion for student journalists did not pass (believe 8-3 against) and Dunne withdrew his motion on superintendent reviewing best practices for internal and external investigations when clear wasn’t going to go through.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did all of Dunne’s motions pass last night? Any that didn’t?

All, unanimous on every vote except that Meren abstained on adding the clause about the external law firm having to have not done work for FCPS in the last 10 years. Not sure if she was worried about it being more expensive to hire a new firm or if she's just in the pocket of the existing firms or if it's something else.

Since she voted against an external law firm the first time, it's likely she prefers firms that don't really do a full investigation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t BELIEVE one Hayfield booster parent likened the current Hayfield Football situation to the movie “Remember the Titans” about the 1970 something T.C. Williams HS football team that did win a state championship the right way. “Remember what side you were on.”

Well, I will always be on the side of morals, ethics, integrity, team building and solid coaching and mentorship. None of those exist in the current situation at Hayfield. It was a very poor comparison and I had to laugh out load when she was speaking, and was then cut off.

Some at Hayfield, including Apostle Karen, started promoting the hashtag Remember the Hawks while ago. 100% believe they hope to get movie and book deals out of this.

Along those lines, one of the aspects of the shameful situation at Hayfield are the football parents of the imported played who clearly see their non-scholar children as their meal ticket via football. Its gross.

They are unethical for sure. That one lady going on about how her son came to Hayfield for a better education and not football. They are such a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did all of Dunne’s motions pass last night? Any that didn’t?

All, unanimous on every vote except that Meren abstained on adding the clause about the external law firm having to have not done work for FCPS in the last 10 years. Not sure if she was worried about it being more expensive to hire a new firm or if she's just in the pocket of the existing firms or if it's something else.

Since she voted against an external law firm the first time, it's likely she prefers firms that don't really do a full investigation.

She is so unethical herself. Always looking out for herself first above everything else. I've tried not to watch a lot of board meetings because many of the behaviors of board members are so upsetting, but to have voted against the original outside review, vote again against not having an outside review who might be in cahoots with FCPS and then to complain about the public meeting running long when she along with others created this need for a second public hearing on the same topic is just so typical of her deflecting onto others for her own faults. They should have voted on this matter months ago. It's her own fault it was back on the table.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did all of Dunne’s motions pass last night? Any that didn’t?

All, unanimous on every vote except that Meren abstained on adding the clause about the external law firm having to have not done work for FCPS in the last 10 years. Not sure if she was worried about it being more expensive to hire a new firm or if she's just in the pocket of the existing firms or if it's something else.

Since she voted against an external law firm the first time, it's likely she prefers firms that don't really do a full investigation.

She is so unethical herself. Always looking out for herself first above everything else. I've tried not to watch a lot of board meetings because many of the behaviors of board members are so upsetting, but to have voted against the original outside review, vote again against not having an outside review who might be in cahoots with FCPS and then to complain about the public meeting running long when she along with others created this need for a second public hearing on the same topic is just so typical of her deflecting onto others for her own faults. They should have voted on this matter months ago. It's her own fault it was back on the table.

She always complains about meetings being too long. To be fair the board members themselves usually natter on about stuff no one cares about, but Meren doesn't seem to mind that part.

If she hates being at meetings so much I wish she'd just not run again.

[Anonymous]

What was the atudent journalism thing?

[Anonymous]

For those that want to hear Reid’s statement last night, it’s at 2:19:45 at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=99mfihXfIbo

Dunne replies at 2:22.

Reid emphasized she is responsible for success of all students at FCPS. She failed to say she is responsible for the failure of her employees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What was the atudent journalism thing?

There was a story in non-HS paper that some students wanted to write about Hayfield and were told that they could not. It went along with stories about employees at Hayfield being told they could not voice opinions on Hayfield. The Fairfax Times article also had many more employees attempts at whistleblowing- attempts bc article says many went unanswered by FCPS. In some cases Reid was contacted directly.