Washington Post article about Former Farquhar Administrator

[Anonymous]

Of course we hide. If we speak out we get slammed by MCPS comm office and our children are harassed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's get a couple more MCPS horror stories and we can max out this thread and start a new one to max out. It's so crazy that the threads that center around mcps being abusive to staff and students get maxed out so fast every time. What did you think about that central office,union, and bully sympathizers. Ya going to gaslight the selfless teachers about it. Your negligence ruins lives.

The problem is everyone is outraged on this anonymous board but no one is out there voting or actually going to any council or board meetings and protesting. Everyone hides behind these posts

This is Montgomery County. If you disagree with the powers that be, you are shunned and blacklisted. What do you expect teachers and parents to do? It's a corrupt system and parents/teachers feel helpless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's get a couple more MCPS horror stories and we can max out this thread and start a new one to max out. It's so crazy that the threads that center around mcps being abusive to staff and students get maxed out so fast every time. What did you think about that central office,union, and bully sympathizers. Ya going to gaslight the selfless teachers about it. Your negligence ruins lives.

The problem is everyone is outraged on this anonymous board but no one is out there voting or actually going to any council or board meetings and protesting. Everyone hides behind these posts

This is Montgomery County. If you disagree with the powers that be, you are shunned and blacklisted. What do you expect teachers and parents to do? It's a corrupt system and parents/teachers feel helpless.

That's what you get with a one-party county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's get a couple more MCPS horror stories and we can max out this thread and start a new one to max out. It's so crazy that the threads that center around mcps being abusive to staff and students get maxed out so fast every time. What did you think about that central office,union, and bully sympathizers. Ya going to gaslight the selfless teachers about it. Your negligence ruins lives.

The problem is everyone is outraged on this anonymous board but no one is out there voting or actually going to any council or board meetings and protesting. Everyone hides behind these posts

Yes, because the bully culture is strong. If you speak out it gets worse, so your choices are to deal with it or leave MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's get a couple more MCPS horror stories and we can max out this thread and start a new one to max out. It's so crazy that the threads that center around mcps being abusive to staff and students get maxed out so fast every time. What did you think about that central office,union, and bully sympathizers. Ya going to gaslight the selfless teachers about it. Your negligence ruins lives.

The problem is everyone is outraged on this anonymous board but no one is out there voting or actually going to any council or board meetings and protesting. Everyone hides behind these posts

This is Montgomery County. If you disagree with the powers that be, you are shunned and blacklisted. What do you expect teachers and parents to do? It's a corrupt system and parents/teachers feel helpless.

That's what you get with a one-party county.

This is a good example of why we need balance in government. Local/state/federal levels. One party at the county and state level is a disaster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course we hide. If we speak out we get slammed by MCPS comm office and our children are harassed.

You can complain anonymously to the OIG and ED. I have done this. Have you, or are you just hanging out here offering reasons why you can’t?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's get a couple more MCPS horror stories and we can max out this thread and start a new one to max out. It's so crazy that the threads that center around mcps being abusive to staff and students get maxed out so fast every time. What did you think about that central office,union, and bully sympathizers. Ya going to gaslight the selfless teachers about it. Your negligence ruins lives.

The problem is everyone is outraged on this anonymous board but no one is out there voting or actually going to any council or board meetings and protesting. Everyone hides behind these posts

This is Montgomery County. If you disagree with the powers that be, you are shunned and blacklisted. What do you expect teachers and parents to do? It's a corrupt system and parents/teachers feel helpless.

That's what you get with a one-party county.

A specific political party is not the problem in this case. What Democratic platform supports sexual harassment and bullying in the workplace. Just like Trump, it’s people in power using their power for their own personal gratification. Republicans can dish it out as bad as Democrats.

[Anonymous]

FYI - The US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights has an ongoing investigation into a Title IX Sexual Harassment complaint. This investigation opened June 9, 2023.

https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/investigations/open-investigations/tix.html?queries%5Bstate%5D=MD&queries%5Btod%5D=Title+IX+-+Sexual+Harassment

If you have information regarding any sexual harassment incident that you became knowledgeable of within the last 180 days, please file a complaint with OCR. You could be a victim or a witness. You can be a concerned citizen that found out about the problem by reading the Washington Post article. OCR can only consider complaints within the 180 timeframe but it is based on when you knew about the incident, not when the incident occurred.

[Anonymous]

McKnight’s latest PR email to employees made me feel so helpless and despondent. She brags about going on a “listening to LEAD” tour / photo op at a few schools.

She then relays that the conversations she was “listening” to were about a science professional development (not about what teachers are upset about)

Every time she sends out one of these blatant (horrible) attempts at PR that dont address how employees feel, the investigation, or any sort of reform to ensure she actually reads complaints and gives a shit about the well being of her staff, we teachers just feel even more disrespected. If she and/or the board thinks that the Farquhar principal is the big issue, they haven’t been listening to teachers and complaints they have been sending in.

The Farquhar situation is infuriating. What’s more infuriating to teachers though is that this culture of bullying and threatening teachers who speak up about a principal like this is rampant almost everywhere in the county.

We file complaints over and over again. We learn that an admin’s illegal behavior, bringing/drinking liquor to school, and harassment has been an issue at his previous school, and that multiple complaints have been issued about him at his school, yet he still got promoted to our school.

The cover up by central office, McKnight, and the board is the worst part.

When they do nothing about our complaints—or bully/retaliate against us—, it makes us feel even more ignored, disrespected, and helpless.

[Anonymous]

The compliance coordinator Khalid Walker, mentioned in the WaPo article, needs to go!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's get a couple more MCPS horror stories and we can max out this thread and start a new one to max out. It's so crazy that the threads that center around mcps being abusive to staff and students get maxed out so fast every time. What did you think about that central office,union, and bully sympathizers. Ya going to gaslight the selfless teachers about it. Your negligence ruins lives.

The problem is everyone is outraged on this anonymous board but no one is out there voting or actually going to any council or board meetings and protesting. Everyone hides behind these posts

Those damned russian/maga trolls!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's get a couple more MCPS horror stories and we can max out this thread and start a new one to max out. It's so crazy that the threads that center around mcps being abusive to staff and students get maxed out so fast every time. What did you think about that central office,union, and bully sympathizers. Ya going to gaslight the selfless teachers about it. Your negligence ruins lives.

The problem is everyone is outraged on this anonymous board but no one is out there voting or actually going to any council or board meetings and protesting. Everyone hides behind these posts

This is Montgomery County. If you disagree with the powers that be, you are shunned and blacklisted. What do you expect teachers and parents to do? It's a corrupt system and parents/teachers feel helpless.

That's what you get with a one-party county.

A specific political party is not the problem in this case. What Democratic platform supports sexual harassment and bullying in the workplace. Just like Trump, it’s people in power using their power for their own personal gratification. Republicans can dish it out as bad as Democrats.

Yet those who protected and promoted this serial sex harasser are all progressive Democrats, from the superintendent to all BOE members.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The compliance coordinator Khalid Walker, mentioned in the WaPo article, needs to go!

Maybe he had no power to effect a different outcome? He did say it was harassment and had to retract only after sending it up above him. I'm not saying he shouldn't have protested but the buck doesn't stop with him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
We file complaints over and over again. We learn that an admin’s illegal behavior, bringing/drinking liquor to school, and harassment has been an issue at his previous school, and that multiple complaints have been issued about him at his school, yet he still got promoted to our school.

Hi, this is Alexandra Robbins. I'd be interested in hearing more about this if you're open to chatting (anonymously is fine). You can reach me at [e-mail], via my website at alexandrarobbins.com or an email to my attention via Nicole Asbury at [e-mail] - however you'd be most comfortable contacting me. Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's get a couple more MCPS horror stories and we can max out this thread and start a new one to max out. It's so crazy that the threads that center around mcps being abusive to staff and students get maxed out so fast every time. What did you think about that central office,union, and bully sympathizers. Ya going to gaslight the selfless teachers about it. Your negligence ruins lives.

The problem is everyone is outraged on this anonymous board but no one is out there voting or actually going to any council or board meetings and protesting. Everyone hides behind these posts

This is Montgomery County. If you disagree with the powers that be, you are shunned and blacklisted. What do you expect teachers and parents to do? It's a corrupt system and parents/teachers feel helpless.

That's what you get with a one-party county.

This is a good example of why we need balance in government. Local/state/federal levels. One party at the county and state level is a disaster.

I voted to eliminate most of the current board. I agree that a balance is necessary but too many people blindly cite apple and pat themselves on the back for voting without realizing what they voted for. I have written many emails to the board and superintendents and the md dept of education. I get a canned response. We have to show continued outrage and not let this get swept under the rug. The only way to make change happen is to keep fighting so that the majority of the population that has no idea what is happening can get enlightened and make the right choice election time.