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New Super Being Announced Monday
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Yes, this would be refreshing. Let's just get back to good old fashioned educating our kids, please. I want teachers to have the resources that they need to educate our kids and let's please try to do this in safe schools where violence and sexual harassment aren't tolerated. |
Anonymous
I hear people say they want the confidence of a mediocre white man; I say why go for half measures? Shoot for the confidence of an incompetent black woman! Grab the brass ring! |
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Read the comments from those in Stafford County. They’re glad he’s gone.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/06/17/montgomery-school-superintendent-thomas-taylor/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2KX7rfVfhYFaqe-h3N5it-Wi7mNBi423gAkMXJFvyQQu6ygyNxSdSwZgg_aem_4saMJZYxj2g8DchOkvjqOg Here’s one comment… Taylor increased the CO staff twofold in Stafford. Brought in friends and removed very loyal and strong leaders. Stafford was once a top rated school system. He did all he could do to tear it apart and build his resume and leave before the results became well known. Academics down- discipline problems up- staff moral down- departures- up. Don’t take my word - check the data. One more… Ummm…this guy gutted Stafford’s central school district’s office devolving so much work back on to school buildings and teachers that SCPS has been hemorrhaging teachers for the past three years. He started his tenure, in Stafford, insisting on an expensive ceremony wherein he forced every teacher in the county out to the Fredericksburg baseball stadium in the August heat to hear a pep talk by some guy who, I guess, used to live in Stafford. This was after multiple people tried to stop him telling him that heat like that was dangerous for many of the teachers who would have no escape from the sun. Lo and behold: he didn’t listen, didn’t provide enough water or shade/cooling areas, and multiple people ended up in the hospital for heat exhaustion that day. Taylor removed a beloved principal from a high school who had led the school through the pandemic saying that they “didn’t have enough experience” and replaced that principal with his secretary’s husband who had been principal of a middle school for a couple of years. That guy presided over the biggest fight the school has ever seen and made such a mess of it that it ended up on the national news. This is the guy that Montgomery County thinks can lead the largest school system in the state. Ummm…. |
Anonymous
Well, it can't be worse than Monifa. We can only go up from here. |
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OK, carve out violence and sexual harassment. What about racism and gendered harassment? Extreme poverty? What does it mean to "get back to good old fashioned educating our kids"? Separate but equal? |
Anonymous
| Any thoughts on the impact this choice will have on the upcoming boundary redrawing? |
Anonymous
They're building two new high schools. MCPS has to redraw the boundaries no matter what. How would this supe build two new high schools without redrawing the boundaries? |
Anonymous
I was wondering about that too. I went to school in the 1970s and 1980s, and sexual harassment was definitely tolerated. |
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LOL. Starr's idea of being able to do his job is to do not much of anything. He didn't do much at MCPS, and afterwards, at PDK, International, where he stayed just long enough to empty the organization of its cash reserves. Josh, you needed to fund-raise at PDK, but that's the hard work and it's not your thing. Starr moved to The Center for Model Schools, formerly the International Center for Leadership in Education, operated by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. That didn't work out either because that is a sales job for curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Not sure what he is doing these days, other than posting to social media. |
Anonymous
Wait, one says he gutted the central office staff and the other says he doubled it? They can't both be right. Does anyone know which one is true? |
ModeratelyMoco
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To my knowledge, we were the only ones who reported on the heat incident.
The petition only had a total of 5 signatures. "The only negative thing we have been able to find about Dr. Taylor is this petition with 5 signatures from an August 2022 employee teambuilding event that allegedly led to heat related illnesses of some attendees." https://moderatelymoco.com/new-mcps-superintendent-announced-dr-thomas-w-taylor/ |
Anonymous
Let me guess, is this Janis? Starr is still at the Center for Model Schools. You need to find another hobby other than stalking and bashing on a superintendent who left ten years ago. He’s busy having an interesting, varied and successful career. For the record, I thought he was a fantastic superintendent. I’m far from the only mcps teacher who missed him when he left. |