New Super Being Announced Monday

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Anonymous wrote:He's in favor of snow days:

Amazing. Lol

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Where in the bumfuk heck is Stafford County anyway

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I think he got hired on the basis of his snow day video. No more stupid virtual dummy days. Yippee. MCPS, we back

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Anonymous wrote:Where in the bumfuk heck is Stafford County anyway

Northern Virginia, it includes Fredericksburg, Quantico, and Stafford. When people cannot live in Fairfax, Arlington, or Prince Williams, they choose Spotsylvania or Stafford. It’s right on 95, can’t miss it.

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hope he totally redoes MCPS. need someone real to fix this sh*tshow.

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First order of business should be to get rid of the DEI office and fire or reassign those people.

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Anonymous wrote:Ban the cell phones and bring on the Dean of Discipline! I'm here for both!

But what is the Dean of discipline actually going to do? MCPS has zero consequences for behavior except for the most serious offenses like bringing a weapon to school or being involved in a mega fight.

Presumably if you get a new super who is putting them into place, you are changing the policy to actually create disciplinary action with consequences for the behavior.

I don’t think a super can change policy. That is the Board of Education’s job.

When you get folks on the BOE who rubber stamp MCPS recommendations, then it's basically the Superintendent who determines policy, as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting article on Stafford’s recent decision to ban cell phones combined with allocating budget to create a new Office of Student Conduct, with a Dean of students in each high school focused on discipline. Sounds like this was controversial because the budget could have been spent on increasing teacher pay.

https://www.fredericksburgfreepress.com/2024/06/12/stafford-schools-ban-cell-phones-establish-office-of-student-conduct/

I’d actually be curious to see what HS and maybe NS teachers ghjnk about a discipline dean in their school as opposed to a small pay increase. My sense is that many would pick discipline over a small increase. I don’t think this would be useful in ES but maybe I’m wrong. A family member was the dean of discipline at a very troubled urban HS … knowing them. I can’t really imagine that they were great at it but they were at least a point person to interact with the police.

This is so funny to me because most schools used their RJ person AS a discipline point of contact so teachers could focus on teaching and you all dragged MCPS for wasting money on them. RJ staff in schools already pull out students and hold circles with them to mediate and even supervise ISS. But everyone just wants to bash mcps without knowing the whole picture.

The problem is that RJ circles are not discipline. -DP

The problem is that RJ is more than just circles. And people need to understand that. It also requires people able to supervise various the restorative Justice pieces

And the problem also is that schools appear to have been instructed to lean on the RJ portion of the policy to the exclusion of the remainder, when all of the pro-RJ research (and there is much, and it is legitimate) indicates that RJ is effective as a complement to other measures meant to protect those at risk from disruptive/dangerous behaviors.

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Anonymous wrote:Appreciate your title. They will descend from above to grace the MCPS community with their enlightened DEI, the Restorative Justice that brings comfort to Perpetrators, and brilliant solutions to force standards so low as to close All The Gaps.

Idiot put your kids in a religious cult school

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Keep moms for Liberty book banners and liars and idiots who want religion in the schools out !

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Thomas has more experience as a super than Monifa did so that’s a plus.

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Anonymous wrote:Thomas has more experience as a super than Monifa did so that’s a plus.

That's the ticket. Keep calling him Thomas.

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Anonymous wrote:What did the BoE emphasize in the announcement? I really hope he can put in place a new discipline policy and improve school safety.

I really like what I heard him say today. I'm hopeful. Fingers crossed.

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Anonymous wrote:First order of business should be to get rid of the DEI office and fire or reassign those people.

Put them in all the open special ed jobs so they can really make a difference.

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Anonymous wrote:First order of business should be to get rid of the DEI office and fire or reassign those people.

That would be signing his demise.