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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Says the principal who turned off the stadium lights on children and ordered them to go home. :shock: [/quote]

Powder puff Mom is back.[/quote]

Yes, as someone who sees plenty of real problems with MCPS, can you please stop piling onto Brandice Heckert. She’s so small potatoes and you’re distracting from much bigger issues and weakening those cases by seeming petty and whiny. She’s not going to be the one to solve most of your  issues, principals are more or less neutered in MCPS. You’re wasting your time worrying about unreturned emails and powder puff football. Plus it’s getting old. We get it. You don’t like the new traffic pattern. You want her to pay closer attention to you and your emails, and you’re ticked off about how she disciplines.. I think you’re a different person than the one or ones posting about abusive coaches. Even those people recognize that Heckert isn’t going to take care of business. Half of that is because central ties her hands. Also principals don’t like to make too many waves until they have the lay of the land. Those decisions will have to be directed from higher up. I’m not criticizing you for disliking her and I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m just saying you’re misdirecting your attention. While you’re on here, she’s on twitter celebrating those same coaches and buddying up to central people. If you really want to engage the MCPS people, you have to go to twitter. That’s where they all are, chitchatting with each other and signing off eith  #raise and all that stuff.

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The big question is why is Mrs. Heckert focusing on powder puff football when there are real problems at the school? Shouldn't she have spent her time focusing on coach abuse and hazing, and drug use?  Maybe by focusing on powder puff football she can district parents so they don't hold her accountable for the real problems at Churchill.[/quote]

Again with the powder puff football game??  Mrs. Heckert is not focusing on powderpuff football— you are!  She enforced an existing school rule, period.  If you want to blame someone for your daughter’s disappointment, blame the seniors who broke the rules!

Honestly, I am so tired of the schools NOT strongly enforcing the rules.  I try to teach my kids there are consequences for their misbehaviour, but they are constantly giving me examples of where the school didn’t enforce the rules.[/quote]

I'm not interested in powderpuff football or even regular football, but now I'm curious. What rules are there about powderpuff football that Mrs. Heckert was enforcing?

From the rest of the string it sounded like parents were upset because Mrs. Heckert punished the entire school, including kids who hadn't done anything wrong, because a few seniors skipped school. It also sounded like she created an unsafe situation by turning off the lights in the stadium while children were in there.

If the powderpuff players were violating a safety rule or engaging in unsportsmanlike behavior, that would give a different spin to the story.  
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My understanding is that the girls who were set to play skipped school that day, and thus were ineligible to participate in an after school activity that day.  So many of the players skipped that there were not enough to field a team so essentially the seniors had to forfeit.  I don’t know about the lights but my sense is that the school didn’t know about the problem until they were on the field and she canceled it after they were on the field (or maybe even a few mins into the game?)

I never heard about kids having to vacate the stadium in the dark.[/quote]

Yeah. It gets dark early. She shut off the lights to stop the game but didn't think about how that affected student safety.

I don't know which kids were or weren't at school or which ones were or weren't scheduled to play.

I do know that there were kids there who had zero connection to the skipping who were forced to leave. That's violation of MCPS student rights. Students can only be punished for things they do -- no collective punishment allowed. It's pretty ironic that in making a big splash about enforcing rules, the principal breaks a rule herself.

Are there really rules about how many plays are needed to field a team in powderpuff football? That sounds made up to me.[/quote]

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