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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is a shame that Shipley answered to two different managing groups (MCPS and a parent-led crew board) and neither entity was able to detect what was going on.

Crew is a somewhat unique sport in terms of needing to communicate with students about changes in venue due to weather, etc at odd times and sometimes, at the last minute.  If left to their own devices, coaches find it easiest to communicate via text (albeit to the whole team or at least captains).  Other crew teams insist on alternative means of communication so that no one is vulnerable to what happened in this case.[/quote]

Sadly, other crew teams, not just Whitman, also allow text communication either just between the coaches and group chat team or between coaches and individual student.  Parents are frequently deliberately excluded from these means of communication in the name of supporting the growing independence of high schoolers.  Parents are also officially discouraged from entering TBC boathouse. I don’t know if this is a team policy or boathouse policy. Personally, I think both these policies are dangerous, as the Whitman case illustrated. [/quote]

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