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MCPS employees are trained on the protocols cor transporting students. If the coach is going house to house dropping off students, the last child is the one alone in the car with a coach unless there is another adult in the car.

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Now that would be weird if a coach drove the kids to their homes.    Of course he dropped them all  off at Churchill.

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Can you tell what is going on in the car on your phone? Sexual offenses like indecent touching or exposure can occur with the car moving besides what can happen in a few minutes when the car stops. Conversations in private can also put your child at risk when a predator uses the opportunity to proposition a child or shows the child pornography on a phone. A lot can go wrong with employees willing to risk their jobs just to do you "a favor".[/quote]

You [b]are[/b] nuts!        There is no predator here except in your fevered imagination.   Do you ever let your teenager talk to a teacher after school or to a guidance counselor in their office?    They could be  taking the opportunity to show your kids pornography!   Do you let your teenager walk to Churchill?     The predators are just laying in wait!

Anyway, if you don't want your teenager to meet with a teacher after school, or walk to Churchill, or travel with other teenagers in a coach's car from a track meet, then just tell them not to do it!    Let the rest of us have normal lives.[/quote]

You must either be one of the coaches or the Churchill athletic director.   :roll:

You made a comment to a post regarding the coaches who got caught driving individual students (not a group) in their cars.  When multiple posters said that it was not safe to do so and contrary to MCPS policy and training, you back peddled.  Now you are clarifying your daughter was not driven to your house but in a group back to Churchill.  Your emergency was solved at that point so she had a way home from the school?  Your scenario is so unclear it doesn't add up.

Furthermore, no one was saying a coach driving [u]a team of kids[/u] was dangerous even though most coaches at Churchill will not do that.  Other teams as large as the track team are told where the game is and when the athletes need to be there by.  Parents are responsible for figuring out the how to get the athletes there when the coaches say to be there.  With a schedule ahead of time, it is doable for the average parent and families create regular carpools to divide up the driving.  A coach and MCPS can shed the liability for driving by following best practices used by good coaches at Churchill and throughout Montgomery County.

The better options would be buses for away games for every team but that would be logistically impossible for MCPS to do.  However, the track team is one of the larger teams in the school so perhaps they should be given the same priority as the football team gets for games?  Or teams get equal funding for buses?

Red flags because the track coaches got caught and were already given a second chance for doing these things:

* Driving children alone in their cars.

* Texting with athletes.

* Giving presents to athletes.

* Use of unprofessional language around children / cursing and derogatory comments to students.

Review the MCPS Employee Code of Conduct and the Personal Body Safety Lessons and you would know why these are red flags for predatory behaviors.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/staff/staff-home-page/2018-2019_EmployeeCodeofConduct.pdf

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/childabuseandneglect/Parent%20Secondary%20Personal%20Body%20Safety%20Lessons%20Overview%20and%20Resources.pdf

Only someone with a personal agenda would be angry that a poster is giving parents a warning of what has happened and what to look out for.  I am sure MCPS could hire good people who know how to follow the rules for these positions. It would be great for the girls if Mrs. Heckert would consider hiring at least one woman coach for the track team in the future.
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