MoCo school board ordered to pay $518K to former B-CC High teacher accused of racism

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We need to continue to vote out the county council and BOE members till we get competent ones. This principal should be terminated.

Agreed. But it's hard to see the light with this strategy since we JUST voted out all of the BOE incumbents and installed new ones (Montoya, Zimmerman and Stewart) only for them to IMMEDIATELY fall in line with the status quo.

Also, the County Council is 100% complicit in the dysfunction of the BOE. The E&C Committee coordinates and covers up for MCPS Staff and the BOE. They could use their hearings to bring problems to light or hold MCPS accountable, but they actively avoid that and coordinate with Taylor and his stooges to present massaged and disingenuous information to the public.

[Anonymous]

$518K is nothing
hardly worth anyone's time or attention

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$518K is nothing
hardly worth anyone's time or attention

Glad you enjoy the broken, corrupt status quo.

$500k is not money we should be ok with lighting on fire for incompetence and malfeasance. Raise your standards and expectations.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why is Mooney off the hook?

Because this is Mcps.

Maybe because there are no competent persons to take over. Seems like most of the principals have an EdD or a doctorate in something or another.

LOL

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We need to continue to vote out the county council and BOE members till we get competent ones. This principal should be terminated.

Agreed. But it's hard to see the light with this strategy since we JUST voted out all of the BOE incumbents and installed new ones (Montoya, Zimmerman and Stewart) only for them to IMMEDIATELY fall in line with the status quo.

Also, the County Council is 100% complicit in the dysfunction of the BOE. The E&C Committee coordinates and covers up for MCPS Staff and the BOE. They could use their hearings to bring problems to light or hold MCPS accountable, but they actively avoid that and coordinate with Taylor and his stooges to present massaged and disingenuous information to the public.

The ones who won't tolerate that staus quo will not last as a member. They will either get voted out or will voluntarily not run in reelection(yang could be a recent one).Some use the position to make a return to work outside home and receive a menial 25k which for some members does help with their household income.

[Anonymous]

They are all in bed together. What is baffling is that the image is not looking so good, MCPS, yet MCPS only cares about image. What are you going to do about it, MCPS? A monopoly in the county. #startcharterschools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$518K is nothing
hardly worth anyone's time or attention

Tell it to the teachers who say they have no money for printer paper. Or the principal of my kid's ES who said there's no money for a second teacher or even a para to help despite having 29 kids in a single 3rd grade classroom.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So Mooney keeps his BCC principal job even after saying he invented a quote?

Propose a name for new BCC principal then. Shortage of principals. Most will have to learn on the job. Start a petition if you want a leader change. Complain, you have a right to. Start a movement to if you feel strongly about it, get others onboard

What exactly does the MCPS central office earn its salaries for if not for working on staffing? There's plenty of principals of smaller schools who wouldn't mind an upgrade. There are plenty of APs who would love a promotion to Principal who haven't admitted to lying about a teacher. The question is whether MCPS considers gross mismanagement a firing offense (for Mooney), not whether the pool of replacements exists.

Right! This idea that it is the job of MCPS PARENTS to propose potential replacements for Mooney and not the Director, Associate Superintendent, Chief of Schools and the Superintendent himself is illogical, backwards and ridiculous.

It is the job of that entire chain of people to supervise, discipline and nurture the principal pipeline.

+1 Color me unimpressed with the Taylor culture of "accountability." No one is taking responsibility for anything from the MCPS Board on down. MCPS didn't even make a statement on this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If a teacher had said this to my friends and me, I would have thought it a dig about how we all dress alike. As an adult I can see it might even have been because we were all racially similar.
But I still can't get my head around how we are not teaching children that this truth, thst we did look and dress similarly is hateful and racist. I just can't get my mind around this part.
Yes people of the race often share similar traits. So what?

My second thought is that no teacher in the 80s would have told us to return to our assigned seats---and then explained the reasoning for the command. That's the unspoken problem. Why were the kids out of their assigned seats and arguing with fhe teacher's rules for the classroom?? They should have been sent to the office for not complying with the teacher

Are you a POC?

[Anonymous]

Y'all the decision was handed down Wednesday afternoon. Thursday you begin planning what next. I would expect action or comment from MCPS today or tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Y'all the decision was handed down Wednesday afternoon. Thursday you begin planning what next. I would expect action or comment from MCPS today or tomorrow.

That response is emblematic of what is wrong with MCPS. It was obvious a trial was underway. It was not a secret that testimony was ending. A good comms office would have had draft statements ready, expecting a verdict. Instead they start planning a few days after the action has occurred.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Y'all the decision was handed down Wednesday afternoon. Thursday you begin planning what next. I would expect action or comment from MCPS today or tomorrow.

That response is emblematic of what is wrong with MCPS. It was obvious a trial was underway. It was not a secret that testimony was ending. A good comms office would have had draft statements ready, expecting a verdict. Instead they start planning a few days after the action has occurred.

I don't see why they need to issue a press release about every lawsuit. The supreme court case was different, because it was the supreme court and had national implications.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Y'all the decision was handed down Wednesday afternoon. Thursday you begin planning what next. I would expect action or comment from MCPS today or tomorrow.

That response is emblematic of what is wrong with MCPS. It was obvious a trial was underway. It was not a secret that testimony was ending. A good comms office would have had draft statements ready, expecting a verdict. Instead they start planning a few days after the action has occurred.

I don't see why they need to issue a press release about every lawsuit. The supreme court case was different, because it was the supreme court and had national implications.

And without knowing what the verdict would be, they need to implement their follow-up actions and I imagine they will include that in whatever statement they make. At the very least, I would expect a statement to the BCC community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$518K is nothing
hardly worth anyone's time or attention

How much were attorney fees and staff time dealing with this? It easily could have been a million.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Y'all the decision was handed down Wednesday afternoon. Thursday you begin planning what next. I would expect action or comment from MCPS today or tomorrow.

What makes you expect that from MCPS or the BOE?