required "dues" for MCPS sports team?

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Anonymous wrote:We have dues this year also. I wonder if we're at the same school. Our team dinners are at the same time each week (unrelated to games) so my kid can't even go to them because they have another commitment. It's truly absurd but we paid for the benefit of the team. I do appreciate that they're aiming to reimburse people though.

I saw that a coach called out kids in a team chat who hadn't paid yet. Said to contact the team parents if they had financial need. We don't have a lot of kids with financial need but I am sure there are some. That's really awful. People need more training about this stuff.

Gross. I would report that to the AD and principal.

+1000

The coaches who aren’t licensed teachers are a huge problem. No training on how to work with kids, often huge jerks who are in it for some sort of personal gain (or because they are narcissists).

The teacher coaches get it and also understand all the rules about funds etc.

Our licensed teacher supported this for the free stuff she got out of it. They also violated rules by using an app parents were not allowed on as their form of communication. Principal does not care. All money should go through the pta or booster clubs or school.

Wow that’s awful. Was the teacher receiving money from the app or something?

No, but they were getting free stuff from the vendors for the clothing. The app was to avoid communicating with parents and they made it clear parents were not welcome on it (we monitored it of course).

Our school (WJ) uses Remind and the parents are all on it. The kids have a separate group chat but the coaches aren't on that. I find this very unsettling and I'm surprised the athletic director would allow this. Too many chances for abuse.

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Anonymous wrote:We have dues this year also. I wonder if we're at the same school. Our team dinners are at the same time each week (unrelated to games) so my kid can't even go to them because they have another commitment. It's truly absurd but we paid for the benefit of the team. I do appreciate that they're aiming to reimburse people though.

I saw that a coach called out kids in a team chat who hadn't paid yet. Said to contact the team parents if they had financial need. We don't have a lot of kids with financial need but I am sure there are some. That's really awful. People need more training about this stuff.

Gross. I would report that to the AD and principal.

+1000

The coaches who aren’t licensed teachers are a huge problem. No training on how to work with kids, often huge jerks who are in it for some sort of personal gain (or because they are narcissists).

The teacher coaches get it and also understand all the rules about funds etc.

Our licensed teacher supported this for the free stuff she got out of it. They also violated rules by using an app parents were not allowed on as their form of communication. Principal does not care. All money should go through the pta or booster clubs or school.

Wow that’s awful. Was the teacher receiving money from the app or something?

No, but they were getting free stuff from the vendors for the clothing. The app was to avoid communicating with parents and they made it clear parents were not welcome on it (we monitored it of course).

Our school (WJ) uses Remind and the parents are all on it. The kids have a separate group chat but the coaches aren't on that. I find this very unsettling and I'm surprised the athletic director would allow this. Too many chances for abuse.

This is the appropiate way to do it. We are in other groups and they use remind. Kids do have seperate chats, but coaches or teachers are not on it. Its very questionable.

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Anonymous wrote:We have dues this year also. I wonder if we're at the same school. Our team dinners are at the same time each week (unrelated to games) so my kid can't even go to them because they have another commitment. It's truly absurd but we paid for the benefit of the team. I do appreciate that they're aiming to reimburse people though.

I saw that a coach called out kids in a team chat who hadn't paid yet. Said to contact the team parents if they had financial need. We don't have a lot of kids with financial need but I am sure there are some. That's really awful. People need more training about this stuff.

Gross. I would report that to the AD and principal.

+1000

The coaches who aren’t licensed teachers are a huge problem. No training on how to work with kids, often huge jerks who are in it for some sort of personal gain (or because they are narcissists).

The teacher coaches *should* get it and also understand all the rules about funds etc.

Fixed that for you.

This is correct. Many if the "teachers" who coach are really coaches who found the lowest effort teaching jobs, like paraeducators so that they could coach. There are few coaches who are dedicated teachers but just took up the coaching job

Dedicated is subjective. None of them are para's. We will not be putting our kids in these teachers classes.

Our boys' basketball team coach is our building services manager. Certainly not a para!

If a para was qualifed I'd support it. We've had para's fill in for months for teachers and some were better than the teachers. But, most of the coaches are not exactly qualified and the teams do well with the kids who are in outside sports.

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Ds's football team did this every year. They had team lunch on game day.

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Anonymous wrote:That’s less than $15 per meal. It’s not bad. We don’t do that but parents each take a turn bringing dinner and you can’t bring home cooked food. It costs more than $150 to host. I’d be happy to contribute $150 and have someone else do the work.

If you don’t want to do it, call the coach or the athletic director. But then someone else will be stuck paying for your daughter. And, if you actually can afford it, your daughter may be embarrassed.

It’s only $15 if there are only ten games. And where do you get food for less than $15? I mean with tax and delivery fee, it’s gotta be money re than that for Chipotle’s.

$15 a meal is $$$, especially when you are doing bulk meals.

Tell your kid to order double meat and qauc then you will be north of $15 and making money.

I'm guessing you never passed and econ class. Or even home ec/FACS.

If you think a parent should automatically get $15 a meal for every meal and the meal costs $8-10 this poster is right. Load it up. And we never order delivery and if they are getting that many meals they should order catering and pick it up. Or cheaper a few pizzas.

Obviously you don’t get takeout. There are no meals that are $8 per person anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:My MCPS kid’s cross country team has parents take turns volunteering to host pasta parties the night before a meet and other parents sign up to bring sides or dessert or whatever. No money involved for the season.

No money involved? “new” math…

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Anonymous wrote:We have dues this year also. I wonder if we're at the same school. Our team dinners are at the same time each week (unrelated to games) so my kid can't even go to them because they have another commitment. It's truly absurd but we paid for the benefit of the team. I do appreciate that they're aiming to reimburse people though.

I saw that a coach called out kids in a team chat who hadn't paid yet. Said to contact the team parents if they had financial need. We don't have a lot of kids with financial need but I am sure there are some. That's really awful. People need more training about this stuff.

Gross. I would report that to the AD and principal.

+1000

The coaches who aren’t licensed teachers are a huge problem. No training on how to work with kids, often huge jerks who are in it for some sort of personal gain (or because they are narcissists).

The teacher coaches *should* get it and also understand all the rules about funds etc.

Fixed that for you.

This is correct. Many if the "teachers" who coach are really coaches who found the lowest effort teaching jobs, like paraeducators so that they could coach. There are few coaches who are dedicated teachers but just took up the coaching job

One of my DS's wrestling coaches in high school mentioned at the first parent meeting that he went into teaching specifically so he could coach wrestling. He was a PE teacher (I would call that a pretty low effort teaching job-no papers, tests or HW to grade).