Renay Johnson retiring from Blair

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What a huge loss of a wonderful leader. There’s almost nobody in the county who can fill her shoes.

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Anonymous wrote:For so few principals to make it past six years says something about MCPS.

And public schools in general. It's sucks to be in the culture wars' crosshairs.

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Anonymous wrote:For so few principals to make it past six years says something about MCPS.

Many of the ones who are retiring were principals for longer than six years, including Johnson.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS is pretty much turning over almost every high school principal in the last 4-5 years, no?

With Johnson retiring, the two longest-serving HS principals will be Beth Thomas at QO and Cary Dimmick at Gaithersburg, who were both appointed in 2018.

Forgot one: Dodd also started at Whitman in 2018.

What about Alicia Deeny at Richard Montgomery?

She came from TPMS late in the pandemic.

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So you think there's no chance they will tap her for the super job? She's probably the most qualified and respected person I can think of in the district.

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Anonymous wrote:So you think there's no chance they will tap her for the super job? She's probably the most qualified and respected person I can think of in the district.

She could be tapped to be an acting director or an acting principal if they have trouble filling all the vacancies in time. But maybe she actually wants to retire!

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Anonymous wrote:So you think there's no chance they will tap her for the super job? She's probably the most qualified and respected person I can think of in the district.

She could be tapped to be an acting director or an acting principal if they have trouble filling all the vacancies in time. But maybe she actually wants to retire!

Seriously, after dealing with the parents. Geez. Let her retire.

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Anonymous wrote:So you think there's no chance they will tap her for the super job? She's probably the most qualified and respected person I can think of in the district.

She could be tapped to be an acting director or an acting principal if they have trouble filling all the vacancies in time. But maybe she actually wants to retire!

Seriously, after dealing with the parents. Geez. Let her retire.

Hold onto your hats folks because more announcements are coming.

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Anonymous wrote:So you think there's no chance they will tap her for the super job? She's probably the most qualified and respected person I can think of in the district.

She could be tapped to be an acting director or an acting principal if they have trouble filling all the vacancies in time. But maybe she actually wants to retire!

Seriously, after dealing with the parents. Geez. Let her retire.

Hold onto your hats folks because more announcements are coming.

And McKnight will get to fill all of them, unfortunately. Doesn’t matter her whole new process or action plan, still boils down to her having the final day of the 2 candidates presented to her by acting directors and assoc supers. Huge conflict of interest

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Anonymous wrote:So you think there's no chance they will tap her for the super job? She's probably the most qualified and respected person I can think of in the district.

She could be tapped to be an acting director or an acting principal if they have trouble filling all the vacancies in time. But maybe she actually wants to retire!

Seriously, after dealing with the parents. Geez. Let her retire.

Hold onto your hats folks because more announcements are coming.

And McKnight will get to fill all of them, unfortunately. Doesn’t matter her whole new process or action plan, still boils down to her having the final day of the 2 candidates presented to her by acting directors and assoc supers. Huge conflict of interest

Or could it be that McK is on way out so they will allow the next Super to fill all positions? Probably won't happen that quickly though.

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Anonymous wrote:What a huge loss of a wonderful leader. There’s almost nobody in the county who can fill her shoes.

Ms Deeny (formerly of TPMS) would be a good choice.

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Parent of Blair alumni student and current Senior student—she truly shows a love for Blair. Will be missed

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Anonymous wrote:So you think there's no chance they will tap her for the super job? She's probably the most qualified and respected person I can think of in the district.

She could be tapped to be an acting director or an acting principal if they have trouble filling all the vacancies in time. But maybe she actually wants to retire!

Seriously, after dealing with the parents. Geez. Let her retire.

Hold onto your hats folks because more announcements are coming.

And McKnight will get to fill all of them, unfortunately. Doesn’t matter her whole new process or action plan, still boils down to her having the final day of the 2 candidates presented to her by acting directors and assoc supers. Huge conflict of interest

The board can prevent that.

[Anonymous]

I was so sad to hear this- parent of two Blair kids and an incoming 9th grader. I was hoping she’d last til my youngest left!

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Anonymous wrote:So you think there's no chance they will tap her for the super job? She's probably the most qualified and respected person I can think of in the district.

She could be tapped to be an acting director or an acting principal if they have trouble filling all the vacancies in time. But maybe she actually wants to retire!

Seriously, after dealing with the parents. Geez. Let her retire.

Hold onto your hats folks because more announcements are coming.

And McKnight will get to fill all of them, unfortunately. Doesn’t matter her whole new process or action plan, still boils down to her having the final day of the 2 candidates presented to her by acting directors and assoc supers. Huge conflict of interest

Will they have enough QUALIFIED administrators to fill all the vacancies? There were 19 vacancies in December. There will be at least 7 more.