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Perhaps your child did not experience these things.  They are large teams so some kids got more attention than others.  However, many children (girls and boys) came forward last year to complain.  Some children were more affected than others, particularly if they were one of the children in the cars.. [/quote]

Jeesh.     If you don't want your teenagers  going in the Coach's car,  why don't you just tell them that?    But the kids often need rides to and from the track meets, since there are usually not enough people to afford a bus.     I chose to take my daughter to and from the track meets, mainly because I like to know the driving ability of anyone driving my teenagers.      But there was one time when I couldn't get there in time , and so[b] I let the coach drive her home.[/b]

(It was awful.   They got caught in traffic and arrived home 10 minutes late.     My daughter had nightmares for weeks and required therapy for months.)

OK the stuff in parentheses is a joke.    The ride home was completely uneventful.     But I do hope that Mrs. Heckert has a spine and refuses to let you bully her into further disrupting the track team.

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Wow.  You definitely do not sound like a parent.  I think any normal parent would have concerns regarding this type of conduct by a school employee.  I can't believe how nonchalant you let a coach drive your daughter home.  You should really check in with your daughter if that actually happened.  That would be a major violation particularly if it happened after the other cases were reported to MCPS.

If someone was told specifically to NOT put children alone in their cars or you could be fired but they did it anyway, wouldn't you wonder about their motivation to break the rules?  Child predators groom children to get alone time with them for the intent of sexual abuse.

Most parents did not know that children were going to be singled out for individual rides and not all trips were the approved meets or had prior parental consent.  Yes, transportation was an issue to meets but those usually had multiple parents driving or a team bus.

The implied assumption when a coach is driving a team to a meet that multiple children will be in the car.  The travel permission form does not have a box to check - I DO NOT GIVE PERMISSION FOR MY CHILD TO BE ALONE IN A CAR WITH AN MCPS EMPLOYEE.  It definitely does not give a coach permission to take a child off school grounds for an activity like lunch or a trip home.  It is MCPS protocol that an MCPS employee should have another adult in the car when transporting children.  Parents would gladly pay a transportation fee for expenses for a bus so their children do not have to be alone in a coach's car.

Then there are the text messages.  Real creepy but black and white evidence of how an employee gets your child's cell phone number and reals the child in like he is that child's best friend.  The messages provide names other students who were targets.  The coaches apparently didn't like each other much so there are text messages documenting one coach saying, "There's a reason he is not a parent or a teacher" when reflecting on how little the bully coach knows about how to instruct teenage children.  Past alumni were named who went on to be great college athletes but the bully coach thought, "he wasn't mentally tough enough".  It is a sick dynamic how these two coaches operate with each other and treat children.

It is also a requirement that all chaperones are certified by taking the Child Abuse and Neglect training prior to driving any child but your own for an athletic event.  The Churchill Athletic Director is making a big deal about that requirement this year because central office discovered the chaperone rules were not followed last year.

It's your choice if you are a Churchill parent to put your child on a team with all these red warning flags going off.  The employees are risking their jobs if they continue violating the MCPS Employee Code of Conduct.  You are risking your daughter's safety if you are knowingly allowing them to break the rules with your child.  [/quote]

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