Taylor Secret Meetings
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Anonymous
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Apparently Taylor is meeting with just the parents of Flora Singer and Woodlin elementary schools tonight.
Anybody else get him to meet with the parents at your school? |
Anonymous
How is that a "secret " meeting? |
Anonymous
| Meeting with them about what? |
Anonymous
They have MCPS administrators in their community. That gets them lots of perks. |
Anonymous
| He has met with SCES and SSIMS as well. Pretty sure he is open to meeting with schools that are affected by the current CIP. |
Anonymous
| He's been doing a whole bunch of these meetings with schools/local PTAs lately... this is maybe the 5th or 6th I personally have heard about just based on my own networks alone, so I assume there are way more I haven't heard about. Presumably it is his strategy to try to counteract opposition to his program analysis and CIP proposals to increase his chances of getting it through... I have heard he is very slick in person and does a good job of making people feel like he is listening and making hard but correct choices for MCPS. |
Anonymous
He is very skilled at making you FEEL heard but then doing absolutely nothing substantive to follow-up on the concerns raised to him. |
Anonymous
The 15 minutes Zoom meeting? |
Anonymous
| My bet is that he is going to try to paint the Sligo Middle School renovation (to accommodate hundreds of displaced SSIMS students) as a real gift to the Sligo Middle School community, as part of a broader effort to prevent Flora Singer/Woodlin families from joining the growing opposition to SSIMS/SCES closing. |
Anonymous
Yeah, for those of us trying to fight for our communities, getting him to come to our schools is not some positive extra perk... this is him attempting to undercut frustration and make people feel like he is on their side, he and Central Office are being thoughtful/responsible and doing a great job, and no better choices are available/reasonable so we should just go along with his plans. |
Anonymous
No, he was in person at PTA meetings for both last week. |
Anonymous
| They really need keep ssims as is. 1,000 students is too many to move around. Sorry, too late to have an issue with the purple line there. The poor school has already lived with the construction for 10 years. He’s right that they should have done something before but it’s too late to fix the mistake so the board needs to say nope, please figure it out with what you have. |
Anonymous
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Isn't the Superintendent having an open meeting at a school the opposite of secret?
I am not saying I love everything he is doing but haven't people been demanding opportunities to be heard? |
Anonymous
I agree that it’s not a secret and would be valuable if he actually listened to people who attend and gave people notice so they could make arrangements to attend. My recent experience at one of these not-so-secret meetings was that: (1) it was planned with only a few days notice, at an inconvenient time for many working parents (2) he was NOT open to hearing opposition to his plan — the whole ordeal was just a formality and a way to cover his ass when people accuse him of not engaging with the community (although his meeting with my child’s school occurred after the relevant public comment period ended, and I think that was done intentionally on Taylor’s part). |
Anonymous
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I heard they had been drawing middle school students out of the class room to teach them the "regional model" and how good it is. I would be furious if my DC is forced to be "brainwashed" without beforehand notice and parents opt-in.
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