Putting Students First Community Engagement Events

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Before you complain, have you ever been to one of these meetings? It’s structured information gathering, not information flow down. If you don’t like what’s happening in MCPS, go and give your input, rather than complain on an anonymous board.

What matters is the ability to put that information to use. MCPS has failed consistently to do so and are focused on denying opportunities for highly abled students in the school system by Lottery instead of expanding the opportunities for all students.

That's odd my experience is the opposite. I feel MCPS is doing great at least my kids are because of many dedicated teachers and their school administrators. The few times I've even reached out with a concern they went out of their way to work with me to address it. I felt this was above and beyond what was required of them. So when they say they're putting students first, I believe it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

DP. I'm not the person you're asking this to, but I do think she's a terrible administrator and needs to be removed. I think she doesn't care about MCPS or kids, just her own career.

1. I read she doesn't live in the county or send her kids to MCPS. During the school shooting, the police had to escort her through traffic for a press conference while anxious parents and busses waited to let kids out of the school.
2. January's covid response was a total disaster. Instead of preparing, she made YouTube videos about what her favorite subject in school was or cafeteria lunch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbZjpank-s0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_yWDfS2p9g). The 31 schools shut down in January weren't even the ones with the most serious covid infections. MCPS replaced metrics so that in just 15 instructional days in January, 2100+ staff and 9%+ of the student body were infected. There was a data suppression rule that was never explained, and the metrics were changed again (daily reporting stopped on March 1st) to obfuscate any covid issues using a 10-day-window metric instead of daily totals (ex. the 40'ish infected at Whitman HS).
3. January covid bus driver losses were so bad they called the National Guard to try to bus kids in.
https://wjla.com/news/local/montgomery-co-200-national-guard-troops-school-bus-driver-shortage-marc-elrich-montgomery-county-public-schools-larry-hogan
4. She's had two no confidence votes by the MCEA while interim Superintendent and she was STILL confirmed by the MC BOE.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-co-public-schools-teachers-union-votes-no-confidence-council-holding-emergency-session
5. This summer MCPS was a top-20 in open DoE OCR discrimination cases, so anything she's doing now is because she didn't look at her inbox.
6. How did MCPS spend $780K on bocci ball, $4M on diversity training, $2M on Kid Museum, when it was supposed to be covid money?
7. Hear anything about the $160M electric bus fiasco lately? https://www.schoolbusfleet.com/10156263/investigation-prompts-leave-for-two-maryland-transportation-directors I would think that deserved some attention.

Since the MC BOE confirmed her knowing all of this tells you how deep this runs.

Awesome job compiling this list. Priorities are not academics. it looks like political theater

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lot of BS stuff about social emotional learning and nothing about how they are going to close the achievement gap and the learning loss.

plan is to lower the standards enough so that everyone can perform at same level. Highly abled need to slow down and chill out. not work so hard on subjects so that others can catch up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

DP. I'm not the person you're asking this to, but I do think she's a terrible administrator and needs to be removed. I think she doesn't care about MCPS or kids, just her own career.

1. I read she doesn't live in the county or send her kids to MCPS. During the school shooting, the police had to escort her through traffic for a press conference while anxious parents and busses waited to let kids out of the school.
2. January's covid response was a total disaster. Instead of preparing, she made YouTube videos about what her favorite subject in school was or cafeteria lunch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbZjpank-s0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_yWDfS2p9g). The 31 schools shut down in January weren't even the ones with the most serious covid infections. MCPS replaced metrics so that in just 15 instructional days in January, 2100+ staff and 9%+ of the student body were infected. There was a data suppression rule that was never explained, and the metrics were changed again (daily reporting stopped on March 1st) to obfuscate any covid issues using a 10-day-window metric instead of daily totals (ex. the 40'ish infected at Whitman HS).
3. January covid bus driver losses were so bad they called the National Guard to try to bus kids in.
https://wjla.com/news/local/montgomery-co-200-national-guard-troops-school-bus-driver-shortage-marc-elrich-montgomery-county-public-schools-larry-hogan
4. She's had two no confidence votes by the MCEA while interim Superintendent and she was STILL confirmed by the MC BOE.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-co-public-schools-teachers-union-votes-no-confidence-council-holding-emergency-session
5. This summer MCPS was a top-20 in open DoE OCR discrimination cases, so anything she's doing now is because she didn't look at her inbox.
6. How did MCPS spend $780K on bocci ball, $4M on diversity training, $2M on Kid Museum, when it was supposed to be covid money?
7. Hear anything about the $160M electric bus fiasco lately? https://www.schoolbusfleet.com/10156263/investigation-prompts-leave-for-two-maryland-transportation-directors I would think that deserved some attention.

Since the MC BOE confirmed her knowing all of this tells you how deep this runs.

Awesome job compiling this list. Priorities are not academics. it looks like political theater

Most of this is nonsense. This is just more silly complaints from the unhinged McKnight stalker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Before you complain, have you ever been to one of these meetings? It’s structured information gathering, not information flow down. If you don’t like what’s happening in MCPS, go and give your input, rather than complain on an anonymous board.

What matters is the ability to put that information to use. MCPS has failed consistently to do so and are focused on denying opportunities for highly abled students in the school system by Lottery instead of expanding the opportunities for all students.

That's odd my experience is the opposite. I feel MCPS is doing great at least my kids are because of many dedicated teachers and their school administrators. The few times I've even reached out with a concern they went out of their way to work with me to address it. I felt this was above and beyond what was required of them. So when they say they're putting students first, I believe it.

The Karens always has a laundry list of complaints.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any recap from last night? I wished I could have watched it online. I didn’t feel safe attending in person.

Bethesda Beat Recap: https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/community-members-call-for-equity-accountability-at-mcps-in-session-with-superintendent/

I hope after listening at these events, Dr. McKnight will do more than just talk about fixing problems. While she listens, her focus has been to expand administrative positions in central office while cutting positions in schools.

Central office is being hit hard with covid again. With all of them sick, she needs more staff to do their jobs.

Central Office employees work from home. It makes you wonder why they are being hit hard collectively when they are not seeing each other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

DP. I'm not the person you're asking this to, but I do think she's a terrible administrator and needs to be removed. I think she doesn't care about MCPS or kids, just her own career.

1. I read she doesn't live in the county or send her kids to MCPS. During the school shooting, the police had to escort her through traffic for a press conference while anxious parents and busses waited to let kids out of the school.
2. January's covid response was a total disaster. Instead of preparing, she made YouTube videos about what her favorite subject in school was or cafeteria lunch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbZjpank-s0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_yWDfS2p9g). The 31 schools shut down in January weren't even the ones with the most serious covid infections. MCPS replaced metrics so that in just 15 instructional days in January, 2100+ staff and 9%+ of the student body were infected. There was a data suppression rule that was never explained, and the metrics were changed again (daily reporting stopped on March 1st) to obfuscate any covid issues using a 10-day-window metric instead of daily totals (ex. the 40'ish infected at Whitman HS).
3. January covid bus driver losses were so bad they called the National Guard to try to bus kids in.
https://wjla.com/news/local/montgomery-co-200-national-guard-troops-school-bus-driver-shortage-marc-elrich-montgomery-county-public-schools-larry-hogan
4. She's had two no confidence votes by the MCEA while interim Superintendent and she was STILL confirmed by the MC BOE.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-co-public-schools-teachers-union-votes-no-confidence-council-holding-emergency-session
5. This summer MCPS was a top-20 in open DoE OCR discrimination cases, so anything she's doing now is because she didn't look at her inbox.
6. How did MCPS spend $780K on bocci ball, $4M on diversity training, $2M on Kid Museum, when it was supposed to be covid money?
7. Hear anything about the $160M electric bus fiasco lately? https://www.schoolbusfleet.com/10156263/investigation-prompts-leave-for-two-maryland-transportation-directors I would think that deserved some attention.

Since the MC BOE confirmed her knowing all of this tells you how deep this runs.

From the culture warriors' playbook: go after the organization, especially leadership, to sow doubt and uncertainty. Whether from Moscow, Idaho or Moscow, Russia, Fredericksburg or Saint Petersburg, trolls gonna troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lot of BS stuff about social emotional learning and nothing about how they are going to close the achievement gap and the learning loss.

plan is to lower the standards enough so that everyone can perform at same level. Highly abled need to slow down and chill out. not work so hard on subjects so that others can catch up.

This is a false narrative designed to sow seeds of dissent among different groups within MCPS. We need to collaborate as a community and work together to solve myriad issues within MCPS. The Princeton-bound kid is not suffering because another child is 15 and functionally illiterate. Both are important for the future of our community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lot of BS stuff about social emotional learning and nothing about how they are going to close the achievement gap and the learning loss.

plan is to lower the standards enough so that everyone can perform at same level. Highly abled need to slow down and chill out. not work so hard on subjects so that others can catch up.

This is a false narrative designed to sow seeds of dissent among different groups within MCPS. We need to collaborate as a community and work together to solve myriad issues within MCPS. The Princeton-bound kid is not suffering because another child is 15 and functionally illiterate. Both are important for the future of our community.

Agree sure I hear this all the time BUT my own kids have had many wonderful opportunities to achieve and be challenged. One had around 30 college credits from APs and the other is on track to do similarly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lot of BS stuff about social emotional learning and nothing about how they are going to close the achievement gap and the learning loss.

plan is to lower the standards enough so that everyone can perform at same level. Highly abled need to slow down and chill out. not work so hard on subjects so that others can catch up.

This is a false narrative designed to sow seeds of dissent among different groups within MCPS. We need to collaborate as a community and work together to solve myriad issues within MCPS. The Princeton-bound kid is not suffering because another child is 15 and functionally illiterate. Both are important for the future of our community.

So, then why wasn't any of the learning loss or achievement gap issues addressed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lot of BS stuff about social emotional learning and nothing about how they are going to close the achievement gap and the learning loss.

plan is to lower the standards enough so that everyone can perform at same level. Highly abled need to slow down and chill out. not work so hard on subjects so that others can catch up.

This is a false narrative designed to sow seeds of dissent among different groups within MCPS. We need to collaborate as a community and work together to solve myriad issues within MCPS. The Princeton-bound kid is not suffering because another child is 15 and functionally illiterate. Both are important for the future of our community.

Agree sure I hear this all the time BUT my own kids have had many wonderful opportunities to achieve and be challenged. One had around 30 college credits from APs and the other is on track to do similarly.

DP.. that's nice, but you seem to be a bit clueless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

DP. I'm not the person you're asking this to, but I do think she's a terrible administrator and needs to be removed. I think she doesn't care about MCPS or kids, just her own career.

1. I read she doesn't live in the county or send her kids to MCPS. During the school shooting, the police had to escort her through traffic for a press conference while anxious parents and busses waited to let kids out of the school.
2. January's covid response was a total disaster. Instead of preparing, she made YouTube videos about what her favorite subject in school was or cafeteria lunch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbZjpank-s0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_yWDfS2p9g). The 31 schools shut down in January weren't even the ones with the most serious covid infections. MCPS replaced metrics so that in just 15 instructional days in January, 2100+ staff and 9%+ of the student body were infected. There was a data suppression rule that was never explained, and the metrics were changed again (daily reporting stopped on March 1st) to obfuscate any covid issues using a 10-day-window metric instead of daily totals (ex. the 40'ish infected at Whitman HS).
3. January covid bus driver losses were so bad they called the National Guard to try to bus kids in.
https://wjla.com/news/local/montgomery-co-200-national-guard-troops-school-bus-driver-shortage-marc-elrich-montgomery-county-public-schools-larry-hogan
4. She's had two no confidence votes by the MCEA while interim Superintendent and she was STILL confirmed by the MC BOE.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-co-public-schools-teachers-union-votes-no-confidence-council-holding-emergency-session
5. This summer MCPS was a top-20 in open DoE OCR discrimination cases, so anything she's doing now is because she didn't look at her inbox.
6. How did MCPS spend $780K on bocci ball, $4M on diversity training, $2M on Kid Museum, when it was supposed to be covid money?
7. Hear anything about the $160M electric bus fiasco lately? https://www.schoolbusfleet.com/10156263/investigation-prompts-leave-for-two-maryland-transportation-directors I would think that deserved some attention.

Since the MC BOE confirmed her knowing all of this tells you how deep this runs.

Awesome job compiling this list. Priorities are not academics. it looks like political theater

Most of this is nonsense. This is just more silly complaints from the unhinged McKnight stalker.

Given how many people are covid positive in central office alone and given Dr. McKnight is traveling unmasked, these "events" are really irresponsible.

How cana you NOT see an issue with any of these things. The Kid Museum just moved into a very expensive building in Bethesda. Surely they could have found cheaper space. And, they charge MCPS/PTA's for the use of their space If MCPS is paying for the museum the least they can do is provide "free" programing.

Covid money should be spent on covid related needs. So, virtual academy, upgrading the buildings in terms of ventilation, providing outdoor lunch spaces, general building repairs and regular/extra cleaning staff, extra reading and other specialists to help kids play catch up, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lot of BS stuff about social emotional learning and nothing about how they are going to close the achievement gap and the learning loss.

plan is to lower the standards enough so that everyone can perform at same level. Highly abled need to slow down and chill out. not work so hard on subjects so that others can catch up.

This is a false narrative designed to sow seeds of dissent among different groups within MCPS. We need to collaborate as a community and work together to solve myriad issues within MCPS. The Princeton-bound kid is not suffering because another child is 15 and functionally illiterate. Both are important for the future of our community.

So, then why wasn't any of the learning loss or achievement gap issues addressed?

The kids who struggled often were the ones who did not participate so calling it learning loss is a bit deceiving. But, yes, the princeton bound child is suffering, especially in ES and MS when their needs aren't met and they only get basic classes in English and other areas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lot of BS stuff about social emotional learning and nothing about how they are going to close the achievement gap and the learning loss.

plan is to lower the standards enough so that everyone can perform at same level. Highly abled need to slow down and chill out. not work so hard on subjects so that others can catch up.

This is a false narrative designed to sow seeds of dissent among different groups within MCPS. We need to collaborate as a community and work together to solve myriad issues within MCPS. The Princeton-bound kid is not suffering because another child is 15 and functionally illiterate. Both are important for the future of our community.

So, then why wasn't any of the learning loss or achievement gap issues addressed?

The kids who struggled often were the ones who did not participate so calling it learning loss is a bit deceiving. But, yes, the princeton bound child is suffering, especially in ES and MS when their needs aren't met and they only get basic classes in English and other areas.

Then they had even more learning loss. Even MCPS found that virtual caused an even larger achievement gap.

I don't understand why that is not a priority for a school district.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lot of BS stuff about social emotional learning and nothing about how they are going to close the achievement gap and the learning loss.

plan is to lower the standards enough so that everyone can perform at same level. Highly abled need to slow down and chill out. not work so hard on subjects so that others can catch up.

This is a false narrative designed to sow seeds of dissent among different groups within MCPS. We need to collaborate as a community and work together to solve myriad issues within MCPS. The Princeton-bound kid is not suffering because another child is 15 and functionally illiterate. Both are important for the future of our community.

So, then why wasn't any of the learning loss or achievement gap issues addressed?

The kids who struggled often were the ones who did not participate so calling it learning loss is a bit deceiving. But, yes, the princeton bound child is suffering, especially in ES and MS when their needs aren't met and they only get basic classes in English and other areas.

Then they had even more learning loss. Even MCPS found that virtual caused an even larger achievement gap.

I don't understand why that is not a priority for a school district.

The point is everyone push MCPS together; don't belittle others' concerns.