Anonymous
Post 12/16/2024 19:50     Subject: Whitman Football Coach Fired

Well whatever it was, it's being kept on the DL. Still weird to me... and I'm not even a Whitman parent.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2024 19:31     Subject: Whitman Football Coach Fired

Good news- Today, Pierce is working security at Whitman again. Does anyone know if he is going to coach football too? Still no word why he was asked to take leave.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2024 15:51     Subject: Whitman Football Coach Fired

Apparently he was back in the building today
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2024 21:01     Subject: Whitman Football Coach Fired

At the end of the year football banquet coach Sean Pierce received a standing ovation.
Anonymous
Post 12/12/2024 21:26     Subject: Whitman Football Coach Fired

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if Pierce was ever allowed back? If not, how long do events like this last? If an MCPS employee is placed on leave, there must be a deadline for a decision to be made...correct?


Nah, they get to it when they get to it, or when parents make a stink to bring someone back or let them go, or if they’re arrested. When another Whitman team’s coach was put on leave, he was gone the whole rest of the year.
Anonymous
Post 12/12/2024 18:20     Subject: Whitman Football Coach Fired

Anonymous wrote:When will the community know why Pierce was placed on leave.


After it gets vetted by the Black and Brown Coalition.
Anonymous
Post 12/12/2024 13:35     Subject: Whitman Football Coach Fired

When will the community know why Pierce was placed on leave.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2024 08:41     Subject: Whitman Football Coach Fired

No don't believe so
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2024 08:20     Subject: Whitman Football Coach Fired

Does anyone know if Pierce was ever allowed back? If not, how long do events like this last? If an MCPS employee is placed on leave, there must be a deadline for a decision to be made...correct?
Anonymous
Post 11/22/2024 08:15     Subject: Whitman Football Coach Fired

We are on the left side of a pendulum. The right side was when it was acceptable for an adult to touch a child sexually, or aggressively. The left side of that pendulum is where it's unacceptable to touch a child at all.
The middle is where an adult can restrain a child who is a threat to others, themselves or property. Let's get back to it.
Anonymous
Post 11/22/2024 08:04     Subject: Whitman Football Coach Fired

Anonymous wrote:I doubt Coach’s absence contributed to this week’s assault of two older students on a freshman, or any other “volatility in halls.” There are other security officers who have good relations with students.

AFAIK, he hasn’t been arrested, and while they’re in the dark too, the boys get the feeling that whatever coach did, it wasn’t horrible, though may have been against MCPS standards of conduct, triggering an investigation. Though we’re in the dark on if/when it’s completed.

I feel like if it was really bad, Pierce Sr would have chosen to leave too.


My question is…if he was removed for something like being too interventionist in something like breaking up a fight, it might lead other security officers to not want to put hands on kids to break up a fight. That video posted was weird because there is a security guard at the beginning of it, but then he’s not visible during the actual beating.
Anonymous
Post 11/22/2024 07:55     Subject: Whitman Football Coach Fired

I doubt Coach’s absence contributed to this week’s assault of two older students on a freshman, or any other “volatility in halls.” There are other security officers who have good relations with students.

AFAIK, he hasn’t been arrested, and while they’re in the dark too, the boys get the feeling that whatever coach did, it wasn’t horrible, though may have been against MCPS standards of conduct, triggering an investigation. Though we’re in the dark on if/when it’s completed.

I feel like if it was really bad, Pierce Sr would have chosen to leave too.
Anonymous
Post 11/22/2024 01:17     Subject: Whitman Football Coach Fired

Removing Pierce had a domino effect - more volatility in halls
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2024 14:59     Subject: Whitman Football Coach Fired

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Has the security situation at Whitman worsened since Pierce left? Horrible assault yesterday which has spread all over social media makes me wonder if they need him back. Was it like this before he left?


More details on the assault please. My kids are at Whitman and haven't heard anything about this.


See this thread: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1241106.page
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2024 14:59     Subject: Whitman Football Coach Fired


More details on the assault please. My kids are at Whitman and haven't heard anything about this.


https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1241106.page