MOCO BOE update: Beidleman Report summary

[Anonymous]

One thing that the Biedleman case highlights is that you change the complainant, the end result of the MCPS decision was the same - do nothing. Despite witnesses and evidence, response to do nothing was supported by top MCPS leadership and the General Counsel’s Office. It was an abuse of power. Why? Because MCPS administrators normally can get away with it 99.9% of the time.

Staff, parents, and students are powerless when trying to exercise their basic civil rights when facing an adversary that has unlimited legal representation and control over their job or educational opportunities. This normal business practice of MCPS to ignore complaints has created a toxic environment in schools for staff and students including leaving predatory staff in place to inflict further harm on new victims.

Every Principal, Director, Associate Superintendent on up has been tainted by these types of practices. They should look into their souls and contemplate the damage they have done to others when they ignored legitimate complaints. Do I think they all should be exposed? Yes - even the ones who have transferred to other jurisdictions for promotions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One thing that the Biedleman case highlights is that you change the complainant, the end result of the MCPS decision was the same - do nothing. Despite witnesses and evidence, response to do nothing was supported by top MCPS leadership and the General Counsel’s Office. It was an abuse of power. Why? Because MCPS administrators normally can get away with it 99.9% of the time.

Staff, parents, and students are powerless when trying to exercise their basic civil rights when facing an adversary that has unlimited legal representation and control over their job or educational opportunities. This normal business practice of MCPS to ignore complaints has created a toxic environment in schools for staff and students including leaving predatory staff in place to inflict further harm on new victims.

Every Principal, Director, Associate Superintendent on up has been tainted by these types of practices. They should look into their souls and contemplate the damage they have done to others when they ignored legitimate complaints. Do I think they all should be exposed? Yes - even the ones who have transferred to other jurisdictions for promotions.

Can you support any of your claims? I thought the investigation concluded there was no evidence of wrongdoing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One thing that the Biedleman case highlights is that you change the complainant, the end result of the MCPS decision was the same - do nothing. Despite witnesses and evidence, response to do nothing was supported by top MCPS leadership and the General Counsel’s Office. It was an abuse of power. Why? Because MCPS administrators normally can get away with it 99.9% of the time.

Staff, parents, and students are powerless when trying to exercise their basic civil rights when facing an adversary that has unlimited legal representation and control over their job or educational opportunities. This normal business practice of MCPS to ignore complaints has created a toxic environment in schools for staff and students including leaving predatory staff in place to inflict further harm on new victims.

Every Principal, Director, Associate Superintendent on up has been tainted by these types of practices. They should look into their souls and contemplate the damage they have done to others when they ignored legitimate complaints. Do I think they all should be exposed? Yes - even the ones who have transferred to other jurisdictions for promotions.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing that the Biedleman case highlights is that you change the complainant, the end result of the MCPS decision was the same - do nothing. Despite witnesses and evidence, response to do nothing was supported by top MCPS leadership and the General Counsel’s Office. It was an abuse of power. Why? Because MCPS administrators normally can get away with it 99.9% of the time.

Staff, parents, and students are powerless when trying to exercise their basic civil rights when facing an adversary that has unlimited legal representation and control over their job or educational opportunities. This normal business practice of MCPS to ignore complaints has created a toxic environment in schools for staff and students including leaving predatory staff in place to inflict further harm on new victims.

Every Principal, Director, Associate Superintendent on up has been tainted by these types of practices. They should look into their souls and contemplate the damage they have done to others when they ignored legitimate complaints. Do I think they all should be exposed? Yes - even the ones who have transferred to other jurisdictions for promotions.

Can you support any of your claims? I thought the investigation concluded there was no evidence of wrongdoing?

MCPS's hired lawyers found that nobody involved with the PROMOTION violated MCPS policy or engaged in any intentional misconduct. There was obviously misconduct associated with the investigation of Biedleman. And obviously, anyone should take their findings about the promotion with a grain of salt given who wrote the report.

[Anonymous]

There are alot of admin that get their hollies bullying and firing teachers who want to grow with their profession. Don't get me started with the admin that bully teachers with tasks such as scripting g lesson plans every day. Some teachers are forced to do this time consuming task others get a free pass. There needs to be fairness and less bullying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing that the Biedleman case highlights is that you change the complainant, the end result of the MCPS decision was the same - do nothing. Despite witnesses and evidence, response to do nothing was supported by top MCPS leadership and the General Counsel’s Office. It was an abuse of power. Why? Because MCPS administrators normally can get away with it 99.9% of the time.

Staff, parents, and students are powerless when trying to exercise their basic civil rights when facing an adversary that has unlimited legal representation and control over their job or educational opportunities. This normal business practice of MCPS to ignore complaints has created a toxic environment in schools for staff and students including leaving predatory staff in place to inflict further harm on new victims.

Every Principal, Director, Associate Superintendent on up has been tainted by these types of practices. They should look into their souls and contemplate the damage they have done to others when they ignored legitimate complaints. Do I think they all should be exposed? Yes - even the ones who have transferred to other jurisdictions for promotions.

Can you support any of your claims? I thought the investigation concluded there was no evidence of wrongdoing?

MCPS's hired lawyers found that nobody involved with the PROMOTION violated MCPS policy or engaged in any intentional misconduct. There was obviously misconduct associated with the investigation of Biedleman. And obviously, anyone should take their findings about the promotion with a grain of salt given who wrote the report.

They hired their own lawyers to investigate their wrongdoings, and the expected result is "no evidence of wrongdoings."

[Anonymous]

Has anyone heard that McKnight is on leave?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone heard that McKnight is on leave?

Are you just randomly asking this or did you hear she is on leave?

[Anonymous]

I heard this as well. Medical leave

[Anonymous]

There's also a teacher at Blake who is on leave for .... the kids are talking. I think the whole system stinks and they just take these teachers and shuffle them around or give them paid leave while they figure out how to sweep things under the rug. I'm really disappointed in MCPS

[Anonymous]

Look, everything runs downstream. When there's bullying and abuse of power at the top, is it really any surprise that content specialists, SDT's and other mid-level managers are abusive to teachers, or that teachers also get shuffled around when they mess up? Fact is they may not be moved at all and may stay on their school's leadership team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look, everything runs downstream. When there's bullying and abuse of power at the top, is it really any surprise that content specialists, SDT's and other mid-level managers are abusive to teachers, or that teachers also get shuffled around when they mess up? Fact is they may not be moved at all and may stay on their school's leadership team.

Yep. This is true of any corporation or organization. The leadership sets the tone and the tone in MCPS is simply awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One thing that the Biedleman case highlights is that you change the complainant, the end result of the MCPS decision was the same - do nothing. Despite witnesses and evidence, response to do nothing was supported by top MCPS leadership and the General Counsel’s Office. It was an abuse of power. Why? Because MCPS administrators normally can get away with it 99.9% of the time.

Staff, parents, and students are powerless when trying to exercise their basic civil rights when facing an adversary that has unlimited legal representation and control over their job or educational opportunities. This normal business practice of MCPS to ignore complaints has created a toxic environment in schools for staff and students including leaving predatory staff in place to inflict further harm on new victims.

Every Principal, Director, Associate Superintendent on up has been tainted by these types of practices. They should look into their souls and contemplate the damage they have done to others when they ignored legitimate complaints. Do I think they all should be exposed? Yes - even the ones who have transferred to other jurisdictions for promotions.

This is the truth. Anyone paying attention to MCPS has seen this same thing over and over and over again. The sexual assault cases (Rockville, Damascus), the DUI cases (remember where they tried to pawn off that administrator to a different school and the parents revolted?), corruption, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing that the Biedleman case highlights is that you change the complainant, the end result of the MCPS decision was the same - do nothing. Despite witnesses and evidence, response to do nothing was supported by top MCPS leadership and the General Counsel’s Office. It was an abuse of power. Why? Because MCPS administrators normally can get away with it 99.9% of the time.

Staff, parents, and students are powerless when trying to exercise their basic civil rights when facing an adversary that has unlimited legal representation and control over their job or educational opportunities. This normal business practice of MCPS to ignore complaints has created a toxic environment in schools for staff and students including leaving predatory staff in place to inflict further harm on new victims.

Every Principal, Director, Associate Superintendent on up has been tainted by these types of practices. They should look into their souls and contemplate the damage they have done to others when they ignored legitimate complaints. Do I think they all should be exposed? Yes - even the ones who have transferred to other jurisdictions for promotions.

This is the truth. Anyone paying attention to MCPS has seen this same thing over and over and over again. The sexual assault cases (Rockville, Damascus), the DUI cases (remember where they tried to pawn off that administrator to a different school and the parents revolted?), corruption, etc.

It’s all disgusting. To this day, staff who violated the Code of Conduct for acts that equate to grooming a child for abuse remain on staff despite emails, text messages, and corroborated trips with children off school grounds. These actions were not criminal but they did rise to the level of being grossly inappropriate and multiple violations of the Code of Conduct.

MCPS leaves these types of people in positions until an arrest is made because no one cares about the children in their care. It’s a grossly broken and corrupt school system.

I guess the Biedleman case shows ignoring complaints by teachers occur too. Thank God for the Washington Post reporters who broke this story. Perhaps Karma has finally caught up to those who have allowed such corruption and lack of ethics to prosper in MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look, everything runs downstream. When there's bullying and abuse of power at the top, is it really any surprise that content specialists, SDT's and other mid-level managers are abusive to teachers, or that teachers also get shuffled around when they mess up? Fact is they may not be moved at all and may stay on their school's leadership team.

Yep. This is true of any corporation or organization. The leadership sets the tone and the tone in MCPS is simply awful.

That's weird I'd have nothing but positive experiences at my kid's schools.