MOCO BOE update: Beidleman Report summary

[Anonymous]

I hope JB is sitting somewhere realizing all the drama and pain he has caused these people and not just the social studies teacher who is questionable. If this guy doesn’t realize at this point how his many years of psychopathic narcissistic behavior has ruined peoples lives he should be mentally institutionalized.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A friend of mine works for Central and said it is a hot mess. Everyone is freaking out right now. McKnight needs to get it together

Who does your friend in CO blame for the hot mess? Monifa?

I’m not sure who she blames for the mess. She did not say. She said it is very hard to get work done because everyone is freaking out and people in supervisory positions keep changing or being moved out or around and no one knows who to get clearance from for different things. And she said principals are frustrated because they are getting minimal or no support from Central presently due to Central Office being in complete disarray

[Anonymous]

Can principals get support from the Board of Education or Council? What kind of support are they looking for?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For anyone ignoring how broken MCPS is:

https://www.mymcmedia.org/mcea-on-redacted-beidleman-report-mcpss-central-office-culture-is-corrupt-and-corrosive/

MCEA burned their credibility supporting BOE candidates that didn’t support them back. They honestly would have been better off endorsing and getting folks like Steven Austin and Ester Wells on the BOE who would share their belief that it is corrupt and would actually hold MCPS accountable. Karla Silvestre standing arm-in-arm with McKnight through this scandal is a big red flag.

No one would have been better off with Steven Austin.

That's right. Anyone who is corrupt would not be better off because S. Austin is actually an ethical person who wants to do what's right, unlike you MCPS apologists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For anyone ignoring how broken MCPS is:

https://www.mymcmedia.org/mcea-on-redacted-beidleman-report-mcpss-central-office-culture-is-corrupt-and-corrosive/

MCEA burned their credibility supporting BOE candidates that didn’t support them back. They honestly would have been better off endorsing and getting folks like Steven Austin and Ester Wells on the BOE who would share their belief that it is corrupt and would actually hold MCPS accountable. Karla Silvestre standing arm-in-arm with McKnight through this scandal is a big red flag.

No one would have been better off with Steven Austin.

This. That is not the direction that the unhappy parents posting here that I know want MCPS and the Board of Ed to go. The posters who I know are liberal, left-leaning people who simply want competency, honesty and accountability. They don’t want steve Austin-types on the Board. They don’t want book banning and they respect others’ choice of pronouns. They embrace all sorts of different families and think it’s wonderful that we’re all different and can learn from one another. They’re pro-diversity, pro-inclusivity. They want candidates of any race, religion, etc. who know what they’re doing, and they would like to see more emphasis on academics. I know many demoralized MCPS employees who feel powerless, so they post here as well.

And what makes you this that Austin doesn't want those things? Are you calling him racist? Stop slandering him.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email just went out that McKnight has been in the hospital this week and the COO is temporarily acting superintendent. So I guess the calling in sick was real.

Look, I wish Dr. McKnight the best and hope she heals quickly. Also, I think she is the wrong person for this job. She's far too enmeshed with the bad actors to be a credible "new broom" in a system that badly needs a clean sweeping.

She lost the trust of teachers a while back, and she's lost the trust of many parents and community members in her handling of this mess.

Agree. Not to mention that she’s been in way over her head and seems to lack leadership qualities that the job demands.

That's nonsense. Just because the previous super ignored the Biedleman stuff when it was happening doesn't matter. I get you don't have been on a crusade against McKnight since day one but please try and focus on facts here.

Because it's been a few pages since a fact check, let's reiterate that while Biedelman's sexual harassment and bullying spanned multiple Superintendents, the actual reporting of the abuse, and the subsequent promotion, all happened under Dr. McKnight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For anyone ignoring how broken MCPS is:

https://www.mymcmedia.org/mcea-on-redacted-beidleman-report-mcpss-central-office-culture-is-corrupt-and-corrosive/

MCEA burned their credibility supporting BOE candidates that didn’t support them back. They honestly would have been better off endorsing and getting folks like Steven Austin and Ester Wells on the BOE who would share their belief that it is corrupt and would actually hold MCPS accountable. Karla Silvestre standing arm-in-arm with McKnight through this scandal is a big red flag.

No one would have been better off with Steven Austin.

That's right. Anyone who is corrupt would not be better off because S. Austin is actually an ethical person who wants to do what's right, unlike you MCPS apologists.

83% of MoCo voters preferred other candidates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For anyone ignoring how broken MCPS is:

https://www.mymcmedia.org/mcea-on-redacted-beidleman-report-mcpss-central-office-culture-is-corrupt-and-corrosive/

MCEA burned their credibility supporting BOE candidates that didn’t support them back. They honestly would have been better off endorsing and getting folks like Steven Austin and Ester Wells on the BOE who would share their belief that it is corrupt and would actually hold MCPS accountable. Karla Silvestre standing arm-in-arm with McKnight through this scandal is a big red flag.

No one would have been better off with Steven Austin.

That's right. Anyone who is corrupt would not be better off because S. Austin is actually an ethical person who wants to do what's right, unlike you MCPS apologists.

83% of MoCo voters preferred other candidates.

Correction: 87% of MoCo voters preferred other candidates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For anyone ignoring how broken MCPS is:

https://www.mymcmedia.org/mcea-on-redacted-beidleman-report-mcpss-central-office-culture-is-corrupt-and-corrosive/

MCEA burned their credibility supporting BOE candidates that didn’t support them back. They honestly would have been better off endorsing and getting folks like Steven Austin and Ester Wells on the BOE who would share their belief that it is corrupt and would actually hold MCPS accountable. Karla Silvestre standing arm-in-arm with McKnight through this scandal is a big red flag.

No one would have been better off with Steven Austin.

That's right. Anyone who is corrupt would not be better off because S. Austin is actually an ethical person who wants to do what's right, unlike you MCPS apologists.

83% of MoCo voters preferred other candidates.

Correction: 87% of MoCo voters preferred other candidates.

Because more than half those voters are asleep at the wheel and would rather listen at the folks who were calling him names and lying about him. This is what happens when we keep voting for the same people. Look at where we are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email just went out that McKnight has been in the hospital this week and the COO is temporarily acting superintendent. So I guess the calling in sick was real.

Look, I wish Dr. McKnight the best and hope she heals quickly. Also, I think she is the wrong person for this job. She's far too enmeshed with the bad actors to be a credible "new broom" in a system that badly needs a clean sweeping.

She lost the trust of teachers a while back, and she's lost the trust of many parents and community members in her handling of this mess.

Agree. Not to mention that she’s been in way over her head and seems to lack leadership qualities that the job demands.

That's nonsense. Just because the previous super ignored the Biedleman stuff when it was happening doesn't matter. I get you don't have been on a crusade against McKnight since day one but please try and focus on facts here.

My first concern about McKnights leadership qualities arose after the Magruder shooting. While understandably it was a shocking and disturbing situation that would have tested any leader, her response was deeply concerning to me. At first she was MIA for hours and communication to MCPS families was delayed. Once she surfaced for the press conference she, had a deer in headlights look and spent her time to speak making excuses for the shooter. She did not express anger about what this kid did nor express concern about the victim. As a recognition of how badly she screwed up, the next day she had to do a repeat where she finally said things like “this is unacceptable”.

I looked at her then and thought that maybe she just needed time and experience.

Well, she has had a lot of time since then and her leadership has not improved and a lot of the issues evident in her response to the Magruder scandal are evident in the Biedelman scandal.

There are many qualities that seem to be lacking, but first and foremost what she seems to lack is a strong EQ, which is probably why she needs so much PR support, because her instincts that drive her decision making are just off and do not seem driven by values that most people recognize.

Whatever compels her to respond to a sexual harassment scandal by publicly announcing that she’s spoken with victims when she hasn’t is the same thing that compels her to stand up in front of cameras after a school shooting and make excuses for the shooter.

These are behaviors that are just incompatible with good leadership and it’s something about her personality that just doesn’t not appear fixable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For anyone ignoring how broken MCPS is:

https://www.mymcmedia.org/mcea-on-redacted-beidleman-report-mcpss-central-office-culture-is-corrupt-and-corrosive/

MCEA burned their credibility supporting BOE candidates that didn’t support them back. They honestly would have been better off endorsing and getting folks like Steven Austin and Ester Wells on the BOE who would share their belief that it is corrupt and would actually hold MCPS accountable. Karla Silvestre standing arm-in-arm with McKnight through this scandal is a big red flag.

No one would have been better off with Steven Austin.

This. That is not the direction that the unhappy parents posting here that I know want MCPS and the Board of Ed to go. The posters who I know are liberal, left-leaning people who simply want competency, honesty and accountability. They don’t want steve Austin-types on the Board. They don’t want book banning and they respect others’ choice of pronouns. They embrace all sorts of different families and think it’s wonderful that we’re all different and can learn from one another. They’re pro-diversity, pro-inclusivity. They want candidates of any race, religion, etc. who know what they’re doing, and they would like to see more emphasis on academics. I know many demoralized MCPS employees who feel powerless, so they post here as well.

The problem is that the sorts of moderate outcomes that people want are only achievable in politics where there is negotiation between people with divergent viewpoints.

The BOE should not be in a cozy relationship with MCPS and it’s an abdication of their oversight responsibility to be holding joint press conferences with MCPS as this historic scandal unfolds.

I personally don’t agree with 99% of his agenda, but one S. Austin on the BOE could, for example, be just enough to balance the BOE in a way that produces better results in areas where there are an alignment of interests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email just went out that McKnight has been in the hospital this week and the COO is temporarily acting superintendent. So I guess the calling in sick was real.

Look, I wish Dr. McKnight the best and hope she heals quickly. Also, I think she is the wrong person for this job. She's far too enmeshed with the bad actors to be a credible "new broom" in a system that badly needs a clean sweeping.

She lost the trust of teachers a while back, and she's lost the trust of many parents and community members in her handling of this mess.

Agree. Not to mention that she’s been in way over her head and seems to lack leadership qualities that the job demands.

That's nonsense. Just because the previous super ignored the Biedleman stuff when it was happening doesn't matter. I get you don't have been on a crusade against McKnight since day one but please try and focus on facts here.

My first concern about McKnights leadership qualities arose after the Magruder shooting. While understandably it was a shocking and disturbing situation that would have tested any leader, her response was deeply concerning to me. At first she was MIA for hours and communication to MCPS families was delayed. Once she surfaced for the press conference she, had a deer in headlights look and spent her time to speak making excuses for the shooter. She did not express anger about what this kid did nor express concern about the victim. As a recognition of how badly she screwed up, the next day she had to do a repeat where she finally said things like “this is unacceptable”.

I looked at her then and thought that maybe she just needed time and experience.

Well, she has had a lot of time since then and her leadership has not improved and a lot of the issues evident in her response to the Magruder scandal are evident in the Biedelman scandal.

There are many qualities that seem to be lacking, but first and foremost what she seems to lack is a strong EQ, which is probably why she needs so much PR support, because her instincts that drive her decision making are just off and do not seem driven by values that most people recognize.

Whatever compels her to respond to a sexual harassment scandal by publicly announcing that she’s spoken with victims when she hasn’t is the same thing that compels her to stand up in front of cameras after a school shooting and make excuses for the shooter.

These are behaviors that are just incompatible with good leadership and it’s something about her personality that just doesn’t not appear fixable.

She wasn’t MIA during Magruder, she was in College Park at a hotel with the Board of Education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email just went out that McKnight has been in the hospital this week and the COO is temporarily acting superintendent. So I guess the calling in sick was real.

Look, I wish Dr. McKnight the best and hope she heals quickly. Also, I think she is the wrong person for this job. She's far too enmeshed with the bad actors to be a credible "new broom" in a system that badly needs a clean sweeping.

She lost the trust of teachers a while back, and she's lost the trust of many parents and community members in her handling of this mess.

Agree. Not to mention that she’s been in way over her head and seems to lack leadership qualities that the job demands.

That's nonsense. Just because the previous super ignored the Biedleman stuff when it was happening doesn't matter. I get you don't have been on a crusade against McKnight since day one but please try and focus on facts here.

My first concern about McKnights leadership qualities arose after the Magruder shooting. While understandably it was a shocking and disturbing situation that would have tested any leader, her response was deeply concerning to me. At first she was MIA for hours and communication to MCPS families was delayed. Once she surfaced for the press conference she, had a deer in headlights look and spent her time to speak making excuses for the shooter. She did not express anger about what this kid did nor express concern about the victim. As a recognition of how badly she screwed up, the next day she had to do a repeat where she finally said things like “this is unacceptable”.

I looked at her then and thought that maybe she just needed time and experience.

Well, she has had a lot of time since then and her leadership has not improved and a lot of the issues evident in her response to the Magruder scandal are evident in the Biedelman scandal.

There are many qualities that seem to be lacking, but first and foremost what she seems to lack is a strong EQ, which is probably why she needs so much PR support, because her instincts that drive her decision making are just off and do not seem driven by values that most people recognize.

Whatever compels her to respond to a sexual harassment scandal by publicly announcing that she’s spoken with victims when she hasn’t is the same thing that compels her to stand up in front of cameras after a school shooting and make excuses for the shooter.

These are behaviors that are just incompatible with good leadership and it’s something about her personality that just doesn’t not appear fixable.

She wasn’t MIA during Magruder, she was in College Park at a hotel with the Board of Education.

This is a lie. MCPS said that she was stuck in traffic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email just went out that McKnight has been in the hospital this week and the COO is temporarily acting superintendent. So I guess the calling in sick was real.

Look, I wish Dr. McKnight the best and hope she heals quickly. Also, I think she is the wrong person for this job. She's far too enmeshed with the bad actors to be a credible "new broom" in a system that badly needs a clean sweeping.

She lost the trust of teachers a while back, and she's lost the trust of many parents and community members in her handling of this mess.

Agree. Not to mention that she’s been in way over her head and seems to lack leadership qualities that the job demands.

That's nonsense. Just because the previous super ignored the Biedleman stuff when it was happening doesn't matter. I get you don't have been on a crusade against McKnight since day one but please try and focus on facts here.

My first concern about McKnights leadership qualities arose after the Magruder shooting. While understandably it was a shocking and disturbing situation that would have tested any leader, her response was deeply concerning to me. At first she was MIA for hours and communication to MCPS families was delayed. Once she surfaced for the press conference she, had a deer in headlights look and spent her time to speak making excuses for the shooter. She did not express anger about what this kid did nor express concern about the victim. As a recognition of how badly she screwed up, the next day she had to do a repeat where she finally said things like “this is unacceptable”.

I looked at her then and thought that maybe she just needed time and experience.

Well, she has had a lot of time since then and her leadership has not improved and a lot of the issues evident in her response to the Magruder scandal are evident in the Biedelman scandal.

There are many qualities that seem to be lacking, but first and foremost what she seems to lack is a strong EQ, which is probably why she needs so much PR support, because her instincts that drive her decision making are just off and do not seem driven by values that most people recognize.

Whatever compels her to respond to a sexual harassment scandal by publicly announcing that she’s spoken with victims when she hasn’t is the same thing that compels her to stand up in front of cameras after a school shooting and make excuses for the shooter.

These are behaviors that are just incompatible with good leadership and it’s something about her personality that just doesn’t not appear fixable.

She wasn’t MIA during Magruder, she was in College Park at a hotel with the Board of Education.

This is a lie. MCPS said that she was stuck in traffic.

Traffic between College Park and Magruder, no?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email just went out that McKnight has been in the hospital this week and the COO is temporarily acting superintendent. So I guess the calling in sick was real.

You believe that? I don’t for a second. She is probably too afraid to show her face in CO or she struck a deal with the board to go out on medical leave rather than actually be fired

DP and I don't believe it because I actually heard from someone who works with (not for) MCPS administration that she's been MIA.