MOCO BOE update: Beidleman Report summary

[Anonymous]

Are we figuring that Murphy is the one who tampered with the investigation, and that's why he's out rather than just on administrative leave?

[Anonymous]

From the Post article: "MCPS also twice ignored inquiries from Maryland’s Office of the Inspector General for Education (OIGE) about a complaint it had received against Beidleman — once June 28, the day after Beidleman’s promotion, and another June 30."

What is the consequence for ignoring an OIGE inquiry?

[Anonymous]

The investigators should ask what does and doesn't go in an employee's official file (answer: it's inconsistent and there are no real rules) and what happens to all the reported offenses about employees that are made to central office workers but then just sit in those central office workers' "personal" files and never get transferred to the accused staff members' permanent files. Regarding the poster who thinks Dr. Beidleman should keep his job because the Damascus principal did, that's some crazy twisted logic there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:New poster, but OMG you're too much with your insistence that she's blameless in all ways.

or so blind by their hatred of her that they can't be objective

DP here. Honestly, I don't know why you're so insistent that McKnight is innocent in all this. What is up with this undying loyalty you have of her? Only a fool hasn't realized by now that she at least knew something was swirling around.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Conclusion (page 29):

"Except for the altering of the [] Investigation timeline by [] which had no impact on the promotion, no one involved with [] promotion violated any MCPS policy or engaged in any intentional misconduct."

So the conclusion is nobody did anything wrong.

No, the conclusion is their policies and procedures are full of holes.

No, the conclusion is they didn't intentionally conspire to do wrong. They just utterly failed at their jobs and didn't follow-up or communicate when they clearly should have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are we figuring that Murphy is the one who tampered with the investigation, and that's why he's out rather than just on administrative leave?

No, that was Michael Simmons former director of Compliance and Investigations

Murphy was the swirling.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Conclusion (page 29):

"Except for the altering of the [] Investigation timeline by [] which had no impact on the promotion, no one involved with [] promotion violated any MCPS policy or engaged in any intentional misconduct."

So the conclusion is nobody did anything wrong.

No, the conclusion is their policies and procedures are full of holes.

No, the conclusion is they didn't intentionally conspire to do wrong. They just utterly failed at their jobs and didn't follow-up or communicate when they clearly should have.

The conclusion is that it is a very weak organization where people played favorites and policies were frequently ignored. That set up victims to be systematically ignored and created an environment where predators and bullies flourish.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Conclusion (page 29):

"Except for the altering of the [] Investigation timeline by [] which had no impact on the promotion, no one involved with [] promotion violated any MCPS policy or engaged in any intentional misconduct."

So the conclusion is nobody did anything wrong.

No, the conclusion is their policies and procedures are full of holes.

No, the conclusion is they didn't intentionally conspire to do wrong. They just utterly failed at their jobs and didn't follow-up or communicate when they clearly should have.

The conclusion is that it is a very weak organization where people played favorites and policies were frequently ignored. That set up victims to be systematically ignored and created an environment where predators and bullies flourish.

Well said!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Conclusion (page 29):

"Except for the altering of the [] Investigation timeline by [] which had no impact on the promotion, no one involved with [] promotion violated any MCPS policy or engaged in any intentional misconduct."

So the conclusion is nobody did anything wrong.

No, the conclusion is their policies and procedures are full of holes.

No, the conclusion is they didn't intentionally conspire to do wrong. They just utterly failed at their jobs and didn't follow-up or communicate when they clearly should have.

Have you read the follow-up WaPo story? MCPS literally backdated the file to look like there had not been an open investigation at the time of his promotion. That's the definition of "intentionally conspiring."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/10/13/beidleman-investigation-mcps-tampered/

The latest update from the Post.

Keep goin, Alexandria and Nicole! You both are doing an excellent job keeping the pressure on MCPS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Conclusion (page 29):

"Except for the altering of the [] Investigation timeline by [] which had no impact on the promotion, no one involved with [] promotion violated any MCPS policy or engaged in any intentional misconduct."

So the conclusion is nobody did anything wrong.

No, the conclusion is their policies and procedures are full of holes.

No, the conclusion is they didn't intentionally conspire to do wrong. They just utterly failed at their jobs and didn't follow-up or communicate when they clearly should have.

Have you read the follow-up WaPo story? MCPS literally backdated the file to look like there had not been an open investigation at the time of his promotion. That's the definition of "intentionally conspiring."

I was responding to the line that was quoted in the Jackson Lewis report. Personally, I think a whole lot of people knew what they were doing and why they were doing it.

But I was just translating what the Jackson Lewis report was communicating, which is that no one MEANT to do anything wrong. They just failed to communicate and follow-up and they're really sorry about it and promise to do better in the future. Pinky promise.

[Anonymous]

I'm happily surprised at the Jackson Lewis report. I assumed they were hired to produce a pre-determined outcome to cover for MCPS, but this actually looks pretty good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The fact of the matter is none of the allegations have been determined to be true.

Then he should be restored to his principal position.

He should be put in a position where he isn’t directly over employees such as teachers who feel vulnerable weak and threatened. He sounds like he gets off on intimidation and bullying. A clear abuse of power.

He should be dismissed from MCPS. Can’t believe there’s any discussion of finding a different job for him in the school system.

If the Damascus principal still has a job why shouldn’t he? That was a way worse offense and cover up.

Since some people get away with murder, nobody who doesn't commit murder should go to prison.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Conclusion (page 29):

"Except for the altering of the [] Investigation timeline by [] which had no impact on the promotion, no one involved with [] promotion violated any MCPS policy or engaged in any intentional misconduct."

So the conclusion is nobody did anything wrong.

No, the conclusion is their policies and procedures are full of holes.

No, the conclusion is they didn't intentionally conspire to do wrong. They just utterly failed at their jobs and didn't follow-up or communicate when they clearly should have.

Have you read the follow-up WaPo story? MCPS literally backdated the file to look like there had not been an open investigation at the time of his promotion. That's the definition of "intentionally conspiring."

I was responding to the line that was quoted in the Jackson Lewis report. Personally, I think a whole lot of people knew what they were doing and why they were doing it.

But I was just translating what the Jackson Lewis report was communicating, which is that no one MEANT to do anything wrong. They just failed to communicate and follow-up and they're really sorry about it and promise to do better in the future. Pinky promise.

The person who ordered the investigator to change a finding and the person who was telling Beidleman that he would be exonerated before the investigation was done also meant to do something wrong. They might be the same person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm happily surprised at the Jackson Lewis report. I assumed they were hired to produce a pre-determined outcome to cover for MCPS, but this actually looks pretty good.

You can tell Jackson Lewis massaged the findings and is more generous with its analysis and conclusions than the OIG will be, but they said enough to make it clear that MCPS is pretty broken and suffering from some seriously failed leadership. Which is good enough for me.