~~The MIAA “A” 2021~~

HS Boys Lacrosse
kramerica.inc
Posts: 6211
Joined: Sun Jul 29, 2018 9:01 pm

Re: ~The MIAA “A” 2020~

Post by kramerica.inc »

Congrats to John Carroll senior defender Tyler Rosso on his own recovery from a tragic accident many years ago and a job well done with his Senior Project- helping patients at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center:

harcooldie
Posts: 11
Joined: Tue Feb 19, 2019 12:44 pm

Re: ~The MIAA “A” 2020~

Post by harcooldie »

Speaking of JC, any word on the coaching position?
kramerica.inc
Posts: 6211
Joined: Sun Jul 29, 2018 9:01 pm

Re: ~The MIAA “A” 2020~

Post by kramerica.inc »

Don Reynolds. JC Alum and Former Thunder lax club director.
Turnandrake
Posts: 361
Joined: Fri Feb 22, 2019 7:07 am

Re: ~The MIAA “A” 2020~

Post by Turnandrake »

kramerica.inc wrote: Sat May 23, 2020 11:38 am Congrats to John Carroll senior defender Tyler Rosso on his own recovery from a tragic accident many years ago and a job well done with his Senior Project- helping patients at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center:

Great story congrats
Slim
Posts: 312
Joined: Fri Apr 05, 2019 1:23 pm

Re: ~The MIAA “A” 2020~

Post by Slim »

Wait what? Where did Coach King go?
kramerica.inc
Posts: 6211
Joined: Sun Jul 29, 2018 9:01 pm

Re: ~The MIAA “A” 2020~

Post by kramerica.inc »

Chuckman
Posts: 54
Joined: Thu Aug 30, 2018 8:09 pm

Re: ~The MIAA “A” 2020~

Post by Chuckman »

"Loyola Blakefield, McDonogh facing calls to change name, sever ties with racist pasts" From the Balt Sun yesterday.

Might be the Owings Mills Eagles vs Chestnut Hill Dons soon .
User avatar
MDlaxfan76
Posts: 25748
Joined: Wed Aug 01, 2018 5:40 pm

Re: ~The MIAA “A” 2020~

Post by MDlaxfan76 »

Not at all likely, though Loyola may drop the Blakefield part.

The Blake family's requirement that no black kids be allowed at the school was actually egregious. Pretty easy to make that call without really losing brand identity.

John McDonogh, while a slave holder, is a more complicated picture.

He broke Louisiana law to educate some of his slaves, supported financially the return to Liberia of some, freed his slaves on his death, and left the bulk of his estate (in 1950) to establish a public school system in New Orleans for poor whites and freed people of color and a farm school for orphans and underprivileged white and freed people of color in Baltimore...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McDonogh

Our local McDonogh School was slow to include black kids in their student body, but stayed true to its mission for underprivileged kids. They were earlier to the table on various other types of diversity, particularly religious, relative to various other private school systems, though Gilman caught up and went beyond in that regard under Reddy Finney's leadership.

McDonogh is today one of the most diverse and inclusive of our local private schools, way more so than quite a few.
kramerica.inc
Posts: 6211
Joined: Sun Jul 29, 2018 9:01 pm

Re: ~The MIAA “A” 2020~

Post by kramerica.inc »

If I’m a betting man, Loyola may drop the Blakefield and go back to Loyola High School. Their Jesuit mentality, recent history of incidents, and the move to be more inclusive could mean a change is afoot. Although I've heard that the supposed Blake family covenant and restriction against minorities was not a real thing.

McDonogh is better in diversity, than many private schools including at Paul’s and BL. But if we’re marching on this rename crusade, the McD name could be in for a change too.
molo
Posts: 1910
Joined: Wed Aug 29, 2018 2:14 pm

Re: ~The MIAA “A” 2020~

Post by molo »

And now Josh Sims refuses induction into Severn's athletic hall of fame due to the school's racism. I wasn't aware of Severn's history, but as a graduate of another school now in the MIAA (MSA when I was in hs), I can't say I find it too surprising.
Raescreek
Posts: 45
Joined: Wed Aug 29, 2018 5:24 pm

Re: ~The MIAA “A” 2020~

Post by Raescreek »

Letter sent to McDonogh:

From: McD Black-Alumni <[email protected]>
Date: June 16, 2020 at 11:09:54 PM EDT
To:
Subject: Dear McDonogh


June 16, 2020

Dave Farace ‘87, Head of School

Rob Young ’86, President, Board of Trustees

An excerpt from McDonogh School: An Interpretive Chronology, “A school like everything else exists in time: it endures, it triumphs, it suffers. It is always imperfect and always a paradox. It honors democracy and reaches for nobility. It is a cause it is an effect It exists pragmatically in the deeds of the people who have come within its influence; it exists ideally in the values of those who have come to love it.”

The McDonogh Black Alumni Committee has come to love McDonogh School through its imperfections and its paradoxes. We have been quietly processing this entire situation for the past few weeks, but are now ready to share some of our reflections on the current circumstances.

We, as the McDonogh Black Alumni Committee, are exhausted, hurt, discouraged, saddened and disappointed by McDonogh’s lack of a stronger, clearer statement against the racism at the root of so much brutality, disparity and unrest. In the eloquent and prescient words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”

Aren’t we a community that seeks to do the “greatest possible amount of good”?

We did not as a nation, a city, or a school arrive at a place of such extreme inequality by accident. It didn’t “just happen” on the way to 2020. It was intentional. We have been scratching our heads trying to figure out how an institution, founded and funded by a slave trader and owner and initially led by a former leader of the Confederacy, which now prides itself on its moral compass, could be conspicuously silent during this time of extreme racial inequality, when the through line is understood: McDonogh is not ready for its reckoning.

That does not make it any less complicit and silence will not save it.

Our nation was ushered into this moment by 400+ years of intentionally racist, colonial, federal, state and local policies with vicious and violent attacks on Black progress and Black resistance, and harmful discriminatory practices toward people of color. McDonogh has been complicit in the creation of the current conditions in the United States today, starting from John McDonogh’s endowment to create the school, which was built on the bounty of slavery. And yet, he bequeathed a fortune to build our school for the “poor of all castes and color.” At various points in its history, McDonogh’s leadership has made decisions that moved further away from the Founder’s intention, further entrenching the racial disparities we experience today.

There is nothing neutral about this silence; this silence makes McDonogh complicit in perpetuating injustice. This silence is no different from the decision to open McDonogh without black students, despite the clear intentions of John McDonogh, that the school be made available to the “poor of all castes and color.” This silence is no different from the decision in 1945 to accept the application of a black student, the son of Dr. J.H. Thomas, only to decide that he would be better served by a “northern school,” and direct him there. This silence is no different from the decision in 1952-53 to address the “negro problem” through racist logic that academic deficiencies would likely preclude any admissible candidates. This silence is no different from the decision in 1955-56 to deny opportunity to black students to sit for the scholarship exam, when asked by the Afro-American newspaper if they would be allowed to do so. This silence is no different from the decision in 1959 to undertake a process of “gradual integration” and place the burden on one six-year old boy to be the sole black student to lead the process of integrating McDonogh fully (grades 1-12) in 1970.

This silence is no different than, for more than 12 years ago, a group was formed and tasked to create a memorial to the enslaved women, children, and men from John McDonogh’s plantation, which has yet to come to fruition.

Racism is not a difference of opinion. It is a system that dehumanizes and kills Black people.

The Edward St. John Center, Naylor Building, Rosenberg Green, and the brand new Greenebaum Middle School, all allow our campus to be the best of the best, yet there is still ZERO recognition of the black families and laborers that made McDonogh possible for 10,826 alumni, of which approximately 600 are black, over the past 147 years: only silence.

Imagine what could have been, and how different this institution or the world could be now if every single intentional decision ensured that power, access, opportunity, and resources would be granted to students of color as requested by John McDonogh. At the time of John McDonogh’s death in 1850, black people were still bound by the practice of chattel slavery and were forbidden, by punishment of death, in Louisiana, to be taught to read, write, or conduct business affairs on a plantation. Despite this, John McDonogh directed, in his Will, the creation of an integrated school. He saw and attempted to codify in perpetuity the establishment of what would have been otherwise completely inconceivable — equal education for children of color and white children in a shared space. He did not attempt to create a separate school for children of color in an attempt to diminish the learning opportunities for them behind an exalted experience for white children. This school, McDonogh School, is the legacy of a bold and powerful vision for a society that was completely unimaginable at the time. It is time for McDonogh to make an institutional commitment to repair the damage and dismantle the racist systems it has helped to build and sustain: to do the “greatest possible amount of good” and to embrace the true magic of its promise. McDonogh must reckon with the difficult and ugly truth of its own past and untangle the threads of racism that so tightly bind us all to this day.

What might that look like or where to start?

Leadership, Governance & Accountability

• Board-level commitment to advancing equity in all aspects of McDonogh’s operations and LifeReady plan (2021-2022) as evidenced by:

· Establishing a board-level DEI committee, effective 2020-2021

· Undertaking a school-wide racial equity audit including all divisions, business office, office of philanthropy, admissions, athletics, and operations.

· Creating and maintaining a firm no-tolerance accountability for racist acts and speech by students, faculty and staff whether on or off campus. (2020-2021)

· Launching annual school-wide data collection across range of metrics involving students, parents, alumni, faculty/staff to be disaggregated by race and ethnicity, gender and other social identifiers as appropriate to determine how members of this community are faring (2021-2022)

· Establishing metrics and accountability for advancing a racial equity agenda (2020-2021)

· Head of School and Division Heads should have an annual report card that the community has access to quarterly or annually

Curriculum

• Undergoing a curriculum review and alignment with cultural competence and racial equity principles across disciplines including acknowledge and incorporation of recommendations to enhance McDonogh’s history curriculums supported by 162 alumni initiated by 2021

•Committing to sustained scholarship and education of truthful, accurate World, US, Baltimore and McDonogh history integrating the cultural history of people of color in all classes (from English, History, STEM, and the World languages) starting in Lower School.

• Establishing History House as a center for study of racial justice in PreK-12 education

People

• Ensuring ethnic diversity among faculty/staff and administrative leadership that closely mirrors the racial and ethnic diversity of McDonogh’s student body which is 35% students of color (2022-2023)

• Establishing quality and quantifiable methods for retention of faculty and staff of color for the prevention of aggression and retaliation (by 2021-2022)

•Incorporating racial justice and equity, with no dual standards, regardless of race or socioeconomic level. (2020-2021)

•Instituting cultural competency and cultural humility standard requirements and evaluations for all faculty/staff, whether on or off campus, to limit the overt and microaggressions that afflict McDonogh students of color on a daily basis. (2020-2021)

•Immediate exposure to the hiring pipeline and attempts to ensure a diverse teaching workforce (Board of Trustees and Alumni Board should have the full exposure)

We call on McDonogh’s leadership to be better than its predecessors and to have the courage to stand on the side of justice in this crucial moment. We are disappointed that we have not heard directly from you and we are concerned about next steps and follow through based on the message the McDonogh community received. We would like to hear more about McDonogh’s plans and forthcoming actions given the national reckoning for centuries of racial injustice. We look forward to meeting with you soon.

Respectfully Submitted,

McDonogh Black Alumni Committee
kramerica.inc
Posts: 6211
Joined: Sun Jul 29, 2018 9:01 pm

Re: ~The MIAA “A” 2020~

Post by kramerica.inc »

Crabs take down Team 91 in OT, in a game that had a lot of MIAA participants:

https://twitter.com/scores_lax/status/1 ... 16000?s=20
Chuckman
Posts: 54
Joined: Thu Aug 30, 2018 8:09 pm

Re: ~The MIAA “A” 2020~

Post by Chuckman »

Raescreek wrote: Thu Jun 25, 2020 10:16 pm Letter sent to McDonogh:

From: McD Black-Alumni <[email protected]>
Date: June 16, 2020 at 11:09:54 PM EDT
To:
Subject: Dear McDonogh


June 16, 2020

Dave Farace ‘87, Head of School

Rob Young ’86, President, Board of Trustees

An excerpt from McDonogh School: An Interpretive Chronology, “A school like everything else exists in time: it endures, it triumphs, it suffers. It is always imperfect and always a paradox. It honors democracy and reaches for nobility. It is a cause it is an effect It exists pragmatically in the deeds of the people who have come within its influence; it exists ideally in the values of those who have come to love it.”

The McDonogh Black Alumni Committee has come to love McDonogh School through its imperfections and its paradoxes. We have been quietly processing this entire situation for the past few weeks, but are now ready to share some of our reflections on the current circumstances.

We, as the McDonogh Black Alumni Committee, are exhausted, hurt, discouraged, saddened and disappointed by McDonogh’s lack of a stronger, clearer statement against the racism at the root of so much brutality, disparity and unrest. In the eloquent and prescient words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”

Aren’t we a community that seeks to do the “greatest possible amount of good”?

We did not as a nation, a city, or a school arrive at a place of such extreme inequality by accident. It didn’t “just happen” on the way to 2020. It was intentional. We have been scratching our heads trying to figure out how an institution, founded and funded by a slave trader and owner and initially led by a former leader of the Confederacy, which now prides itself on its moral compass, could be conspicuously silent during this time of extreme racial inequality, when the through line is understood: McDonogh is not ready for its reckoning.

That does not make it any less complicit and silence will not save it.

Our nation was ushered into this moment by 400+ years of intentionally racist, colonial, federal, state and local policies with vicious and violent attacks on Black progress and Black resistance, and harmful discriminatory practices toward people of color. McDonogh has been complicit in the creation of the current conditions in the United States today, starting from John McDonogh’s endowment to create the school, which was built on the bounty of slavery. And yet, he bequeathed a fortune to build our school for the “poor of all castes and color.” At various points in its history, McDonogh’s leadership has made decisions that moved further away from the Founder’s intention, further entrenching the racial disparities we experience today.

There is nothing neutral about this silence; this silence makes McDonogh complicit in perpetuating injustice. This silence is no different from the decision to open McDonogh without black students, despite the clear intentions of John McDonogh, that the school be made available to the “poor of all castes and color.” This silence is no different from the decision in 1945 to accept the application of a black student, the son of Dr. J.H. Thomas, only to decide that he would be better served by a “northern school,” and direct him there. This silence is no different from the decision in 1952-53 to address the “negro problem” through racist logic that academic deficiencies would likely preclude any admissible candidates. This silence is no different from the decision in 1955-56 to deny opportunity to black students to sit for the scholarship exam, when asked by the Afro-American newspaper if they would be allowed to do so. This silence is no different from the decision in 1959 to undertake a process of “gradual integration” and place the burden on one six-year old boy to be the sole black student to lead the process of integrating McDonogh fully (grades 1-12) in 1970.

This silence is no different than, for more than 12 years ago, a group was formed and tasked to create a memorial to the enslaved women, children, and men from John McDonogh’s plantation, which has yet to come to fruition.

Racism is not a difference of opinion. It is a system that dehumanizes and kills Black people.

The Edward St. John Center, Naylor Building, Rosenberg Green, and the brand new Greenebaum Middle School, all allow our campus to be the best of the best, yet there is still ZERO recognition of the black families and laborers that made McDonogh possible for 10,826 alumni, of which approximately 600 are black, over the past 147 years: only silence.

Imagine what could have been, and how different this institution or the world could be now if every single intentional decision ensured that power, access, opportunity, and resources would be granted to students of color as requested by John McDonogh. At the time of John McDonogh’s death in 1850, black people were still bound by the practice of chattel slavery and were forbidden, by punishment of death, in Louisiana, to be taught to read, write, or conduct business affairs on a plantation. Despite this, John McDonogh directed, in his Will, the creation of an integrated school. He saw and attempted to codify in perpetuity the establishment of what would have been otherwise completely inconceivable — equal education for children of color and white children in a shared space. He did not attempt to create a separate school for children of color in an attempt to diminish the learning opportunities for them behind an exalted experience for white children. This school, McDonogh School, is the legacy of a bold and powerful vision for a society that was completely unimaginable at the time. It is time for McDonogh to make an institutional commitment to repair the damage and dismantle the racist systems it has helped to build and sustain: to do the “greatest possible amount of good” and to embrace the true magic of its promise. McDonogh must reckon with the difficult and ugly truth of its own past and untangle the threads of racism that so tightly bind us all to this day.

What might that look like or where to start?

Leadership, Governance & Accountability

• Board-level commitment to advancing equity in all aspects of McDonogh’s operations and LifeReady plan (2021-2022) as evidenced by:

· Establishing a board-level DEI committee, effective 2020-2021

· Undertaking a school-wide racial equity audit including all divisions, business office, office of philanthropy, admissions, athletics, and operations.

· Creating and maintaining a firm no-tolerance accountability for racist acts and speech by students, faculty and staff whether on or off campus. (2020-2021)

· Launching annual school-wide data collection across range of metrics involving students, parents, alumni, faculty/staff to be disaggregated by race and ethnicity, gender and other social identifiers as appropriate to determine how members of this community are faring (2021-2022)

· Establishing metrics and accountability for advancing a racial equity agenda (2020-2021)

· Head of School and Division Heads should have an annual report card that the community has access to quarterly or annually

Curriculum

• Undergoing a curriculum review and alignment with cultural competence and racial equity principles across disciplines including acknowledge and incorporation of recommendations to enhance McDonogh’s history curriculums supported by 162 alumni initiated by 2021

•Committing to sustained scholarship and education of truthful, accurate World, US, Baltimore and McDonogh history integrating the cultural history of people of color in all classes (from English, History, STEM, and the World languages) starting in Lower School.

• Establishing History House as a center for study of racial justice in PreK-12 education

People

• Ensuring ethnic diversity among faculty/staff and administrative leadership that closely mirrors the racial and ethnic diversity of McDonogh’s student body which is 35% students of color (2022-2023)

• Establishing quality and quantifiable methods for retention of faculty and staff of color for the prevention of aggression and retaliation (by 2021-2022)

•Incorporating racial justice and equity, with no dual standards, regardless of race or socioeconomic level. (2020-2021)

•Instituting cultural competency and cultural humility standard requirements and evaluations for all faculty/staff, whether on or off campus, to limit the overt and microaggressions that afflict McDonogh students of color on a daily basis. (2020-2021)

•Immediate exposure to the hiring pipeline and attempts to ensure a diverse teaching workforce (Board of Trustees and Alumni Board should have the full exposure)

We call on McDonogh’s leadership to be better than its predecessors and to have the courage to stand on the side of justice in this crucial moment. We are disappointed that we have not heard directly from you and we are concerned about next steps and follow through based on the message the McDonogh community received. We would like to hear more about McDonogh’s plans and forthcoming actions given the national reckoning for centuries of racial injustice. We look forward to meeting with you soon.

Respectfully Submitted,

McDonogh Black Alumni Committee
I never realized how racist McDonogh was. Especially after my children had PC correctness and Black issues crammed down their throats constantly from an early age. Wonder how much more money and pandering McDonogh will need to satisfy the Black Alumni Committee and its white guilt ridden followers. If McD, one of the more liberal leaning and inclusive schools is attacked as being racist, cant wait to see how BL, Loyola, Gilman and the rest are portrayed.

Their energy and time may be better spent in nearby areas dealing with the real issues of today that might actually help the Black neighborhoods, Education, culture, crime and personal responsibility than attacking the supposedly racist silent McDonogh School.
User avatar
MDlaxfan76
Posts: 25748
Joined: Wed Aug 01, 2018 5:40 pm

Re: ~The MIAA “A” 2020~

Post by MDlaxfan76 »

Chuckman wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:46 am
Raescreek wrote: Thu Jun 25, 2020 10:16 pm Letter sent to McDonogh:

From: McD Black-Alumni <[email protected]>
Date: June 16, 2020 at 11:09:54 PM EDT
To:
Subject: Dear McDonogh


June 16, 2020

Dave Farace ‘87, Head of School

Rob Young ’86, President, Board of Trustees

An excerpt from McDonogh School: An Interpretive Chronology, “A school like everything else exists in time: it endures, it triumphs, it suffers. It is always imperfect and always a paradox. It honors democracy and reaches for nobility. It is a cause it is an effect It exists pragmatically in the deeds of the people who have come within its influence; it exists ideally in the values of those who have come to love it.”

The McDonogh Black Alumni Committee has come to love McDonogh School through its imperfections and its paradoxes. We have been quietly processing this entire situation for the past few weeks, but are now ready to share some of our reflections on the current circumstances.

We, as the McDonogh Black Alumni Committee, are exhausted, hurt, discouraged, saddened and disappointed by McDonogh’s lack of a stronger, clearer statement against the racism at the root of so much brutality, disparity and unrest. In the eloquent and prescient words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”

Aren’t we a community that seeks to do the “greatest possible amount of good”?

We did not as a nation, a city, or a school arrive at a place of such extreme inequality by accident. It didn’t “just happen” on the way to 2020. It was intentional. We have been scratching our heads trying to figure out how an institution, founded and funded by a slave trader and owner and initially led by a former leader of the Confederacy, which now prides itself on its moral compass, could be conspicuously silent during this time of extreme racial inequality, when the through line is understood: McDonogh is not ready for its reckoning.

That does not make it any less complicit and silence will not save it.

Our nation was ushered into this moment by 400+ years of intentionally racist, colonial, federal, state and local policies with vicious and violent attacks on Black progress and Black resistance, and harmful discriminatory practices toward people of color. McDonogh has been complicit in the creation of the current conditions in the United States today, starting from John McDonogh’s endowment to create the school, which was built on the bounty of slavery. And yet, he bequeathed a fortune to build our school for the “poor of all castes and color.” At various points in its history, McDonogh’s leadership has made decisions that moved further away from the Founder’s intention, further entrenching the racial disparities we experience today.

There is nothing neutral about this silence; this silence makes McDonogh complicit in perpetuating injustice. This silence is no different from the decision to open McDonogh without black students, despite the clear intentions of John McDonogh, that the school be made available to the “poor of all castes and color.” This silence is no different from the decision in 1945 to accept the application of a black student, the son of Dr. J.H. Thomas, only to decide that he would be better served by a “northern school,” and direct him there. This silence is no different from the decision in 1952-53 to address the “negro problem” through racist logic that academic deficiencies would likely preclude any admissible candidates. This silence is no different from the decision in 1955-56 to deny opportunity to black students to sit for the scholarship exam, when asked by the Afro-American newspaper if they would be allowed to do so. This silence is no different from the decision in 1959 to undertake a process of “gradual integration” and place the burden on one six-year old boy to be the sole black student to lead the process of integrating McDonogh fully (grades 1-12) in 1970.

This silence is no different than, for more than 12 years ago, a group was formed and tasked to create a memorial to the enslaved women, children, and men from John McDonogh’s plantation, which has yet to come to fruition.

Racism is not a difference of opinion. It is a system that dehumanizes and kills Black people.

The Edward St. John Center, Naylor Building, Rosenberg Green, and the brand new Greenebaum Middle School, all allow our campus to be the best of the best, yet there is still ZERO recognition of the black families and laborers that made McDonogh possible for 10,826 alumni, of which approximately 600 are black, over the past 147 years: only silence.

Imagine what could have been, and how different this institution or the world could be now if every single intentional decision ensured that power, access, opportunity, and resources would be granted to students of color as requested by John McDonogh. At the time of John McDonogh’s death in 1850, black people were still bound by the practice of chattel slavery and were forbidden, by punishment of death, in Louisiana, to be taught to read, write, or conduct business affairs on a plantation. Despite this, John McDonogh directed, in his Will, the creation of an integrated school. He saw and attempted to codify in perpetuity the establishment of what would have been otherwise completely inconceivable — equal education for children of color and white children in a shared space. He did not attempt to create a separate school for children of color in an attempt to diminish the learning opportunities for them behind an exalted experience for white children. This school, McDonogh School, is the legacy of a bold and powerful vision for a society that was completely unimaginable at the time. It is time for McDonogh to make an institutional commitment to repair the damage and dismantle the racist systems it has helped to build and sustain: to do the “greatest possible amount of good” and to embrace the true magic of its promise. McDonogh must reckon with the difficult and ugly truth of its own past and untangle the threads of racism that so tightly bind us all to this day.

What might that look like or where to start?

Leadership, Governance & Accountability

• Board-level commitment to advancing equity in all aspects of McDonogh’s operations and LifeReady plan (2021-2022) as evidenced by:

· Establishing a board-level DEI committee, effective 2020-2021

· Undertaking a school-wide racial equity audit including all divisions, business office, office of philanthropy, admissions, athletics, and operations.

· Creating and maintaining a firm no-tolerance accountability for racist acts and speech by students, faculty and staff whether on or off campus. (2020-2021)

· Launching annual school-wide data collection across range of metrics involving students, parents, alumni, faculty/staff to be disaggregated by race and ethnicity, gender and other social identifiers as appropriate to determine how members of this community are faring (2021-2022)

· Establishing metrics and accountability for advancing a racial equity agenda (2020-2021)

· Head of School and Division Heads should have an annual report card that the community has access to quarterly or annually

Curriculum

• Undergoing a curriculum review and alignment with cultural competence and racial equity principles across disciplines including acknowledge and incorporation of recommendations to enhance McDonogh’s history curriculums supported by 162 alumni initiated by 2021

•Committing to sustained scholarship and education of truthful, accurate World, US, Baltimore and McDonogh history integrating the cultural history of people of color in all classes (from English, History, STEM, and the World languages) starting in Lower School.

• Establishing History House as a center for study of racial justice in PreK-12 education

People

• Ensuring ethnic diversity among faculty/staff and administrative leadership that closely mirrors the racial and ethnic diversity of McDonogh’s student body which is 35% students of color (2022-2023)

• Establishing quality and quantifiable methods for retention of faculty and staff of color for the prevention of aggression and retaliation (by 2021-2022)

•Incorporating racial justice and equity, with no dual standards, regardless of race or socioeconomic level. (2020-2021)

•Instituting cultural competency and cultural humility standard requirements and evaluations for all faculty/staff, whether on or off campus, to limit the overt and microaggressions that afflict McDonogh students of color on a daily basis. (2020-2021)

•Immediate exposure to the hiring pipeline and attempts to ensure a diverse teaching workforce (Board of Trustees and Alumni Board should have the full exposure)

We call on McDonogh’s leadership to be better than its predecessors and to have the courage to stand on the side of justice in this crucial moment. We are disappointed that we have not heard directly from you and we are concerned about next steps and follow through based on the message the McDonogh community received. We would like to hear more about McDonogh’s plans and forthcoming actions given the national reckoning for centuries of racial injustice. We look forward to meeting with you soon.

Respectfully Submitted,

McDonogh Black Alumni Committee
I never realized how racist McDonogh was. Especially after my children had PC correctness and Black issues crammed down their throats constantly from an early age. Wonder how much more money and pandering McDonogh will need to satisfy the Black Alumni Committee and its white guilt ridden followers. If McD, one of the more liberal leaning and inclusive schools is attacked as being racist, cant wait to see how BL, Loyola, Gilman and the rest are portrayed.

Their energy and time may be better spent in nearby areas dealing with the real issues of today that might actually help the Black neighborhoods, Education, culture, crime and personal responsibility than attacking the supposedly racist silent McDonogh School.
Yup, lots of "Chuckman" 's out there. Gross. Clueless. Painful.

Hope his children learned better, hope his grandchildren learn much better.

McDonogh has a fraught legacy, much of it described by this group of alumni who clearly love their school.

I'd love to be able to discuss this with my dad, class of '50, but alas those discussions are past. Pop was a major player as a Board member in the encouragement of the positive aspects of John McDonogh's legacy, Rules to Live By, etc and was in quite a bit of turmoil when the negative aspects were brought into high relief more recently. That said, he was in favor of the memorial that has yet to be built...

He had great pride in a school that was explicitly for poor kids and orphans, making possible his own journey. He was proud that McD had socioeconomic diversity in his era that put peer institutions to shame...yet he had a bit of blind spot to the discontinuity around race.

Later in life, he took a trip to New Orleans to dig into the McDonogh grant that enabled what became the New Orleans public school system, with a grant that explicitly was for the benefit the children of freed blacks and poor whites (same grant to Baltimore, but our city fathers changed the interpretation to poor kids and orphans, leaving off the racial component). And on that trip he learned more about McDonogh actually made his money, largely in the slave trade, brothels, real estate (slave plantations).

So, we had some interesting discussions in the latter part of his life!

He had supported my choice to go to Gilman, given his admiration for Reddy Finney, who at the time was leading Gilman's emergence as the most diverse of its peer group. I was very fortunate to be at Gilman in that era.

While Giman's founding was not by a slave owner, nor our first head a former member of the Confederacy, Gilman was founded by a group of well-off white women, for the benefit of their sons, removing them from needing to go to school with the hoi polloi and quite definitely with the goal of perpetuating those sons' role in a white male dominated social structure...yikes, when looked at that way, how do we grapple with this reality, today?

Here's an interesting discussion yesterday, with two of Gilman's alums: https://www.gilman.edu/giving-2/navigatinguncertainty

Last block at bottom right.

Panelists Dr. Rodney Glasgow '97, Head of School at Sandy Spring Friends School, and Rev. Chaz Howard '96, Vice President for Social Equity and Community at the University of Pennsylvania, join us for Navigating Uncomfortable Conversations About Race: Understanding White Privilege and its Impact on Society. They help define the terminology around white privilege, discuss its impact on society, and propose possible solutions to address it.
kramerica.inc
Posts: 6211
Joined: Sun Jul 29, 2018 9:01 pm

Re: ~The MIAA “A” 2020~

Post by kramerica.inc »

Interview with Trey Whitty of St. Pauls:

https://varsitysportsnetwork.com/10-que ... ey-whitty/
Taking a page from the pros at Varsity Sports Network, St. Paul’s student-athlete and all-around sports enthusiast Timothy Wilcox recently posed a series of questions to Trey Whitty, the lacrosse coach at St. Paul’s School who was also recently named the school’s new Athletic Director.

Wilcox is member of the class of 2022 who enjoys playing baseball and basketball as well as running cross country. In addition he is a devoted fans of the Baltimore Ravens, Baltimore Orioles and the University of Maryland basketball.

Here are Tim’s questions and Trey’s answers.

Timmy Wilcox: Congratulations on becoming the athletic director at St. Paul’s. What ideas do you have that you believe will enhance athletics at St. Paul’s?

Trey Whitty: My first mission in taking on this role is to unify the programs and really be one department. Some of the things we’re doing for that is we put in place our sports performance program. [The Sports Performance Program] is not necessarily too sports specific, [but] it encompasses all programs and every upper school student has an opportunity to be a part of that. I think that’s a good first step that gets everybody kind of in the same boat, so that’s been something we’re doing. But really, the key thing is that unity amongst all of our programs. I think that’s going to go a long way in coaches supporting other coaches, sharing athletes, and supporting multiple sport guys. I think that’s the key for a school like St. Paul’s, given our size, to really be successful and it’s better for the student athletes to be doing different things. If we can unify our programs, I think that’s a great first step.

...

Wilcox: Across sports at St. Paul’s, there are some Varsity and JV teams that interact and practice with each other, but this is not the case with all the programs. Do you think being together benefits the programs and should this be an area of concern in the future?

Whitty: I think it’s every varsity coach’s job to make everyone in their program feel like they’re a part of that program. If that means practicing together at times, that might be good for one program, might not work for another program. I don’t know, we’d have to kind of run through sport by sport. I think it’s important for the varsity coach to expose those under squad teams. One to his style of coaching, the cultural expectations that that coach has for their program and two, expose them to a higher talent level so that as a young guy you can look and be like, man I’m ready to compete or I got a lot of work to do to see what that level of play is. I think that’s the thing. How that looks? That’s probably going to be different for basketball then it is for [a sport like] soccer. You’d have to look at it sport by sport. You want our varsity coaches to expose the younger guys to what it is to be a varsity basketball guy.

...

Wilcox: Many sports programs across the country are using technology to their advantages. Is there any technology that you are able to use to benefit the lacrosse program and other sports at St. Paul’s?

Whitty: We’re doing some of it now. The Teambuildr aspect of it is a new addition. That’s going to be really good even when we are back in person training is having the ability to monitor athletes’ progressions, their gains in the weight room, their development as an athlete. That’s something we’re doing. [About] half our programs we’re recording games, doing game break downs through Hudl. Most of our larger team sports have embraced that. Some things to think about in the future that I’d research, I don’t know if we’re quite ready to get into but then you start talking about heart rate monitors and that kind of thing. [Those] are definitely something in my mind that could be coming in the future. You [need] to embrace technology. If you’re not, if you’re kind of that old school guy that says “back in the day this is how we did it,” I think you’re going to get left behind. Not all [technology] is appropriate for what we’re trying to do. We just [need] to evaluate everything and see what fits St. Paul’s. What fits St. Paul’s might not fit a different kind of school. We’re always keeping our eye out for how we can use technology.

Wilcox: Over the past few years across varsity sports at St. Paul’s, playing in playoff games and winning championships have not been very common. Considering your success with McDonogh and at the University of Virginia, what do you think is necessary for reaching the playoffs and winning a championship?

Whitty: Success in high school sports can be cyclical and so maybe there’s just been a down period here and that’s okay, but there’s no magic pill that we can give our coaches or give our athletes. It’s a combination of a ton of different things. It is staying healthy, it is having the work ethic, the offseason commitment, the dedication to your teammates above all else, it is getting wonderful coaching. There are so many aspects that go into building a great team and a great program. So, we want to try and be successful in every one of those things, and maybe you are, that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re always going to win. There’s an element of luck and chance and all that stuff that goes into winning. But the harder you work typically the more luck you get. There’s a lot to it, all these things we’re trying to institute I think will feed into building this culture of hard work and commitment which will breed success. So, there’s so may different things to hit on. That success builds upon itself. You start to have a little bit of it and people start to turn their eye and say, “what’s going on at St. Paul’s” and you attract more kids. It can really grow exponentially really quickly. We’ll take care of the little day-to-day things right now to help build this thing.

Wilcox: During the winter and spring, it is common to see the weight room filled with the gold shirts of your lacrosse players. How do you think the weight room has benefited the lacrosse program?

Whitty: I think the first thing the weight room does is it builds confidence. When you’re a teenage boy and you start to feel yourself gaining strength and your muscles start to feel good that raises your level of confidence a little more. I think on an individual level, it’s building the mental confidence you have. Individually, if you’re getting stronger and faster, you’re going to be a better athlete no matter what sports your in. So, it’s building the athleticism. The huge piece is being around your teammates without maybe your head coaches voice all the time. So, being around your teammates and seeing your teammates working and sweating and you’re doing it together and your supporting one another. The weight room is a great equalizer. You can be the best player in your sport and struggle in the weight room and then conversely there might be a player who is not as strong but is a stud in the weight room. So, the roles have been switched a little bit. It gives different guys leadership opportunities. That’s why I’m such a big believer in it and I think jumping all in on that across the departments can be really critical.

Wilcox: St. Paul’s is historically known for their talented lacrosse program. How are you able to continue this tradition and propel so many of your players to the next level?

Whitty: We take great pride in the history of our program, but if we just sit back and say, “Hey we’re St. Paul’s, we’ve always been pretty good” and we rest on our laurels, we’re going to get not good pretty darn quick. We take pride in where we’ve been, but with that comes a large responsibility to try and continue that success or a least be working at a rate that warrants that success. I love St. Paul’s. I went here. I played here. I am a part of that tradition, but to me it doesn’t affect the day-to-day of how hard we’re working. We just want to continue to work hard. We don’t necessarily think about the seventy years of the success of St. Paul’s on a daily basis.

Wilcox: With a significant number of seniors graduating from the varsity lacrosse team, what players do you see stepping up into larger roles for the 2021 season?

Whitty: We got some guys coming back that I think are kind of our knowns that are going to be strong players for us, Noah Chizmar, Keagan Treacy, Jake Bair. There are some guys that have been impact guys the last couple years. So, we kind of know what we’re getting from them. With the rest, there’s so much to be determined and high school athletes change and grow so much from one year to the next that I don’t know, we’ll see. It’s exciting. At first every year you lose a group of guys and you’re scratching your head going “how am I going to replace them” and every year guys surprise you and guys improve. It’s an exciting time to be a part of St. Paul’s lacrosse because there’s so much opportunity for these young guys. They should be licking their chops, ready to work and improve themselves. We’ve got a good freshmen class coming in and had a couple freshmen on varsity last year. I don’t necessarily want to pick out a couple names that are going to surprise everybody. Not quite yet. We’ve got a way until the season.

Wilcox: During this quarantine I imagine that it has been tougher than usual to work with your players. Have you been able to reach out to any of your returning lacrosse players to help them progress their skills?

Whitty: For a while we were doing team Zoom calls every week a least just to see each other’s faces from this past year’s team. We brought on some guest alumni speakers which were wonderful. We’re doing a lot of that stuff to keep guys engaged, providing them with workouts. From a lacrosse standpoint, we’re big on fitness, so the workouts have been going up from lacrosse specific. So many of our guys are engrained in our way of training from the lacrosse skill development side, that they know how to do that on their own. They can take care of that. Between me, Coach Settembrino, Coach Benzing, and Coach Whitely we’re just always in constant communication with these guys. It’s the nature of our school. Just being a small school and having strong relationships. That communication has not died off at all. Now guys are getting back into playing with their club teams which is wonderful. Hopefully later in the summer we’ll be able to get some guys on campus to train a little bit with Sy. Paul’s. Like anything here, the relationships remain strong, our guys know we’re here for them. It’s been challenging, but everyone’s in the same boat.
Slim
Posts: 312
Joined: Fri Apr 05, 2019 1:23 pm

Re: ~The MIAA “A” 2020~

Post by Slim »

Hearing the MIAA/IAAM are having fall sports! It is delayed a bit but all the same they have set dates in Sept. to start preseason practice and for the start of competition. Keeping my fingers crossed...
User avatar
Matnum PI
Posts: 11099
Joined: Mon Jan 22, 2018 3:03 pm

Re: ~The MIAA “A” 2020~

Post by Matnum PI »

They hope to have Fall Sports. We'll see...

https://www.capitalgazette.com/sports/h ... q-ZNNUgb7E
Caddy Day
Caddies Welcome 1-1:15
kramerica.inc
Posts: 6211
Joined: Sun Jul 29, 2018 9:01 pm

Re: ~The MIAA “A” 2020~

Post by kramerica.inc »

From the D3 forum:
kramerica.inc wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 3:17 pm
Fandadof3laxers wrote: Tue Jul 21, 2020 6:47 pm That Jude kid though. Hope the spring sports go off as planned, something special brewing on the river. https://www.southernmarylandchronicle.c ... -american/
FYI- He led the NATION in scoring, not just the CAC.
Played locally at John Carroll in the MIAA. Childs getting some great local talent. Lots of his talented supporting cast was also MIAA/local.
Chuckman
Posts: 54
Joined: Thu Aug 30, 2018 8:09 pm

Re: ~The MIAA “A” 2020~

Post by Chuckman »

MDlaxfan76 wrote: Wed Jul 15, 2020 10:18 am
Chuckman wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:46 am
Raescreek wrote: Thu Jun 25, 2020 10:16 pm Letter sent to McDonogh:

From: McD Black-Alumni <[email protected]>
Date: June 16, 2020 at 11:09:54 PM EDT
To:
Subject: Dear McDonogh


June 16, 2020

Dave Farace ‘87, Head of School

Rob Young ’86, President, Board of Trustees

An excerpt from McDonogh School: An Interpretive Chronology, “A school like everything else exists in time: it endures, it triumphs, it suffers. It is always imperfect and always a paradox. It honors democracy and reaches for nobility. It is a cause it is an effect It exists pragmatically in the deeds of the people who have come within its influence; it exists ideally in the values of those who have come to love it.”

The McDonogh Black Alumni Committee has come to love McDonogh School through its imperfections and its paradoxes. We have been quietly processing this entire situation for the past few weeks, but are now ready to share some of our reflections on the current circumstances.

We, as the McDonogh Black Alumni Committee, are exhausted, hurt, discouraged, saddened and disappointed by McDonogh’s lack of a stronger, clearer statement against the racism at the root of so much brutality, disparity and unrest. In the eloquent and prescient words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”

Aren’t we a community that seeks to do the “greatest possible amount of good”?

We did not as a nation, a city, or a school arrive at a place of such extreme inequality by accident. It didn’t “just happen” on the way to 2020. It was intentional. We have been scratching our heads trying to figure out how an institution, founded and funded by a slave trader and owner and initially led by a former leader of the Confederacy, which now prides itself on its moral compass, could be conspicuously silent during this time of extreme racial inequality, when the through line is understood: McDonogh is not ready for its reckoning.

That does not make it any less complicit and silence will not save it.

Our nation was ushered into this moment by 400+ years of intentionally racist, colonial, federal, state and local policies with vicious and violent attacks on Black progress and Black resistance, and harmful discriminatory practices toward people of color. McDonogh has been complicit in the creation of the current conditions in the United States today, starting from John McDonogh’s endowment to create the school, which was built on the bounty of slavery. And yet, he bequeathed a fortune to build our school for the “poor of all castes and color.” At various points in its history, McDonogh’s leadership has made decisions that moved further away from the Founder’s intention, further entrenching the racial disparities we experience today.

There is nothing neutral about this silence; this silence makes McDonogh complicit in perpetuating injustice. This silence is no different from the decision to open McDonogh without black students, despite the clear intentions of John McDonogh, that the school be made available to the “poor of all castes and color.” This silence is no different from the decision in 1945 to accept the application of a black student, the son of Dr. J.H. Thomas, only to decide that he would be better served by a “northern school,” and direct him there. This silence is no different from the decision in 1952-53 to address the “negro problem” through racist logic that academic deficiencies would likely preclude any admissible candidates. This silence is no different from the decision in 1955-56 to deny opportunity to black students to sit for the scholarship exam, when asked by the Afro-American newspaper if they would be allowed to do so. This silence is no different from the decision in 1959 to undertake a process of “gradual integration” and place the burden on one six-year old boy to be the sole black student to lead the process of integrating McDonogh fully (grades 1-12) in 1970.

This silence is no different than, for more than 12 years ago, a group was formed and tasked to create a memorial to the enslaved women, children, and men from John McDonogh’s plantation, which has yet to come to fruition.

Racism is not a difference of opinion. It is a system that dehumanizes and kills Black people.

The Edward St. John Center, Naylor Building, Rosenberg Green, and the brand new Greenebaum Middle School, all allow our campus to be the best of the best, yet there is still ZERO recognition of the black families and laborers that made McDonogh possible for 10,826 alumni, of which approximately 600 are black, over the past 147 years: only silence.

Imagine what could have been, and how different this institution or the world could be now if every single intentional decision ensured that power, access, opportunity, and resources would be granted to students of color as requested by John McDonogh. At the time of John McDonogh’s death in 1850, black people were still bound by the practice of chattel slavery and were forbidden, by punishment of death, in Louisiana, to be taught to read, write, or conduct business affairs on a plantation. Despite this, John McDonogh directed, in his Will, the creation of an integrated school. He saw and attempted to codify in perpetuity the establishment of what would have been otherwise completely inconceivable — equal education for children of color and white children in a shared space. He did not attempt to create a separate school for children of color in an attempt to diminish the learning opportunities for them behind an exalted experience for white children. This school, McDonogh School, is the legacy of a bold and powerful vision for a society that was completely unimaginable at the time. It is time for McDonogh to make an institutional commitment to repair the damage and dismantle the racist systems it has helped to build and sustain: to do the “greatest possible amount of good” and to embrace the true magic of its promise. McDonogh must reckon with the difficult and ugly truth of its own past and untangle the threads of racism that so tightly bind us all to this day.

What might that look like or where to start?

Leadership, Governance & Accountability

• Board-level commitment to advancing equity in all aspects of McDonogh’s operations and LifeReady plan (2021-2022) as evidenced by:

· Establishing a board-level DEI committee, effective 2020-2021

· Undertaking a school-wide racial equity audit including all divisions, business office, office of philanthropy, admissions, athletics, and operations.

· Creating and maintaining a firm no-tolerance accountability for racist acts and speech by students, faculty and staff whether on or off campus. (2020-2021)

· Launching annual school-wide data collection across range of metrics involving students, parents, alumni, faculty/staff to be disaggregated by race and ethnicity, gender and other social identifiers as appropriate to determine how members of this community are faring (2021-2022)

· Establishing metrics and accountability for advancing a racial equity agenda (2020-2021)

· Head of School and Division Heads should have an annual report card that the community has access to quarterly or annually

Curriculum

• Undergoing a curriculum review and alignment with cultural competence and racial equity principles across disciplines including acknowledge and incorporation of recommendations to enhance McDonogh’s history curriculums supported by 162 alumni initiated by 2021

•Committing to sustained scholarship and education of truthful, accurate World, US, Baltimore and McDonogh history integrating the cultural history of people of color in all classes (from English, History, STEM, and the World languages) starting in Lower School.

• Establishing History House as a center for study of racial justice in PreK-12 education

People

• Ensuring ethnic diversity among faculty/staff and administrative leadership that closely mirrors the racial and ethnic diversity of McDonogh’s student body which is 35% students of color (2022-2023)

• Establishing quality and quantifiable methods for retention of faculty and staff of color for the prevention of aggression and retaliation (by 2021-2022)

•Incorporating racial justice and equity, with no dual standards, regardless of race or socioeconomic level. (2020-2021)

•Instituting cultural competency and cultural humility standard requirements and evaluations for all faculty/staff, whether on or off campus, to limit the overt and microaggressions that afflict McDonogh students of color on a daily basis. (2020-2021)

•Immediate exposure to the hiring pipeline and attempts to ensure a diverse teaching workforce (Board of Trustees and Alumni Board should have the full exposure)

We call on McDonogh’s leadership to be better than its predecessors and to have the courage to stand on the side of justice in this crucial moment. We are disappointed that we have not heard directly from you and we are concerned about next steps and follow through based on the message the McDonogh community received. We would like to hear more about McDonogh’s plans and forthcoming actions given the national reckoning for centuries of racial injustice. We look forward to meeting with you soon.

Respectfully Submitted,

McDonogh Black Alumni Committee
I never realized how racist McDonogh was. Especially after my children had PC correctness and Black issues crammed down their throats constantly from an early age. Wonder how much more money and pandering McDonogh will need to satisfy the Black Alumni Committee and its white guilt ridden followers. If McD, one of the more liberal leaning and inclusive schools is attacked as being racist, cant wait to see how BL, Loyola, Gilman and the rest are portrayed.

Their energy and time may be better spent in nearby areas dealing with the real issues of today that might actually help the Black neighborhoods, Education, culture, crime and personal responsibility than attacking the supposedly racist silent McDonogh School.
Yup, lots of "Chuckman" 's out there. Gross. Clueless. Painful.

Hope his children learned better, hope his grandchildren learn much better.

McDonogh has a fraught legacy, much of it described by this group of alumni who clearly love their school.

I'd love to be able to discuss this with my dad, class of '50, but alas those discussions are past. Pop was a major player as a Board member in the encouragement of the positive aspects of John McDonogh's legacy, Rules to Live By, etc and was in quite a bit of turmoil when the negative aspects were brought into high relief more recently. That said, he was in favor of the memorial that has yet to be built...

He had great pride in a school that was explicitly for poor kids and orphans, making possible his own journey. He was proud that McD had socioeconomic diversity in his era that put peer institutions to shame...yet he had a bit of blind spot to the discontinuity around race.

Later in life, he took a trip to New Orleans to dig into the McDonogh grant that enabled what became the New Orleans public school system, with a grant that explicitly was for the benefit the children of freed blacks and poor whites (same grant to Baltimore, but our city fathers changed the interpretation to poor kids and orphans, leaving off the racial component). And on that trip he learned more about McDonogh actually made his money, largely in the slave trade, brothels, real estate (slave plantations).

So, we had some interesting discussions in the latter part of his life!

He had supported my choice to go to Gilman, given his admiration for Reddy Finney, who at the time was leading Gilman's emergence as the most diverse of its peer group. I was very fortunate to be at Gilman in that era.

While Giman's founding was not by a slave owner, nor our first head a former member of the Confederacy, Gilman was founded by a group of well-off white women, for the benefit of their sons, removing them from needing to go to school with the hoi polloi and quite definitely with the goal of perpetuating those sons' role in a white male dominated social structure...yikes, when looked at that way, how do we grapple with this reality, today?

Here's an interesting discussion yesterday, with two of Gilman's alums: https://www.gilman.edu/giving-2/navigatinguncertainty

Last block at bottom right.

Panelists Dr. Rodney Glasgow '97, Head of School at Sandy Spring Friends School, and Rev. Chaz Howard '96, Vice President for Social Equity and Community at the University of Pennsylvania, join us for Navigating Uncomfortable Conversations About Race: Understanding White Privilege and its Impact on Society. They help define the terminology around white privilege, discuss its impact on society, and propose possible solutions to address it.

OH My, Nice thoughts, Frankly I find you a holier than tho intellectual who thinks he is a legend in his own mind as he drones on and on about himself ad nauseum. It is painful to see your posts about yourself as you go on and on and on and on. Even as I saw this, I thought to myself, do I actually have to read this self absorption post.

For over 50 years Baltimore City and the surrounding area has been run by lots of “MDLax “people that think and act just like you. Look what that has got the local Black neighborhoods. Neglected, crime ridden and full of Drugs and gangs with despair by many who want a better life. Talk about Clueless. How about you have another round table discussion and blame the latest in vogue problem (systemic racism) that will solve problems of blacks and pat yourselves on the back about how enlightened you are and of course how caring and understanding you are to your fellow man.

Since you chose to bring my children into this as a classless weasel would. After growing up and attending racially mixed schools ending in a High School that was 65% Black , one thing that is an major underlying current in black neighborhoods is respect, My children are taught to
respect anyone they meet regardless of income, color, intelligence, clothes, job , etc. And they expect the same respect back regardless of same. They see the respect, jobs and positions I have given many Blacks at my company as example of how they should be. Along with my investment in the successful company run by a fellow Black that I worked with for a few years, He came to me for an investment and I didn’t hesitate, as he was one of hardest working people I have know. So, Spare me your sanctimonious you hope my children should learn better. I have nothing to say about your children as I am nor some classless person.

Once again, these same successful alumni would better serve forming their own Woodson Center( https://woodsoncenter.org/ )and actually going into and helping out Black neighborhoods. I have supported WC for years. I have hired some of the people that came out of one of their supported programs. Instead these successful alumni attack McDonogh which has 35% people of color enrolled by their statement along with McD having a full Black History month, Multicultural events, and many courses, programs,etc that are geared towards minorities and other cultures already in place.
Chuckman
Posts: 54
Joined: Thu Aug 30, 2018 8:09 pm

Re: ~The MIAA “A” 2020~

Post by Chuckman »

MDlaxfan76 wrote: Wed Jul 15, 2020 10:18 am
Chuckman wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:46 am
Raescreek wrote: Thu Jun 25, 2020 10:16 pm Letter sent to McDonogh:

From: McD Black-Alumni <[email protected]>
Date: June 16, 2020 at 11:09:54 PM EDT
To:
Subject: Dear McDonogh


June 16, 2020

Dave Farace ‘87, Head of School

Rob Young ’86, President, Board of Trustees

An excerpt from McDonogh School: An Interpretive Chronology, “A school like everything else exists in time: it endures, it triumphs, it suffers. It is always imperfect and always a paradox. It honors democracy and reaches for nobility. It is a cause it is an effect It exists pragmatically in the deeds of the people who have come within its influence; it exists ideally in the values of those who have come to love it.”

The McDonogh Black Alumni Committee has come to love McDonogh School through its imperfections and its paradoxes. We have been quietly processing this entire situation for the past few weeks, but are now ready to share some of our reflections on the current circumstances.

We, as the McDonogh Black Alumni Committee, are exhausted, hurt, discouraged, saddened and disappointed by McDonogh’s lack of a stronger, clearer statement against the racism at the root of so much brutality, disparity and unrest. In the eloquent and prescient words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”

Aren’t we a community that seeks to do the “greatest possible amount of good”?

We did not as a nation, a city, or a school arrive at a place of such extreme inequality by accident. It didn’t “just happen” on the way to 2020. It was intentional. We have been scratching our heads trying to figure out how an institution, founded and funded by a slave trader and owner and initially led by a former leader of the Confederacy, which now prides itself on its moral compass, could be conspicuously silent during this time of extreme racial inequality, when the through line is understood: McDonogh is not ready for its reckoning.

That does not make it any less complicit and silence will not save it.

Our nation was ushered into this moment by 400+ years of intentionally racist, colonial, federal, state and local policies with vicious and violent attacks on Black progress and Black resistance, and harmful discriminatory practices toward people of color. McDonogh has been complicit in the creation of the current conditions in the United States today, starting from John McDonogh’s endowment to create the school, which was built on the bounty of slavery. And yet, he bequeathed a fortune to build our school for the “poor of all castes and color.” At various points in its history, McDonogh’s leadership has made decisions that moved further away from the Founder’s intention, further entrenching the racial disparities we experience today.

There is nothing neutral about this silence; this silence makes McDonogh complicit in perpetuating injustice. This silence is no different from the decision to open McDonogh without black students, despite the clear intentions of John McDonogh, that the school be made available to the “poor of all castes and color.” This silence is no different from the decision in 1945 to accept the application of a black student, the son of Dr. J.H. Thomas, only to decide that he would be better served by a “northern school,” and direct him there. This silence is no different from the decision in 1952-53 to address the “negro problem” through racist logic that academic deficiencies would likely preclude any admissible candidates. This silence is no different from the decision in 1955-56 to deny opportunity to black students to sit for the scholarship exam, when asked by the Afro-American newspaper if they would be allowed to do so. This silence is no different from the decision in 1959 to undertake a process of “gradual integration” and place the burden on one six-year old boy to be the sole black student to lead the process of integrating McDonogh fully (grades 1-12) in 1970.

This silence is no different than, for more than 12 years ago, a group was formed and tasked to create a memorial to the enslaved women, children, and men from John McDonogh’s plantation, which has yet to come to fruition.

Racism is not a difference of opinion. It is a system that dehumanizes and kills Black people.

The Edward St. John Center, Naylor Building, Rosenberg Green, and the brand new Greenebaum Middle School, all allow our campus to be the best of the best, yet there is still ZERO recognition of the black families and laborers that made McDonogh possible for 10,826 alumni, of which approximately 600 are black, over the past 147 years: only silence.

Imagine what could have been, and how different this institution or the world could be now if every single intentional decision ensured that power, access, opportunity, and resources would be granted to students of color as requested by John McDonogh. At the time of John McDonogh’s death in 1850, black people were still bound by the practice of chattel slavery and were forbidden, by punishment of death, in Louisiana, to be taught to read, write, or conduct business affairs on a plantation. Despite this, John McDonogh directed, in his Will, the creation of an integrated school. He saw and attempted to codify in perpetuity the establishment of what would have been otherwise completely inconceivable — equal education for children of color and white children in a shared space. He did not attempt to create a separate school for children of color in an attempt to diminish the learning opportunities for them behind an exalted experience for white children. This school, McDonogh School, is the legacy of a bold and powerful vision for a society that was completely unimaginable at the time. It is time for McDonogh to make an institutional commitment to repair the damage and dismantle the racist systems it has helped to build and sustain: to do the “greatest possible amount of good” and to embrace the true magic of its promise. McDonogh must reckon with the difficult and ugly truth of its own past and untangle the threads of racism that so tightly bind us all to this day.

What might that look like or where to start?

Leadership, Governance & Accountability

• Board-level commitment to advancing equity in all aspects of McDonogh’s operations and LifeReady plan (2021-2022) as evidenced by:

· Establishing a board-level DEI committee, effective 2020-2021

· Undertaking a school-wide racial equity audit including all divisions, business office, office of philanthropy, admissions, athletics, and operations.

· Creating and maintaining a firm no-tolerance accountability for racist acts and speech by students, faculty and staff whether on or off campus. (2020-2021)

· Launching annual school-wide data collection across range of metrics involving students, parents, alumni, faculty/staff to be disaggregated by race and ethnicity, gender and other social identifiers as appropriate to determine how members of this community are faring (2021-2022)

· Establishing metrics and accountability for advancing a racial equity agenda (2020-2021)

· Head of School and Division Heads should have an annual report card that the community has access to quarterly or annually

Curriculum

• Undergoing a curriculum review and alignment with cultural competence and racial equity principles across disciplines including acknowledge and incorporation of recommendations to enhance McDonogh’s history curriculums supported by 162 alumni initiated by 2021

•Committing to sustained scholarship and education of truthful, accurate World, US, Baltimore and McDonogh history integrating the cultural history of people of color in all classes (from English, History, STEM, and the World languages) starting in Lower School.

• Establishing History House as a center for study of racial justice in PreK-12 education

People

• Ensuring ethnic diversity among faculty/staff and administrative leadership that closely mirrors the racial and ethnic diversity of McDonogh’s student body which is 35% students of color (2022-2023)

• Establishing quality and quantifiable methods for retention of faculty and staff of color for the prevention of aggression and retaliation (by 2021-2022)

•Incorporating racial justice and equity, with no dual standards, regardless of race or socioeconomic level. (2020-2021)

•Instituting cultural competency and cultural humility standard requirements and evaluations for all faculty/staff, whether on or off campus, to limit the overt and microaggressions that afflict McDonogh students of color on a daily basis. (2020-2021)

•Immediate exposure to the hiring pipeline and attempts to ensure a diverse teaching workforce (Board of Trustees and Alumni Board should have the full exposure)

We call on McDonogh’s leadership to be better than its predecessors and to have the courage to stand on the side of justice in this crucial moment. We are disappointed that we have not heard directly from you and we are concerned about next steps and follow through based on the message the McDonogh community received. We would like to hear more about McDonogh’s plans and forthcoming actions given the national reckoning for centuries of racial injustice. We look forward to meeting with you soon.

Respectfully Submitted,

McDonogh Black Alumni Committee
I never realized how racist McDonogh was. Especially after my children had PC correctness and Black issues crammed down their throats constantly from an early age. Wonder how much more money and pandering McDonogh will need to satisfy the Black Alumni Committee and its white guilt ridden followers. If McD, one of the more liberal leaning and inclusive schools is attacked as being racist, cant wait to see how BL, Loyola, Gilman and the rest are portrayed.

Their energy and time may be better spent in nearby areas dealing with the real issues of today that might actually help the Black neighborhoods, Education, culture, crime and personal responsibility than attacking the supposedly racist silent McDonogh School.
Yup, lots of "Chuckman" 's out there. Gross. Clueless. Painful.

Hope his children learned better, hope his grandchildren learn much better.

McDonogh has a fraught legacy, much of it described by this group of alumni who clearly love their school.

I'd love to be able to discuss this with my dad, class of '50, but alas those discussions are past. Pop was a major player as a Board member in the encouragement of the positive aspects of John McDonogh's legacy, Rules to Live By, etc and was in quite a bit of turmoil when the negative aspects were brought into high relief more recently. That said, he was in favor of the memorial that has yet to be built...

He had great pride in a school that was explicitly for poor kids and orphans, making possible his own journey. He was proud that McD had socioeconomic diversity in his era that put peer institutions to shame...yet he had a bit of blind spot to the discontinuity around race.

Later in life, he took a trip to New Orleans to dig into the McDonogh grant that enabled what became the New Orleans public school system, with a grant that explicitly was for the benefit the children of freed blacks and poor whites (same grant to Baltimore, but our city fathers changed the interpretation to poor kids and orphans, leaving off the racial component). And on that trip he learned more about McDonogh actually made his money, largely in the slave trade, brothels, real estate (slave plantations).

So, we had some interesting discussions in the latter part of his life!

He had supported my choice to go to Gilman, given his admiration for Reddy Finney, who at the time was leading Gilman's emergence as the most diverse of its peer group. I was very fortunate to be at Gilman in that era.

While Giman's founding was not by a slave owner, nor our first head a former member of the Confederacy, Gilman was founded by a group of well-off white women, for the benefit of their sons, removing them from needing to go to school with the hoi polloi and quite definitely with the goal of perpetuating those sons' role in a white male dominated social structure...yikes, when looked at that way, how do we grapple with this reality, today?

Here's an interesting discussion yesterday, with two of Gilman's alums: https://www.gilman.edu/giving-2/navigatinguncertainty

Last block at bottom right.

Panelists Dr. Rodney Glasgow '97, Head of School at Sandy Spring Friends School, and Rev. Chaz Howard '96, Vice President for Social Equity and Community at the University of Pennsylvania, join us for Navigating Uncomfortable Conversations About Race: Understanding White Privilege and its Impact on Society. They help define the terminology around white privilege, discuss its impact on society, and propose possible solutions to address it.

OH My, Nice thoughts, Frankly I find you a holier than tho intellectual who thinks he is a legend in his own mind as he drones on and on about himself ad nauseum. It is painful to see your posts about yourself as you go on and on and on and on. Even as I saw this, I thought to myself, do I actually have to read this self absorption post.

For over 50 years Baltimore City and the surrounding area has been run by lots of “MDLax “people that think and act just like you. Look what that has got the local Black neighborhoods. Neglected, crime ridden and full of Drugs and gangs with despair by many who want a better life. Talk about Clueless. How about you have another round table discussion and blame the latest in vogue problem (systemic racism) that will solve problems of blacks and pat yourselves on the back about how enlightened you are and of course how caring and understanding you are to your fellow man.

Since you chose to bring my children into this as a classless weasel would. After growing up and attending racially mixed schools ending in a High School that was 65% Black , one thing that is an major underlying current in black neighborhoods is respect, My children are taught to
respect anyone they meet regardless of income, color, intelligence, clothes, job , etc. And they expect the same respect back regardless of same. They see the respect, jobs and positions I have given many Blacks at my company as example of how they should be. Along with my investment in the successful company run by a fellow Black that I worked with for a few years, He came to me for an investment and I didn’t hesitate, as he was one of hardest working people I have know. So, Spare me your sanctimonious you hope my children should learn better. I have nothing to say about your children as I am nor some classless person.

Once again, these same successful alumni would better serve forming their own Woodson Center( https://woodsoncenter.org/ )and actually going into and helping out Black neighborhoods. I have supported WC for years. I have hired some of the people that came out of one of their supported programs. Instead these successful alumni attack McDonogh which has 35% people of color enrolled by their statement along with McD having a full Black History month, Multicultural events, and many courses, programs,etc that are geared towards minorities and other cultures already in place.
Post Reply

Return to “HS BOYS LACROSSE”