Will Thomas Taylor Survive the Massive Changes He is Introducing?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ability for Taylor to survive this depends on we the people, giving him and the BOE enough pressure to make him pay.

But too many people seem convinced by Taylor’s nice guy act.

I can see how the nice-guy act resonated so effectively after McKnight's toxicity. But all these changes he is intent on introducing are just going to cause a lot of problems. Taylor will be gone, one way or another, but we'll be left with a system that he has roiled.

Agreed. His amiable personality helped very much on clearing up the negative energies. But then his ambition and ignorance start to kick in and will drive MCPS into disaster.

+1

The BOE should make sure that it times its actions so that it has sufficient time to do an adequate search.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He doesn't seem like much of a listener, and is not making adjustments with program assignments based on community input.

Taylor doesn't seem to have learned from his mistakes in Stafford County, VA, having introduced regional programming in that school district's four high schools. Stafford County's school district's transportation was completely overwhelmed by the changes and suffered a massive fail the first year of implementation. Thomas Taylor was long gone, having pushed through the changes and then left town.

https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1501700

Transportation in MCPS has not been consistently consulted on how implementation of bus transportation for our new regional programming will work with our much larger, more complex system in a heavily urbanized environment.

Taylor is heavy into being a change agent, but the logistics and administration of these changes don't seem to register. He can't even ensure that summer staff are paid on time and or ensure that routine security processing takes place on a timely basis.

How long will Montgomery County want him around? Maybe we need someone with experience operating a large school system.

You know kids under 18 can use public busses for free. Not sure why these young adults can't manage this.

Because it can tackle multiple busses and several hours to get cross county and not all communities have bus routes or safe walks to bus stops.

I don’t think there is any public transit at all in Poolesville.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He doesn't seem like much of a listener, and is not making adjustments with program assignments based on community input.

Taylor doesn't seem to have learned from his mistakes in Stafford County, VA, having introduced regional programming in that school district's four high schools. Stafford County's school district's transportation was completely overwhelmed by the changes and suffered a massive fail the first year of implementation. Thomas Taylor was long gone, having pushed through the changes and then left town.

https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1501700

Transportation in MCPS has not been consistently consulted on how implementation of bus transportation for our new regional programming will work with our much larger, more complex system in a heavily urbanized environment.

Taylor is heavy into being a change agent, but the logistics and administration of these changes don't seem to register. He can't even ensure that summer staff are paid on time and or ensure that routine security processing takes place on a timely basis.

How long will Montgomery County want him around? Maybe we need someone with experience operating a large school system.

You know kids under 18 can use public busses for free. Not sure why these young adults can't manage this.

Because it can tackle multiple busses and several hours to get cross county and not all communities have bus routes or safe walks to bus stops.

I don’t think there is any public transit at all in Poolesville.

There is a bus to Shady Grove.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He doesn't seem like much of a listener, and is not making adjustments with program assignments based on community input.

Taylor doesn't seem to have learned from his mistakes in Stafford County, VA, having introduced regional programming in that school district's four high schools. Stafford County's school district's transportation was completely overwhelmed by the changes and suffered a massive fail the first year of implementation. Thomas Taylor was long gone, having pushed through the changes and then left town.

https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1501700

Transportation in MCPS has not been consistently consulted on how implementation of bus transportation for our new regional programming will work with our much larger, more complex system in a heavily urbanized environment.

Taylor is heavy into being a change agent, but the logistics and administration of these changes don't seem to register. He can't even ensure that summer staff are paid on time and or ensure that routine security processing takes place on a timely basis.

How long will Montgomery County want him around? Maybe we need someone with experience operating a large school system.

You know kids under 18 can use public busses for free. Not sure why these young adults can't manage this.

Way to show your ignorance. Montgomery County doesn't have a grid of public buses that go absolutely everywhere. Most families' kids can't easily take a public bus to their school and would need to get up even earlier than for the schoolbus to take a convoluted route, perhaps with different bus lines.

Also, you say kids under 18 and then young adults? Which is it? We're talking about K-12 here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ability for Taylor to survive this depends on we the people, giving him and the BOE enough pressure to make him pay.

But too many people seem convinced by Taylor’s nice guy act.

I can see how the nice-guy act resonated so effectively after McKnight's toxicity. But all these changes he is intent on introducing are just going to cause a lot of problems. Taylor will be gone, one way or another, but we'll be left with a system that he has roiled.

Agreed. His amiable personality helped very much on clearing up the negative energies. But then his ambition and ignorance start to kick in and will drive MCPS into disaster.

+1

The BOE should make sure that it times its actions so that it has sufficient time to do an adequate search.

The BOE is clearly ok with this or they put a stop to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He doesn't seem like much of a listener, and is not making adjustments with program assignments based on community input.

Taylor doesn't seem to have learned from his mistakes in Stafford County, VA, having introduced regional programming in that school district's four high schools. Stafford County's school district's transportation was completely overwhelmed by the changes and suffered a massive fail the first year of implementation. Thomas Taylor was long gone, having pushed through the changes and then left town.

https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1501700

Transportation in MCPS has not been consistently consulted on how implementation of bus transportation for our new regional programming will work with our much larger, more complex system in a heavily urbanized environment.

Taylor is heavy into being a change agent, but the logistics and administration of these changes don't seem to register. He can't even ensure that summer staff are paid on time and or ensure that routine security processing takes place on a timely basis.

How long will Montgomery County want him around? Maybe we need someone with experience operating a large school system.

You know kids under 18 can use public busses for free. Not sure why these young adults can't manage this.

Because it can tackle multiple busses and several hours to get cross county and not all communities have bus routes or safe walks to bus stops.

I don’t think there is any public transit at all in Poolesville.

There is a bus to Shady Grove.

The point is it is very limited and they’d have to do multiple bus changes if there is even access which could take hours. Not to mention safety issues.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:He will survive as he's the yes man or no man to the BEO and does exactly what they want.

Actually, I don't see Taylor bending his thinking in response to BOE members who are questioning the planning. Some of them, I'm thinking Zimmerman and Montoya, are people that Taylor can't brush off quickly enough in meetings.

Zimmerman is totally checked out. She is the lightweight among a slew of board members filled with lightweights.

Which is so sad and unfortunate because her biggest pitch during the campaign was that as a current teacher, she would bring a real, relevant, first-hand perspective when it comes to oversight of the board.

She’s an elementary teacher and has no clue what goes on at the high school level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ability for Taylor to survive this depends on we the people, giving him and the BOE enough pressure to make him pay.

But too many people seem convinced by Taylor’s nice guy act.

I can see how the nice-guy act resonated so effectively after McKnight's toxicity. But all these changes he is intent on introducing are just going to cause a lot of problems. Taylor will be gone, one way or another, but we'll be left with a system that he has roiled.

Agreed. His amiable personality helped very much on clearing up the negative energies. But then his ambition and ignorance start to kick in and will drive MCPS into disaster.

It was all for show.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ability for Taylor to survive this depends on we the people, giving him and the BOE enough pressure to make him pay.

But too many people seem convinced by Taylor’s nice guy act.

I can see how the nice-guy act resonated so effectively after McKnight's toxicity. But all these changes he is intent on introducing are just going to cause a lot of problems. Taylor will be gone, one way or another, but we'll be left with a system that he has roiled.

Agreed. His amiable personality helped very much on clearing up the negative energies. But then his ambition and ignorance start to kick in and will drive MCPS into disaster.

+1

The BOE should make sure that it times its actions so that it has sufficient time to do an adequate search.

The BOE is clearly ok with this or they put a stop to it.

Sadly, I agree.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why do we have a superintendent with no experience with stellar school districts in moco anyways??

Implementing regional programs should be done slowly, one or two programs at a time before completely disbanding otherwise extremely successful county wide programs. Hire the county wide program teachers to teach curriculum over the summers to other teachers to implement in new regional programs. This is going to be a disaster for moco.

You suggest that there should have been instructional leadership teams melding experienced countywide program staff with other high schools' faculty. This should have been step #1. Why do we have staff in charge of these program changes who didn't immediately organize such instructional leadership teams to help ensure that new programs are formed with fidelity and high quality?

The fact that this didn't occur tells me that the program changes that central office is promising the community will not occur. The quality will not be there. Central office staff are bureaucrats, not curriculum experts. They don't know how to lead curriculum change, especially on this massive scale.

And Taylor has made no changes to the flawed process; apparently, he doesn't understand the problem and/or he doesn't have time to pay attention.

Some executive-level staff at central office are agenda-driven, somewhat autocratic bureaucrats, but there are some folks among the line staff who bring more curricular competence, though the constraints under which they work don't let them do as they might prefer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ability for Taylor to survive this depends on we the people, giving him and the BOE enough pressure to make him pay.

But too many people seem convinced by Taylor’s nice guy act.

I can see how the nice-guy act resonated so effectively after McKnight's toxicity. But all these changes he is intent on introducing are just going to cause a lot of problems. Taylor will be gone, one way or another, but we'll be left with a system that he has roiled.

Agreed. His amiable personality helped very much on clearing up the negative energies. But then his ambition and ignorance start to kick in and will drive MCPS into disaster.

+1

The BOE should make sure that it times its actions so that it has sufficient time to do an adequate search.

There will be no actions and no search.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ability for Taylor to survive this depends on we the people, giving him and the BOE enough pressure to make him pay.

But too many people seem convinced by Taylor’s nice guy act.

I can see how the nice-guy act resonated so effectively after McKnight's toxicity. But all these changes he is intent on introducing are just going to cause a lot of problems. Taylor will be gone, one way or another, but we'll be left with a system that he has roiled.

Agreed. His amiable personality helped very much on clearing up the negative energies. But then his ambition and ignorance start to kick in and will drive MCPS into disaster.

+1

The BOE should make sure that it times its actions so that it has sufficient time to do an adequate search.

The BOE is clearly ok with this or they put a stop to it.

The BOE can only put a stop to this by firing Taylor. Otherwise, he is in charge of this rush to programming/regionalization.

The BOE will vote on boundaries, but that is different than the regional plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ability for Taylor to survive this depends on we the people, giving him and the BOE enough pressure to make him pay.

But too many people seem convinced by Taylor’s nice guy act.

I can see how the nice-guy act resonated so effectively after McKnight's toxicity. But all these changes he is intent on introducing are just going to cause a lot of problems. Taylor will be gone, one way or another, but we'll be left with a system that he has roiled.

Agreed. His amiable personality helped very much on clearing up the negative energies. But then his ambition and ignorance start to kick in and will drive MCPS into disaster.

+1

The BOE should make sure that it times its actions so that it has sufficient time to do an adequate search.

There will be no actions and no search.

Taylor knows he won't survive the implementation of this plan. He probably is planning to only stay for his four-year contract. He left his last job just as the school district was about to implement his regional programming plan in Virginia. It didn't go so well when he did this in a much smaller school district.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ability for Taylor to survive this depends on we the people, giving him and the BOE enough pressure to make him pay.

But too many people seem convinced by Taylor’s nice guy act.

I can see how the nice-guy act resonated so effectively after McKnight's toxicity. But all these changes he is intent on introducing are just going to cause a lot of problems. Taylor will be gone, one way or another, but we'll be left with a system that he has roiled.

Agreed. His amiable personality helped very much on clearing up the negative energies. But then his ambition and ignorance start to kick in and will drive MCPS into disaster.

+1

The BOE should make sure that it times its actions so that it has sufficient time to do an adequate search.

The BOE is clearly ok with this or they put a stop to it.

The BOE can only put a stop to this by firing Taylor. Otherwise, he is in charge of this rush to programming/regionalization.

The BOE will vote on boundaries, but that is different than the regional plan.

If that’s what it takes…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He doesn't seem like much of a listener, and is not making adjustments with program assignments based on community input.

Taylor doesn't seem to have learned from his mistakes in Stafford County, VA, having introduced regional programming in that school district's four high schools. Stafford County's school district's transportation was completely overwhelmed by the changes and suffered a massive fail the first year of implementation. Thomas Taylor was long gone, having pushed through the changes and then left town.

https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1501700

Transportation in MCPS has not been consistently consulted on how implementation of bus transportation for our new regional programming will work with our much larger, more complex system in a heavily urbanized environment.

Taylor is heavy into being a change agent, but the logistics and administration of these changes don't seem to register. He can't even ensure that summer staff are paid on time and or ensure that routine security processing takes place on a timely basis.

How long will Montgomery County want him around? Maybe we need someone with experience operating a large school system.

I don’t think he wants to. I think he’ll get this Potemkin education village propped up, then go look for a job at a university teaching future superintendents. He sees MCPS as a stepping stone. But what he’s stepping on is our kids.

Exactly. He is tearing apart our community. I think you are right about his going for a university position next. He might not even stay 4 years here.

MCPS teachers and parents will drive away any superintendent after 2 years.

LOL

Who told him to hire Essie McGuire? That person wanted Taylor gone day 1.