Taylor is alienating everyone - from council members to staff to students to community members. How long does he last?

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Anonymous wrote:Other school districts announce finalists for the position. We don't do that in Montgomery County?

NEVER

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Anonymous wrote:Curious about the replacement people imagine. I’m not sure there will be a line out the door to deal with us. The pool of qualified candidates is shrinking not growing. We are always competing with other nearby counties. Who else wants to be named as a plaintiff in a supreme court case and be told they make too much for their trouble ?

Haha. Taylor makes $360,000 per year. I think there will always be a line out the door for that kind of money. Seriously though, we are the 16th largest school district in the country. There are qualified candidates out there and we will be ready for one to replace this guy.

I don't think so. Where were all those qualified candidates when we were hiring a new super in 2024? And 2022? And 2016?

You act as if we were privvy to all of the applicants who applied. It was all done behind closed doors. We have no idea who is or isn't interested in the job.

This.
The whole selection process is a massive secret. There are always lots of candidates, but they are all a secret.

Somehow Baltimore is able to have 4 candidates and put them out to meet the public.

You think they bypassed a long line of rock star candidates just so they could announce a mediocre pick? Three times in a row?

They did not bypass anyone. They were told who to hire.

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They need to clean house of most of central office, not just Taylor.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious about the replacement people imagine. I’m not sure there will be a line out the door to deal with us. The pool of qualified candidates is shrinking not growing. We are always competing with other nearby counties. Who else wants to be named as a plaintiff in a supreme court case and be told they make too much for their trouble ?

Haha. Taylor makes $360,000 per year. I think there will always be a line out the door for that kind of money. Seriously though, we are the 16th largest school district in the country. There are qualified candidates out there and we will be ready for one to replace this guy.

I'm not trying to say $360k isn't a lot of money and anyone making less then that is poor by DCUM standards.

But when you consider the size of the organization that the superintendent runs, the wide range in student populations/demographics that they have to account for, and the public scrutiny they deal with, $360k doesn't seem out of the ordinary.

Just based on a Google search, and not digging or confirming the data, Michelle Reid at Fairfax County has a base salary of $424,146

Cheryl Dyson at Frederick County Public Schools has a salary of $300000, so MCPS has a high salary but I'm putting other local school systems for illustrative purposes. But Frederick County also has 48054 students compared to MCPS's 159181

Shawn Joseph in Prince Georges County earns $365000. The Google search result says he's the interim but I think I heard somewhere he got appointed as the permanent. PG County's student enrollment was 132151 last year

Myriam Rogers at Baltimore County earns $322524 and the student enrollment was 110024 last year

So another way of looking at it might be, do we really want to compete with Fairfax County? Maybe we need to pony up and offer a salary higher then what their superintendent is getting?

Just wanted to added Loudoun County's superintendent salary too:
Aaron Spence $425,334 with an enrollment of 80517

I would rank Loudoun County, both the area and the schools, very highly. So should be added to any comparables when we're looking at MCPS or comparing different school systems.

Fairfax has a stellar whole-school magnet TJHS. Londoun has Academies of Loundoun where students focus on project-oriented learning and authentic research for half-day everyday for straight 4 years. At MCPS, we have stellar magnet programs producing numerous college professors, wall street traders, high-level officials in federal government and astronauts. Instead of considering expanding it into a whole magnet school, Taylor deteriorates them and claims to build 100 programs with virtually no investment.

Now let's discuss whether they should be paid at the current salary level.

A magnet serving 400 students is the least of most of our concerns. Your w school kids will be fine without it, really.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious about the replacement people imagine. I’m not sure there will be a line out the door to deal with us. The pool of qualified candidates is shrinking not growing. We are always competing with other nearby counties. Who else wants to be named as a plaintiff in a supreme court case and be told they make too much for their trouble ?

Haha. Taylor makes $360,000 per year. I think there will always be a line out the door for that kind of money. Seriously though, we are the 16th largest school district in the country. There are qualified candidates out there and we will be ready for one to replace this guy.

I'm not trying to say $360k isn't a lot of money and anyone making less then that is poor by DCUM standards.

But when you consider the size of the organization that the superintendent runs, the wide range in student populations/demographics that they have to account for, and the public scrutiny they deal with, $360k doesn't seem out of the ordinary.

Just based on a Google search, and not digging or confirming the data, Michelle Reid at Fairfax County has a base salary of $424,146

Cheryl Dyson at Frederick County Public Schools has a salary of $300000, so MCPS has a high salary but I'm putting other local school systems for illustrative purposes. But Frederick County also has 48054 students compared to MCPS's 159181

Shawn Joseph in Prince Georges County earns $365000. The Google search result says he's the interim but I think I heard somewhere he got appointed as the permanent. PG County's student enrollment was 132151 last year

Myriam Rogers at Baltimore County earns $322524 and the student enrollment was 110024 last year

So another way of looking at it might be, do we really want to compete with Fairfax County? Maybe we need to pony up and offer a salary higher then what their superintendent is getting?

Just wanted to added Loudoun County's superintendent salary too:
Aaron Spence $425,334 with an enrollment of 80517

I would rank Loudoun County, both the area and the schools, very highly. So should be added to any comparables when we're looking at MCPS or comparing different school systems.

Fairfax has a stellar whole-school magnet TJHS. Londoun has Academies of Loundoun where students focus on project-oriented learning and authentic research for half-day everyday for straight 4 years. At MCPS, we have stellar magnet programs producing numerous college professors, wall street traders, high-level officials in federal government and astronauts. Instead of considering expanding it into a whole magnet school, Taylor deteriorates them and claims to build 100 programs with virtually no investment.

Now let's discuss whether they should be paid at the current salary level.

A magnet serving 400 students is the least of most of our concerns. Your w school kids will be fine without it, really.

TJHS is housed and administered by FCPS, but it is a governor's school, state-authorized. One superintendent could not make the decision to de facto close down a magnet program in the state of Virginia, as was done in MCPS.

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BING BONG! Wootton in da house with that 'de facto closure" hype.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious about the replacement people imagine. I’m not sure there will be a line out the door to deal with us. The pool of qualified candidates is shrinking not growing. We are always competing with other nearby counties. Who else wants to be named as a plaintiff in a supreme court case and be told they make too much for their trouble ?

Haha. Taylor makes $360,000 per year. I think there will always be a line out the door for that kind of money. Seriously though, we are the 16th largest school district in the country. There are qualified candidates out there and we will be ready for one to replace this guy.

I'm not trying to say $360k isn't a lot of money and anyone making less then that is poor by DCUM standards.

But when you consider the size of the organization that the superintendent runs, the wide range in student populations/demographics that they have to account for, and the public scrutiny they deal with, $360k doesn't seem out of the ordinary.

Just based on a Google search, and not digging or confirming the data, Michelle Reid at Fairfax County has a base salary of $424,146

Cheryl Dyson at Frederick County Public Schools has a salary of $300000, so MCPS has a high salary but I'm putting other local school systems for illustrative purposes. But Frederick County also has 48054 students compared to MCPS's 159181

Shawn Joseph in Prince Georges County earns $365000. The Google search result says he's the interim but I think I heard somewhere he got appointed as the permanent. PG County's student enrollment was 132151 last year

Myriam Rogers at Baltimore County earns $322524 and the student enrollment was 110024 last year

So another way of looking at it might be, do we really want to compete with Fairfax County? Maybe we need to pony up and offer a salary higher then what their superintendent is getting?

Just wanted to added Loudoun County's superintendent salary too:
Aaron Spence $425,334 with an enrollment of 80517

I would rank Loudoun County, both the area and the schools, very highly. So should be added to any comparables when we're looking at MCPS or comparing different school systems.

Fairfax has a stellar whole-school magnet TJHS. Londoun has Academies of Loundoun where students focus on project-oriented learning and authentic research for half-day everyday for straight 4 years. At MCPS, we have stellar magnet programs producing numerous college professors, wall street traders, high-level officials in federal government and astronauts. Instead of considering expanding it into a whole magnet school, Taylor deteriorates them and claims to build 100 programs with virtually no investment.

Now let's discuss whether they should be paid at the current salary level.

A magnet serving 400 students is the least of most of our concerns. Your w school kids will be fine without it, really.

You that stupid? How do you want to keep businesses here? You good with the County’s economy crashing?

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Anonymous wrote:Other school districts announce finalists for the position. We don't do that in Montgomery County?

NEVER

I wouldn't describe that as a best practice.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious about the replacement people imagine. I’m not sure there will be a line out the door to deal with us. The pool of qualified candidates is shrinking not growing. We are always competing with other nearby counties. Who else wants to be named as a plaintiff in a supreme court case and be told they make too much for their trouble ?

Haha. Taylor makes $360,000 per year. I think there will always be a line out the door for that kind of money. Seriously though, we are the 16th largest school district in the country. There are qualified candidates out there and we will be ready for one to replace this guy.

I'm not trying to say $360k isn't a lot of money and anyone making less then that is poor by DCUM standards.

But when you consider the size of the organization that the superintendent runs, the wide range in student populations/demographics that they have to account for, and the public scrutiny they deal with, $360k doesn't seem out of the ordinary.

Just based on a Google search, and not digging or confirming the data, Michelle Reid at Fairfax County has a base salary of $424,146

Cheryl Dyson at Frederick County Public Schools has a salary of $300000, so MCPS has a high salary but I'm putting other local school systems for illustrative purposes. But Frederick County also has 48054 students compared to MCPS's 159181

Shawn Joseph in Prince Georges County earns $365000. The Google search result says he's the interim but I think I heard somewhere he got appointed as the permanent. PG County's student enrollment was 132151 last year

Myriam Rogers at Baltimore County earns $322524 and the student enrollment was 110024 last year

So another way of looking at it might be, do we really want to compete with Fairfax County? Maybe we need to pony up and offer a salary higher then what their superintendent is getting?

Just wanted to added Loudoun County's superintendent salary too:
Aaron Spence $425,334 with an enrollment of 80517

I would rank Loudoun County, both the area and the schools, very highly. So should be added to any comparables when we're looking at MCPS or comparing different school systems.

Fairfax has a stellar whole-school magnet TJHS. Londoun has Academies of Loundoun where students focus on project-oriented learning and authentic research for half-day everyday for straight 4 years. At MCPS, we have stellar magnet programs producing numerous college professors, wall street traders, high-level officials in federal government and astronauts. Instead of considering expanding it into a whole magnet school, Taylor deteriorates them and claims to build 100 programs with virtually no investment.

Now let's discuss whether they should be paid at the current salary level.

A magnet serving 400 students is the least of most of our concerns. Your w school kids will be fine without it, really.

You that stupid? How do you want to keep businesses here? You good with the County’s economy crashing?

Are you that stupid that your biggest issues is Blair, which isn't being changed, but you don't have access to except if you move?

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Anonymous wrote:BING BONG! Wootton in da house with that 'de facto closure" hype.

No, it's not and most people support it except for a few community members who want to self-segregate, worried about property values, even though they are basically Gaithersburg or don't want to ever have to drive their kids anywhere so they want walkable.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious about the replacement people imagine. I’m not sure there will be a line out the door to deal with us. The pool of qualified candidates is shrinking not growing. We are always competing with other nearby counties. Who else wants to be named as a plaintiff in a supreme court case and be told they make too much for their trouble ?

Frederick for the win!

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Taylor is being sabotaged from within. His executive leadership team is working hard to undermine his credibility and leadership.

They post on here anonymously to rile up the community, posting as Taylor haters and Taylor supporters.

He will celebrate when he leaves MCPS because he won’t have to work with them any longer.

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Anonymous wrote:Taylor is being sabotaged from within. His executive leadership team is working hard to undermine his credibility and leadership.

They post on here anonymously to rile up the community, posting as Taylor haters and Taylor supporters.

He will celebrate when he leaves MCPS because he won’t have to work with them any longer.

Lol

The community doesn't need riling up, Taylor is doing that all by himself. What kind of ahole threatens to disrupt thousands of people's summer plans as part of some dumb scheme to extract a concession from the union?

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Anonymous wrote:Taylor is being sabotaged from within. His executive leadership team is working hard to undermine his credibility and leadership.

They post on here anonymously to rile up the community, posting as Taylor haters and Taylor supporters.

He will celebrate when he leaves MCPS because he won’t have to work with them any longer.

If that's the case Taylor can/could have easily cleaned house when he came in.

Other superintendents did it in other counties.

And the previous posters kind of reinforced my point about the MCPS superintendent's salary. I'm not really a fan of Taylor and am not saying he's deserving of that salary or the job. But can MCPS/Montgomery County even afford to pay the type of salaries that Fairfax and Loudoun Counties are able to pay their superintendents?

We might not because according to the 2020 census Loudoun County and Fairfax County were the first and fifth highest income counties in the US ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_counties_in_the_United_States ) . Montgomery County is 20th, which isn't bad compared to the overall country, which is what people say about the school system too. But we're not top in the area.

So we might very well have an issue in attracting desirable candidates and are limited to taking what we can get.

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Anonymous wrote:Taylor is being sabotaged from within. His executive leadership team is working hard to undermine his credibility and leadership.

They post on here anonymously to rile up the community, posting as Taylor haters and Taylor supporters.

He will celebrate when he leaves MCPS because he won’t have to work with them any longer.

If that's the case Taylor can/could have easily cleaned house when he came in.

Other superintendents did it in other counties.

And the previous posters kind of reinforced my point about the MCPS superintendent's salary. I'm not really a fan of Taylor and am not saying he's deserving of that salary or the job. But can MCPS/Montgomery County even afford to pay the type of salaries that Fairfax and Loudoun Counties are able to pay their superintendents?

We might not because according to the 2020 census Loudoun County and Fairfax County were the first and fifth highest income counties in the US ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_counties_in_the_United_States ) . Montgomery County is 20th, which isn't bad compared to the overall country, which is what people say about the school system too. But we're not top in the area.

So we might very well have an issue in attracting desirable candidates and are limited to taking what we can get.

He could have cleaned house when he got in for sure, and foolishly appointed saboteurs to his highest positions thinking about continuity. A mistake he gravely regrets.

Now, it’s too late to get rid of them, as they are working hard to get rid of him.