MOCO BOE update: Beidleman Report summary

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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.

And in the end they found nothing really sinister went on here so it's time to move on.

Then move on

We are not moving on and we're going to root you and your toxic ilk out of our school system. Sleep with one eye open.

Yes, we will not rest until we find a way to pin this on Monifa regardless of facts or evidence!

You have a hard job defending her but don’t worry there are no consequences for poor performance in MCPS (which is good for you because your defense of her has been terrible so far).

What did she do again and is she really responsible for Biedleman's actions even though that went on before she was super? Sorry I'm confused by all these accusations.

BEYOND terrible. If you're gonna defend Monifa, at least try harder than this. Pathetic.

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Reading all of the Post articles about MCPS is making me sick that my kids go to MCPS schools. What a corrupt and incompetent organization. I feel sorry for teachers who are stuck under these bozos

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reading all of the Post articles about MCPS is making me sick that my kids go to MCPS schools. What a corrupt and incompetent organization. I feel sorry for teachers who are stuck under these bozos

Who elected the BOE members to run MCPS year after year? The voters of Montgomery County.

[Anonymous]

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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.

And in the end they found nothing really sinister went on here so it's time to move on.

Then move on

We are not at the end yet: an independent investigation, not one by a law firm beholden to school district leadership, needs to occur before we have the whole story. We should not move on until the whole truth comes out.

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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.

Different administrators, same result. It’s the MCPS culture.

More investigations need to be done to make sure all who need to be held accountable are held accountable. Moving in administrators with the same history of ignoring complaints as the administrators you are moving out doesn’t solve the culture problem.

+1 From the redacted report:

“Directors of [the Office of School Support and Well-Being] generally have a practice of deferring to [internal investigators’] decision not to investigate anonymous complaints, even when those Directors are aware of specific allegations contained in those anonymous complaints.”

So moving these administrators around into higher leadership positions doesn’t cure the culture. Biedleman was just one person who had multiple complaints that were ignored. There are other similar cases that would implicate other Central Office Administrative staff. Even the General Counsel’s Office was helping to alter investigation records for Biedleman so they probably did that for other cases as well.

Honesty and integrity are not attributes valued by leaders in MCPS. Shuffling these individuals around till the Washington Post prints a new article does nothing to change the MCPS culture. It’s all mistakes that people are sorry for when their job is in jeopardy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:English Lit teachers should be happy - this discussion is utterly Shakespearean: told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

Now this is the kind of trolling you get when you spend $105k on strategic communications. Money well spent.

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Anonymous wrote:English Lit teachers should be happy - this discussion is utterly Shakespearean: told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

Now this is the kind of trolling you get when you spend $105k on strategic communications. Money well spent.

I also prefer the fact-free trolling by failed BOE candidates out for revenge on the system that rejected them.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone needs to leak the unredacted report.

The Board of Ed is not exercising meaningful oversight of MCPS and should be dissolved and reconstituted on different terms.

McKnight needs to go.

I get that you have wanted her gone from day one, but the facts just don't warrant it.

Day one of her superintendency? No.

Day one of this situation? Absolutely. There is no excuse for this having happened on her watch.

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Per footnote 6 at the bottom of page 4:

“MCPS uses third-party contractor, Lighthouse, to administer its anonymous complaint tip line.”

Why was MCPS wasting tax dollars on an anonymous tip line if no one was investigating the complaints that people sent anonymously? Was it just for show?

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Required by state

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:English Lit teachers should be happy - this discussion is utterly Shakespearean: told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

Now this is the kind of trolling you get when you spend $105k on strategic communications. Money well spent.

I also prefer the fact-free trolling by failed BOE candidates out for revenge on the system that rejected them.

I just ignore them and focus on the explosive facts that MCPS has itself admitted.

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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.

And in the end they found nothing really sinister went on here so it's time to move on.

The report found that MCPS stonewalled the state IG and that senior MCPS administrators falsified documents, including an attorney who validated the fraudulent document through back dating.

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Anonymous wrote:Required by state

So the State of Maryland accepts that it is ok to not investigate the complaints that come to MCPS via an anonymous tip line?

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So the State of Maryland accepts that it is ok to not investigate the complaints that come to MCPS via an anonymous tip line?

Yes

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Anonymous wrote:Required by state

So the State of Maryland accepts that it is ok to not investigate the complaints that come to MCPS via an anonymous tip line?

Yes

No