Washington Post article about Former Farquhar Administrator

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I feel so bad for the students at Paint Branch, who are about to have *checks notes* their 4th!! principal in 4 years.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree McKnight needs to go. Just one disaster after another. It seems people of the preferred race category get away with anything and get choice positions.

Not the time nor place for the last part of that statement.

It's exactly the right time. White women suffered because of the underlying mentality but who bears the consequences after? The children of Paint Branch. These ultra progressive policies have extremely negative consequences on the very people they are designed to support. The same is true for being soft on crime. Joe Schmo in Potomac with kids in private school don't suffer from these policies.

I'm all.for policies that bring people up but that is not what ultra left policies do. They drag everyone down to a low bar. Look at the state of our schools. We went from being one of the best school systems in the entire nation to a hot mess.

It's not an "ultra-progressive policy" to ignore.complaints of sexual and other workplace harassment. There's a system in place to address these issues, and obviously the system broke down and did not work in this case. It made the victims so despondent that they felt that there was nothing to lose by going to the press.

It.is absolutely shameful that an individual who triggered so many complaints over the years was promoted to a HS principal position.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel so bad for the students at Paint Branch, who are about to have *checks notes* their 4th!! principal in 4 years.

I feel so happy for them that they don't have to suffer under this scum.

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What will ultimately be the outcome for MCPS?
Can they sweep this under the rug or is it too much of a bomb?

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Anonymous wrote:What will ultimately be the outcome for MCPS?
Can they sweep this under the rug or is it too much of a bomb?

I bet top law firms specializing in workplace harassment have been contacting potential plaintiffs.

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This smacks of someone from an ultra-low-represented population in education administration targeted for advancement and let’s just put blinders on to all the unsubstantiated rumors that we’ve heard.

Meanwhile, said candidate knows exactly how much leverage he has as a member of such ultra-low-represented population in education administration and outright flaunts his ability to do whatever the hell he wants with zero fear of repercussions and, to prove his point, gets repeatedly promoted. Until the media gets the story.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d love an ama with that teacher who praised him to wapo (though apparently knew the allegations were true.) girl, you need to run your media decisions by someone else next time.

Most of the staff had no clue he was leaving. I don't know if she was contacted before or after Paint Branch was announced, but she may have been thinking about protecting her own career and not going on record about her fprincipal with negative comments. Many teachers at FMS are on the party scene, but not all. If we're not there, how in the world do we know what's happening? Rumors. So she has heard about it happening (rumor) but never experienced it because it did not happen to her. She should not be silenced just because it does not fit the narrative.

It says she was aware.

Can still be about protecting herself. Why does she need to throw herself under a bus for anyone else? Would the women she worked with do the same for her?

You think the reporters strong armed her into commenting? She could have stayed mum-obviously she’s well within her rights but I bet she regrets it.

Which is why so many staff members did not respond to the reporter at all. At least at FMS. There are enough, they didn't need the rest but there are a lot more who wanted to protect themselves rather than go on record or even verify information off the record.

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Dear God! The fact that so many knew of these allegations and not only dismissed them but PROMOTED him to further positions of power is disgusting.

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Anonymous wrote:This smacks of someone from an ultra-low-represented population in education administration targeted for advancement and let’s just put blinders on to all the unsubstantiated rumors that we’ve heard.

Meanwhile, said candidate knows exactly how much leverage he has as a member of such ultra-low-represented population in education administration and outright flaunts his ability to do whatever the hell he wants with zero fear of repercussions and, to prove his point, gets repeatedly promoted. Until the media gets the story.

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Anonymous wrote:Dear God! The fact that so many knew of these allegations and not only dismissed them but PROMOTED him to further positions of power is disgusting.

The Board of Education recently approved his promotion. I know they are rubberstamps but they have to explain their decision. Will the Apple Ballot endorse any of the incumbents?

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Anonymous wrote:This smacks of someone from an ultra-low-represented population in education administration targeted for advancement and let’s just put blinders on to all the unsubstantiated rumors that we’ve heard.

Meanwhile, said candidate knows exactly how much leverage he has as a member of such ultra-low-represented population in education administration and outright flaunts his ability to do whatever the hell he wants with zero fear of repercussions and, to prove his point, gets repeatedly promoted. Until the media gets the story.

Are there stats on such demographics?

Are black admins really underrepresented?

Note: when calculating representation, one should evaluate it against the demographics of the county…and the black population in the county really isn’t that large. The Latino population is far larger.

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Anonymous wrote:Dear God! The fact that so many knew of these allegations and not only dismissed them but PROMOTED him to further positions of power is disgusting.

The Board of Education recently approved his promotion. I know they are rubberstamps but they have to explain their decision. Will the Apple Ballot endorse any of the incumbents?

Geez, people.

The board has zero visibility on any potential HR actions…but they should. At the very least they should know if any complaints have been filed or investigated. Having said that, I bet any complaints were quietly dismissed.

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Anonymous wrote:Dear God! The fact that so many knew of these allegations and not only dismissed them but PROMOTED him to further positions of power is disgusting.

The Board of Education recently approved his promotion. I know they are rubberstamps but they have to explain their decision. Will the Apple Ballot endorse any of the incumbents?

Geez, people.

The board has zero visibility on any potential HR actions…but they should. At the very least they should know if any complaints have been filed or investigated. Having said that, I bet any complaints were quietly dismissed.

The WaPo article says board members were directly emailed about Beidleman. So if they didn’t know there was an issue before those emails, they did after that. And the fact that they still voted to approve his appointment to PB despite knowing there were complaints about him is damning.

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Anonymous wrote:This smacks of someone from an ultra-low-represented population in education administration targeted for advancement and let’s just put blinders on to all the unsubstantiated rumors that we’ve heard.

Meanwhile, said candidate knows exactly how much leverage he has as a member of such ultra-low-represented population in education administration and outright flaunts his ability to do whatever the hell he wants with zero fear of repercussions and, to prove his point, gets repeatedly promoted. Until the media gets the story.

Are there stats on such demographics?

Are black admins really underrepresented?

Note: when calculating representation, one should evaluate it against the demographics of the county…and the black population in the county really isn’t that large. The Latino population is far larger.

You’re right that Latinos are are larger group than blacks across the county, but there are pockets where blacks make up the majority. And Paint Branch is one of them. I believe Paint Branch is 60% black so I’m sure MCPS was prioritizing a black principal for a majority black school, which is not a bad thing, but they picked the wrong black principal for the job.

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Anonymous wrote:This smacks of someone from an ultra-low-represented population in education administration targeted for advancement and let’s just put blinders on to all the unsubstantiated rumors that we’ve heard.

Meanwhile, said candidate knows exactly how much leverage he has as a member of such ultra-low-represented population in education administration and outright flaunts his ability to do whatever the hell he wants with zero fear of repercussions and, to prove his point, gets repeatedly promoted. Until the media gets the story.

Are there stats on such demographics?

Are black admins really underrepresented?

Note: when calculating representation, one should evaluate it against the demographics of the county…and the black population in the county really isn’t that large. The Latino population is far larger.

PP must mean Black men, as Black women are over-represented in the senior ranks of school administrators. And quite frankly some of the incompetent Black women in senior positions in MCPS need to be shown the door, starting with the superintendent.