Superintendent Taylor

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Anonymous wrote:New Post interview with Taylor, with some notable quotes about central office:

"I have a lot of work to do in terms of assessing the central services. I really want to get a good handle of what tasks we really need to have ownership in and what tasks are probably better divesting ourselves of."

"Something a little different this year — we are asking some of our central office staff to be in school buildings at the start of the school year and then periodically throughout the school year to spend some time supporting the schools. Candidly, we’re differentiating that support based on schools that express a desire or a need."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/09/01/montgomery-superintendent-thomas-taylor/

I guess this sounds good in theory. No idea what this means will truly be different in practice, because many of the people in CO lack skill and competence.

It shouldn't be controversial that the people who manage the teachers and decide on the curriculum and policy should have seen an actual school or an student at least once or twice.

Huh? Almost all of them are former teachers and principals.

But how many visited MVA before they closed it?

We get it, you loved the MVA. Why you and others feel the need to hijack every thread is crazy. You’re not winning people to your side by doing it as the greater majority don’t want their kids in MVA. If anything your just alleviating people to your cause.

I hate needing MVA, but there's no other option. Because of parents like you, covid is still with us. And now you won't even send your kids to school in masks.

NP. Lots of illnesses are still with us, and will continue to be with us. Before covid, did you let your kids go to daycare or Kindermusic or co-op preschool knowing they might bring home influenza or any number of other illnesses?

As for masks, no one has asked us to send our kids in masks. If I were asked, and if my child wearing a mask would make another child's attendance possible, I would say yes.

You need to be asked to do the right thing?

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Anonymous wrote:New Post interview with Taylor, with some notable quotes about central office:

"I have a lot of work to do in terms of assessing the central services. I really want to get a good handle of what tasks we really need to have ownership in and what tasks are probably better divesting ourselves of."

"Something a little different this year — we are asking some of our central office staff to be in school buildings at the start of the school year and then periodically throughout the school year to spend some time supporting the schools. Candidly, we’re differentiating that support based on schools that express a desire or a need."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/09/01/montgomery-superintendent-thomas-taylor/

I guess this sounds good in theory. No idea what this means will truly be different in practice, because many of the people in CO lack skill and competence.

It shouldn't be controversial that the people who manage the teachers and decide on the curriculum and policy should have seen an actual school or an student at least once or twice.

Huh? Almost all of them are former teachers and principals.

But how many visited MVA before they closed it?

We get it, you loved the MVA. Why you and others feel the need to hijack every thread is crazy. You’re not winning people to your side by doing it as the greater majority don’t want their kids in MVA. If anything your just alleviating people to your cause.

Our kids got a good education in the mva. Why are you so against it? It has no impact on your life.

Resources are finite. It impacts everyone when those resources are used to provide 10-person classes to kids who are lucky enough to have a parent stay-at-home with them.

I also think that the behavior of MVA parents over the past 6 months has alienated a lot of folks who would have otherwise been sympathetic. Disrupting school board meetings, accusing families who sent their kids back of not wanting to spend time with them, and then publicly giving reasons for preferring the MVA such as wanting to visit theme parks during the off-season.

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Anonymous wrote:New Post interview with Taylor, with some notable quotes about central office:

"I have a lot of work to do in terms of assessing the central services. I really want to get a good handle of what tasks we really need to have ownership in and what tasks are probably better divesting ourselves of."

"Something a little different this year — we are asking some of our central office staff to be in school buildings at the start of the school year and then periodically throughout the school year to spend some time supporting the schools. Candidly, we’re differentiating that support based on schools that express a desire or a need."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/09/01/montgomery-superintendent-thomas-taylor/

I guess this sounds good in theory. No idea what this means will truly be different in practice, because many of the people in CO lack skill and competence.

It shouldn't be controversial that the people who manage the teachers and decide on the curriculum and policy should have seen an actual school or an student at least once or twice.

Huh? Almost all of them are former teachers and principals.

But how many visited MVA before they closed it?

We get it, you loved the MVA. Why you and others feel the need to hijack every thread is crazy. You’re not winning people to your side by doing it as the greater majority don’t want their kids in MVA. If anything your just alleviating people to your cause.

I hate needing MVA, but there's no other option. Because of parents like you, covid is still with us. And now you won't even send your kids to school in masks.

NP. Lots of illnesses are still with us, and will continue to be with us. Before covid, did you let your kids go to daycare or Kindermusic or co-op preschool knowing they might bring home influenza or any number of other illnesses?

As for masks, no one has asked us to send our kids in masks. If I were asked, and if my child wearing a mask would make another child's attendance possible, I would say yes.

You need to be asked to do the right thing?

Wait. Your argument is that the right thing to do is for every child, and every person, to mask in all situations in perpetuity?

That's not a reasonable request.

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Anonymous wrote:New Post interview with Taylor, with some notable quotes about central office:

"I have a lot of work to do in terms of assessing the central services. I really want to get a good handle of what tasks we really need to have ownership in and what tasks are probably better divesting ourselves of."

"Something a little different this year — we are asking some of our central office staff to be in school buildings at the start of the school year and then periodically throughout the school year to spend some time supporting the schools. Candidly, we’re differentiating that support based on schools that express a desire or a need."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/09/01/montgomery-superintendent-thomas-taylor/

I guess this sounds good in theory. No idea what this means will truly be different in practice, because many of the people in CO lack skill and competence.

It shouldn't be controversial that the people who manage the teachers and decide on the curriculum and policy should have seen an actual school or an student at least once or twice.

Huh? Almost all of them are former teachers and principals.

But how many visited MVA before they closed it?

We get it, you loved the MVA. Why you and others feel the need to hijack every thread is crazy. You’re not winning people to your side by doing it as the greater majority don’t want their kids in MVA. If anything your just alleviating people to your cause.

Our kids got a good education in the mva. Why are you so against it? It has no impact on your life.

Resources are finite. It impacts everyone when those resources are used to provide 10-person classes to kids who are lucky enough to have a parent stay-at-home with them.

I also think that the behavior of MVA parents over the past 6 months has alienated a lot of folks who would have otherwise been sympathetic. Disrupting school board meetings, accusing families who sent their kids back of not wanting to spend time with them, and then publicly giving reasons for preferring the MVA such as wanting to visit theme parks during the off-season.

If resources are a problem, then we should move everyone to virtual. It would be far cheaper.

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Anonymous wrote:New Post interview with Taylor, with some notable quotes about central office:

"I have a lot of work to do in terms of assessing the central services. I really want to get a good handle of what tasks we really need to have ownership in and what tasks are probably better divesting ourselves of."

"Something a little different this year — we are asking some of our central office staff to be in school buildings at the start of the school year and then periodically throughout the school year to spend some time supporting the schools. Candidly, we’re differentiating that support based on schools that express a desire or a need."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/09/01/montgomery-superintendent-thomas-taylor/

I guess this sounds good in theory. No idea what this means will truly be different in practice, because many of the people in CO lack skill and competence.

It shouldn't be controversial that the people who manage the teachers and decide on the curriculum and policy should have seen an actual school or an student at least once or twice.

Huh? Almost all of them are former teachers and principals.

But how many visited MVA before they closed it?

We get it, you loved the MVA. Why you and others feel the need to hijack every thread is crazy. You’re not winning people to your side by doing it as the greater majority don’t want their kids in MVA. If anything your just alleviating people to your cause.

I hate needing MVA, but there's no other option. Because of parents like you, covid is still with us. And now you won't even send your kids to school in masks.

NP. Lots of illnesses are still with us, and will continue to be with us. Before covid, did you let your kids go to daycare or Kindermusic or co-op preschool knowing they might bring home influenza or any number of other illnesses?

As for masks, no one has asked us to send our kids in masks. If I were asked, and if my child wearing a mask would make another child's attendance possible, I would say yes.

You need to be asked to do the right thing?

Wait. Your argument is that the right thing to do is for every child, and every person, to mask in all situations in perpetuity?

That's not a reasonable request.

Covid is still with us. Do you need to be asked to wash your hands after using the restroom? Or when did you stop doing that? What about wearing a seat belt?

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Anonymous wrote:New Post interview with Taylor, with some notable quotes about central office:

"I have a lot of work to do in terms of assessing the central services. I really want to get a good handle of what tasks we really need to have ownership in and what tasks are probably better divesting ourselves of."

"Something a little different this year — we are asking some of our central office staff to be in school buildings at the start of the school year and then periodically throughout the school year to spend some time supporting the schools. Candidly, we’re differentiating that support based on schools that express a desire or a need."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/09/01/montgomery-superintendent-thomas-taylor/

I guess this sounds good in theory. No idea what this means will truly be different in practice, because many of the people in CO lack skill and competence.

It shouldn't be controversial that the people who manage the teachers and decide on the curriculum and policy should have seen an actual school or an student at least once or twice.

Huh? Almost all of them are former teachers and principals.

But how many visited MVA before they closed it?

We get it, you loved the MVA. Why you and others feel the need to hijack every thread is crazy. You’re not winning people to your side by doing it as the greater majority don’t want their kids in MVA. If anything your just alleviating people to your cause.

Our kids got a good education in the mva. Why are you so against it? It has no impact on your life.

Resources are finite. It impacts everyone when those resources are used to provide 10-person classes to kids who are lucky enough to have a parent stay-at-home with them.

I also think that the behavior of MVA parents over the past 6 months has alienated a lot of folks who would have otherwise been sympathetic. Disrupting school board meetings, accusing families who sent their kids back of not wanting to spend time with them, and then publicly giving reasons for preferring the MVA such as wanting to visit theme parks during the off-season.

Amen. They really shot themselves in the foot with their toxic behavior, but it's pervasive enough that I don't think they can control it.

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Anonymous wrote:New Post interview with Taylor, with some notable quotes about central office:

"I have a lot of work to do in terms of assessing the central services. I really want to get a good handle of what tasks we really need to have ownership in and what tasks are probably better divesting ourselves of."

"Something a little different this year — we are asking some of our central office staff to be in school buildings at the start of the school year and then periodically throughout the school year to spend some time supporting the schools. Candidly, we’re differentiating that support based on schools that express a desire or a need."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/09/01/montgomery-superintendent-thomas-taylor/

I guess this sounds good in theory. No idea what this means will truly be different in practice, because many of the people in CO lack skill and competence.

It shouldn't be controversial that the people who manage the teachers and decide on the curriculum and policy should have seen an actual school or an student at least once or twice.

Huh? Almost all of them are former teachers and principals.

But how many visited MVA before they closed it?

We get it, you loved the MVA. Why you and others feel the need to hijack every thread is crazy. You’re not winning people to your side by doing it as the greater majority don’t want their kids in MVA. If anything your just alleviating people to your cause.

I hate needing MVA, but there's no other option. Because of parents like you, covid is still with us. And now you won't even send your kids to school in masks.

NP. Lots of illnesses are still with us, and will continue to be with us. Before covid, did you let your kids go to daycare or Kindermusic or co-op preschool knowing they might bring home influenza or any number of other illnesses?

As for masks, no one has asked us to send our kids in masks. If I were asked, and if my child wearing a mask would make another child's attendance possible, I would say yes.

You need to be asked to do the right thing?

Wait. Your argument is that the right thing to do is for every child, and every person, to mask in all situations in perpetuity?

That's not a reasonable request.

Covid is still with us. Do you need to be asked to wash your hands after using the restroom? Or when did you stop doing that? What about wearing a seat belt?

The flu is still with us, so are colds, and rotavirus, and Scarlett fever. We tell people to wash their hands, cover when they sneeze/cough, and stay home when sick. We encourage them to get outside sometimes and exercise and eat healthy for their immune systems.

Wearing a seat belt is for your safety. It doesn’t impact anyone else.

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Anonymous wrote:New Post interview with Taylor, with some notable quotes about central office:

"I have a lot of work to do in terms of assessing the central services. I really want to get a good handle of what tasks we really need to have ownership in and what tasks are probably better divesting ourselves of."

"Something a little different this year — we are asking some of our central office staff to be in school buildings at the start of the school year and then periodically throughout the school year to spend some time supporting the schools. Candidly, we’re differentiating that support based on schools that express a desire or a need."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/09/01/montgomery-superintendent-thomas-taylor/

I guess this sounds good in theory. No idea what this means will truly be different in practice, because many of the people in CO lack skill and competence.

It shouldn't be controversial that the people who manage the teachers and decide on the curriculum and policy should have seen an actual school or an student at least once or twice.

Huh? Almost all of them are former teachers and principals.

But how many visited MVA before they closed it?

We get it, you loved the MVA. Why you and others feel the need to hijack every thread is crazy. You’re not winning people to your side by doing it as the greater majority don’t want their kids in MVA. If anything your just alleviating people to your cause.

Our kids got a good education in the mva. Why are you so against it? It has no impact on your life.

Resources are finite. It impacts everyone when those resources are used to provide 10-person classes to kids who are lucky enough to have a parent stay-at-home with them.

I also think that the behavior of MVA parents over the past 6 months has alienated a lot of folks who would have otherwise been sympathetic. Disrupting school board meetings, accusing families who sent their kids back of not wanting to spend time with them, and then publicly giving reasons for preferring the MVA such as wanting to visit theme parks during the off-season.

Amen. They really shot themselves in the foot with their toxic behavior, but it's pervasive enough that I don't think they can control it.

How, when, and where our family spends time together doesn't concern you. Spend more time caring about your own kids rather than what other families are doing.

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Anonymous wrote:New Post interview with Taylor, with some notable quotes about central office:

"I have a lot of work to do in terms of assessing the central services. I really want to get a good handle of what tasks we really need to have ownership in and what tasks are probably better divesting ourselves of."

"Something a little different this year — we are asking some of our central office staff to be in school buildings at the start of the school year and then periodically throughout the school year to spend some time supporting the schools. Candidly, we’re differentiating that support based on schools that express a desire or a need."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/09/01/montgomery-superintendent-thomas-taylor/

I guess this sounds good in theory. No idea what this means will truly be different in practice, because many of the people in CO lack skill and competence.

It shouldn't be controversial that the people who manage the teachers and decide on the curriculum and policy should have seen an actual school or an student at least once or twice.

Huh? Almost all of them are former teachers and principals.

But how many visited MVA before they closed it?

We get it, you loved the MVA. Why you and others feel the need to hijack every thread is crazy. You’re not winning people to your side by doing it as the greater majority don’t want their kids in MVA. If anything your just alleviating people to your cause.

Our kids got a good education in the mva. Why are you so against it? It has no impact on your life.

Resources are finite. It impacts everyone when those resources are used to provide 10-person classes to kids who are lucky enough to have a parent stay-at-home with them.

I also think that the behavior of MVA parents over the past 6 months has alienated a lot of folks who would have otherwise been sympathetic. Disrupting school board meetings, accusing families who sent their kids back of not wanting to spend time with them, and then publicly giving reasons for preferring the MVA such as wanting to visit theme parks during the off-season.

Amen. They really shot themselves in the foot with their toxic behavior, but it's pervasive enough that I don't think they can control it.

How, when, and where our family spends time together doesn't concern you. Spend more time caring about your own kids rather than what other families are doing.

Case in point. No one can express an opinion without a nonsensical attack from the former MVA parents.

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Anonymous wrote:New Post interview with Taylor, with some notable quotes about central office:

"I have a lot of work to do in terms of assessing the central services. I really want to get a good handle of what tasks we really need to have ownership in and what tasks are probably better divesting ourselves of."

"Something a little different this year — we are asking some of our central office staff to be in school buildings at the start of the school year and then periodically throughout the school year to spend some time supporting the schools. Candidly, we’re differentiating that support based on schools that express a desire or a need."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/09/01/montgomery-superintendent-thomas-taylor/

I guess this sounds good in theory. No idea what this means will truly be different in practice, because many of the people in CO lack skill and competence.

It shouldn't be controversial that the people who manage the teachers and decide on the curriculum and policy should have seen an actual school or an student at least once or twice.

Huh? Almost all of them are former teachers and principals.

But how many visited MVA before they closed it?

We get it, you loved the MVA. Why you and others feel the need to hijack every thread is crazy. You’re not winning people to your side by doing it as the greater majority don’t want their kids in MVA. If anything your just alleviating people to your cause.

I hate needing MVA, but there's no other option. Because of parents like you, covid is still with us. And now you won't even send your kids to school in masks.

NP. Lots of illnesses are still with us, and will continue to be with us. Before covid, did you let your kids go to daycare or Kindermusic or co-op preschool knowing they might bring home influenza or any number of other illnesses?

As for masks, no one has asked us to send our kids in masks. If I were asked, and if my child wearing a mask would make another child's attendance possible, I would say yes.

You need to be asked to do the right thing?

Wait. Your argument is that the right thing to do is for every child, and every person, to mask in all situations in perpetuity?

That's not a reasonable request.

Covid is still with us. Do you need to be asked to wash your hands after using the restroom? Or when did you stop doing that? What about wearing a seat belt?

The flu is still with us, so are colds, and rotavirus, and Scarlett fever. We tell people to wash their hands, cover when they sneeze/cough, and stay home when sick. We encourage them to get outside sometimes and exercise and eat healthy for their immune systems.

Wearing a seat belt is for your safety. It doesn’t impact anyone else.

Right, all the more reason to say everyone should be masking in public.