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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"[u]All communications should be accessible to parents[/u]."

This is true, but for how many teams is this the case?[/quote]

This is general information for child safety -

For an MCPS athletics team, a coach is allowed to use an MCPS email to communicate with student athletes directly because those are not private accounts. However, in reality, how often are they monitored? A safer form of communication would be group emails and cc’ing parents.

Students should be trained that a coach/teacher texting them individually is unprofessional and violates the MCPS code of conduct. Same for private social media messaging. Parents, talk with your children to keep them safe. Report suspicious behavior.

Grooming starts out with ambiguous behavior that is not illegal but the predator is testing how far they can go with a child. Gifts, special rewards/positions, and attention is how a predator gains the trust of children and parents. Child predators do not look like the boogie man. They are popular and well liked by the community. They may have taught/coached for decades.

Club teams such as crew have even less oversight than MCPS athletics. As a parent board, it would be advisable to set up codes of conducts for coaches and athletes to keep children safe if you have not already. Coaches caught violating the rules would show the parent board when they have someone who should not be working with their children.[/quote]

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