A big week in the village: Summerfest, election news, increases in "affordable" rents, several court cases, a police town hall, and a strange case at the Middle School are among the top stories.
Are you suggesting this is the “coaching” event mentioned in police reports of the PVC alarm set off involving the coach and the board member entering school property in private?
When I complained to the Board of Education on in 2021 about the dozens of policy bylaws they had that expressly discriminated against non-citizens, and excluded children on the basis of their citizenship status and visa status, the response I received from Joshua Diamond from the Board was:
"In the passage that you quote, the Athletic Code of Conduct is referring to "citizenship" in a different sense; specifically, being a student in the Croton-Harmon schools, and having a disciplinary record that comports with the requirements of the Athletic Code of Conduct (i.e. is not suspended from school)."
Which was obviously untrue as my son had just been excluded from soccer for being a green card holder and not a citizen, by a teacher/coach following this policy.
And 4 years later, the very first line of the schools Code of Conduct still discriminates against non-citizens: "Participation in an interscholastic athletic program is a privilege granted to students who maintain scholarship and citizenship within the framework of the New York State
Commissioner’s Regulations, Section I Athletics Sportsmanship Policy, Croton-Harmon
Are you suggesting this is the “coaching” event mentioned in police reports of the PVC alarm set off involving the coach and the board member entering school property in private?
I am making no comments or speculations about the so-called "coaching event" nor about what the two gentlemen were doing in the school.
When I complained to the Board of Education on in 2021 about the dozens of policy bylaws they had that expressly discriminated against non-citizens, and excluded children on the basis of their citizenship status and visa status, the response I received from Joshua Diamond from the Board was:
"In the passage that you quote, the Athletic Code of Conduct is referring to "citizenship" in a different sense; specifically, being a student in the Croton-Harmon schools, and having a disciplinary record that comports with the requirements of the Athletic Code of Conduct (i.e. is not suspended from school)."
Which was obviously untrue as my son had just been excluded from soccer for being a green card holder and not a citizen, by a teacher/coach following this policy.
And 4 years later, the very first line of the schools Code of Conduct still discriminates against non-citizens: "Participation in an interscholastic athletic program is a privilege granted to students who maintain scholarship and citizenship within the framework of the New York State
Commissioner’s Regulations, Section I Athletics Sportsmanship Policy, Croton-Harmon
Board Policies and District Code of Conducts". https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1689577708/chufsdorg/f8sgb3ldkcz8afynpjoh/CrotonAthleticCodeofConduct3117.pdf
I am inspired by Joshua Diamond and the Board of Education to likewise accept this definition of the word 'coaching': https://urbandictionary.store/products/mug?defid=1219210 (NSFW).