Responsibilities for Student-Athletes

Varsity head coaches are responsible for their entire program. They are charged with ensuring that JV and middle school practices are productive and structured to build for the future. A coach's responsibility begins 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time for their practice and continues until the facility is clean, secure, and all student-athletes have been dismissed and left campus. student-athletes are to be supervised at all times and should not be left unattended.

Rides/Pickups for Non-Driving Student-Athletes

Since practice schedules are published and communicated weekly in coach’s emails, parents should know when their children are to be picked up from campus. 

Expectations should be communicated to our parents about promptness in regards to this area. In addition, practices should end within 15 minutes of the published time as to not inconvenience parents.

BOUNDARY POLICY/INTERACTIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS WITH STUDENTS

MPCS supports and endorses a strict policy of respect toward students and expects all employees, coaches, and volunteers to abide by a professional, moral, and ethical standard of conduct and model good citizenship for students, parents, and the community. Students typically respond better and evidence greater levels of respect when appropriate expectations are established from the beginning of the relationship.

The interactions between MPCS-affiliated adults (employees, coaches, volunteers) and students, on and off School property and during or outside of school hours, should be based on mutual respect and trust and upon an understanding of the appropriate boundaries between adults and students. Many of our MPCS employees, coaches, and volunteers have contacts with students who attend other schools, through coaching, club activities, academic competitions, etc., and this policy applies to those relationships as well. Even if a student participates willingly in an activity, boundary-crossing interactions between MPCS employees, coaches, and volunteers and students (regardless of the student’s age) are a violation of this policy. All employees, coaches, and volunteers are expected to accept responsibility for their conduct and should understand that they are representatives and ambassadors of the School 24/7. 

This policy is intended to guide all MPCS employees, coaches, and volunteers in conducting themselves in a way that reflects the high standards of behavior expected by our school community and the public. This policy is not intended to restrain appropriate and positive relationships between our MPCS employees, coaches, and volunteers and students, but to prevent relationships that could lead to, or be perceived as, inappropriate. 

Guidelines for Maintaining Appropriate Professionalism:

Examples of Inappropriate, Boundary Crossing Interactions and Communications with Students:

(This list is not all inclusive and other, similar activities should also be avoided.) 

MPCS employees, coaches, and volunteers should refrain from

MPCS employees, coaches, and volunteers who are also a parent of a student at our School are expected to address perceived problems or alleged inequities by other students (bullying, etc.) in the same way all other parents are to address such actions. Report the problem to the appropriate administrator. Do not take personal action to address the situation.

We certainly encourage close relationships between MPCS employees, coaches, and volunteers and students. However, all after-school and away from campus contact with students (including transporting students in an MPCS employee, coach, or volunteer’s vehicle, babysitting, going to dinner, etc.) must first be cleared with the head of school in each specific instance. MPCS employees, coaches, and volunteers should also strive to have more than one adult present if students of the School are staying at their home overnight. MPCS employees, coaches, and volunteers must remember that even when acting in the role of parent, they still represent the school and must ensure that all interactions are professional and appropriate.

All MPCS employees, coaches, and volunteers are responsible for the safety and welfare of our students. If you observe any MPCS employees, coaches, and volunteers  engaging in any type of inappropriate or questionable behavior with a student, or violating any aspect of this policy, please report the information immediately to your division/department head and/or division counselor. In addition, MPCS employees, coaches, and volunteers must report any awareness or concern of a student’s inappropriate or questionable behavior. Nothing in this policy is intended to relieve mandated reporters of child abuse, abandonment, and/or neglect of their obligations under state law. 

In addition, as a part of every MPCS employee’s, coach’s, and volunteer’s obligation to keep children and our campus safe, if you have information reflecting that any person who may regularly or periodically visit the school’s campus (student, employee, parent, spouse of an employee, family member, volunteer, or contractor) has been accused, arrested, or convicted of any type of potential abuse or sexual misconduct toward any other person, you must immediately report such information to the human resources director and/or head of school.

Any MPCS employee, coach, or volunteer who engages in behavior that violates this policy or who fails to report such activity by others will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment or removal from duties. 

MPCS employees, coaches, and volunteers who make a good faith report of a suspected violation of this policy or who cooperate in inquiries or investigations related to the investigation of a report shall be not be penalized in any way. If an MPCS employee, coach, or volunteer believes that he or she has been retaliated against for making a report under this policy, please immediately contact the director of human resources. 


Revision #3
Created 17 June 2021 18:00:44 by Admin
Updated 4 August 2022 13:47:12 by Admin