Board of Education Board Business Meeting Sept 25 Thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG! Lin Li did his homework and absolutely SKEWERED Taylor and his Regional Programs model and showed how it was a copy and paste failure from Stafford! How embarrassing.

Where is this? Good for her.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OMG! Lin Li did his homework and absolutely SKEWERED Taylor and his Regional Programs model and showed how it was a copy and paste failure from Stafford! How embarrassing.

Where is this? Good for her.

Lin Li is a man. And his comments are 1 hour and 27 minutes into the meeting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:1:27:30 - last testimony today dug out more story from Taylor’s previous serviced district.

1:39:54 - Silvestre clarified again that BOE will not vote on regional model. I interpreted that as BOE has forseen alarming signs and they want to get away from sharing accountability of the decision.

Any other highlights?

That is BS and no one should let her/the Board get away with that. MCPS sent an email out literally today once again saying "The Board of Education is expected to take final action in December" on the program analysis. If they think it's not going to go well and they just want to wash their hands of responsibility for it, that is cowardly.

Okay, I watched Silvestre saying it and maybe I'm wrong but it sounded like she might actually genuinely not know they are supposed to vote on it? (Which is problematic in a whole different way, of course.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1:27:30 - last testimony today dug out more story from Taylor’s previous serviced district.

1:39:54 - Silvestre clarified again that BOE will not vote on regional model. I interpreted that as BOE has forseen alarming signs and they want to get away from sharing accountability of the decision.

Any other highlights?

That is BS and no one should let her/the Board get away with that. MCPS sent an email out literally today once again saying "The Board of Education is expected to take final action in December" on the program analysis. If they think it's not going to go well and they just want to wash their hands of responsibility for it, that is cowardly.

Okay, I watched Silvestre saying it and maybe I'm wrong but it sounded like she might actually genuinely not know they are supposed to vote on it? (Which is problematic in a whole different way, of course.)

Shouldn't board staff have corrected her if she was wrong?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG! Lin Li did his homework and absolutely SKEWERED Taylor and his Regional Programs model and showed how it was a copy and paste failure from Stafford! How embarrassing.

We need Mr Li on the BOE. Great job.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1:27:30 - last testimony today dug out more story from Taylor’s previous serviced district.

1:39:54 - Silvestre clarified again that BOE will not vote on regional model. I interpreted that as BOE has forseen alarming signs and they want to get away from sharing accountability of the decision.

Any other highlights?

That is BS and no one should let her/the Board get away with that. MCPS sent an email out literally today once again saying "The Board of Education is expected to take final action in December" on the program analysis. If they think it's not going to go well and they just want to wash their hands of responsibility for it, that is cowardly.

Okay, I watched Silvestre saying it and maybe I'm wrong but it sounded like she might actually genuinely not know they are supposed to vote on it? (Which is problematic in a whole different way, of course.)

Shouldn't board staff have corrected her if she was wrong?

No, she really runs the show. No one will go against her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG! Lin Li did his homework and absolutely SKEWERED Taylor and his Regional Programs model and showed how it was a copy and paste failure from Stafford! How embarrassing.

Where is this? Good for her.

Lin Li is a man. And his comments are 1 hour and 27 minutes into the meeting.

Thanks. Sorry about the mistake. He was fantastic.

[Anonymous]

So do folks think Taylor's bit between 1:46:30-1:47:30 about the program analysis and how they seek and value community feedback was him intentionally lying and spinning to try to convince the Board that they're doing something they're not? Or has his staff convinced him they're doing it and he believes it?

Either way it pisses me off that after the Poolesville student and others flagged the glaring issues with MCPS moving forward a pre-planned agenda and making almost no efforts to seriously solicit and consider feedback, Taylor could just say "yes we are" and the Board probably believes him.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1:27:30 - last testimony today dug out more story from Taylor’s previous serviced district.

1:39:54 - Silvestre clarified again that BOE will not vote on regional model. I interpreted that as BOE has forseen alarming signs and they want to get away from sharing accountability of the decision.

Any other highlights?

That is BS and no one should let her/the Board get away with that. MCPS sent an email out literally today once again saying "The Board of Education is expected to take final action in December" on the program analysis. If they think it's not going to go well and they just want to wash their hands of responsibility for it, that is cowardly.

Okay, I watched Silvestre saying it and maybe I'm wrong but it sounded like she might actually genuinely not know they are supposed to vote on it? (Which is problematic in a whole different way, of course.)

Shouldn't board staff have corrected her if she was wrong?

No, she really runs the show. No one will go against her.

How does Karla run the show? She's no longer Board President.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1:27:30 - last testimony today dug out more story from Taylor’s previous serviced district.

1:39:54 - Silvestre clarified again that BOE will not vote on regional model. I interpreted that as BOE has forseen alarming signs and they want to get away from sharing accountability of the decision.

Any other highlights?

That is BS and no one should let her/the Board get away with that. MCPS sent an email out literally today once again saying "The Board of Education is expected to take final action in December" on the program analysis. If they think it's not going to go well and they just want to wash their hands of responsibility for it, that is cowardly.

Okay, I watched Silvestre saying it and maybe I'm wrong but it sounded like she might actually genuinely not know they are supposed to vote on it? (Which is problematic in a whole different way, of course.)

Yang said essentially the same thing in the email pasted into the other thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So do folks think Taylor's bit between 1:46:30-1:47:30 about the program analysis and how they seek and value community feedback was him intentionally lying and spinning to try to convince the Board that they're doing something they're not? Or has his staff convinced him they're doing it and he believes it?

Either way it pisses me off that after the Poolesville student and others flagged the glaring issues with MCPS moving forward a pre-planned agenda and making almost no efforts to seriously solicit and consider feedback, Taylor could just say "yes we are" and the Board probably believes him.

It's just part of Taylor and the BOE's schtick of saying they care about and value community feedback with their words, while they fail to back that up with their actions. It's just gaslighting, which is always a special on the MCPS menu.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The testimony from Laura Civilico from the Poolesville Humanities program calling MCPS out for not engaging in authentic and real community and public engagement was fantastic! So impressed with her.

Good for her!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:1:27:30 - last testimony today dug out more story from Taylor’s previous serviced district.

1:39:54 - Silvestre clarified again that BOE will not vote on regional model. I interpreted that as BOE has forseen alarming signs and they want to get away from sharing accountability of the decision.

Any other highlights?

That is BS and no one should let her/the Board get away with that. MCPS sent an email out literally today once again saying "The Board of Education is expected to take final action in December" on the program analysis. If they think it's not going to go well and they just want to wash their hands of responsibility for it, that is cowardly.

Okay, I watched Silvestre saying it and maybe I'm wrong but it sounded like she might actually genuinely not know they are supposed to vote on it? (Which is problematic in a whole different way, of course.)

Shouldn't board staff have corrected her if she was wrong?

No, she really runs the show. No one will go against her.

How does Karla run the show? She's no longer Board President.

Because everyone defers to her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought the Poolesville student speaking at 1:05:13 was powerful in calling out the way MCPS is not incorporating real community input in the program analysis.

Her calling on the Board to "compel" MCPS to pay attention to community feedback, and keep Poolesville Humanities countywide, is probably what Silvestre was responding to when she was talking about the program analysis being a superintendent responsibility? But if the Board can't push MCPS to seek genuine community input on something like this, what are they even there for?

Impressive presentation. She nailed it!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1:27:30 - last testimony today dug out more story from Taylor’s previous serviced district.

1:39:54 - Silvestre clarified again that BOE will not vote on regional model. I interpreted that as BOE has forseen alarming signs and they want to get away from sharing accountability of the decision.

Any other highlights?

That is BS and no one should let her/the Board get away with that. MCPS sent an email out literally today once again saying "The Board of Education is expected to take final action in December" on the program analysis. If they think it's not going to go well and they just want to wash their hands of responsibility for it, that is cowardly.

Okay, I watched Silvestre saying it and maybe I'm wrong but it sounded like she might actually genuinely not know they are supposed to vote on it? (Which is problematic in a whole different way, of course.)

Shouldn't board staff have corrected her if she was wrong?

No, she really runs the show. No one will go against her.

How does Karla run the show? She's no longer Board President.

Because everyone defers to her.

I don't think so.