WaPo: Montgomery County inspector general saw surge in complaints about school system

[Anonymous]

SOURCE: https://wapo.st/3RQe3ZB

Montgomery County’s inspector general fielded a surge in complaints in the past year about Maryland’s largest school system as the district has faced increased scrutiny of its handling of reports about conduct.

The county inspector general received 185 complaints from July 1, 2023, to June 30 of this year about the school system, compared with 22 from the year before, according to data provided by the office this week. The office did not provide more context about the nature of the complaints, though it has released reports this year concerning the school system’s use of funds, allegations of misconduct and a department’s handling of employees’ complaints.

Many of the complaints — 81 in total — were referred back to Montgomery County Public Schools for further action with the complainant’s consent, the office said.

David Stein, president of the Montgomery County Education Association, a union that represents teachers, said the data shows “that teachers have lost trust with the school district and are looking to go elsewhere to give their complaints.”

“I think it shows what the new superintendent needs to do — that there’s a trust deficit he needs to address immediately,” Stein continued. “And we trust that he’ll be able to do that if he’s open and transparent and willing to work with us.”

[Anonymous]

Everything is fine

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everything is fine

No, its not but clearly you don't have kids in MCPS.

[Anonymous]

The most cleansing thing the new Super can do is purge the heads of the fifedoms. We have APs getting away with very poor behavior because the principals look the other way or encourage it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everything is fine

Agree, these complainers are never happy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everything is fine

No, its not but clearly you don't have kids in MCPS.

I do an I agree with them, but I also don't expect the county to raise my kids for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everything is fine

No, its not but clearly you don't have kids in MCPS.

I pictured this tone:

[Anonymous]

One of these was mine. I copied the Washington Post article about Beidleman and sent it to MoCo OIG, the State OIG, and the US Dept of Ed as a Title IX complaint.

Since they all seemed to be blissfully unaware of the situation, I wanted to make sure they had no excuse stemming from failure to report by me personally.

Will they clean up their act? That's a different question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everything is fine

No, its not but clearly you don't have kids in MCPS.

I pictured this tone:

Sometimes people don’t pick up on satire…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everything is fine

No, its not but clearly you don't have kids in MCPS.

I do an I agree with them, but I also don't expect the county to raise my kids for me.

No, they shouldn't be raising your kids but they should be educating them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of these was mine. I copied the Washington Post article about Beidleman and sent it to MoCo OIG, the State OIG, and the US Dept of Ed as a Title IX complaint.

Since they all seemed to be blissfully unaware of the situation, I wanted to make sure they had no excuse stemming from failure to report by me personally.

Will they clean up their act? That's a different question.

Only if the new superintendent cleans house and we get a new boe will there be any hope of things improving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SOURCE: https://wapo.st/3RQe3ZB

Montgomery County’s inspector general fielded a surge in complaints in the past year about Maryland’s largest school system as the district has faced increased scrutiny of its handling of reports about conduct.

The county inspector general received 185 complaints from July 1, 2023, to June 30 of this year about the school system, compared with 22 from the year before, according to data provided by the office this week. The office did not provide more context about the nature of the complaints, though it has released reports this year concerning the school system’s use of funds, allegations of misconduct and a department’s handling of employees’ complaints.

Many of the complaints — 81 in total — were referred back to Montgomery County Public Schools for further action with the complainant’s consent, the office said.

David Stein, president of the Montgomery County Education Association, a union that represents teachers, said the data shows “that teachers have lost trust with the school district and are looking to go elsewhere to give their complaints.”

“I think it shows what the new superintendent needs to do — that there’s a trust deficit he needs to address immediately,” Stein continued. “And we trust that he’ll be able to do that if he’s open and transparent and willing to work with us.”

Unsurprising. So many stupid parents who think they are in charge and can’t stay in their lane. It’s a weird phenomenon.

Parents should realize they are neither the experts on education nor important stakeholders and just sit down and shut up.

[Anonymous]

Of course there are. Part of the “repairing” after the Beidelman disaster was to post on MCPS website updated “report concerns” links. They also included those links in emails for a couple of months. It’s surprising the number isn’t higher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everything is fine

No, its not but clearly you don't have kids in MCPS.

I pictured this tone:

Sometimes people don’t pick up on satire…

Cute! It is actually fine, but these complainers gonna complain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course there are. Part of the “repairing” after the Beidelman disaster was to post on MCPS website updated “report concerns” links. They also included those links in emails for a couple of months. It’s surprising the number isn’t higher.

Beidelman was the guy who lost his job over a bunch of anonymous complaints?