St Albans forfeits football game today- why?

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Anonymous wrote:I hope it is not as terrible as folks here seem to hope it might be.

What happened may never be known.(god willing) Persons involved will be discernible by the denials. Cancellation of a team event casts a shadow over the entire team and all members. Parents will have an understandable desire to explain to friends, colleagues, and eventually admissions officers that their child is not involved. Returning to Duke lacrosse. If your son played lacrosse at Duke and skipped the infamous party, you might find a way to work into conversations that he was home that weekend or anywhere but at that party.

If my kid was on the team and not involved I would be looking to transfer to another school and would have already started sending emails/making calls.

You don't even know what happened. Stop the bs

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Anonymous wrote:I hope it is not as terrible as folks here seem to hope it might be.

What happened may never be known.(god willing) Persons involved will be discernible by the denials. Cancellation of a team event casts a shadow over the entire team and all members. Parents will have an understandable desire to explain to friends, colleagues, and eventually admissions officers that their child is not involved. Returning to Duke lacrosse. If your son played lacrosse at Duke and skipped the infamous party, you might find a way to work into conversations that he was home that weekend or anywhere but at that party.

If my kid was on the team and not involved I would be looking to transfer to another school and would have already started sending emails/making calls.

You don't even know what happened. Stop the bs

Many of us do know what happened.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually think in this specific case, it is very important that applicants know what happened and for the broader community as well. Of course protecting the identity of individuals when appropriate.

As a prospective family I would like to know generally (without identifying specifics) what is going on and how the school is responding. Hopefully additional reliable information can be shared at some point.

Agreed. We are also planning to apply to STA and our son plays football, so I’d like to know what happened. I don’t need details about the students, but I’d like the gist of the actual events. However, I’d definitely prefer to have that from a reliable source and not DCUM rumors. Happy to wait until more official info is released.

This is an incident involving STA students (not like the situation with the Duke lacrosse team). It's much more likely to get swept under the rug.

The Duke kids were innocent and took years to get their lives back. Have no idea on this gossip but if a kid did something wrong the discipline of between the school and the kid and that is that. All schools are almost over the top on punishments today so no one is getting away if that is a concern. The school should never bow to pressure of people who sit and hope for something bad.

Generally agree. But if St. Albans is forfeiting games because of behavioral issues on the team, people will assume the worst. Rape. Violence. Extreme hazing of younger students.

It's better for the school to get ahead of it. Investigate. Figure out what happened. Expel and cooperate with law enforcement. And be public about it once the facts are clear..

Letting things linger for years in hazy silence is never a good idea. From this moment on, every football player at St. Albans has a cloud on them. Maybe it's fair. Maybe it's not. The only way out is clarity.

There IS an active investigation going and the school is currently not allowed to say anything. Chill the heck out and stop trying to stir up drama: "years of hazy silence?" Give me a break.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope it is not as terrible as folks here seem to hope it might be.

What happened may never be known.(god willing) Persons involved will be discernible by the denials. Cancellation of a team event casts a shadow over the entire team and all members. Parents will have an understandable desire to explain to friends, colleagues, and eventually admissions officers that their child is not involved. Returning to Duke lacrosse. If your son played lacrosse at Duke and skipped the infamous party, you might find a way to work into conversations that he was home that weekend or anywhere but at that party.

If my kid was on the team and not involved I would be looking to transfer to another school and would have already started sending emails/making calls.

You don't even know what happened. Stop the bs

Many of us do know what happened.

Ok so on a scale of 1 to 10, with one being practically nothing and 10 being it’s so bad they’re going to have to shut the place down - how bad is it?

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STA does not have a "toxic" culture. What's going on with the football team is private. The allegations are not against the team, but a single player on the team.

None of y'all know what your talking about.

The season is not cancelled and the boys will be back in practice soon. Sucks that the administration handled this so poorly.

Lot of jealous not-STA parents in here taking advantage of any opportunity to shit on the school. Stay mad cuz the boys are coming for Jackson-Reed on Saturday.

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Anonymous wrote:No one knows what happened. The person who posted previously is being very irresponsible.

Irresponsible how? A meeting was called, little details were given, police are involved. It’s irresponsible to try to keep bad behavior under wraps.

+1.

Were all parents involved in the meeting/ email or just football parents?

All parents. They were given ~2 hr lead time for the zoom.

Given that that is hundreds of people in the DC area I don’t see how this can - or should- remain a private matter.

Can someone summarize what they were told? Was it just that todays game is being forfeited with no explanation?

Unless you are in the community it is really none of your business.

Of course that is your response. But I’m sorry; I did not get the memo that it is my responsibility to protect the image of St Albans.

It is the business of every moral person, especially those of us who have kids and live in this area.

But nice try to sweep it under the rug. This is how criminals, pedophiles and others get away with their crimes. Because people like you care more about the school’s name and image than the kids who are students there.

I don’t think it is your business unless you have a student at the school. I just don’t. I think you are being nosy.

People are annoyed at the secrecy because it reeks of a double standard.
Wasn’t there some incident last year at St. Albans where Jackson Reed students behaved badly? Their behavior was inexcusable for sure and there was a plethora of parents on here eviscerating the school (Jackson Reed). All fine but when something bad happens at a private school, parents rush to cover it up and insist it is no one’s business.

This.

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They canceled a game, and maybe the whole season, and held a zoom call for the whole school, because of an incident involving one player that was a 2 on a scale of 1-10?
Something like squirting water at someone or snapping them with a towel?
Seems like an over reaction.

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If police are investigating and a game was forfeited it’s not a “2”.

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Anonymous wrote:STA does not have a "toxic" culture. What's going on with the football team is private. The allegations are not against the team, but a single player on the team.

None of y'all know what your talking about.

The season is not cancelled and the boys will be back in practice soon. Sucks that the administration handled this so poorly.

Lot of jealous not-STA parents in here taking advantage of any opportunity to shit on the school. Stay mad cuz the boys are coming for Jackson-Reed on Saturday.

Why do you think the administration handled this so poorly? Sounds like they are being as forthcoming as they possibly can be, given that the police are now in charge of the investigation

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The Washington Post is hopefully investigating and we will all know what happened soon enough.

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Anonymous wrote:STA does not have a "toxic" culture. What's going on with the football team is private. The allegations are not against the team, but a single player on the team.

None of y'all know what your talking about.

The season is not cancelled and the boys will be back in practice soon. Sucks that the administration handled this so poorly.

Lot of jealous not-STA parents in here taking advantage of any opportunity to shit on the school. Stay mad cuz the boys are coming for Jackson-Reed on Saturday.

Why do you think the administration handled this so poorly? Sounds like they are being as forthcoming as they possibly can be, given that the police are now in charge of the investigation

Not for nothing, but isn’t there a better use of limited MPD resources? There was a shoutout on Connecticut Avenue this weekend. Just send the kid to a military academy and be done with it.

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As a parent from the other team, the folks who cancelled the game gave plenty of notice to not ruin the weekend (thank you) and sent a message to the other side that the adults in charge are holding teenagers accountable for whatever allegedly happened.

They don't know what happened, but they got the message that there is accountability and adults are taking charge.

I give them credit.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent from the other team, the folks who cancelled the game gave plenty of notice to not ruin the weekend (thank you) and sent a message to the other side that the adults in charge are holding teenagers accountable for whatever allegedly happened.

They don't know what happened, but they got the message that there is accountability and adults are taking charge.

I give them credit.

Good for St.A (and no my kids do not go there).
Sounds like they are trying to handle a tough situation with decorum and responsiblity.