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Could that be reason Mooney tried to get rid of Engler, if there were already some other stuff in Engler's file which "justified" removing him from the school? Wasn't he also a crew coach? For the boys team, or the girls? [/quote]

Yes, he coached the boys crew team.  Similar to MCPS, the crew board made a knee jerk reaction and fired him.   When he was coach the team won championships, was motivated and full of hard working kids.  Since his termination the BCC boys crew team has become a joke in the DC rowing community - no sense of camaraderie, zero motivation, and tons of losses on the river.

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It was not a knee jerk reaction for the crew board to fire him.  There was a long history of other problems with him, and the racism incident was the straw that broke the camel’s back. His incident also came at a time when the rowing community had already confronted problems with 2 other coaches - Shipley (Whitman) who groomed girls on the Whitman crew for sexual relationships (to be clear, Engler was not involved in that), and the Wilson coach, who had formerly coached for BCC, and who made some inappropriate and callous remarks about a young African American kid from DC who died in a drowning. So, also in the broader context of the rowing community, there was little tolerance for more alleged racism or bad behavior.

FWIW, many crew parents hoped for more than just championships, but also lessons in how to be a good sport, support teammates and be inclusive. In his own defense, I felt like Dan deliberately stirred up a mentality among the boys that excused his behavior because he was a winner. As a crew parent, I found it pretty distasteful for my kids to be used in that fashion.  There are many kids who would say their crew experience was not good - perhaps that contributes to the poor morale.  [/quote]

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