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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And check out this article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2023/07/13/conal-groom-rowing-coach-allegations/

Question:
Do most varsity sports, including MCPS sponsored sports, include parents in all communication?

Do they deliberately prohibit parent/coach interaction?

I get that you can't have parents complaining about whether their kid plays, or position, etc. But do they all prohibit contact? Unless the athlete and parent schedule a meeting? Because teens would rather die than meet with their coach and a parent. To me, it sends a message: don't complain. 
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Student athletes are children. Ultimately, there should be rules on athletic teams for the protection of children and group communication is a simple way to get team information to athletes in a way that is transparent. As a parent, what information does a coach need to communicate to my child outside of practice that he/she doesn’t think I should know?

Just because a group text/email is received, doesn’t mean that it’s a two way form of communication. Typically, teams have a team parent to contact if parents have a question. However, there have been coaches that want to know from parents when a child is anticipated to miss practice and why. Those coaches were MCPS teachers so they told parents to email them via their MCPS email.

I have had an experience with a coach who privately was texting my child for over a year including over summer break asking my child if we were in town. I felt gut punched when I found the messages and I did turn copies over to MCPS. No crime had been committed but creepy yes. He seemed to be trying to build a personal relationship with my child. This was someone our family highly trusted but not after I found the texts. My child left the team but MCPS kept the person on as a coach and a teacher.[/quote]

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