MoCo OIG Blasts Taylor and MCPS for lies over backlog and non-compliance with background and CPS checks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Parents: contact your STATE elected Delegates and State Senators

Yep, each family who are concerned

Like the 4 of you on DCUM?

MCPS arrogance. You never change.

You need to take your meds.

mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Members/Index/senate/county
-DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s inexcusable and bizarre. I worked in PGCPS before MCPS. They have mandatory new teacher orientation where they fingerprint you, run your background check, the whole thing. When I got hired in MCPS the new teacher orientation was a ton of speeches, kid performances, and then almost a full day of getting curriculum slides read to me. MCPS gets away with SO much because of reputation. State test security and special education services need to be investigated next.

That singing bus stops here

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s inexcusable and bizarre. I worked in PGCPS before MCPS. They have mandatory new teacher orientation where they fingerprint you, run your background check, the whole thing. When I got hired in MCPS the new teacher orientation was a ton of speeches, kid performances, and then almost a full day of getting curriculum slides read to me. MCPS gets away with SO much because of reputation. State test security and special education services need to be investigated next.

An actual background check is going to take longer. Maybe a discussion PG schools need to have too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s inexcusable and bizarre. I worked in PGCPS before MCPS. They have mandatory new teacher orientation where they fingerprint you, run your background check, the whole thing. When I got hired in MCPS the new teacher orientation was a ton of speeches, kid performances, and then almost a full day of getting curriculum slides read to me. MCPS gets away with SO much because of reputation. State test security and special education services need to be investigated next.

Wow. I keep thinking MCPS cannot surprise me with its unseriousness and they keep surprising me.

farce

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s inexcusable and bizarre. I worked in PGCPS before MCPS. They have mandatory new teacher orientation where they fingerprint you, run your background check, the whole thing. When I got hired in MCPS the new teacher orientation was a ton of speeches, kid performances, and then almost a full day of getting curriculum slides read to me. MCPS gets away with SO much because of reputation. State test security and special education services need to be investigated next.

MCPS fingerprints all new employees. You know, unless youre lying, that MCPS orientation is AFTER youve been cleared. It states this on all orientation materials, you can't attend until you have been. This report is speaking to cps checks not fingerprints or background checks, they are separate

No, the report is not JUST speaking to CPS checks. It also speaks to background checks. You need to re-read the report before yourself before you attempt to accuse and chastise others for getting information wrong.

No 'attempt' here. The information that mcps does not screen new employees is wrong. Full stop. You can't even register or enroll in payroll before your screening is completed.

The poster you are attempting to correct did NOT claim that MCPS "does not screen new employees." The poster compared the serious, business-focused nature of new teacher orientation at PGCPS, which included the fingerprint and background screening, compared to MCPS's light, fluffy, child-like new teacher orientation, which focused on content delivery from reading slides verbatim.

Your reading comprehension is lacking. Go back to school.

Are you and the PP telling us that in PGCPS you get to do orientation ( which would include having access), without even being previously cleared? You get fingerprinting, background screening at orientation?
How "serious, business-focused" is that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Washington Post coverage is out now: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/05/montgomery-schools-background-checks/

It includes an interview with Limarzi who says:

Limarzi said in an interview the tone of the superintendent’s response letter was unusual, but she maintained that her office’s work was factually accurate. She noted that the school system agreed to most of the report’s recommendations.

“I think a lot of this back-and-forth really is a distraction, and it’s to get people to talk about something other than the deficiencies that we identified and that are contained in the report,” she said.

Is there a week when mcps is not on WaPo? The community of 160k are asking for a boring news week and year. Please.

It's actually rare that the Post covers MCPS at all any more. It's mostly smaller local sites that do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s inexcusable and bizarre. I worked in PGCPS before MCPS. They have mandatory new teacher orientation where they fingerprint you, run your background check, the whole thing. When I got hired in MCPS the new teacher orientation was a ton of speeches, kid performances, and then almost a full day of getting curriculum slides read to me. MCPS gets away with SO much because of reputation. State test security and special education services need to be investigated next.

MCPS fingerprints all new employees. You know, unless youre lying, that MCPS orientation is AFTER youve been cleared. It states this on all orientation materials, you can't attend until you have been. This report is speaking to cps checks not fingerprints or background checks, they are separate

No, the report is not JUST speaking to CPS checks. It also speaks to background checks. You need to re-read the report before yourself before you attempt to accuse and chastise others for getting information wrong.

No 'attempt' here. The information that mcps does not screen new employees is wrong. Full stop. You can't even register or enroll in payroll before your screening is completed.

The poster you are attempting to correct did NOT claim that MCPS "does not screen new employees." The poster compared the serious, business-focused nature of new teacher orientation at PGCPS, which included the fingerprint and background screening, compared to MCPS's light, fluffy, child-like new teacher orientation, which focused on content delivery from reading slides verbatim.

Your reading comprehension is lacking. Go back to school.

DP.
No, the poster was trying to purposefully mislead.
Read between the lines. It's obvious it's your reading comprehension that is lacking.

Agreed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s inexcusable and bizarre. I worked in PGCPS before MCPS. They have mandatory new teacher orientation where they fingerprint you, run your background check, the whole thing. When I got hired in MCPS the new teacher orientation was a ton of speeches, kid performances, and then almost a full day of getting curriculum slides read to me. MCPS gets away with SO much because of reputation. State test security and special education services need to be investigated next.

MCPS fingerprints all new employees. You know, unless youre lying, that MCPS orientation is AFTER youve been cleared. It states this on all orientation materials, you can't attend until you have been. This report is speaking to cps checks not fingerprints or background checks, they are separate

No, the report is not JUST speaking to CPS checks. It also speaks to background checks. You need to re-read the report before yourself before you attempt to accuse and chastise others for getting information wrong.

No 'attempt' here. The information that mcps does not screen new employees is wrong. Full stop. You can't even register or enroll in payroll before your screening is completed.

The poster you are attempting to correct did NOT claim that MCPS "does not screen new employees." The poster compared the serious, business-focused nature of new teacher orientation at PGCPS, which included the fingerprint and background screening, compared to MCPS's light, fluffy, child-like new teacher orientation, which focused on content delivery from reading slides verbatim.

Your reading comprehension is lacking. Go back to school.

Are you and the PP telling us that in PGCPS you get to do orientation ( which would include having access), without even being previously cleared? You get fingerprinting, background screening at orientation?
How "serious, business-focused" is that?

Same question I had

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s inexcusable and bizarre. I worked in PGCPS before MCPS. They have mandatory new teacher orientation where they fingerprint you, run your background check, the whole thing. When I got hired in MCPS the new teacher orientation was a ton of speeches, kid performances, and then almost a full day of getting curriculum slides read to me. MCPS gets away with SO much because of reputation. State test security and special education services need to be investigated next.

That singing bus stops here

MCPS Orientation always included 2 to 3 days, curriculum slides are included yes, it is a must, so is classroom set up training, looking at data, discussion of teaching moves, equity and technology basics. It is information heavy, I'm glad they find time to play videos of student interviews so that staff can understand the population they are about to teach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s inexcusable and bizarre. I worked in PGCPS before MCPS. They have mandatory new teacher orientation where they fingerprint you, run your background check, the whole thing. When I got hired in MCPS the new teacher orientation was a ton of speeches, kid performances, and then almost a full day of getting curriculum slides read to me. MCPS gets away with SO much because of reputation. State test security and special education services need to be investigated next.

MCPS fingerprints all new employees. You know, unless youre lying, that MCPS orientation is AFTER youve been cleared. It states this on all orientation materials, you can't attend until you have been. This report is speaking to cps checks not fingerprints or background checks, they are separate

No, the report is not JUST speaking to CPS checks. It also speaks to background checks. You need to re-read the report before yourself before you attempt to accuse and chastise others for getting information wrong.

No 'attempt' here. The information that mcps does not screen new employees is wrong. Full stop. You can't even register or enroll in payroll before your screening is completed.

The poster you are attempting to correct did NOT claim that MCPS "does not screen new employees." The poster compared the serious, business-focused nature of new teacher orientation at PGCPS, which included the fingerprint and background screening, compared to MCPS's light, fluffy, child-like new teacher orientation, which focused on content delivery from reading slides verbatim.

Your reading comprehension is lacking. Go back to school.

So MCPS = word salad
and
PGCPS = meat salad
?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Washington Post coverage is out now: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/05/montgomery-schools-background-checks/

It includes an interview with Limarzi who says:

Limarzi said in an interview the tone of the superintendent’s response letter was unusual, but she maintained that her office’s work was factually accurate. She noted that the school system agreed to most of the report’s recommendations.

“I think a lot of this back-and-forth really is a distraction, and it’s to get people to talk about something other than the deficiencies that we identified and that are contained in the report,” she said.

Is there a week when mcps is not on WaPo? The community of 160k are asking for a boring news week and year. Please.

It's actually rare that the Post covers MCPS at all any more. It's mostly smaller local sites that do.

Biedleman? School lockdowns? Parents want to opt out kids reading materials? Supreme court ruling? This?

[Anonymous]

All the CPS check requires is a filled out notarized form. Maybe if MCPS included a station at orientation with a notary and the required paper work, we wouldn’t have almost 5,000 employees who haven’t been properly screened. Those of you saying that this is a farce or making excuses ….are you MCPS staff? Central office? I don’t understand why anyone would defend this. We should all want our students to be safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s inexcusable and bizarre. I worked in PGCPS before MCPS. They have mandatory new teacher orientation where they fingerprint you, run your background check, the whole thing. When I got hired in MCPS the new teacher orientation was a ton of speeches, kid performances, and then almost a full day of getting curriculum slides read to me. MCPS gets away with SO much because of reputation. State test security and special education services need to be investigated next.

MCPS fingerprints all new employees. You know, unless youre lying, that MCPS orientation is AFTER youve been cleared. It states this on all orientation materials, you can't attend until you have been. This report is speaking to cps checks not fingerprints or background checks, they are separate

No, the report is not JUST speaking to CPS checks. It also speaks to background checks. You need to re-read the report before yourself before you attempt to accuse and chastise others for getting information wrong.

No 'attempt' here. The information that mcps does not screen new employees is wrong. Full stop. You can't even register or enroll in payroll before your screening is completed.

The poster you are attempting to correct did NOT claim that MCPS "does not screen new employees." The poster compared the serious, business-focused nature of new teacher orientation at PGCPS, which included the fingerprint and background screening, compared to MCPS's light, fluffy, child-like new teacher orientation, which focused on content delivery from reading slides verbatim.

Your reading comprehension is lacking. Go back to school.

DP.
No, the poster was trying to purposefully mislead.
Read between the lines. It's obvious it's your reading comprehension that is lacking.

I’m the poster and I assure you I was not trying to mislead. I was just sharing my experience. The attitude that MCPS is infallible needs to change. I don’t know how we can make improvements when there are so many people that refuse to admit when there are issues. That mindset is why employees were still filling out paper time sheets up until last year. Other districts aren’t having these problems so MCPS needs to adapt and get with the times.

MCPS’ issues are no different than any other district. They are just much bigger so everything is amplified.

I’m not saying there aren’t concerns but they are similar to what is going on across the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All the CPS check requires is a filled out notarized form. Maybe if MCPS included a station at orientation with a notary and the required paper work, we wouldn’t have almost 5,000 employees who haven’t been properly screened. Those of you saying that this is a farce or making excuses ….are you MCPS staff? Central office? I don’t understand why anyone would defend this. We should all want our students to be safe.

That's the only conclusion I can draw. And if they are MCPS employees, (most likely CO and/or admin) it's alarming that they're defending this serious breach of trust in the first place, and then desperate enough to come and fight anonymously with online critics about this major systemic failure in the second place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s inexcusable and bizarre. I worked in PGCPS before MCPS. They have mandatory new teacher orientation where they fingerprint you, run your background check, the whole thing. When I got hired in MCPS the new teacher orientation was a ton of speeches, kid performances, and then almost a full day of getting curriculum slides read to me. MCPS gets away with SO much because of reputation. State test security and special education services need to be investigated next.

MCPS fingerprints all new employees. You know, unless youre lying, that MCPS orientation is AFTER youve been cleared. It states this on all orientation materials, you can't attend until you have been. This report is speaking to cps checks not fingerprints or background checks, they are separate

No, the report is not JUST speaking to CPS checks. It also speaks to background checks. You need to re-read the report before yourself before you attempt to accuse and chastise others for getting information wrong.

No 'attempt' here. The information that mcps does not screen new employees is wrong. Full stop. You can't even register or enroll in payroll before your screening is completed.

The poster you are attempting to correct did NOT claim that MCPS "does not screen new employees." The poster compared the serious, business-focused nature of new teacher orientation at PGCPS, which included the fingerprint and background screening, compared to MCPS's light, fluffy, child-like new teacher orientation, which focused on content delivery from reading slides verbatim.

Your reading comprehension is lacking. Go back to school.

DP.
No, the poster was trying to purposefully mislead.
Read between the lines. It's obvious it's your reading comprehension that is lacking.

I’m the poster and I assure you I was not trying to mislead. I was just sharing my experience. The attitude that MCPS is infallible needs to change. I don’t know how we can make improvements when there are so many people that refuse to admit when there are issues. That mindset is why employees were still filling out paper time sheets up until last year. Other districts aren’t having these problems so MCPS needs to adapt and get with the times.

MCPS’ issues are no different than any other district. They are just much bigger so everything is amplified.

I’m not saying there aren’t concerns but they are similar to what is going on across the country.

So basically, the equivalent of a first grader's "But everyone else was doing it too, so why do I get in trouble" argument. Seriously? How pathetic.