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Anonymous wrote:I thought the reason we gave her millions of our tax dollars regardless of corruption was for her to f off and go have fun retiring on our hard earned money. Why cant hiring personell admit this is a ridiculously moronic and hazardous decision? I hope someone is fired for this but my intuition says this is more reflective of the degraded standards and inaccountibility to the people who fund thwir bloated salaries.
Meanwhile we had schools without copy paper or toilet paper. Wish we did have to give Monifa McKnight a payout but I guess the increased cost of lawyers would have made up the difference. As a future employer, UMD had to know she was trouble.
She is trouble with connections at the state level to get that UMD job, about which the dean of the College of Education is well aware. McKnight has a thinly conceived job description at UMD, and she won't be in charge of supervising people or programs. While she is probably making decent money, she can't easily destroy lives at UMD. If she is smart, she will keep her head down and just draw that paycheck for however long that fellowship carries her.
She was a fine super. She took a bullet for the BoE, but blaming her for the failures of her predecessors hardly seems fair.
What McKnight did was lie to the BOE about the whole Beidleman mess. Once she lied to the board, and those members found out about her lies through the investigations, that was it. She was shown the exit door, despite a few personal friends on the board pushing for support.
The BOE only let her go after public outrage. Otherwise they didn't care.
They scapegoated her to cover their failings.
The BoE's primary failing was giving her the job to begin with, when she wasn't ready. From Day 1, she demonstrated that she took the job too soon and didn't have the requisite experience or judgement to carry the district forward. It is always hard to "come up" from inside, given various histories and loyalties and back-scratching, but Dr. McKnight was particularly unsuited to be elevated because she had more to hide, and was less secure in her role.
That's why you saw her immediately bring in a bunch of cronies to scaffold her. That a move made out of weakness, not strength.
I did get the impression that a few people weren't happy about having an AA woman in charge.
Source for this? I work for MCPS and I never heard or saw anything regarding her race being a factor from anyone. Thousands of teachers and administrators together voted no confidence because we believed she was not capable, didn’t communicate well with anyone, and implemented polices and programs without proper vetting.
It was perfectly clear just from reading the complaints on this board.
I will admit that the comments that used her first name were racialized but the actual substance of the complaints about Dr. McKnight were not. She was a weak leader who rewarded loyalty over competence, which came back to bite her in the a** when the Biedelman stuff hit the Washington Post. Her office had the chance to handle those investigations correctly, but chose to put the investigator on leave rather than actually clean house.
For anyone who has been in a toxic workplace with an insecure leader, it was clear what was happening inside the CO. A culture of cover-ups and CYA, indecipherable memos full of jargon, and a pass-the-buck failure to take responsibility.
I think Felder did a good job cleaning up that mess, and hope that Taylor can pick up where Felder left off.
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