New Blair principal

[Anonymous]

Blair is a massive school. I doubt they would pick someone incompetent for the job. That being said, there are slim pickings these days for the principal positions.

[Anonymous]

Have they all climbed the ladder to central by making their teachers flee the profession as support is a thing of the past and coverups and optics are more important than education these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blair is a massive school. I doubt they would pick someone incompetent for the job. That being said, there are slim pickings these days for the principal positions.

You seriously do not know MCPS if you are making that claim with a straight face.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blair is a massive school. I doubt they would pick someone incompetent for the job. That being said, there are slim pickings these days for the principal positions.

There are slim pickings...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Blair is a massive school. I doubt they would pick someone incompetent for the job. That being said, there are slim pickings these days for the principal positions.

There are slim pickings...

There are slim pickings if you only look at internal candidates. MCPS refuses to HS principals from outside of the system.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Blair is a massive school. I doubt they would pick someone incompetent for the job. That being said, there are slim pickings these days for the principal positions.

There are slim pickings...

There are slim pickings if you only look at internal candidates. MCPS refuses to HS principals from outside of the system.

That’s crazy. We need new blood.

[Anonymous]

There was clearly a battle between two slime balls, Monteleone and Moran, and the bigger slime ball, Moran, won. So Damon gets kicked backed to the school and slippery Pete keeps MCPS in the gutter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pissed about this. We already went through this at TPMS when an excellent principal well liked by staff, with a very well run school, was replaced by one who is doing her best to destroy the place and has overseen many staff departures and initiated a major rupture in the school community.

Now it sounds like we’re in for more of the same at Blair.

You can have Deeny back. She brought a middle school mindset to a well functioning high school and has been grinding morale down for four years being over controlling and refusing to listen to any ideas she didn’t come up with herself. Monteleone was far better than she is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Demotion for sure. I guess time will tell and his actions will show who he really is!

Nah. This is general down sizing of CO. I heard he didn’t really want to leave RM at the time. Considering they didn’t find anyone suitable last year for Blair, Monteleone may be the best person for the job and he may be ready to go back to being a HS principal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was clearly a battle between two slime balls, Monteleone and Moran, and the bigger slime ball, Moran, won. So Damon gets kicked backed to the school and slippery Pete keeps MCPS in the gutter.

and the Moran basher has entered the room…

[Anonymous]

Here’s the plawsuit against Monteleone:
https://marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/legalopinions/2019/032019/Hoover.Op.19-12.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the plawsuit against Monteleone:
https://marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/legalopinions/2019/032019/Hoover.Op.19-12.pdf

So Monteleone was not found to have bullied this teacher.

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Anonymous wrote:How did he get in at Richard Montgomery? What did parents and staff say of his time there?

His time at RM was pre-pandemic. Pre-pandemic experience has not translated well over to post-pandemic MCPS. So I would not weight that time and experience too heavily.

That makes no sense. That’s the period of time where he had responsibility for a large high school. It’s directly relevant. If it wasn’t he shouldn’t have got the job.

Did you read the words that I wrote? Schools, and children, are fundamentally different and changed post-pandemic. This is not something most people knowledgable about the state of public education are debating.

I didn't say it didn't count at all, I merely said I wouldn't weight it "too heavily," since we have seen over the last few years how pre-pandemic experience has NOT translated well in managing and running the post-pandemic MCPS environment.

Useless comment. Go ahead and delete it.


He was involved in multiple lawsuits before the pandemic and accused of bullying and covering up test scores. Then he was in charge during the pandemic and bungled the MCPS response leaving students without instruction for weeks. Poor performance and poor management will show no matter what is going on.

And yet, despite all of that, Chief of Schools Peter Moran and Superintendent Thomas Taylor handpicked him for this position. And the BOE rubber-stamped their choice.

So what does that say about the system?

It says that MCPS was desperate to fill the position, having not filled it when Renay Johnson retired a year ago, and with the end of May 2025 upon us. It says that Taylor was looking to off-ramp Monteleone. It's unlikely Monteleone had his hand voluntarily raised to get the job as Blair principal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pissed about this. We already went through this at TPMS when an excellent principal well liked by staff, with a very well run school, was replaced by one who is doing her best to destroy the place and has overseen many staff departures and initiated a major rupture in the school community.

Now it sounds like we’re in for more of the same at Blair.

You can have Deeny back. She brought a middle school mindset to a well functioning high school and has been grinding morale down for four years being over controlling and refusing to listen to any ideas she didn’t come up with herself. Monteleone was far better than she is.

Huh, I thought people generally liked Alicia Deeny.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There was clearly a battle between two slime balls, Monteleone and Moran, and the bigger slime ball, Moran, won. So Damon gets kicked backed to the school and slippery Pete keeps MCPS in the gutter.

and the Moran basher has entered the room…

Not the pp, but his record is looking pretty terrible.