New Colonel

Defense can't struggle any worse than last 2 years. But I guess we will see.

I thought there was a new DC again this season??

That's a cool pic!

Pay is pretty close since Jefferson County is one of the highest paid in KY (I do believe.) From what I could find, Jefferson County highest salary is about 99k, meanwhile CPS highest is 113k. CPS you need to be on step 30 with 45 hours over a masters and Jefferson County it looks like 25 years and PhD for the max. It may not be a bad switch from CPS to Louisville if your job got slashed.

Your timeline is off. LaSalle won titles in 14, 15, 16, and again in 19 (Bolden's first season at Lakota West.) LaSalle was always fairly decent, even before the titles, I wouldn't call them cellar dwellars. Colerain and LaSalle also are different divisions. It took LaSalle dropping to D2 for them to really take off. Colerain's program was going to nosedive, that's why Bolden left. He saw the writing on the wall, plus a big ol pay raise. Winton Woods has arguably been the biggest disappointment in the Cincy area with the exception of their 21 D2 title, as they have arguably the most D1 collegiate talent every single year.

It will be interesting to see how much of the Beechwood community will keep quiet just to keep appearances that everything is great in the district.

Glad to hear the private schools you mention will be following this. I agree on the courts since the KY Bill of Rights has multiple mentions of free speech.

2 family friends teach private schools and have told us it does not apply to them. Yes!

I truly thought that even with 18 year olds, it was criminal in KY since it is an abuse of power. Many states have such laws, and I thought KY was one, but I was mistaken. I am not about to Google which states have such laws, I feel like that would put me on lists I don't want to be on.

So, I read over the article multiple times. And the thing(s) that really sticks out to me that leaves me shocked and appalled is 1. It's not illegal for a teacher to have innapropriate contact with a student if that student is 18? Really? 2. It's not illegal for a teacher to groom students? Again, seriously? 3. Beechwood is still digging in saying nobody did anything wrong. This is absolutely disgusting. And regardless if charges are filed, Beechwood should have released that teacher's name to find out if there were any other victims. This should be public record, if Beechwood even put anything regarding this in his employment file.

The exception for accidental communication is beyond extreme. A close friend of mine teaches in NKY, but also does Uber/Uber eats and door dash. He's now worried he's gonna get a message for food delivery with special instructions about "leave food by side door." And unbeknownst to him, it's a student. We'll, that's accidental communication and the way I'm reading this, definitely a violation. Or maybe he picks up and Uber from Florence going to the Reds game or wherever, and goes to pickup, and boom students. Again, accidental, not harmful in any way. There's countless scenarios where this law doesn't make any sense.

Been thru Virtus and kept up on it for a decade. The training isn't anywhere close to robust and is common sense. I don't think they have been ahead of this at all in my personal opinion. Private school coaches and teachers communicate regularly thru means discussed in this thread. My personal opinion is this is going to hurt more kids than it protects.

Private school teacher friends have said it does not apply to them. Which makes zero sense to me.

This is unbelievable. If I read this correctly, the principal, now new superintendent was aware of all of this and didn't report because that's a duty of rhe superintendent? If you know your superior didn't report, how do you sleep at night knowing this? Better question, how do the wonderful people feel about this entire situation, given this new information about the now current superintendent?

Looks awesome. This is great for the community. Hopefully it's not a big deal or they still need to do final touches on the turf, but the end zone photo looks lumpy. Like there are high and low spots.

What about students from another district? The law doesn't specify anything about that. So, theoretically, you couldn't text your niece or nephew from another district. And since the permission slips are to be kept by the school principals, who would keep the permission slip in that instance....one at each school? No way that's happening. This entire law and expectations are beyond unrealistic. I hope this gets overturned by the courts. It's pretty hard to limit an employees communications 24 hours a day when you are not a 24 hour a day employee.

Gonna make it pretty hard to contact a student to cover that lifeguard or snack bar shift if someone called in sick.

Here's a few other scenarios that were brought up to me by high schoolers. 1. This is for volunteers also. So high school aged volunteers can't text their own friends, who are students? 2. Many teachers have kids babysit for them or mow lawns or whatever. They can't contact them directly now? 3. Those teachers that have summer gigs like managing at a swim club. They can't contact their employees now directly because they are students?

Only if your district allows you to sign a waiver. Still waiting on guidance to be published from the districts here in NKY. And I don't recall reading in the law anything about a waiver, I could have missed it though.

Agree ?. The issue is most have no idea.

Did you know Remind sells the personal info of those using the app? Phone numbers, emails, etc? Many districts have rules against it because it jeopardized students info.

Bingo. I spent most of my high school coaching career with the type of students you mention. I've definitely gotten phone calls in the middle of the night due to insane emergencies that needed handled by a responsible adult and you as the coach are the closest responsible adult in their lives.

This is a complete and utter nightmare for anyone involved in education, and even moreso if that person does any type of extra curricular. Retweeting players stuff for the hopes of recruiting seems to be a big no-no, which is bad for kids because so many colleges utilize X/Twitter for recruiting/communication. This is also horrendous for anyone who is a teacher and has kids. Here's a couple of scenarios for you to consider. 1. Let's say a teacher's child leaves with a few friends. Parent needs to get ahold of said child, but his/her phone died or he/she forgot to bring it. A normal parent would simply call the child's friend (I know I have my kids' friends' cell numbers just in case.). Teacher parent now, will appear to be in violation of this new law, which could jeopardize their career. 2. Teacher's kid is involved with an extra curricular. Be it marching band, football, swimming, whatever it may be. A normal parent takes photos at games/events documenting such awesome events and accomplishments and typically posts on social media for others to see. Again, both snapping the photo and the posting of it would put the teacher in violation and jeopardize their career. 3. Teachers have other friends and family members, I know that's really weird for some people, but they do have lives. Teacher may not even be able to "like" photos of his/her niece or nephew because they are students in the same district. Teacher may not be able to like or comment on a picture of their own child posted by a friend, if it's a group shot with other students. 4. Volunteering for things like field trips. As a teacher, could you chaperone your child's field trip? This is more of an issue for "big field trips" at the middle and high school level. Think things like Kings Island, or any out of town trip where students would get some sort of freedom and responsibility. If they were supposed to meet somewhere at a specific time and they aren't there, calling their cell is the easiest way to find out if there's an emergency, or just teens being teens and losing track of time. This could actually put someone in danger. I know one year I was coaching high school football, and we had a kid who was diabetic. We were in Columbus for the game. Well, he was in the locker room, but didn't show up to the bus to go home. His mom was in Cincy, didn't go to the game. We couldn't find him for a while. We kept calling his cell. He went to concessions to get a pop since he said his blood sugar was low and we had already dumped the Gatorade. Cool, easy fix calling him. Doing so now could be a violation the way I am understanding this. This is going to cause massive confusion, fear, and uncertainty. This will also probably drive some people away from the profession unless there is more clarity and common sense is implemented here. Now, my personal opinion is, do what's right by kids. Period. If that gets me in hot water or even fired, fine, I can deal with that. I know there was many times after football games on Friday nights, I'd give kids rides home. The minivan would be full. Sometimes I made 2 trips. parents couldn't be reached. Kids didn't drive. Metro stopped running the routes needed for the kid to get home. What was I supposed to do, sit at school until 8 am the next morning with the kids so they could catch the bus? I don't think so. If that got me fired, I wouldn't have lost a wink of sleep, even though I definitely violated district policy.

Fine, but the details of that agreement should be made public since it's public dollars involving a public servant.

Masters level in the education field is about increasing your teaching strategies, and a whole bunch of educational laws and ethics. That's the irony if he does end up teaching for a university.