Loudoun County Schools Reject Football Helmet Sensors

Loudoun County Public Schools has rejected using impact sensors on public high school football players’ helmets.

A panel from the Loudoun School Board’s Health, Safety and Transportation Committee decided unanimously at a Nov. 5 meeting against using the devices, which are intended to prevent potential concussions by measuring the force of impact.

Assistant Superintendent Ned Waterhouse said at the meeting the county “will consider sensors when a device is scientifically and medically proven.”

School spokesman Wayde Byard said the proposal for using impact sensors was brought forth by a small group of parents at Loudoun Valley High School, of the county’s 14 high schools.

Byard said the issue of whether all football players’ parents could afford the $150 sensors was raised, though a group of Loudoun Valley parents says it has already raised money to pay for sensors for the entire team.

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