Fairness In School Sports

Why has Bill Curran failed to correct any of the problems in weight room? Do FCPS officials, not care about student safety? ——————————————————————————————————————————- I am writing you today so that you become aware of a serious problem you may have in your middle schools and high schools weight rooms. I believe that students may be at serious risk. I would like to know the answers to the following questions. You may also want to know the answers in order to see where the problems are and protect your students.

1. Are all students able to use the weight room equipment?

2. Are students of all ages able to use the weight room equipment?

3. Are weight rooms open 24/7?

4. Are the weight rooms supervised during all hours that it is open to the students?

 5. Are those who provide supervision in the weight rooms: A. Certified weight lifting instructors? B. Are they able to provide proper instruction on how to lift weights? C. Do they know the different forms of weight lifting, power lifting, body building, conditioning, etc. D. Are those who supervise trained in first aid?

6. Do you have records of on site supervision?

7. Does FCPS require parents permission before their child is allowed to lift?

8. Does FCPS keep attendance of those who use the weight lifting room?

9. Does FCPS have lifting programs for students that are sport specific and is the person who is supervising the lifting have knowledge of sport specific drills?

10. Are these sport specific instructions given to students and parents?

11. Is it true that some students like to hang out in the weight rooms to socialize?

12. Is it true that some students sneak into the rooms and mis- use equipment showing off to their friends? Where is the supervision and controls of the room?

 13. Do you know what the 1000 pound club is?

14. Do you know that you have FCPS officials and coaches certifying that students can lift a total of 1000 pounds using three different lifts in a row?

 15. Does FCPS know how many students are injured doing weight training in schools? We need to protect all students in order to reduce risks of injuries.

Mike Grasso President Fairness In School Sports, LTD

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   Once again Bill Curran and FCPS fail to take action against employees who use their FCPS email address for their private business. No action has been taken to remove FCPS.EDU email addresses from the NVTBL web site.

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Why has Bill Curran not fixed the unsafe conditions our children must deal with in weight rooms?

Is he waiting for someone to get hurt before he moves his butt? 

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MORE WASTE AND CONFLICTS BY FCPS
Peter Noonan is apparently the “wonder kid” who is supposed to right the ship. I believe he uses this system in middle/high schools for staff development called “communities at work model”. Not sure what FCPS pays annually to use this system but Noonan is a consultant for the company that offers this program. He also is available on the lecture circuit at $3500 per day plus $1000 for travel to schools throughout the country to talk about this program. He was listed on some school board minutes at a school in TN last year as being paid to speak.
In summary, Noonan gets paid by FCPS (very well may I add), and he introduces this system that FCPS pays to use and he is a consultant to the company and makes money on the side.

No conflict of interest there?
Is there ANY evidence that Noonan’s program helps kids? What does it do? Why isn’t he the assistant superintendent for training, rather than for all instruction? Why does FCPS hire so many people who need so much training? Why don’t they hire teachers who already know how to teach?

Noonan is also big on that silly Strategic Governance, another goofy idea that FCPS paid outside consultants thousands? Millions? Who knows how much they paid the Aspen Group to develop something for FCPS that seems to do nothing, other than provide more meetings for the school board and staff.

Why do we have so many programs that aren’t directed at students, but at staff and school board? It’s nuts.

WHEN WILL ALL THE MISMANAGEMENT END BY THIS SCHOOL BOARD AND STAFF?
 

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So the coach charges on the field to protest a call and then is so out of control he is banished to the dugout for the remainder of the game.

And we are a bit troubled by the kid’s behavior??

These kide are treated like gladiators-the coaches demand year round training. The parents are treated like ATM machines-pay for this camp, this clinc, yada yada yada. Why do you think the “richer” schools dominate in sports? MONEY MONEY MONEY. They play year round and parents have to fork out thousands every year just to keep a slot on the team. The poorer kids don’t have a chance of keeping up with these folks.

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The other night South County HS beat Madison HS 12 to 8 in a game that was a total disgrace to High School sports. This game was out of control from the first inning with players from both teams trash talking one another, pitchers throwing at each other and the umpires did almost nothing to stop this unacceptable behavior.

But the most intolerable behavior was displayed my the two managers who argued almost every call by coming out of the dugouts and confronting the umpires. It got so bad that the umpires told the South County manager that he could not come out of the dugout anymore.

This type of game has no place in HS sports and the two managers should not manage again for allowing this to occur.

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What has Bill Curran done about the following:

Abuse of players

Conflicts of Interest

Ethics and Conduct violations

Player Safety

I can tell you NOTHING. He is part of the problem.

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Why does Bill Curran not stop this corrupt actions by his coaches?

1.  Aren’t all camp checks supposed to be made payable to Boosters and not individual teams?

2.  Aren’t there dollar limits on what school sponsored camps can charge the kids?

3. Why is the Oakton basketball coach allowed to solicit his team to his personal camp at Longwood College?

4. Why is the Oakton coach allowed to offer other FCPS coaches/employees fees for bringing their own players?

I thought all the coaches were made aware of these rules two years ago.

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  To all                                                                    5/20/08

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Once again the few corrupt coaches FCPS has, make it bad for all coaches.

 7 on 7 football passing camps that charge $200.00 for each player is just another way for these coaches to make money and perform out of season practices.

 In addition ,we have football camps in West Viriginia that charge almost $400.00 which is once again an out of season practice because and all school coaches work out their teams.

 Where is FCPS when you need them? Asleep at the wheel? Yes.

 More to come, including feeder teams.

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