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Anonymous wrote:Her email was written by a lawyer.

She may have had a lawyer look it over (or a committee) but it reads like all of her other letters.

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Anonymous wrote:Honest question: Why would Reid cover the truth up if there was evidence that Hayfield cheated? How does she and FCPS benefit? They investigated and found no evidence. Did they not look hard enough? Or is she right that this is all just about malicious rumors?

FCPS looked at 14 residences for students who registered at Hatfield. VHSL looked at 24 students in connection with recruiting violations and spirit of game violations across 2 different schools. That FCPS found no issues does not change what VHSL found.

Also the Reid "investigation" had the investigators informing the players when they would be coming to their homes to confirm residency. This has been widely reported and confirmed.

If this is standard procedure for the residency investigating office, they all need to be fired. How absurd.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop making this political. This is about fair play and expecting the superintendent to care about all FCPS kids, not just Hayfield’s.

You are right that the problem is not political, but the solution necessarily involves politics. B/c the SB has to change to get some accountability from Gatehouse. The current lot backs Reid 100%, which is why she felt comfortable sending that ridiculous letter. If this thread doesn’t realize this, then you are all just spitting into the wind.

BTW, this is a great thread w/a lot passion, but relatively small potatoes compared to the real damage coming out of Gatehouse. Go visit some of threads on skills based grading (SBG), those will make your head spin.

Completely agree. I want Reid fired for all the other damage and hope this fiasco leads to her firing. But you're saying nothing will change until the next election and even then nothing will change because people blindly vote Democrat in Fairfax County.

The ignorance of the MAGA lot (which overlaps considerably with the Overton lot if you get to know them) is startling...

Is really all you can contribute ? Call someone MAGA and racist ? Why don’t you breakdown the logic and tell me where it is wrong?

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Anonymous wrote:

FrankWinston wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honest question: Why would Reid cover the truth up if there was evidence that Hayfield cheated? How does she and FCPS benefit? They investigated and found no evidence. Did they not look hard enough? Or is she right that this is all just about malicious rumors?

FCPS looked at 14 residences for students who registered at Hatfield. VHSL looked at 24 students in connection with recruiting violations and spirit of game violations across 2 different schools. That FCPS found no issues does not change what VHSL found.

Also the Reid "investigation" had the investigators informing the players when they would be coming to their homes to confirm residency. This has been widely reported and confirmed.

If this is standard procedure for the residency investigating office, they all need to be fired. How absurd.

The residency investigators call people to make sure they are home first? For real?

Anonymous wrote:Reid is so full of it.

She is calling for an independent investigation. That already happened---done by VHSL--and she refused to accept their findings and decision.

Anonymous wrote:Reid is so full of it.

She is calling for an independent investigation. That already happened---done by VHSL--and she refused to accept their findings and decision.

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t Reid come from student total population of 22,000? She seems to not be able to make the jump to supporting 180,000 in FCPS. Instead has gone the other way and now supporting only 1 football team. And to write such a misleading email to all of FCPS is disturbing. And if true as one paper alleged that she questioned SoCo coach for racism, he should sue FCPS. Maybe see if Blankenship will take the case!

FrankWinston wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

FrankWinston wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop making this political. This is about fair play and expecting the superintendent to care about all FCPS kids, not just Hayfield’s.

You are right that the problem is not political, but the solution necessarily involves politics. B/c the SB has to change to get some accountability from Gatehouse. The current lot backs Reid 100%, which is why she felt comfortable sending that ridiculous letter. If this thread doesn’t realize this, then you are all just spitting into the wind.

BTW, this is a great thread w/a lot passion, but relatively small potatoes compared to the real damage coming out of Gatehouse. Go visit some of threads on skills based grading (SBG), those will make your head spin.

Completely agree. I want Reid fired for all the other damage and hope this fiasco leads to her firing. But you're saying nothing will change until the next election and even then nothing will change because people blindly vote Democrat in Fairfax County.

The ignorance of the MAGA lot (which overlaps considerably with the Overton lot if you get to know them) is startling...

Is really all you can contribute ? Call someone MAGA and racist ? Why don’t you breakdown the logic and tell me where it is wrong?

Why don't you start by telling me where I called anyone a racist? And then why don't you explain why you are such a feeble, insecure cuck that you hide behind the anonymous option that this site allows?

Anonymous wrote:Teams playing Freedomfield should forfeit. Freedomfield players and the coaches need these games to promote themselves.

They want to create highlight reels and achieve gross margins of victory for the statistics that will ultimately get sent to college recruiters.

Every team should refuse to play Freedomfield until Overton and his coaching staff is removed. This would neuter the program. If other programs did that as well, it would end Freedomfield ambitions in a season.

Anonymous wrote:I’m all for equality and not discriminating but playing the race card when it’s not the issue is definitely BS.

But if you’re “non-white” you can’t expect to be allowed to break the rules just bc you’re non-white… and you can’t play the race card when you get called out for doing something wrong. It’s deflection from the real issues at hand.

I hate to say it, but people remember that kind of stuff — and it leads to more stereotyping down the road, which also isn’t helpful bc it shuts down conversation

Anonymous wrote:Reid is so full of it.

She is calling for an independent investigation. That already happened---done by VHSL--and she refused to accept their findings and decision.

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Anonymous wrote:What a bullshit letter from Reid.

What letter?

November 20, 2024

Dear FCPS Community,

I am writing to address the continued — and troubling — misinformation being shared regarding this high school football season, and more specifically about the Hayfield Hawks football team. I also want to share with you our plan moving forward regarding this situation.

Let me begin by saying that all of our coaches, our school leaders, our community, and the Virginia High School League (VHSL) share a commitment to the success of our student athletes. We want our students to have passion for their sport and to play every game with integrity and sportsmanship above all else.

The VHSL is an important organization that has the tremendous responsibility of overseeing high school sports and other competitions across the Commonwealth. We appreciate the work they do, but in this situation, we share the frustration that many of our staff and families are feeling.

In August of this year, VHSL deemed eligible every player who has played this season on the Hayfield Hawks football team. Two months later, the VHSL declared the entire team ineligible for postseason play without any specific evidence of recruiting or other violations. Coaches, athletes, parents, and fans are frustrated by the circumstances that their teams are in now, because of the ambiguities within the VHSL’s rules and policies.

Last week, these inconsistencies were confirmed by the Fairfax County Circuit Court judge who, after a nearly two-hour hearing, ruled that Hayfield football could play in the postseason and that VHSL had violated its own rules by imposing a two-year ban. FCPS and Hayfield Secondary School are not parties to this litigation, but we will comply with the court ruling and allow Hayfield football to play in the postseason.

Last night, at their request, I met with coaches and principals whose school communities have been most directly impacted by this situation. During this productive meeting, we focused on our common goal to keep our student athletes at the center of any next steps. I have been clear that we will not find ourselves in this situation again.

To that end, and to minimize the potential of future questions or concerns, and to restore public trust, I have outlined the next steps we will be taking as a Division to ensure that our standards for student-athlete eligibility are clear and aligned moving forward. These steps include:

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.

Alongside our Executive Director of Student Activities and Athletics, I will be hosting two Community Conversations, one for our schools in Class 6 Region C and one for our schools in Class 6 Region D, regarding our athletic regulations and practices. We’ll be sharing more information about those meetings soon and hope you will attend.

We also stand ready to work with the VHSL to improve their policies and processes on student-athlete eligibility. It is vital that we collaborate with everyone involved to ensure we are preparing for the evolution of the student-athlete experience that we are seeing in our country. As we navigate uncharted waters ahead in youth athletics, we must anchor our practices in clear rules and accountability systems that apply to all regardless of circumstances. Access to excellence and opportunity — that is the American dream.

Warmest Regards,



Dr. Michelle C. Reid
Superintendent