Will Thomas Taylor Survive the Massive Changes He is Introducing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He doesn't seem like much of a listener, and is not making adjustments with program assignments based on community input.

Taylor doesn't seem to have learned from his mistakes in Stafford County, VA, having introduced regional programming in that school district's four high schools. Stafford County's school district's transportation was completely overwhelmed by the changes and suffered a massive fail the first year of implementation. Thomas Taylor was long gone, having pushed through the changes and then left town.

https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1501700

Transportation in MCPS has not been consistently consulted on how implementation of bus transportation for our new regional programming will work with our much larger, more complex system in a heavily urbanized environment.

Taylor is heavy into being a change agent, but the logistics and administration of these changes don't seem to register. He can't even ensure that summer staff are paid on time and or ensure that routine security processing takes place on a timely basis.

How long will Montgomery County want him around? Maybe we need someone with experience operating a large school system.

I don’t think he wants to. I think he’ll get this Potemkin education village propped up, then go look for a job at a university teaching future superintendents. He sees MCPS as a stepping stone. But what he’s stepping on is our kids.

Exactly. He is tearing apart our community. I think you are right about his going for a university position next. He might not even stay 4 years here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He doesn't seem like much of a listener, and is not making adjustments with program assignments based on community input.

Taylor doesn't seem to have learned from his mistakes in Stafford County, VA, having introduced regional programming in that school district's four high schools. Stafford County's school district's transportation was completely overwhelmed by the changes and suffered a massive fail the first year of implementation. Thomas Taylor was long gone, having pushed through the changes and then left town.

https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1501700

Transportation in MCPS has not been consistently consulted on how implementation of bus transportation for our new regional programming will work with our much larger, more complex system in a heavily urbanized environment.

Taylor is heavy into being a change agent, but the logistics and administration of these changes don't seem to register. He can't even ensure that summer staff are paid on time and or ensure that routine security processing takes place on a timely basis.

How long will Montgomery County want him around? Maybe we need someone with experience operating a large school system.

I don’t think he wants to. I think he’ll get this Potemkin education village propped up, then go look for a job at a university teaching future superintendents. He sees MCPS as a stepping stone. But what he’s stepping on is our kids.

Exactly. He is tearing apart our community. I think you are right about his going for a university position next. He might not even stay 4 years here.

MCPS teachers and parents will drive away any superintendent after 2 years.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do we have a superintendent with no experience with stellar school districts in moco anyways??

Implementing regional programs should be done slowly, one or two programs at a time before completely disbanding otherwise extremely successful county wide programs. Hire the county wide program teachers to teach curriculum over the summers to other teachers to implement in new regional programs. This is going to be a disaster for moco.

I completely agree. Also the people from MCPS who are running this program study are not experts in how to do it. They really need an outside group to help on this, which at least they are doing for the boundary study.

[Anonymous]

Central office employees have woken up on a glorious Sunday !

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He will survive as he's the yes man or no man to the BEO and does exactly what they want.

Actually, I don't see Taylor bending his thinking in response to BOE members who are questioning the planning. Some of them, I'm thinking Zimmerman and Montoya, are people that Taylor can't brush off quickly enough in meetings.

Zimmerman is totally checked out. She is the lightweight among a slew of board members filled with lightweights.

[Anonymous]

No, he will fail but he will just move on. The families of MCPS kids are the eventual victims.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He doesn't seem like much of a listener, and is not making adjustments with program assignments based on community input.

Taylor doesn't seem to have learned from his mistakes in Stafford County, VA, having introduced regional programming in that school district's four high schools. Stafford County's school district's transportation was completely overwhelmed by the changes and suffered a massive fail the first year of implementation. Thomas Taylor was long gone, having pushed through the changes and then left town.

https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1501700

Transportation in MCPS has not been consistently consulted on how implementation of bus transportation for our new regional programming will work with our much larger, more complex system in a heavily urbanized environment.

Taylor is heavy into being a change agent, but the logistics and administration of these changes don't seem to register. He can't even ensure that summer staff are paid on time and or ensure that routine security processing takes place on a timely basis.

How long will Montgomery County want him around? Maybe we need someone with experience operating a large school system.

You know kids under 18 can use public busses for free. Not sure why these young adults can't manage this.

Because it can tackle multiple busses and several hours to get cross county and not all communities have bus routes or safe walks to bus stops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He will survive as he's the yes man or no man to the BEO and does exactly what they want.

Actually, I don't see Taylor bending his thinking in response to BOE members who are questioning the planning. Some of them, I'm thinking Zimmerman and Montoya, are people that Taylor can't brush off quickly enough in meetings.

Zimmerman is totally checked out. She is the lightweight among a slew of board members filled with lightweights.

Which is so sad and unfortunate because her biggest pitch during the campaign was that as a current teacher, she would bring a real, relevant, first-hand perspective when it comes to oversight of the board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He will survive as he's the yes man or no man to the BEO and does exactly what they want.

Actually, I don't see Taylor bending his thinking in response to BOE members who are questioning the planning. Some of them, I'm thinking Zimmerman and Montoya, are people that Taylor can't brush off quickly enough in meetings.

Zimmerman is totally checked out. She is the lightweight among a slew of board members filled with lightweights.

Which is so sad and unfortunate because her biggest pitch during the campaign was that as a current teacher, she would bring a real, relevant, first-hand perspective when it comes to oversight of the board.

PP you responded to and I agree--I voted for her hoping she'd bring an important perspective to the Board. Instead, she barely pays attention and has very little to add.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He doesn't seem like much of a listener, and is not making adjustments with program assignments based on community input.

Taylor doesn't seem to have learned from his mistakes in Stafford County, VA, having introduced regional programming in that school district's four high schools. Stafford County's school district's transportation was completely overwhelmed by the changes and suffered a massive fail the first year of implementation. Thomas Taylor was long gone, having pushed through the changes and then left town.

https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1501700

Transportation in MCPS has not been consistently consulted on how implementation of bus transportation for our new regional programming will work with our much larger, more complex system in a heavily urbanized environment.

Taylor is heavy into being a change agent, but the logistics and administration of these changes don't seem to register. He can't even ensure that summer staff are paid on time and or ensure that routine security processing takes place on a timely basis.

How long will Montgomery County want him around? Maybe we need someone with experience operating a large school system.

You know kids under 18 can use public busses for free. Not sure why these young adults can't manage this.

Because it can tackle multiple busses and several hours to get cross county and not all communities have bus routes or safe walks to bus stops.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He doesn't seem like much of a listener, and is not making adjustments with program assignments based on community input.

Taylor doesn't seem to have learned from his mistakes in Stafford County, VA, having introduced regional programming in that school district's four high schools. Stafford County's school district's transportation was completely overwhelmed by the changes and suffered a massive fail the first year of implementation. Thomas Taylor was long gone, having pushed through the changes and then left town.

https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1501700

Transportation in MCPS has not been consistently consulted on how implementation of bus transportation for our new regional programming will work with our much larger, more complex system in a heavily urbanized environment.

Taylor is heavy into being a change agent, but the logistics and administration of these changes don't seem to register. He can't even ensure that summer staff are paid on time and or ensure that routine security processing takes place on a timely basis.

How long will Montgomery County want him around? Maybe we need someone with experience operating a large school system.

You know kids under 18 can use public busses for free. Not sure why these young adults can't manage this.

This is an ignorant comment. One of the options for my kids’ home high school assignment would take two transfers and a half mile walk or three transfers and a shorter walk. Just because you’re privileged enough to live near your assigned school and/or bus routes that take you there doesn’t mean that everyone else is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He doesn't seem like much of a listener, and is not making adjustments with program assignments based on community input.

Taylor doesn't seem to have learned from his mistakes in Stafford County, VA, having introduced regional programming in that school district's four high schools. Stafford County's school district's transportation was completely overwhelmed by the changes and suffered a massive fail the first year of implementation. Thomas Taylor was long gone, having pushed through the changes and then left town.

https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1501700

Transportation in MCPS has not been consistently consulted on how implementation of bus transportation for our new regional programming will work with our much larger, more complex system in a heavily urbanized environment.

Taylor is heavy into being a change agent, but the logistics and administration of these changes don't seem to register. He can't even ensure that summer staff are paid on time and or ensure that routine security processing takes place on a timely basis.

How long will Montgomery County want him around? Maybe we need someone with experience operating a large school system.

You know kids under 18 can use public busses for free. Not sure why these young adults can't manage this.

This is an ignorant comment. One of the options for my kids’ home high school assignment would take two transfers and a half mile walk or three transfers and a shorter walk. Just because you’re privileged enough to live near your assigned school and/or bus routes that take you there doesn’t mean that everyone else is.

Similar situation for my kid. 8 mins drive on two very busy roads (no walkways). 30 mins walking to bus station + bus ride for only one stop + another 30 mins walking to the base HS, again on no-walkway busy roads. My DC was born late summer, so won't be able to drive by themselves until senior year (and assuming you can afford an additional car and insurance, which is apparently not the case for many families in this county). So yes, that post is very ignorant.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Agreed. His amiable personality helped very much on clearing up the negative energies. But then his ambition and ignorance start to kick in and will drive MCPS into disaster.