MOCO BOE update: Beidleman Report summary

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is really a BOE fault. They establish the culture. Their fake concern is pathetic. Stop voting for people that cannot see outside of their own circle. People that actually care about making things better. Not their personal agendas.

Pay the BoE appropriate to their authority and maybe we'll get better candidates.

It didn’t work for County Council.

[Anonymous]

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ModeratelyMoco wrote:Update: Email sent out to staff from McKnight about Beidleman report, staffing changes, action plan and support.

https://moderatelymoco.com/email-to-mcps-employees-from-dr-mcknight-about-beidleman-report-staffing-changes-action-plan-and-support/

Do you see the people that they are bringing out of retirement!?! This is the best that they could do? The first two were long overdue for retirement when they called it quits back in 2018. A lot has happened in MCPS since they retired. How can they possibly jump back in next week ready to hit the ground running? What a disaster.

Fascinating list of ways to report with no commitment that reports made in these ways (eg Lighthouse, MD Safe Schools) will be investigated fully.

It's one of the Key Focus Areas for Corrective Action:

"Investigating Named and Anonymous Complaints:
We must have an integrity-driven investigations unit,
benchmarked against best practices and models from various
sectors. During a transition period, temporary leadership has been
assigned to the unit. Aligned with Board of Education policies, this
unit will be revamped and restructured to efficiently examine and
investigate named and anonymous violations. The skills,
knowledge and expertise required of personnel to conduct the
investigations will be required along with training. A streamlined
reporting process will ensure the swift handling of allegations."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is really a BOE fault. They establish the culture. Their fake concern is pathetic. Stop voting for people that cannot see outside of their own circle. People that actually care about making things better. Not their personal agendas.

Pay the BoE appropriate to their authority and maybe we'll get better candidates.

The BOE should move its meetings to night so more people can participate and stop wasting its time getting briefed on phonics. The board should be focused on governance and results. The superintendent should be focused on how those results are achieved. Companies don’t have full time boards.

What this scandal has done is make a great argument for term limits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is really a BOE fault. They establish the culture. Their fake concern is pathetic. Stop voting for people that cannot see outside of their own circle. People that actually care about making things better. Not their personal agendas.

Yes, boards set the tone and establish cultures. They don’t run the organization. Executives are selected by the board to do that. When boards aren’t happy with the results, they fire executives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is really a BOE fault. They establish the culture. Their fake concern is pathetic. Stop voting for people that cannot see outside of their own circle. People that actually care about making things better. Not their personal agendas.

Pay the BoE appropriate to their authority and maybe we'll get better candidates.

The BOE should move its meetings to night so more people can participate and stop wasting its time getting briefed on phonics. The board should be focused on governance and results. The superintendent should be focused on how those results are achieved. Companies don’t have full time boards.

What this scandal has done is make a great argument for term limits.

So are you announcing your candidacy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At least one of the people Dr. McKnight is bringing back will further lower staff morale. I know this is a short term solution but it shows she's not at all in touch with the needs of the shell-shocked staff members watching this play out in disbelief. There's a reason so many see leaving the system as their only option for self-preservation. I'm so disappointed in the BOE. They've been fed lies for years and accept them as gospel. How much evidence do they need to see they got this wrong? Time to exercise courage and find stronger leadership who can dig us out of this hole.

These people are not coming in to run MCPS. They’re all know to the board and are there to observe the superintendent.

[Anonymous]

Yes but the BOE only hires the super. They didn't bring in those people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes but the BOE only hires the super. They didn't bring in those people.

They vote on all her admin appointments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes but the BOE only hires the super. They didn't bring in those people.

They could have made these hires a condition of her continued employment. They have multiple grounds for terminating based on breach of contract.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes but the BOE only hires the super. They didn't bring in those people.

They vote on all her admin appointments.

Not on acting appointments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is really a BOE fault. They establish the culture. Their fake concern is pathetic. Stop voting for people that cannot see outside of their own circle. People that actually care about making things better. Not their personal agendas.

Pay the BoE appropriate to their authority and maybe we'll get better candidates.

The BOE should move its meetings to night so more people can participate and stop wasting its time getting briefed on phonics. The board should be focused on governance and results. The superintendent should be focused on how those results are achieved. Companies don’t have full time boards.

What this scandal has done is make a great argument for term limits.

So are you announcing your candidacy?

Aren't half the posts in this thread by failed BOE candidates?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I’m now convinced they McKnight’s continued leadership of MCPS is untenable.

She’s now got the ADL and the environmentalists angry at her and even embarrassed Jamie Raskin.

No way she can survive now.

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2023/10/12/are-heads-starting-to-roll-at-mcps/

https://twitter.com/ChispaMaryland/status/1712443675807002687

https://twitter.com/MontCoExec/status/1584571726586937345

I doubt that's right. I just don't see that she would be all that concerned about a situation that happened before she was even super.

She is not concerned. You are right. She doesn’t care.

+1 I find her reactions to this situation so bizarre. I'd expect a leader to show concern and compassion and urgency for fixing the situation. Instead, from the beginning she has focused on moving on and not getting distracted by this. Wtf. Can't believe she hasn't been fired.

It’s shocking and disturbing to me that the Silvestre and BOE has taken it upon itself to present a United front with McKnight and MCPS instead of acting as a source of independent authority and oversight over McKnight and MCPS. The real cover up happening here is that the BOE is not holding meetings taking McKnight to task.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yep. This is what we voted for.

Like they say - you really do get what you vote for. The BOE has had a political agenda for years. And they push that agenda at the expense of our kids.

What’s even worse is that the BOE is who we were told to vote for. They are all Apple Ballot endorsed by the MCEA. This should be a massive scandal that the MCEA works to elect a BOE that stands against them and hand in hand with management while they are suffering abuse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yep. This is what we voted for.

Like they say - you really do get what you vote for. The BOE has had a political agenda for years. And they push that agenda at the expense of our kids.

What’s even worse is that the BOE is who we were told to vote for. They are all Apple Ballot endorsed by the MCEA. This should be a massive scandal that the MCEA works to elect a BOE that stands against them and hand in hand with management while they are suffering abuse.

No, they are not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At least one of the people Dr. McKnight is bringing back will further lower staff morale. I know this is a short term solution but it shows she's not at all in touch with the needs of the shell-shocked staff members watching this play out in disbelief. There's a reason so many see leaving the system as their only option for self-preservation. I'm so disappointed in the BOE. They've been fed lies for years and accept them as gospel. How much evidence do they need to see they got this wrong? Time to exercise courage and find stronger leadership who can dig us out of this hole.

These people are not coming in to run MCPS. They’re all know to the board and are there to observe the superintendent.

No they aren't they are all literally McKnights friends. She even dedicated her dissertation to one of them. She's bringing in people she knows will cover for her and protect her. She only cares about herself.