Whitman Crew used SafeSport to Investigate MCPS Teacher/Coach Shipley. TODAY: @Aly_Raisman said, "I don't like SafeSport" -- it's like the officials there play hot potato with cases and get nothing done.

MCPS Teacher/Crew Coach Kirkland Shipley arrest on sexual abuse charges:   https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2021/08/breaking-whitman-crew-letter-july-2018.html

Gymnast @Aly_Raisman calls “SafeSport” a “complete mess." Likens its response to athletes’ reports of abuse “like playing hot potato” in which one person punts to another. Adds that bc it’s funded by USOPC, it's “likely not going to do the right thing”-rather “keep the PR good.”

— Liz Clarke (@lizclarketweet) September 15, 2021

When asked what the gymnasts thought about the U.S. Center for SafeSport, some of them laughed and shook their heads. Choosing her words carefully, Aly Raisman said, "I don't like SafeSport" -- it's like the officials there play hot potato with cases and get nothing done.

— Juliet Macur (@JulietMacur) September 15, 2021

"A really big issue is that SafeSport is funded by USAG & USOPC... It needs to be completely separate. SafeSport needs a lot of work." -- @Aly_Raisman

— Alanna Vagianos (@AlannaVagianos) September 15, 2021

 

MCPS, CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES TOLD OF SEXUAL ALLEGATIONS AGAINST WALT WHITMAN TEACHER, CREW COACH

In a detailed letter, to the Whitman Crew Community, the Whitman Crew Boosters Board of Directors acknowledged it knew its coach may have had a sexual relationship in 2018 with a former crew member. They were also aware the relationship allegedly began following her graduation, and that the parent involved had reported it to both Montgomery County Public Schools and Child Protective Services.

Kirkland Shipley, a former social studies teacher and rowing coach at Walt Whitman High School, was arrested this week and charged with first and second-degree child sexual abuse of a secondary school student, according to the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department.

He currently is on paid administrative leave from Montgomery County Public Schools, according to an MCPS spokesperson.

In light of the allegations, the fall crew program, including Learn-to-Row, has been suspended, according to the letter, which My MCM received from the Parents’ Coalition of Montgomery County, MD...

https://www.mymcmedia.org/mcps-child-protective-services-told-of-sexual-allegations-against-walt-whitman-teacher-crew-coach/

Police: Bethesda teacher arrested for sexual abuse of student

The man is accused of sexually abusing a female student while he was a teacher and rowing coach at Walt Whitman High School.

WASHINGTON — Police have arrested a high school teacher who they say sexually abused a student multiple times between May and June of 2018.

According to D.C. police, 47-year-old Kirkland Shipley of Northwest, D.C. is suspected of abusing a female student while being a teacher and rowing coach at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland. The offenses allegedly happened in D.C...

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/crime/police-bethesda-teacher-arrested-sexual-abuse-student-in-dc/65-af8f7202-23df-47f9-8d0b-3c01678fe067