Anonymous
11/28/2018 08:06
Subject: Thoughts on the new Churchill principal?
"I think it is great if a poster gives a warning of what happened and what to watch out for. That is what DCUM is for. But you have gone way beyond that. You want coaches fired, the athletic director fired, and if she doesn't act fast enough you want Mrs.Heckert fired. There have been obsessive postings about the Churchill athletic department for well over a year."
+1. I agree with this poster, and don't have kids at Churchill, don't know anything about Churchill, except what has been stated over and over and over and over again about the track program. We get that you're unhappy with a decision that was made, but it's also been made clear that an investigation happened, and the result was different than what you wanted. If you disagree with the mcps results, go to the police, and see what they have to say. Or move your child to a private school. But continued bashing here is getting tired. Let It Go.
+1. I agree with this poster, and don't have kids at Churchill, don't know anything about Churchill, except what has been stated over and over and over and over again about the track program. We get that you're unhappy with a decision that was made, but it's also been made clear that an investigation happened, and the result was different than what you wanted. If you disagree with the mcps results, go to the police, and see what they have to say. Or move your child to a private school. But continued bashing here is getting tired. Let It Go.
Anonymous
11/28/2018 00:52
Subject: Re:Thoughts on the new Churchill principal?
Anonymous wrote:
New poster here. You've lost your credibility by denying the possibility that others' children have been abused because "you* have had no issues. If you're trying to help the cause of the coaches and//or the AD, I think you're actually making it worse for them. You really can't read this thread and imagine the possibility that a kid could get sexually abused or groomed to be abused by mcps staff or coaches? Really? I think you protest too much.
+1 - PP still protesting. It's a bad argument that he could care less of what the coaches did with other children as long as his daughter has a track program uninterrupted.
Here's a news flash - Perhaps encourage Churchill to try hiring coaches who don't break the rules including texting and driving kids without the team or other adults in their cars? It can actually be easily done. Other coaches in the school know better. Then your daughter can have a safe track program with coaches who can follow the rules that were created to protect their reputations and minimize the school system's liability. Win win all around.
Also, home normally means the place where a person lives. School is the building that the kids go to for their education. A big difference in words. Still back peddling. Perhaps the school should do another investigation to see if a girl was driven to her home by a coach this year incase one of the coaches did an unintentional disclosure with his post.
Anonymous
11/27/2018 22:48
Subject: Re:Thoughts on the new Churchill principal?
Anonymous wrote:
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 think it is great if a poster gives a warning of what happened and what to watch out for. That is what DCUM is for. But you have gone way beyond that. You want coaches fired, the athletic director fired, and if she doesn't act fast enough you want Mrs.Heckert fired. There have been obsessive postings about the Churchill athletic department for well over a year.
But none of these postings contain any mention of sexual advances or physical force, or anything approaching child abuse. You are trivializing child abuse if you think it means arranging car pools, or texting athletes or using foul language once.
Yes I have an agenda. I don't want my teenager's track program disrupted again this year like it was last year when a coach had to take a leave of absence, ( but was cleared by an investigation.)
Below are some boring replies to clarify my status:
Anonymous wrote:
You must either be one of the coaches or the Churchill athletic director.
Fortunately, I have no connection at all with MCPS except through my kids. I don't think I would have the patience to handle some MCPS parents.
Anonymous wrote:
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
The portion of the post that I quoted said, "Some children were more affected than others, particularly if they were one of the children in the cars." I was very surprised when multiple subsequent posters assumed that my teenager was alone in the car, since I did not say this. This makes me think that the multiple posts were actually by the same person.
Anonymous wrote:
Now you are clarifying your daughter was not driven to your house but in a group back to Churchill
I never used the word "house" but said my teenager was driven home, meaning the home school. I was only trying to distinguish between being driven to the track meet and being driven home.
