New Interim Superintendent Monique Felder

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://montgomeryperspective.com/2024/02/05/new-proposed-interim-superintendent-has-baggage/

Worrisome info on her past…

Why are people so insistent on her being competent to do the job?

Why are people so insistent on her being incompetent to do the job?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://montgomeryperspective.com/2024/02/05/new-proposed-interim-superintendent-has-baggage/

Worrisome info on her past…

Why are people so insistent on her being competent to do the job?

Why are people so insistent on her being incompetent to do the job?

Based on her somewhat shady history. And based on her being fired from that last position.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What happened to Darryl L. Williams? Wasn't he in MCPS before? Did he leave after M.McKnight became Super?

He left MCPS 2019.

What did he know if any about the allegations against certain MCPS employees before he left in 2019?

"He then began a 25-year tenure with Montgomery County Public Schools as a mathematics teacher. He was promoted and successfully served as principal of three high schools, and ultimately rose to an associate superintendency. As associate superintendent, he and his directors supervised eight high schools, two specialty schools, 15 middle schools, and 44 elementary schools."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://montgomeryperspective.com/2024/02/05/new-proposed-interim-superintendent-has-baggage/

Worrisome info on her past…

Why are people so insistent on her being competent to do the job?

Why are people so insistent on her being incompetent to do the job?

Based on her somewhat shady history. And based on her being fired from that last position.

Why wait until the last minute? We must insist that people are incompetent before they have spent even one day on the job!!!!!!!! Also, completely unrelatedly, why are qualified candidates unwilling to apply to be superintendent of MCPS?

[Anonymous]

Why didn't the public, you know us taxpaying people of MoCo, get to ask Dr.Felder questions before she was placed as Interim? Because the BOe is supposed to vet her. Did they? What did they ask her? The families of students need to know!

[Anonymous]

The leaders can be the lower levels doing the important work of educating, taking ownership. Superintendent is a role for someone who is good at politics, don’t need him/her to lead if the lower levels take pride and step up. ok, so I’m smoking something

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Anonymous wrote:I’m really impressed by Felder’s achievements in Tennessee and North Carolina in terms of raising literacy, SAT and graduation rates. But there are some points raised by MCPS student journalists in a recent article about her that raised some questions.

Sounds like she was not licensed to work in Tennessee but did after her old mentor hired her. Seems like an important oversight. How could a school district admin not realize that you needed a state license?

The mentor who brought her to Tennessee was fired for various reasons “including failing to report sexual harassment claims.” Was she working there at the time? In what role and what was her involvement in this situation?

She failed to report a $4,000 consulting fee but that seems like a legit honest mistake and it looks like MCPS did look in to that.

The MCPS hiring process was not transparent and there seem to be some implications they cut corners. Someone from the board and MCPS needs to explain this further.

Who exactly will hold this Board accountable? MoCo Council? Ha! The Board have A LOT of explaining to do. The unredacted IG report needs to be released. That is our taxpayer's $ that was spent! Just as all industries are facing shortage, MoCO is facing one in finding competent humans to run for BOE and do the job they are elected to do.

The voters. That's how the system works.

You need to understand the system before you post. With incumbents running with no opposition, they will be back on the BOE. Some districts do not have more than one candidate so they will be elected as well. Why don't you run?

That's a strong indication that most people are happy with things and the few malcontents that post her are in the minority.

+1000

I think is a strong indication that the position as it is structured does not attract the best candidates.

It should be full time with a salary and staff equivalent to county council.

And the power to change that rest with the people (ie voters). If all you’re going to do is complain about problems on DCUM, then you are effectively showing you are fine with things as they are.

[Anonymous]

Here is my question-

Is this appointment truly "interim" or is this the most obvious case of she will be named the full superintendent in a few months?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone who edits for a living for over twenty years, there are quite a few issues with this piece of “journalism,” boiling down to selective bias, contextual issues, and just poor construction, never mind the lack of proper citations or any follow-up investigative work.

You know that a high school kid wrote it, not a professional editor with two decades of experience, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is my question-

Is this appointment truly "interim" or is this the most obvious case of she will be named the full superintendent in a few months?

National shortage of qualified Supers. They say they will have conduct a national search for permanent. Didnt they do same bringing in Starr from CT? But subsequent Supers have been from within. Felder is an insider coming from outside most recently - a hybrid --Starr/Smith/McKnight - rolled into one.

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Whining over $4K..Really? That's nothing in the consulting world. It seems like a honest mistake that's made all the time. It's not like the Transportation Manager that stole $1.2M.

I'm from TN and Nashville has real MAGA types and they hated Dr. Joseph and everyone he brought with him. Had no idea what they were up against. I'm sure that experience was eye opening. Be happy you have someone that is familiar with the in workings of MCPS. No one is leaving their gig mid year!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here is my question-

Is this appointment truly "interim" or is this the most obvious case of she will be named the full superintendent in a few months?

National shortage of qualified Supers. They say they will have conduct a national search for permanent. Didnt they do same bringing in Starr from CT? But subsequent Supers have been from within. Felder is an insider coming from outside most recently - a hybrid --Starr/Smith/McKnight - rolled into one.

Smith was not from within MCPS. He had been superintendent at Calvert County, then was the interim state superintendent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why didn't the public, you know us taxpaying people of MoCo, get to ask Dr.Felder questions before she was placed as Interim? Because the BOe is supposed to vet her. Did they? What did they ask her? The families of students need to know!

Because that would be too much for the BOE to plan. And McPs employee -Cram -would be there to shut people down.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is my question-

Is this appointment truly "interim" or is this the most obvious case of she will be named the full superintendent in a few months?

National shortage of qualified Supers. They say they will have conduct a national search for permanent. Didnt they do same bringing in Starr from CT? But subsequent Supers have been from within. Felder is an insider coming from outside most recently - a hybrid --Starr/Smith/McKnight - rolled into one.

Smith was not from within MCPS. He had been superintendent at Calvert County, then was the interim state superintendent.

We had national-state insider-mcps insider for the last three.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is my question-

Is this appointment truly "interim" or is this the most obvious case of she will be named the full superintendentu in a few months?

Agreed- how long have previous (national not just state/MCPS) searches taken? Even if they started it last year, I imagine the public facing search takes time and hopefully includes lots of vetting. The BOE needs to be super transparent about the search and who they are considering.