Is it true the Lacrosse player from Lightridge HS was Bullied or not?

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Anonymous wrote:Indy lacrosse has had a lot of controversy in the past year. The Dad on the boys team who got the coach fired, the girls coach who allegedly embezzled, and now this. I assume that this transfer attempt was a team effort between the coach and the family?

Legal woes aren't finished on the girl's side.

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Anonymous wrote:The family is still stamping its feet and isn't giving up legally:

https://wjla.com/news/local/loudoun-county-school-board-lcps-bullying-lacrosse-lily-sigler-mental-health-sports-student-athlete-sports-community-high-school-athletics

I will say WJLA's coverage of this has been abysmal. Stick to Loudoun Now or Loudoun Times.

WJLA has an anti-LCPS agenda that I assume stems from their ownership (Sinclair).
Their reporting on this has been incredibly one-sided.

Amazing the defense of LCPS here. Guess it's ok to sweep all the corruption that has occurred in LCPS the past 4 years. Whether the reporting is biased or not, LCPS continues to show its ignorance.

Nothing that happened here is "corrupt," the unproven allegations on the courthouse steps by the family's lawyer notwithstanding. And this has exactly nothing to do with recent controversies, several of which (the CRT phantom menace, for example) were grossly exaggerated and egged on by WJLA and attracted outsiders to our community to stir up shit.

In this instance, there is a state rule. LCPS abided by the state rule. The family doesn't like it and sued in court. The court ruled against the family. The end.

Nice, dismissal of all the LCPS as a Star Wars reference. Now we see the real motive here, probably a LCPS employee saving face.

There's no "face to save" and I'm not an LCPS employee. I'm the parent of a child on a team that has to play Independence (and Lightridge) this season.

It's almost like you think there's some universal consensus that LCPS is evil and the girl is some victim here. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The parents stood up for her and made a case. Good for them. They lost. Continuing to sling broadsides against the district for complying with state rules as corrupt, random imaginary "people of color" who might get away with something and publicly accusing another child and her mother of bullying is really a bad look. Take the loss, let her play at Kenyon next year. She'll be fine.

Gotta say you sound more like a parent whose kid’s team is not that strong worrying about having to play a supposed stronger Independence team if this girl was on it. And as a parent saying this girl will be fine, is dismissive of anything experienced which you wouldn’t know if you’re not close to the family. You seem rather knowledgeable and invested for not having a kid at either school not to mention perhaps missing a sensitivity chip. Whether you don’t/do agree with LCPS try to remember she’s a kid hoping to play a sport she loves with friends her senior year—treat her with the same grace you’d hope someone would treat yours.

You need to make up your mind. You're flailing. Either I'm an LCPS employee "trying to save face" or I'm a parent with a kid whose team is not that strong. Good Lord.

I will say: I'm the parent. And the state rules exist for MY benefit and the benefit of Independence HS's other opponents.

And, if it's your contention this was really just all about playing with her friends (and she's said she transferred to Indepedence because that's where her friends are), that's acutally not a valid reason to grant a waiver.

I'm done. Good luck to this girl next year in college. Her parents really screwed the pooch on this one, though, and they really need to stop carrying on like she's been victimized.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Indy lacrosse has had a lot of controversy in the past year. The Dad on the boys team who got the coach fired, the girls coach who allegedly embezzled, and now this. I assume that this transfer attempt was a team effort between the coach and the family?

Legal woes aren't finished on the girl's side.

The slander suit that's coming Deborah Rose's way for publicly accusing a child by name of being the "lead bully" is only tangentially related to this.

The player's family is out of options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Indy lacrosse has had a lot of controversy in the past year. The Dad on the boys team who got the coach fired, the girls coach who allegedly embezzled, and now this. I assume that this transfer attempt was a team effort between the coach and the family?

Don't forget tyhe girls who was on the recruiting trail getting blackballed by a number of programs after talking bad about a team she was visiting with.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The family is still stamping its feet and isn't giving up legally:

https://wjla.com/news/local/loudoun-county-school-board-lcps-bullying-lacrosse-lily-sigler-mental-health-sports-student-athlete-sports-community-high-school-athletics

I will say WJLA's coverage of this has been abysmal. Stick to Loudoun Now or Loudoun Times.

WJLA has an anti-LCPS agenda that I assume stems from their ownership (Sinclair).
Their reporting on this has been incredibly one-sided.

Amazing the defense of LCPS here. Guess it's ok to sweep all the corruption that has occurred in LCPS the past 4 years. Whether the reporting is biased or not, LCPS continues to show its ignorance.

Nothing that happened here is "corrupt," the unproven allegations on the courthouse steps by the family's lawyer notwithstanding. And this has exactly nothing to do with recent controversies, several of which (the CRT phantom menace, for example) were grossly exaggerated and egged on by WJLA and attracted outsiders to our community to stir up shit.

In this instance, there is a state rule. LCPS abided by the state rule. The family doesn't like it and sued in court. The court ruled against the family. The end.

Nice, dismissal of all the LCPS as a Star Wars reference. Now we see the real motive here, probably a LCPS employee saving face.

There's no "face to save" and I'm not an LCPS employee. I'm the parent of a child on a team that has to play Independence (and Lightridge) this season.

It's almost like you think there's some universal consensus that LCPS is evil and the girl is some victim here. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The parents stood up for her and made a case. Good for them. They lost. Continuing to sling broadsides against the district for complying with state rules as corrupt, random imaginary "people of color" who might get away with something and publicly accusing another child and her mother of bullying is really a bad look. Take the loss, let her play at Kenyon next year. She'll be fine.

Gotta say you sound more like a parent whose kid’s team is not that strong worrying about having to play a supposed stronger Independence team if this girl was on it. And as a parent saying this girl will be fine, is dismissive of anything experienced which you wouldn’t know if you’re not close to the family. You seem rather knowledgeable and invested for not having a kid at either school not to mention perhaps missing a sensitivity chip. Whether you don’t/do agree with LCPS try to remember she’s a kid hoping to play a sport she loves with friends her senior year—treat her with the same grace you’d hope someone would treat yours.

You need to make up your mind. You're flailing. Either I'm an LCPS employee "trying to save face" or I'm a parent with a kid whose team is not that strong. Good Lord.

I will say: I'm the parent. And the state rules exist for MY benefit and the benefit of Independence HS's other opponents.

And, if it's your contention this was really just all about playing with her friends (and she's said she transferred to Indepedence because that's where her friends are), that's acutally not a valid reason to grant a waiver.

I'm done. Good luck to this girl next year in college. Her parents really screwed the pooch on this one, though, and they really need to stop carrying on like she's been victimized.

You do realize multiple people can comment on your posts, right? I simply think you sound like an a-hole questioning if a high school girl has been bullied or victimized or had mental health trouble—that’s just gross. So whether you’re a parent or LCPS employee I feel sorry for the children you’re entrusted to care for based on your inability to show compassion for a teenage girl. And if you’re a parent you better hope karma is not just a guy on the Chiefs.

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Anonymous wrote:The family is still stamping its feet and isn't giving up legally:

https://wjla.com/news/local/loudoun-county-school-board-lcps-bullying-lacrosse-lily-sigler-mental-health-sports-student-athlete-sports-community-high-school-athletics

I will say WJLA's coverage of this has been abysmal. Stick to Loudoun Now or Loudoun Times.

WJLA has an anti-LCPS agenda that I assume stems from their ownership (Sinclair).
Their reporting on this has been incredibly one-sided.

Amazing the defense of LCPS here. Guess it's ok to sweep all the corruption that has occurred in LCPS the past 4 years. Whether the reporting is biased or not, LCPS continues to show its ignorance.

Nothing that happened here is "corrupt," the unproven allegations on the courthouse steps by the family's lawyer notwithstanding. And this has exactly nothing to do with recent controversies, several of which (the CRT phantom menace, for example) were grossly exaggerated and egged on by WJLA and attracted outsiders to our community to stir up shit.

In this instance, there is a state rule. LCPS abided by the state rule. The family doesn't like it and sued in court. The court ruled against the family. The end.

Nice, dismissal of all the LCPS as a Star Wars reference. Now we see the real motive here, probably a LCPS employee saving face.

There's no "face to save" and I'm not an LCPS employee. I'm the parent of a child on a team that has to play Independence (and Lightridge) this season.

It's almost like you think there's some universal consensus that LCPS is evil and the girl is some victim here. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The parents stood up for her and made a case. Good for them. They lost. Continuing to sling broadsides against the district for complying with state rules as corrupt, random imaginary "people of color" who might get away with something and publicly accusing another child and her mother of bullying is really a bad look. Take the loss, let her play at Kenyon next year. She'll be fine.

Gotta say you sound more like a parent whose kid’s team is not that strong worrying about having to play a supposed stronger Independence team if this girl was on it. And as a parent saying this girl will be fine, is dismissive of anything experienced which you wouldn’t know if you’re not close to the family. You seem rather knowledgeable and invested for not having a kid at either school not to mention perhaps missing a sensitivity chip. Whether you don’t/do agree with LCPS try to remember she’s a kid hoping to play a sport she loves with friends her senior year—treat her with the same grace you’d hope someone would treat yours.

You need to make up your mind. You're flailing. Either I'm an LCPS employee "trying to save face" or I'm a parent with a kid whose team is not that strong. Good Lord.

I will say: I'm the parent. And the state rules exist for MY benefit and the benefit of Independence HS's other opponents.

And, if it's your contention this was really just all about playing with her friends (and she's said she transferred to Indepedence because that's where her friends are), that's acutally not a valid reason to grant a waiver.

I'm done. Good luck to this girl next year in college. Her parents really screwed the pooch on this one, though, and they really need to stop carrying on like she's been victimized.

You do realize multiple people can comment on your posts, right? I simply think you sound like an a-hole questioning if a high school girl has been bullied or victimized or had mental health trouble—that’s just gross. So whether you’re a parent or LCPS employee I feel sorry for the children you’re entrusted to care for based on your inability to show compassion for a teenage girl. And if you’re a parent you better hope karma is not just a guy on the Chiefs.

Excuse me? What on EARTH are you prattling on about?

I'm a GREAT parent, and how DARE you suggest otherwise, you ridiculous piece of shit?

Let me a little more clear, since you're not getting it: You and your spouse completely screwed this up for your daughter. And the way you're stalking this forum and Loudoun Now comments (by God, half of the 39 comments seem to be from the parents there) trying to challenge every narrative that isn't exactly what you want to have out there (and was out there until the facts about the case started coming out) is disgusting. But it's entirely in keeping with your bad-faith PR campaign where you tugged at heart strings and hid salient facts while trying to cast a school system that was following state policy as somehow evil and victimizing your daughter, who you've now instilled a victim mindset.

As someone who actually HAS a mentally ill child -- to the point of being hospitalized -- I am revolted by your exploitation of people's sympathies around this to achieve such a shallow goal -- getting your daughter onto a HS team to play with friends. The fact that you allowed your attorney to publicly name another child as your child's alleged "lead bully" while also trying to make this about "mental health" is beyond the pale.

No one buys your story anymore. Just quit, for your daughter's sake.

[Anonymous]

if there really are mental health issues, why in the world would the family want to put such a spotlight on their DD?

[Anonymous]

While the player’s parents, rightfully so, are catching a lot of heat over this transfer situation it would be foolish to believe Indy and it’s coach did not discuss and encourage actions taken by the player. The Indy coaches know full well what the LCPS transfer policy is and it appears they either turned a blind eye to the rules hoping they could circumvent them the system or they grossly misguided the player.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While the player’s parents, rightfully so, are catching a lot of heat over this transfer situation it would be foolish to believe Indy and it’s coach did not discuss and encourage actions taken by the player. The Indy coaches know full well what the LCPS transfer policy is and it appears they either turned a blind eye to the rules hoping they could circumvent them the system or they grossly misguided the player.

Your statement presumes manipulation. How about they were helping a troubled kid. How dare they. Btw - who cares. It is girls public school lacrosse. Should have granted the waiver and just moved along. If it had been, bball and a poc, no problem.

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Anonymous wrote:Indy lacrosse has had a lot of controversy in the past year. The Dad on the boys team who got the coach fired, the girls coach who allegedly embezzled, and now this. I assume that this transfer attempt was a team effort between the coach and the family?

Legal woes aren't finished on the girl's side.

The slander suit that's coming Deborah Rose's way for publicly accusing a child by name of being the "lead bully" is only tangentially related to this.

The player's family is out of options.

Unless she was, then it’s not slander. We’ll know if it was or wasn’t if a suit is filled.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The family is still stamping its feet and isn't giving up legally:

https://wjla.com/news/local/loudoun-county-school-board-lcps-bullying-lacrosse-lily-sigler-mental-health-sports-student-athlete-sports-community-high-school-athletics

I will say WJLA's coverage of this has been abysmal. Stick to Loudoun Now or Loudoun Times.

WJLA has an anti-LCPS agenda that I assume stems from their ownership (Sinclair).
Their reporting on this has been incredibly one-sided.

Amazing the defense of LCPS here. Guess it's ok to sweep all the corruption that has occurred in LCPS the past 4 years. Whether the reporting is biased or not, LCPS continues to show its ignorance.

Nothing that happened here is "corrupt," the unproven allegations on the courthouse steps by the family's lawyer notwithstanding. And this has exactly nothing to do with recent controversies, several of which (the CRT phantom menace, for example) were grossly exaggerated and egged on by WJLA and attracted outsiders to our community to stir up shit.

In this instance, there is a state rule. LCPS abided by the state rule. The family doesn't like it and sued in court. The court ruled against the family. The end.

Nice, dismissal of all the LCPS as a Star Wars reference. Now we see the real motive here, probably a LCPS employee saving face.

There's no "face to save" and I'm not an LCPS employee. I'm the parent of a child on a team that has to play Independence (and Lightridge) this season.

It's almost like you think there's some universal consensus that LCPS is evil and the girl is some victim here. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The parents stood up for her and made a case. Good for them. They lost. Continuing to sling broadsides against the district for complying with state rules as corrupt, random imaginary "people of color" who might get away with something and publicly accusing another child and her mother of bullying is really a bad look. Take the loss, let her play at Kenyon next year. She'll be fine.

Gotta say you sound more like a parent whose kid’s team is not that strong worrying about having to play a supposed stronger Independence team if this girl was on it. And as a parent saying this girl will be fine, is dismissive of anything experienced which you wouldn’t know if you’re not close to the family. You seem rather knowledgeable and invested for not having a kid at either school not to mention perhaps missing a sensitivity chip. Whether you don’t/do agree with LCPS try to remember she’s a kid hoping to play a sport she loves with friends her senior year—treat her with the same grace you’d hope someone would treat yours.

You need to make up your mind. You're flailing. Either I'm an LCPS employee "trying to save face" or I'm a parent with a kid whose team is not that strong. Good Lord.

I will say: I'm the parent. And the state rules exist for MY benefit and the benefit of Independence HS's other opponents.

And, if it's your contention this was really just all about playing with her friends (and she's said she transferred to Indepedence because that's where her friends are), that's acutally not a valid reason to grant a waiver.

I'm done. Good luck to this girl next year in college. Her parents really screwed the pooch on this one, though, and they really need to stop carrying on like she's been victimized.

You do realize multiple people can comment on your posts, right? I simply think you sound like an a-hole questioning if a high school girl has been bullied or victimized or had mental health trouble—that’s just gross. So whether you’re a parent or LCPS employee I feel sorry for the children you’re entrusted to care for based on your inability to show compassion for a teenage girl. And if you’re a parent you better hope karma is not just a guy on the Chiefs.

Excuse me? What on EARTH are you prattling on about?

I'm a GREAT parent, and how DARE you suggest otherwise, you ridiculous piece of shit?

Let me a little more clear, since you're not getting it: You and your spouse completely screwed this up for your daughter. And the way you're stalking this forum and Loudoun Now comments (by God, half of the 39 comments seem to be from the parents there) trying to challenge every narrative that isn't exactly what you want to have out there (and was out there until the facts about the case started coming out) is disgusting. But it's entirely in keeping with your bad-faith PR campaign where you tugged at heart strings and hid salient facts while trying to cast a school system that was following state policy as somehow evil and victimizing your daughter, who you've now instilled a victim mindset.

As someone who actually HAS a mentally ill child -- to the point of being hospitalized -- I am revolted by your exploitation of people's sympathies around this to achieve such a shallow goal -- getting your daughter onto a HS team to play with friends. The fact that you allowed your attorney to publicly name another child as your child's alleged "lead bully" while also trying to make this about "mental health" is beyond the pale.

No one buys your story anymore. Just quit, for your daughter's sake.

Not her parent-but you do realize people can have compassion for the child even if they don’t agree with how her parents and their attorney has handled this. Any adult, especially a parent, should be able to separate the two. But as a parent of a child supposedly playing on neither team just who plays against them both you seem awfully invested and angry—it seems bizarrely personal. Without being her or her parent you nor I have NO clue what this girl has endured. And I’d think if your child has been hospitalized you’d have a bit of empathy and no be so bold as to think the way your family has dealt with mental health challenges is the only way. Some kids and adults need to feel in control and are able to act accordingly. I can’t imagine dealing with this the way they have but again—not my child, not my family and not my right to question what this child and her family has experienced or how they’ve chosen to deal with it. Not yours either! So agree or disagree with the way LCPS handled it but stop with questioning the child or dismissing her struggles it’s out of touch.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Indy lacrosse has had a lot of controversy in the past year. The Dad on the boys team who got the coach fired, the girls coach who allegedly embezzled, and now this. I assume that this transfer attempt was a team effort between the coach and the family?

Legal woes aren't finished on the girl's side.

The slander suit that's coming Deborah Rose's way for publicly accusing a child by name of being the "lead bully" is only tangentially related to this.

The player's family is out of options.

Unless she was, then it’s not slander. We’ll know if it was or wasn’t if a suit is filled.

Yep and sadly if it is filed I guess there will be even more kids affected even if they were just witnesses of any alleged in person and online behavior in question.

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Anonymous wrote:why does Indy being state runner up matter? that was last year and a team heavy with Seniors who are now gone. She would have to try out still, make the team, and even need to make an impact on that team...... I could see all the uproar if this was a USA All American, or a top 100 player in the country... Again this isn't the IAAM or WCAC..... it would harm no one, not even the prior school to at least allow the kid to try out, or even play, it all seems very silly...

Kind of mixed on this one. On one side those who attend Loudoun public schools know the transfer rule and requirement to sit out sports for a year. I believe this also includes a student needing to sit out for a year even when moving into a new school zone. So, before pursuing this option one better have all their ducks in a row if they want to play sports following a transfer. This would not be the first time a transfer student was denied a waiver to play sports at another Loudoun school.

On the other side, and highlighted above, this seems to be a player who will have minimal impact at Indy. She’s committed to Kenyon College, not necessarily a lacrosse hotbed for top talent. Don’t buy into the college commit hype, Kenyon would lose to many college club teams. So, really no big advantage gained by the student or Indy by her playing lacrosse at her new school.

What is at issue is this student appears to have intentionally bypassed two closer high schools to play for her club coach. Which falls in line with why Loudoun has their transfer policy in place. We all want student safety first, but in this case the student had other reasonable options to remedy the problem she allegedly experienced at LR by attending a closer high school. Everyone needs to play within the rules, which the Indy coach should have known well and this player's parents should have educated themselves on. Hoping something will work out is never a great strategy.

Kenyon was 18-2 and finished third in the NCAA tournament last year. I realize it's Division 3, but I think you're downplaying unfairly.

Kenyon has a fine program, but it didn’t finish third in the tournament last year. It lost in the third round (which is the round before the quarterfinals) where it got smoked by Pomona-Pitzer. Laxnumbers.com had them ranked in the top-50 D3s at the end of last year but in D3 there is a steep drop off from the top 10-15 schools, some of which could actually compete with the mid- to lower-tier D1 schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Indy lacrosse has had a lot of controversy in the past year. The Dad on the boys team who got the coach fired, the girls coach who allegedly embezzled, and now this. I assume that this transfer attempt was a team effort between the coach and the family?

Don't forget tyhe girls who was on the recruiting trail getting blackballed by a number of programs after talking bad about a team she was visiting with.

Huh? Who was blackballed and how do you know?

[Anonymous]

Kids transferring because they want to win. Someone transferred to Indy so they could be on a winning team for field hockey. That coach is recruiting players to transfer to her school. A player from Maryland was asked to transfer to Indy?? This should not be allowed but it happens. They let the student that transferred for bullying play the season. Not fair! Shame on the coaches and parents for lying to win! Shows their character. Come on this is high school sports!!