MCPS Parent Gets State Board of Ed. Action!

The Baltimore Sun: State school board looking into head injuries

Board concerned that not enough focus is put on prevention

...Thomas Hearn, a Montgomery County parent whose son received a concussion playing football at Walt Whitman High School, has testified before the state school board and Montgomery County school board, asking members to consider requiring parents to get more training in recognizing the signs of concussions and limiting the number of contact practices. He said the new state law doesn't go far enough.
High school students can still have contact practices twice a day and five days a week, Hearn said. While there are no reliable statistics on how many of the 115,000 athletes in public schools in the state suffer concussions while playing sports, he suggested that if you extrapolate from the experience of Virginia school systems that have kept careful records, there may be as many as 6,000 a year in Maryland.
"Between now and the start of football season in August, you need to consider why you shouldn't at least adopt the NFL and Ivy League limits for Maryland high school football," Hearn said in his testimony before the board last month...
...State school board members said they found Hearn's testimony so compelling that they asked for a briefing on the subject...

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