Council hearing on MCPS

[Anonymous]

Public: Why can’t you do the bare minimum in keeping our students and staff safe?

BOE: We’re only part time.

🤯

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:(Remember when, hundreds of minutes ago, posters were insisting that this was going to be a meaningless charade and the fix was in for MCPS?)

What do you think changed from this hearing?

[Anonymous]

How is that April Key still works in HR in light of the Walker allegations? Shouldn’t she be on leave now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Public: Why can’t you do the bare minimum in keeping our students and staff safe?

BOE: We’re only part time.

🤯

Albornoz brought this issue up at the hearing. He noted that while we are addressing a complaints and investigations system to enable safety for staff, we also need a parallel evaluation of how we track and address safety issues for our students. He noted we cannot assume that the current system is doing an adequate job of ensuring student wellbeing and safety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public: Why can’t you do the bare minimum in keeping our students and staff safe?

BOE: We’re only part time.

🤯

Albornoz brought this issue up at the hearing. He noted that while we are addressing a complaints and investigations system to enable safety for staff, we also need a parallel evaluation of how we track and address safety issues for our students. He noted we cannot assume that the current system is doing an adequate job of ensuring student wellbeing and safety.

As an McPS parent and teacher I don’t feel that the system is ensuring student wellbeing or safety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is that April Key still works in HR in light of the Walker allegations? Shouldn’t she be on leave now?

Could say the same about Hull.

Have we figured out who the numbered employees are in the “less” redacted report? I’m specifically curious about Employee 5 since they also received sexual advances from Beidleman but didn’t report anything.

And what about all these staff members engaging in sexual relationships with their boss? How are they still employed by MCPS? Is this not against a code of conduct?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Glass: BOE requires full-time status. They need to be paid more than $25K per year - it's not a living wage. A 2019 recommendation recommended $60 K. We need the BOE to succeed in overseeing a $3.2 billion budget and we need adequate resources for this.

I’m all for a full-time board if they also get the authority to determine the schools portion of the property tax. Then the council won’t be able to claim they’re funding schools when they’re actually raising taxes for something else and people will take BOE elections more seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Glass: BOE requires full-time status. They need to be paid more than $25K per year - it's not a living wage. A 2019 recommendation recommended $60 K. We need the BOE to succeed in overseeing a $3.2 billion budget and we need adequate resources for this.

I’m all for a full-time board if they also get the authority to determine the schools portion of the property tax. Then the council won’t be able to claim they’re funding schools when they’re actually raising taxes for something else and people will take BOE elections more seriously.

That is not going to happen. It's not how local government in Maryland is structured. So does that mean you oppose a full-time board?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:(Remember when, hundreds of minutes ago, posters were insisting that this was going to be a meaningless charade and the fix was in for MCPS?)

What do you think changed from this hearing?

Albornoz is on the council's education committee. I think he'll press forward. He's impressive. I wish he would run for county executive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Glass: BOE requires full-time status. They need to be paid more than $25K per year - it's not a living wage. A 2019 recommendation recommended $60 K. We need the BOE to succeed in overseeing a $3.2 billion budget and we need adequate resources for this.

I’m all for a full-time board if they also get the authority to determine the schools portion of the property tax. Then the council won’t be able to claim they’re funding schools when they’re actually raising taxes for something else and people will take BOE elections more seriously.

That is not going to happen. It's not how local government in Maryland is structured. So does that mean you oppose a full-time board?

If they’re not going to have full responsibility it doesn’t need to be a full-time job. I don’t need to pay for them to get more briefings on the minutiae of third-grade math curriculum.

There’s no reason government has to keep the same structure. This isn’t working.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Glass: BOE requires full-time status. They need to be paid more than $25K per year - it's not a living wage. A 2019 recommendation recommended $60 K. We need the BOE to succeed in overseeing a $3.2 billion budget and we need adequate resources for this.

I’m all for a full-time board if they also get the authority to determine the schools portion of the property tax. Then the council won’t be able to claim they’re funding schools when they’re actually raising taxes for something else and people will take BOE elections more seriously.

That is not going to happen. It's not how local government in Maryland is structured. So does that mean you oppose a full-time board?

We need a full-time board. The system is too big for having an early 20th century oversight system. This Beidleman mess was years in the making and it's going to take more than three months to turn this ship in the right direction with established checks and balances that hold over time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:(Remember when, hundreds of minutes ago, posters were insisting that this was going to be a meaningless charade and the fix was in for MCPS?)

What do you think changed from this hearing?

Albornoz is on the council's education committee. I think he'll press forward. He's impressive. I wish he would run for county executive.

So nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Glass: BOE requires full-time status. They need to be paid more than $25K per year - it's not a living wage. A 2019 recommendation recommended $60 K. We need the BOE to succeed in overseeing a $3.2 billion budget and we need adequate resources for this.

I’m all for a full-time board if they also get the authority to determine the schools portion of the property tax. Then the council won’t be able to claim they’re funding schools when they’re actually raising taxes for something else and people will take BOE elections more seriously.

That is not going to happen. It's not how local government in Maryland is structured. So does that mean you oppose a full-time board?

We need a full-time board. The system is too big for having an early 20th century oversight system. This Beidleman mess was years in the making and it's going to take more than three months to turn this ship in the right direction with established checks and balances that hold over time.

Go listen to what Councilmember Fani-Gonzalez said. It's not about money or time, it's about attitude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Glass: BOE requires full-time status. They need to be paid more than $25K per year - it's not a living wage. A 2019 recommendation recommended $60 K. We need the BOE to succeed in overseeing a $3.2 billion budget and we need adequate resources for this.

I’m all for a full-time board if they also get the authority to determine the schools portion of the property tax. Then the council won’t be able to claim they’re funding schools when they’re actually raising taxes for something else and people will take BOE elections more seriously.

That is not going to happen. It's not how local government in Maryland is structured. So does that mean you oppose a full-time board?

We need a full-time board. The system is too big for having an early 20th century oversight system. This Beidleman mess was years in the making and it's going to take more than three months to turn this ship in the right direction with established checks and balances that hold over time.

The biggest companies in the world don’t even have full-time boards. The board needs to establish policy and processes and ensure accountability when there’s noncompliance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is that April Key still works in HR in light of the Walker allegations? Shouldn’t she be on leave now?

Could say the same about Hull.

Have we figured out who the numbered employees are in the “less” redacted report? I’m specifically curious about Employee 5 since they also received sexual advances from Beidleman but didn’t report anything.

And what about all these staff members engaging in sexual relationships with their boss? How are they still employed by MCPS? Is this not against a code of conduct?

Staff needs to report these issues. Now would be a good time to do that, because if ever something was going to be done about it, it would be now when MCPS is on fire.