MOCO BOE update: Beidleman Report summary

[Anonymous]

MCEA released the missing emails:
https://montgomeryperspective.com/2023/09/18/when-did-mcps-management-know-about-beidleman/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCEA released the missing emails:
https://montgomeryperspective.com/2023/09/18/when-did-mcps-management-know-about-beidleman/

Yes, this was posted here this morning and we've been talking about it all day.

[Anonymous]

It all trickles down. Many principals have teachers on their staff who had been put on administrative leave after a complaint and then returned to their building whenever central office decided it was safe to do so, safe meaning that they didn’t expect anyone to make noise about the teacher’s return. Many principals don’t ask questions when the person comes back, they just take them back. If a principal does make noise about it, which principled ones do, then the teacher will be shipped off to another school. All MCPS principals know it’s just a waiting game and no one is investigating anything. They also know the teachers who are returned to the building dont get any harassment training. These principals are complicit in this horrible culture we have to work in too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It all trickles down. Many principals have teachers on their staff who had been put on administrative leave after a complaint and then returned to their building whenever central office decided it was safe to do so, safe meaning that they didn’t expect anyone to make noise about the teacher’s return. Many principals don’t ask questions when the person comes back, they just take them back. If a principal does make noise about it, which principled ones do, then the teacher will be shipped off to another school. All MCPS principals know it’s just a waiting game and no one is investigating anything. They also know the teachers who are returned to the building dont get any harassment training. These principals are complicit in this horrible culture we have to work in too.

It all trickles down from the top. Is it in the MCPS training or just an unspoken rule that plays out over and over so staff learn the practice?

I bet the Jackson Lewis report and whomever becomes the fall guy for Beidleman will have answers as to how so many in MCPS just stood by and let Beidleman kept sexually harassing and bullying his staff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The common thread is that a bunch of the "key leaders" in MCPS were middle school principals around the same time that McKnight was. They all know each other and apparently McKnight likes to promote her former colleagues:

McKnight: Ridgeview principal 2011-16
Beidleman: Farquhar principal 2014-23
Edwards: MLK principal 2010-15
Dawson: Wood principal 2008-13
Jones: Rosa Parks principal 2009-15
Morris: Farquhar principal 2010-14
Reuben: Banneker principal 2011-14
Sheron: Briggs Chaney principal 2018-20

For every complaint that came in regarding Beidleman, there were superiors who would be in the chain of command that was advised of the complaints. The Principal(s) who supervised him as a teacher and AP to the Director(s) who supervised him when he was Principal and the Director who selected him for Paint Branch. The number of complaints would have also gotten the attention of the Chief(s) of Staff, the Associate Superintendent(s), and most likely at least been known by Superintendent(s). Six years is a long time and people were fluid in these jobs but the outcome was the same - no action by MCPS. Hence there was a long standing practice by many administrators in MCPS to do nothing.

MCPS needs to clean house and bring in new administrators from outside the school system and probably outside Maryland. They have only groomed talent from within for decades, hence why Administrators all ignored repeated complaints.

The thing is they actually have brought in several high level people from outside MCPS over the last year or so.

Deputy Superintendent Murphy, Chief Operating Officer Hull, Chief Academic Officer Pugh, Chief of Staff Stockton, Chief of HR Key: all new to MCPS.

I wonder what they are all thinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It all trickles down. Many principals have teachers on their staff who had been put on administrative leave after a complaint and then returned to their building whenever central office decided it was safe to do so, safe meaning that they didn’t expect anyone to make noise about the teacher’s return. Many principals don’t ask questions when the person comes back, they just take them back. If a principal does make noise about it, which principled ones do, then the teacher will be shipped off to another school. All MCPS principals know it’s just a waiting game and no one is investigating anything. They also know the teachers who are returned to the building dont get any harassment training. These principals are complicit in this horrible culture we have to work in too.

It all trickles down from the top. Is it in the MCPS training or just an unspoken rule that plays out over and over so staff learn the practice?

I bet the Jackson Lewis report and whomever becomes the fall guy for Beidleman will have answers as to how so many in MCPS just stood by and let Beidleman kept sexually harassing and bullying his staff.

The Jackson Lewis report won’t have these answers. Jackson Lewis was hired to represent the board in the investigation, not to conduct an independent investigation. Jackson Lewis will protect the board and whoever in management that the board wants to be protected.

[Anonymous]

I find it odd that the statement from Jackson Lewis doesn’t state the number of staff that knew about the complaints but didn’t act. A number doesn’t name the employees or their positions but it would be an indication of how pervasive the problem is.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if any of the teachers contacted the County Council’s Education Committee to ask for assistance. The recent report about a County Council staff member demonstrates that the hands there aren’t always clean.

It’s also interesting that one of the Jackson Lewis investigators is a a member of the same sorority, AKA, as McKnight and Shebra Evans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It all trickles down. Many principals have teachers on their staff who had been put on administrative leave after a complaint and then returned to their building whenever central office decided it was safe to do so, safe meaning that they didn’t expect anyone to make noise about the teacher’s return. Many principals don’t ask questions when the person comes back, they just take them back. If a principal does make noise about it, which principled ones do, then the teacher will be shipped off to another school. All MCPS principals know it’s just a waiting game and no one is investigating anything. They also know the teachers who are returned to the building dont get any harassment training. These principals are complicit in this horrible culture we have to work in too.

It all trickles down from the top. Is it in the MCPS training or just an unspoken rule that plays out over and over so staff learn the practice?

I bet the Jackson Lewis report and whomever becomes the fall guy for Beidleman will have answers as to how so many in MCPS just stood by and let Beidleman kept sexually harassing and bullying his staff.

The Jackson Lewis report won’t have these answers. Jackson Lewis was hired to represent the board in the investigation, not to conduct an independent investigation. Jackson Lewis will protect the board and whoever in management that the board wants to be protected.

Jackson Lewis:
"There is no evidence that the Board was aware of the pending MCPS investigation, the disposition of that investigation, and/or any other allegations relating to Dr. Beidleman prior to its June 27, 2023 promotional decision.“

The BOE paid Jackson Lewis for this statement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if any of the teachers contacted the County Council’s Education Committee to ask for assistance. The recent report about a County Council staff member demonstrates that the hands there aren’t always clean.

It’s also interesting that one of the Jackson Lewis investigators is a a member of the same sorority, AKA, as McKnight and Shebra Evans.

I am not any sort of apologist, but this is a stretch. AKA has more than 300,000 members, all of whom are by definition highly educated Black women. It's not surprising that three educated Black women are sorors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if any of the teachers contacted the County Council’s Education Committee to ask for assistance. The recent report about a County Council staff member demonstrates that the hands there aren’t always clean.

It’s also interesting that one of the Jackson Lewis investigators is a a member of the same sorority, AKA, as McKnight and Shebra Evans.

holy innuendo batman!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if any of the teachers contacted the County Council’s Education Committee to ask for assistance. The recent report about a County Council staff member demonstrates that the hands there aren’t always clean.

It’s also interesting that one of the Jackson Lewis investigators is a a member of the same sorority, AKA, as McKnight and Shebra Evans.

holy innuendo batman!

Statistically, for three members of the same sorority to be involved is quite an uncommon occurrence; since they would all need to be of a historically African American sorority, involved in the education field, in the same state, same county, same school system, and on the same case? Does anyone know the name of the Jackson Lewis investigator and if she has a specific connection to MCPS?

If it turns out there is a relationship, that should really be investigated by the Maryland IG.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if any of the teachers contacted the County Council’s Education Committee to ask for assistance. The recent report about a County Council staff member demonstrates that the hands there aren’t always clean.

It’s also interesting that one of the Jackson Lewis investigators is a a member of the same sorority, AKA, as McKnight and Shebra Evans.

It’s really not interesting at all unless you’re still looking for missing ballots in Georgia. MCPS hired Jackson Lewis for one reason: It has a great track record of defending management when management has engaged in egregious conduct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It all trickles down. Many principals have teachers on their staff who had been put on administrative leave after a complaint and then returned to their building whenever central office decided it was safe to do so, safe meaning that they didn’t expect anyone to make noise about the teacher’s return. Many principals don’t ask questions when the person comes back, they just take them back. If a principal does make noise about it, which principled ones do, then the teacher will be shipped off to another school. All MCPS principals know it’s just a waiting game and no one is investigating anything. They also know the teachers who are returned to the building dont get any harassment training. These principals are complicit in this horrible culture we have to work in too.

It all trickles down from the top. Is it in the MCPS training or just an unspoken rule that plays out over and over so staff learn the practice?

I bet the Jackson Lewis report and whomever becomes the fall guy for Beidleman will have answers as to how so many in MCPS just stood by and let Beidleman kept sexually harassing and bullying his staff.

The Jackson Lewis report won’t have these answers. Jackson Lewis was hired to represent the board in the investigation, not to conduct an independent investigation. Jackson Lewis will protect the board and whoever in management that the board wants to be protected.

Jackson Lewis:
"There is no evidence that the Board was aware of the pending MCPS investigation, the disposition of that investigation, and/or any other allegations relating to Dr. Beidleman prior to its June 27, 2023 promotional decision.“

The BOE paid Jackson Lewis for this statement.

Yes, that statement was worth every penny of the bill. Too bad for MCPS it got knocked down within days.

[Anonymous]

Is there a single factual post here, or is it all just assumptions and innuendo without any real evidence?