MoCo school board ordered to pay $518K to former B-CC High teacher accused of racism

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know if Engler was a racist but I do know he was part of a trio of terrible, arrogant IB teachers at BCC, Holpt, Engler and Sir (I mean Mr.) Richard. I suspect there was some truth the claims of racism but unfortunately Mooney fumbled it.

One of the colleagues used to have issues with him as well. She felt talked down and that he was a bit chauvinistic on his replies to her. I didn’t spoke to the dude or witnessed their interactions, but that’s what she told me.

Truth. Had a lot of conversations about Dan Engler's chauvinism with my DD who took his IB English course and had many other interactions with him. But, sadly, chauvinism is not an "offense" in the workplace or the larger world.

Now the Vikings get him, there's no IB program at Whitman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know if Engler was a racist but I do know he was part of a trio of terrible, arrogant IB teachers at BCC, Holpt, Engler and Sir (I mean Mr.) Richard. I suspect there was some truth the claims of racism but unfortunately Mooney fumbled it.

Are the others still there teaching IB English? If not, are the current IB English teachers like the way you describe the trio?

[Anonymous]

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Could that be reason Mooney tried to get rid of Engler, if there were already some other stuff in Engler's file which "justified" removing him from the school? Wasn't he also a crew coach? For the boys team, or the girls?

Yes, he coached the boys crew team. Similar to MCPS, the crew board made a knee jerk reaction and fired him. When he was coach the team won championships, was motivated and full of hard working kids. Since his termination the BCC boys crew team has become a joke in the DC rowing community - no sense of camaraderie, zero motivation, and tons of losses on the river.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Could that be reason Mooney tried to get rid of Engler, if there were already some other stuff in Engler's file which "justified" removing him from the school? Wasn't he also a crew coach? For the boys team, or the girls?

Yes, he coached the boys crew team. Similar to MCPS, the crew board made a knee jerk reaction and fired him. When he was coach the team won championships, was motivated and full of hard working kids. Since his termination the BCC boys crew team has become a joke in the DC rowing community - no sense of camaraderie, zero motivation, and tons of losses on the river.

Did the crew board let him go after Feb 2023 incident or prior to the incident at BCC?

[Anonymous]

2/3 of the trio are gone now. I don’t know about the current IB teachers, my younger child only did AP, thank goodness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Could that be reason Mooney tried to get rid of Engler, if there were already some other stuff in Engler's file which "justified" removing him from the school? Wasn't he also a crew coach? For the boys team, or the girls?

Yes, he coached the boys crew team. Similar to MCPS, the crew board made a knee jerk reaction and fired him. When he was coach the team won championships, was motivated and full of hard working kids. Since his termination the BCC boys crew team has become a joke in the DC rowing community - no sense of camaraderie, zero motivation, and tons of losses on the river.

Did the crew board let him go after Feb 2023 incident or prior to the incident at BCC?

February 23, 2023 was when his firing was announced, just after the (false) accusations were raised.

[Anonymous]

Crew is not an Mcps sponsored activity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Crew is not an Mcps sponsored activity.

No it is not. But another example of Engler’s life getting turned upside down due to shitty and inaccurate communications from MCPS. Had Mooney done a proper investigation and MCPS hadn’t had their heads up their asses, maybe facts would have come out and he would not have lost his job as crew coach. And maybe BCC men’s crew would not be the laughing stock it is today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crew is not an Mcps sponsored activity.

No it is not. But another example of Engler’s life getting turned upside down due to shitty and inaccurate communications from MCPS. Had Mooney done a proper investigation and MCPS hadn’t had their heads up their asses, maybe facts would have come out and he would not have lost his job as crew coach. And maybe BCC men’s crew would not be the laughing stock it is today.

Exactly, so it should be explained that way. Its sad MCPS refuses to fire anyone like this but lets go of good teachers and staff at a whim.

[Anonymous]

BCC needs to be broken down into several small schools within the building.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BCC needs to be broken down into several small schools within the building.

Why?

[Anonymous]

It has one of the smallest footprint. No where to divide up the school to please racist parents who "want diversity" but don't really want it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BCC needs to be broken down into several small schools within the building.

Why?

It's too big and unmanageable. It just doesn't work for anyone, particularly the students.

[Anonymous]

$500,000 wasn’t enough. Should have been at least $1 million. Despicable kids and BOE.