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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The immediate above poster posting again.  STA has the boys play "crab football" or something like that usually.  Occasionally they do something more mundane like basketball.  They're really looking more for sportsmanship, behavior, cooperation, etc. than athletic ability.  Poor athletic ability likely won't hurt you, but spectacular ability could help a little.[/quote]

I knew about that game during my son's year, and one Beauvoir/STA parent in the know panicked me about how they want to see good sportsmanship so your kid should be saying things like, "Nice shot!" whenever some other kid made a shot or something.  Apparently the word must have gone around because my son said every single kid was yelling "good job! nice shot!  good one!" during the visit.  They should make their way over to the Beauvoir playground and watch them.  Not always nice.[/quote]

Oh my god.  Can STA do that?!?.  Secretly observe our children while they are on the Beauvoir playground to help them in their admissions decisions?  Would this involve videotape also?  This has to be a violation of our constitutional/privacy rights and Beauvoir school policy.  Perhaps we can draft a pre-emptive letter to STA warning them against considering such a thing?!?![/quote]

Beauvoir Parent and lawyer here.   It would most definitely not be a violation of your constitutional rights.   Moreover, although I have not fully researched the issue, at first blush I believe that STA can do as you suggest without incurring any criminal liability.  It would not be trespassing; STA staff are authorized Cathedral personnel and can walk freely through the Cathedral Close.   It would not be disorderlyconduct if they are not interfering at all with school activities.  As far as I can tell, they can legally observe as much of the activity on the Beauvoir playground as they wish.  Of course that would do them no good if they could not identify the children that they are observing.  Unless Beauvoir becomes complicit in this scheme, I do not foresee any realistic possibility that STA can effectively turn their observations of our boys on the Beauvoir playground into actionable intelligence.   As far as the use of the videotape, that is another matter entirely.  I do not have time to fully research the issue, but the summer will soon be upon us, and I will task a summer associate with researching all of these issues more fully and completely and report back to you soon.[/quote]

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