Caravel @ Silver Oak

[First_state_gridiron]

Looks like Caravel is making the long bus ride to Taneytown to play Silver Oak Academy. Scrolling back on website4sports, it looks like Caravel has always beaten Silver Oak most time quite handily. The majority of the games have been at Caravel.

Between MaxPreps and MD Varsity forum, looks like Silver Oak had one a game but had a rough go of it at Fort Hill (a perennial small school power house in MD). Silver Oak had a very small squad dress for the game (i.e. like 15 players).

Interesting to make such a trip for caravel...……...

 

[Titanium Shadow]

From https://www.niche.com/k12/silver-oak-academy-keymar-md/:

Silver Oak Academy is a private, all-boys, Christian school located in Keymar, MD. It has 58 students in grades 9-12.

 

[BackinBlack86]

Caravel has been playing them every year since 2013. Silver Oak is a small reform school in rural Md. Coach Reed has a good relationship with the fellow who runs Silver Oak football team and CA is supportive in their mission. Silver Oak kids really like coming to play at CA and CA will invite them early to join the team in a pregame pasta dinner. SO doesn't have their own field so they play home games at a local rec field. One year they couldn't procure a field so the game got switched to CA so that is why CA has an extra home game.

The contracts have been 2 year home and home. This year is the front end of another 2 so CA will play them next year as well..after that who knows if CA continues to play them but I think its good for the CA kids and the SO kids to meet and play kids from a different background.. Most the SO kids are inner city Baltimore and typically a judge if he sees a kid that has promise and can be saved he/she will offer them to go to Silver Oak or a school like them instead of Juvenile Detention Centers.

I think its a good thing sure Silver Oak loses but they did come close to beating CA in 2014 17-6 final. I know one thing Silver Oak isn't afraid to schedule anyone.. They have played St Frances multiple times, Fort Hill multiple times, Calvert Hall, Mount St Joes, Friendship Collegiate multiple times, Imahotep, St Joes Regional,

 

[BackinBlack86]

From https://www.niche.com/k12/silver-oak-academy-keymar-md/:

Silver Oak Academy is a private, all-boys, Christian school located in Keymar, MD. It has 58 students in grades 9-12.

No its a reform school subsidized by the state and donations. They have 96 beds all boys but have about 53 boys there Maryland only approves for 30 beds so the rest come from PA. About 15 to 20 will have the privileges to play football

Nothing to do with a church or religion

https://silveroakacademy.com/

The Silver Oak Academy Program Situated on a 75-acre campus in Keymar, Maryland, Silver Oak Academy offers youth a calm and enriched therapeutic environment that is attractive, safe and comfortable. Silver Oak serves at-risk young men aged 14 to 17 who have displayed delinquent behaviors and who have been subjected to abuse, neglect or traumatic experiences. The program focuses on growth and change over time, building communication and social skills. Staff work to design healing environments through embracing trauma-informed principles of safety, trust, collaboration, voice and choice and empowerment. The young men participate in daily programming focused on clinical treatment services, education, vocational training, health and wellness, and community and family engagement.

 

[BackinBlack86]

There are a bunch of schools like this in Maryland.. Only they don't call them boys schools or reforms schools anymore.. They are Therapeutic Boarding Schools and have names like Safe Harbor, Wolf Creek Academy, something or other ranch and usually out in nature somewhere.... They take a mental health approach to healing the troubled yutes.

 

[BackinBlack86]

Looks like they to do have a field now. So thats good

 

[BackinBlack86]

There has been issues with walk offs recently

https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll/news/cc-silver-oak-meeting-20180415-story.html

A meeting was held April 12 at Silver Oak Academy to discuss steps after an increased number of student walkoffs from the facility this year. The discussion escalated as Silver Oak administrators and residents of surrounding areas clashed over how to address the matter.

Meeting attendees gathered in the Workforce Development Building of the academy. Also present were Silver Oak Program Director Kevin McLeod, Scott Beal, Executive Director at Maryland Department of Juvenile Services (DJS), board members of Silver Oak, Carroll County Sheriff Jim DeWees, Lt. Rebecca Bosley, commander of the Maryland State Police Westminster Barrack and Carroll County Commissioner Stephen Wantz, R-District 1.

In the past year, there have been four occasions where groups of as many as three students at a time have walked off site, McLeod said, as opposed to two the year before and zero in the year prior to that.

A work vehicle owned by a neighbor was ruined during one of the incidents, McLeod said.