Will Thomas Taylor Survive the Massive Changes He is Introducing?

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the reason for not considering candidates from within MCPS? This is a huge school system with complex programs operating concurrently and a huge disparity in social-economic status. How can any outsider grasp this level of complexity quickly and effectively given CO’s incompetence and corruption?

😂😭🤣. Oh, you don’t realize how few people actually want the job.

I really don’t. Look at this forum: so many meaningful and executable suggestions that are often appear as apparent low-hanging fruits that a superintendent can realize and do benefits. A reputable high-school principal within MCPS (often also has a PhD in education) can do a better job.

I get people are reluctant for BOE position as it pays so little. But sup’s salary range is descent for this area, and MC is filled with highly educated people. Why are out of candidate choices?

Plenty of people run for the BOE. It's a board position, not a full-time job. Sup. got a huge pay raise over the previous ones.

As of now there is only one candidate running for any of the four seats.

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Worst superintendent ever

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Anonymous wrote:Montgomery Blair became a magnet decades ago to stem white flight. That is widely known, and has been written about.

Apparently Taylor is not aware even though it happened when he was a HSchooler at BCC (guess he must be very busy with varsity sports and stuff). Like Whitman parents argued here, they didn't want their kids to apply Blair SMCS at the first place due to long commute. Therefore, after subtracting the W's study body, Blair SMCS will decline rapidly. The county can rest back on their own segregation of people-alike.

Exactly this regional plan is just segregation 2.0. They can say whatever they want to try to hide it or pretend it's not the case, but that's what it is.

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Anonymous wrote:The ability for Taylor to survive this depends on we the people, giving him and the BOE enough pressure to make him pay.

But too many people seem convinced by Taylor’s nice guy act.

I can see how the nice-guy act resonated so effectively after McKnight's toxicity. But all these changes he is intent on introducing are just going to cause a lot of problems. Taylor will be gone, one way or another, but we'll be left with a system that he has roiled.

It’s funny reading the continual new threads around this, because some fk you really refuse to realize that while Taylor may be implementing and pushing this, it’s been a request from the community for a long time. Maybe just not you.

The community also wants all HS to be have high expectations and rigor.

Both are lacking in a number of schools for a number of reasons.

The problem is not with the IDEA of the regional program. It's the fact that they are LYING and have FAILED to do thorough prep, research and resource alignment to make good on their promise.

MCPS is lying when they say they can grandfather people with existing programs and stand up all of these new programs, AND have them be programs of equitable quality as their predecessors.

MCPS could not even replicate the success of RM's IB program with the Regional IBs at Watkins Mill, Springbrook and Kennedy. So what makes you think they can do multiples more of that on the current timeline with no additional financial or human resources?

Taylor would argue that the Regional IBs would have been more successful if so many of the county's top students weren't still driving past them to go to RMIB. That seems to be a primary rationale for ending the countywide model in favor of the new regional model.

He's lying. Most of the people who attended RMIB were from W schools and the RM Cluster itself.

Yep. MCPS did a whole slide showing which kids attend different programs. RMIB is mostly Churchill, Wooton, and RM. In the new model, RM, Churchill and Wooton are in a region together along with Rockville. You know they won't cut that IB program at all, even with the regional change. It will be the same as it is now and Churchill and Wooton kids will get even more access to it.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DJVQ56678E2B/$file/Attachment%20D%20SY2025%20Student%20Enrollment%20Countywide%20Programs%20250724.pdf

According to this distribution, after the regional model is implemented, RMIB will be 50% of its current size, Blair SMCS will be 25% of its current size, and Wootton STEM will be 50% of the current Blair SMCS size, assuming the exactly same criteria are imposed as of right now. Calling real estate agents: you can see which zip codes to recommend your future home buyers, right?

Why are you assuming there wouldn't be any changes in which students apply to which programs?

Of course they will loosen the criteria and water down the programs, but my point is RMIB and the new Wootton STEM programs won't be watered down as much, compared to Blair SMCS if the class size remains the same. For Blair SMCS, the fact that there was no draw from waitlist in the past two years means that there are barely any turned-down offer from Whitman, BCC, or Einstein. Since BCC IB is currently strong and is on the track to become stronger when becoming regional, and it's closer to Whitman, my bet is those families from Whitman that claim they do not want to even give it a try to Blair SMCS will feel more appealing to try BCC-IB in the future. Blair SMCS might attract more Einstein students in the future per se.

I think my point is the regional model on the long run would bring benefit to the social-economically wealthy regions/schools, and cause more harms to social-economically poorer regions/schools.

Exactly. I'm beginning to think Taylor is bankrolled by the real estate industry. So much of Moco already is, if you follow the money.

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Anonymous wrote:No MCPS superintendent is going to last more than a couple years anymore. Pretty soon I expect we won't be able to get qualified candidates.

Pretty soon we will have no vetting candidates like Des Moines Iowa

Except Des Moines did vetting their candidates and their hire. Don’t make stupid comments about a really serious issue.

They outsourced it to a 3rd party who didn't do due diligence and now they are suing that party. Some vetting they did

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Anonymous wrote:Montgomery Blair became a magnet decades ago to stem white flight. That is widely known, and has been written about.

Apparently Taylor is not aware even though it happened when he was a HSchooler at BCC (guess he must be very busy with varsity sports and stuff). Like Whitman parents argued here, they didn't want their kids to apply Blair SMCS at the first place due to long commute. Therefore, after subtracting the W's study body, Blair SMCS will decline rapidly. The county can rest back on their own segregation of people-alike.

Exactly this regional plan is just segregation 2.0. They can say whatever they want to try to hide it or pretend it's not the case, but that's what it is.

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Worst superintendent ever - +1,000.

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Anonymous wrote:No MCPS superintendent is going to last more than a couple years anymore. Pretty soon I expect we won't be able to get qualified candidates.

Pretty soon we will have no vetting candidates like Des Moines Iowa

Except Des Moines did vetting their candidates and their hire. Don’t make stupid comments about a really serious issue.

They outsourced it to a 3rd party who didn't do due diligence and now they are suing that party. Some vetting they did

It's a good lesson in school boards doing greater diligence. I wish our board had done greater diligence with Taylor -- there was controversy over his high school programming scheme in Stafford County Public Schools. Ultimately turned out to be a huge fail with transportation in that school district, and they have only four high schools.