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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jeff Sullivan is Director of System Wide Athletics.  What is his take on the Churchill situation and can the PTA bring him to a meeting?

Seriously, athletics is like its own rogue entity that does whatever it wants without anyone checking up on what is happening to children.  Part of the responsibility for keeping bad people in place as coaches must rest with Jeff Sullivan who condones a program with these types of problems.[/quote]

+1.  Surely someone on leadership in the PTA reads this thread-- can Jeff Sullivan be invited to a PTA meeting?[/quote]

Why not have Jeff Sullivan and Jesse Smith (AD for Churchill) answer parent's questions jointly about what the H*LL is going at Churchill?

We were told when we went to Jesse Smith to complain, the comments made by the coaches that were sexually offensive were "j[b]ust a different coaching style."[/b]  I felt like I was in a time warp to the 1960's.  I was horrified at his response.[/quote]

This is his standard line for any complaints brought to him about coaches. He says the same thing about Coaches that bully kids.

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I completely believe these posters, but I've actually noticed the opposite problem with him.  The girls' JV softball coach was fired last year and I've never heard a reasonable explanation for why.  Dd says she heard that a parent may have complained that he referred to 'special needs' when a player did something dumb.  If so, that kind of statement would be inappropriate but would also pale in comparison to what seems to be described on this board.

The explanation may just be that he protects his buddies and not others or doesn't like being stood up to (the JV coach also seemed to do that a few times about some resource issues, which he reported in detail to parents).  But in all, the coach was very good-- worked a ton with the kids in off season, taught them good technique and skills, tried to include all players as much as was feasible.  The kids wrote a letter requesting reinstatement and several parents wrote, too.  So it seems odd to me that he won't fire the coaches described on this board, but cheerfully fired this one.

Probably the same coach. He bullies the boys but sexually harasses the girls on large coed teams. Definitely the school should be terminating this coach considering how many athletes (boys and girls) came forward to lodge complaints. [/quote]

[b]No it is a different Coach. That is why I said he uses the same line.[/b][/quote]

Makes you wonder why some people gravitate to a job to work with children and why MCPS keeps them in these types of positions where they have an unlimited supply of victims.  The AD sure has a knack for hiring rotten apples.  Kind of says something about his own ethics and personality.[/quote][/quote]

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