Is it possible to get rid of Jack Smith?

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Anonymous wrote:owooooo

Werewolves of London!

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Anonymous wrote:What specifically has Jack Smith done wrong? Not sweeping generalizations. I want specifics with evidence.

1. Decline in academic performance on standardized testing at the state level.
2. Rise in sexual assaults from student to student.
3. Rise in sexual assaults from staff to student.
4. Rise in racist incidents.
5. Rise in on campus violence.
6. Wasting money on useless studies that could go to improving academic opportunities or hiring more teachers.
7. Forcing canned curriculum on MCPS meaning one size fits all curriculum without differentiation. (Eureka Math, Benchmark).
8. Refuses to attend public forums where parents, students or staff present questions. He sends staff members instead.
9. No plan for Covoid. No plans to adapt buildings to support eventual return to school.
10. Increased size of central office bureaucracy, wasting money that could be going to actually helping students.
11. Hiring disgraced retreads in central office. Google Janet Wilson Garrett County.
12. Rude to BOE members and treats them as inferiors to him.
13. Implementing a completely disaster of a LMS (Synergy).

That's a few off the top of my head. MCPS used to be a great school district. It is still really good but it has been in decline the past four years. If he serves out the next four years of his contract, it will continue to decline at a rapid rate and likely will not ever reach it's previous status. Families and students are looking and will continue to look at other education options either the private route or moving to adjacent counties like Frederick, Howard, Fairfax.

MCPS should be able to hire better leadership based on the previous status of the county. Not some re-tread from Calvert County like Smith.

I went to MCPS. We had many of the issues 20+ years ago but they were just hidden and no social media. I doubt there are more assaults and incidents as we saw them all the time at school, but it wasn't well publicized or reported. We had a sketchy teacher and we were all heavily discouraged from saying something.

I a completely agree. TheSe are not new issues. When I went to MCPS, we didn’t have a massive population of children who couldn’t speak English and/or who came from difficult economic circumstances. That adds a very different factor to the ongoing problems facing MCPS. This list is a list of opinionated complaints..... where’s the evidence that these things are Smith’s fault?

Agree that this factor alone has had a profound impact on MCPS over the past 10-15 years.

I also went to MCPS 30+ years ago and have to say my kid's education today is 100X better.

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Anonymous wrote:What specifically has Jack Smith done wrong? Not sweeping generalizations. I want specifics with evidence.

1. Decline in academic performance on standardized testing at the state level.
2. Rise in sexual assaults from student to student.
3. Rise in sexual assaults from staff to student.
4. Rise in racist incidents.
5. Rise in on campus violence.
6. Wasting money on useless studies that could go to improving academic opportunities or hiring more teachers.
7. Forcing canned curriculum on MCPS meaning one size fits all curriculum without differentiation. (Eureka Math, Benchmark).
8. Refuses to attend public forums where parents, students or staff present questions. He sends staff members instead.
9. No plan for Covoid. No plans to adapt buildings to support eventual return to school.
10. Increased size of central office bureaucracy, wasting money that could be going to actually helping students.
11. Hiring disgraced retreads in central office. Google Janet Wilson Garrett County.
12. Rude to BOE members and treats them as inferiors to him.
13. Implementing a completely disaster of a LMS (Synergy).

That's a few off the top of my head. MCPS used to be a great school district. It is still really good but it has been in decline the past four years. If he serves out the next four years of his contract, it will continue to decline at a rapid rate and likely will not ever reach it's previous status. Families and students are looking and will continue to look at other education options either the private route or moving to adjacent counties like Frederick, Howard, Fairfax.

MCPS should be able to hire better leadership based on the previous status of the county. Not some re-tread from Calvert County like Smith.

I went to MCPS. We had many of the issues 20+ years ago but they were just hidden and no social media. I doubt there are more assaults and incidents as we saw them all the time at school, but it wasn't well publicized or reported. We had a sketchy teacher and we were all heavily discouraged from saying something.

I a completely agree. TheSe are not new issues. When I went to MCPS, we didn’t have a massive population of children who couldn’t speak English and/or who came from difficult economic circumstances. That adds a very different factor to the ongoing problems facing MCPS. This list is a list of opinionated complaints..... where’s the evidence that these things are Smith’s fault?

Agree that this factor alone has had a profound impact on MCPS over the past 10-15 years.

I also went to MCPS 30+ years ago and have to say my kid's education today is 100X better.

smarter kids.

[Anonymous]

Jack Smith has done nothing justifying his paycheck. The guy needs to let go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jack Smith has done nothing justifying his paycheck. The guy needs to let go.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Jack Smith has done nothing justifying his paycheck. The guy needs to let go.

What do you want him to do that he's not doing?

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Can we add the curriculum scandal to the mix? This was where Discovery Channel promised three of his employees sweetheart jobs after they left MCPS if they picked Discover Channel’s ‘educational’ curricula. Jack said it was all a misunderstanding but because of the ‘optics’ he started the RFP to replace the disastrous Curriculum 2.0 all over again. Curriculum 2.0 continues to be taught in some schools five years after county paid Johns Hopkins 450,000 to get rid of it. The three employees remain in their jobs...

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Anonymous wrote:Can we add the curriculum scandal to the mix? This was where Discovery Channel promised three of his employees sweetheart jobs after they left MCPS if they picked Discover Channel’s ‘educational’ curricula. Jack said it was all a misunderstanding but because of the ‘optics’ he started the RFP to replace the disastrous Curriculum 2.0 all over again. Curriculum 2.0 continues to be taught in some schools five years after county paid Johns Hopkins 450,000 to get rid of it. The three employees remain in their jobs...

Fire Jack Smith!

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Anonymous wrote:Can we add the curriculum scandal to the mix? This was where Discovery Channel promised three of his employees sweetheart jobs after they left MCPS if they picked Discover Channel’s ‘educational’ curricula. Jack said it was all a misunderstanding but because of the ‘optics’ he started the RFP to replace the disastrous Curriculum 2.0 all over again. Curriculum 2.0 continues to be taught in some schools five years after county paid Johns Hopkins 450,000 to get rid of it. The three employees remain in their jobs...

Fire Jack Smith!

+100

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Anonymous wrote:Can we add the curriculum scandal to the mix? This was where Discovery Channel promised three of his employees sweetheart jobs after they left MCPS if they picked Discover Channel’s ‘educational’ curricula. Jack said it was all a misunderstanding but because of the ‘optics’ he started the RFP to replace the disastrous Curriculum 2.0 all over again. Curriculum 2.0 continues to be taught in some schools five years after county paid Johns Hopkins 450,000 to get rid of it. The three employees remain in their jobs...

Fire Jack Smith!

+100

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Anonymous wrote:Can we add the curriculum scandal to the mix? This was where Discovery Channel promised three of his employees sweetheart jobs after they left MCPS if they picked Discover Channel’s ‘educational’ curricula. Jack said it was all a misunderstanding but because of the ‘optics’ he started the RFP to replace the disastrous Curriculum 2.0 all over again. Curriculum 2.0 continues to be taught in some schools five years after county paid Johns Hopkins 450,000 to get rid of it. The three employees remain in their jobs...

Fire Jack Smith!

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[Anonymous]

yes. it is definitely possible to get rid of this do-nothing bureaucrat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Jack Smith has done nothing justifying his paycheck. The guy needs to let go.

What do you want him to do that he's not doing?

It's easy to say "fire Smith". What exactly do you want his replacement to do differently?

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Anonymous wrote:Jack Smith has done nothing justifying his paycheck. The guy needs to let go.

What do you want him to do that he's not doing?

It's easy to say "fire Smith". What exactly do you want his replacement to do differently?

His replacement could just literally do exactly the same. Lot of folks just want a different body. Why let him get paid so much for so long? What is special about Jack Smith? Anybody can do his job (which is pretty much just lip-syncing).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Jack Smith has done nothing justifying his paycheck. The guy needs to let go.

What do you want him to do that he's not doing?

It's easy to say "fire Smith". What exactly do you want his replacement to do differently?

His replacement could just literally do exactly the same. Lot of folks just want a different body. Why let him get paid so much for so long? What is special about Jack Smith? Anybody can do his job (which is pretty much just lip-syncing).

yes. pls keep writing BOE. with enough effort we can fire his a**.