Board wants Monifa to step down

[Anonymous]

MCPS needs to hire someone who cares about educating all kids without dumbing down the curriculum and instituting equity measures. The smart kids need just as much as the dumb kids. Yes. There are dumb kids..

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Anonymous wrote:It’s an impossible job. Any superintendent having to deal with this board, this county council, this union, and this gigantic county with such varying and diverse needs - will FAIL. History will repeat itself. Blame the super, hire another one and let the problems continue to spiral.

While I’m critical of Monifa, I do agree it’s a tough job. But that’s also why we pay $320,000 a year to do it. That’s not a small amount of money.

It certainly isn’t enough for the headache. Anyone that could be named Super could likely go do something else and make either slightly less or more and have less problems/bureaucracy/politics to deal with.

I’ve never seen a job that pays in the $300-$500k range that doesn’t come with headaches, politics and pressure.

Reality check: the president of the United States gets paid $400,000 in salary to do his job. That’s just $80,000 more than Monifa. So I don’t think the expectations for her given her title and compensation are unrealistic.

Then you haven’t been looking hard enough. VP roles come with that salary and companies have lots of them.

But this is not private sector. It’s paid by tax payer’s dollars. You don’t find such high pay often in the public sector.

Which is exactly the point. You want to hire someone to deal with a multitude of different issues with a multitude of different stakeholders and pay them thousands sometimes hundred of thousands less than the private sector would pay. Then expect them to deliver miracles.

And then when folks in these roles finally say I’ve had enough and quit and no good people line up to replace them everyone’s flabbergasted. And then we’re back to, “ Oh this is a good salary and we should woo the Super from the best school district the nation”. Gimmie a break.

This is same logic folks have been using with teachers for years.

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That’s a very wrong logic. Why does Joe Biden get paid for $400K only? Shouldn’t he be paid for hundreds of millions a year to be at least equal pay with some CEOs? Look at HHS secretary, FDA commissioner, etc, who’re not even paid as high as Monifa, doing a much more important role dealing with very complex stuff.

No it’s not wrong logic. All of these positions should be paid more than they are or private salaries should be less. Take whichever side you want. We lean on altruism and believe that because something is paid from tax dollars (despite being for the public good) people should do it for less money. This work until folks determine the value/reward of the job is not worth the headache.

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Anonymous wrote:She showed up to the BOE meeting after they called for her resignation. What is going on?

She showed up with her supporters who packed the audience and heckled the BOE members during the meeting.

Did you miss that?

Who are her supporters? The other central office leaders who would go with her to happy hour, get drunk and then bully and harass subordinates regularly?

NAACP Montgomery County chapter members. Lucy Hayes, who is an executive committee member of the NAACP MC: https://naacp-mc.org/index.php/officers/

At today's meeting, she called the board's request for her to resign a WITCH HUNT.

SOURCE: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/mcps-superintendent-says-school-board-wants-her-to-resign/3523305/

"This is a witch hunt," community advocate Lucy Hayes said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS needs to hire someone who cares about educating all kids without dumbing down the curriculum and instituting equity measures. The smart kids need just as much as the dumb kids. Yes. There are dumb kids..

You can’t educate all kids without equity measures.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS needs to hire someone who cares about educating all kids without dumbing down the curriculum and instituting equity measures. The smart kids need just as much as the dumb kids. Yes. There are dumb kids..

You can’t educate all kids without equity measures.

Sure you can.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s an impossible job. Any superintendent having to deal with this board, this county council, this union, and this gigantic county with such varying and diverse needs - will FAIL. History will repeat itself. Blame the super, hire another one and let the problems continue to spiral.

While I’m critical of Monifa, I do agree it’s a tough job. But that’s also why we pay $320,000 a year to do it. That’s not a small amount of money.

It certainly isn’t enough for the headache. Anyone that could be named Super could likely go do something else and make either slightly less or more and have less problems/bureaucracy/politics to deal with.

I’ve never seen a job that pays in the $300-$500k range that doesn’t come with headaches, politics and pressure.

Reality check: the president of the United States gets paid $400,000 in salary to do his job. That’s just $80,000 more than Monifa. So I don’t think the expectations for her given her title and compensation are unrealistic.

Then you haven’t been looking hard enough. VP roles come with that salary and companies have lots of them.

But this is not private sector. It’s paid by tax payer’s dollars. You don’t find such high pay often in the public sector.

Which is exactly the point. You want to hire someone to deal with a multitude of different issues with a multitude of different stakeholders and pay them thousands sometimes hundred of thousands less than the private sector would pay. Then expect them to deliver miracles.

And then when folks in these roles finally say I’ve had enough and quit and no good people line up to replace them everyone’s flabbergasted. And then we’re back to, “ Oh this is a good salary and we should woo the Super from the best school district the nation”. Gimmie a break.

This is same logic folks have been using with teachers for years.

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That’s a very wrong logic. Why does Joe Biden get paid for $400K only? Shouldn’t he be paid for hundreds of millions a year to be at least equal pay with some CEOs? Look at HHS secretary, FDA commissioner, etc, who’re not even paid as high as Monifa, doing a much more important role dealing with very complex stuff.

No it’s not wrong logic. All of these positions should be paid more than they are or private salaries should be less. Take whichever side you want. We lean on altruism and believe that because something is paid from tax dollars (despite being for the public good) people should do it for less money. This work until folks determine the value/reward of the job is not worth the headache.

You can pay millions but BOE would still hire Monifa or Jack Smith. Why waste the money?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s an impossible job. Any superintendent having to deal with this board, this county council, this union, and this gigantic county with such varying and diverse needs - will FAIL. History will repeat itself. Blame the super, hire another one and let the problems continue to spiral.

While I’m critical of Monifa, I do agree it’s a tough job. But that’s also why we pay $320,000 a year to do it. That’s not a small amount of money.

It certainly isn’t enough for the headache. Anyone that could be named Super could likely go do something else and make either slightly less or more and have less problems/bureaucracy/politics to deal with.

I’ve never seen a job that pays in the $300-$500k range that doesn’t come with headaches, politics and pressure.

Reality check: the president of the United States gets paid $400,000 in salary to do his job. That’s just $80,000 more than Monifa. So I don’t think the expectations for her given her title and compensation are unrealistic.

Then you haven’t been looking hard enough. VP roles come with that salary and companies have lots of them.

But this is not private sector. It’s paid by tax payer’s dollars. You don’t find such high pay often in the public sector.

Which is exactly the point. You want to hire someone to deal with a multitude of different issues with a multitude of different stakeholders and pay them thousands sometimes hundred of thousands less than the private sector would pay. Then expect them to deliver miracles.

And then when folks in these roles finally say I’ve had enough and quit and no good people line up to replace them everyone’s flabbergasted. And then we’re back to, “ Oh this is a good salary and we should woo the Super from the best school district the nation”. Gimmie a break.

This is same logic folks have been using with teachers for years.

。

That’s a very wrong logic. Why does Joe Biden get paid for $400K only? Shouldn’t he be paid for hundreds of millions a year to be at least equal pay with some CEOs? Look at HHS secretary, FDA commissioner, etc, who’re not even paid as high as Monifa, doing a much more important role dealing with very complex stuff.

Weird argument. We should be paying our leaders much, much more. Otherwise you'd expect exactly what we see: leaders that are already rich, and/or leaders looking to use their position as a stepping stone to a higher paying job.

Why should we pay Monifa much much more? Do you think she was hired because BOE cannot make a higher offer? She was hired due to diversity reasons. Regardless of how much you pay, BOE will hire the same type of people.

[Anonymous]

Monifa is loyal, that is a trait our leaders no longer exhibit and people no longer care for. She was loyal to her friend and promoted him. She stood by him as long as she could.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:She showed up to the BOE meeting after they called for her resignation. What is going on?

She showed up with her supporters who packed the audience and heckled the BOE members during the meeting.

Did you miss that?

Who are her supporters? The other central office leaders who would go with her to happy hour, get drunk and then bully and harass subordinates regularly?

NAACP Montgomery County chapter members. Lucy Hayes, who is an executive committee member of the NAACP MC: https://naacp-mc.org/index.php/officers/

At today's meeting, she called the board's request for her to resign a WITCH HUNT.

SOURCE: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/mcps-superintendent-says-school-board-wants-her-to-resign/3523305/

"This is a witch hunt," community advocate Lucy Hayes said.

How sad that two black women think it's fine that a black man sexually harassed women. If they think she did nothing wrong, then it's an acceptance of what Biedelman did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Monifa is loyal, that is a trait our leaders no longer exhibit and people no longer care for. She was loyal to her friend and promoted him. She stood by him as long as she could.

So weird how people don't have as much patience anymore for enabling sexual harassers. If only we could go back to the good old days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS needs to hire someone who cares about educating all kids without dumbing down the curriculum and instituting equity measures. The smart kids need just as much as the dumb kids. Yes. There are dumb kids..

You can’t educate all kids without equity measures.

Sure you can.

Okay so let’s say you purchase a very rigorous reading curriculum. Great. Everyone is happy until someone says, well what about the blind kids they can’t read the curriculum.
So either you buy the same curriculum in Braille and supply teachers capable of teachers/technology capable of knowing that the kids are making progress with Braille, or the teacher reads everything out loud and then allows the blind kid to respond out loud and also offers audio books or maybe you purchase a completely separate curriculum for the blind students

The above is equity at work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She showed up to the BOE meeting after they called for her resignation. What is going on?

She showed up with her supporters who packed the audience and heckled the BOE members during the meeting.

Did you miss that?

Who are her supporters? The other central office leaders who would go with her to happy hour, get drunk and then bully and harass subordinates regularly?

NAACP Montgomery County chapter members. Lucy Hayes, who is an executive committee member of the NAACP MC: https://naacp-mc.org/index.php/officers/

At today's meeting, she called the board's request for her to resign a WITCH HUNT.

SOURCE: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/mcps-superintendent-says-school-board-wants-her-to-resign/3523305/

"This is a witch hunt," community advocate Lucy Hayes said.

It's always been a witch hunt. Nothing new to see here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Monifa is loyal, that is a trait our leaders no longer exhibit and people no longer care for. She was loyal to her friend and promoted him. She stood by him as long as she could.

Loyalty? What is this the Mafia? If JB was a white dude he would have been fired years ago. Trying to promote having a male principal of color at a high school was more important than dozens of sexual harassment complaints. Coverup is always worse than the crime. Enjoy being a consultant and making TED talks Dr. McKnight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She showed up to the BOE meeting after they called for her resignation. What is going on?

She showed up with her supporters who packed the audience and heckled the BOE members during the meeting.

Did you miss that?

Who are her supporters? The other central office leaders who would go with her to happy hour, get drunk and then bully and harass subordinates regularly?

NAACP Montgomery County chapter members. Lucy Hayes, who is an executive committee member of the NAACP MC: https://naacp-mc.org/index.php/officers/

At today's meeting, she called the board's request for her to resign a WITCH HUNT.

SOURCE: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/mcps-superintendent-says-school-board-wants-her-to-resign/3523305/

"This is a witch hunt," community advocate Lucy Hayes said.

It's always been a witch hunt. Nothing new to see here.

Hi, Lucy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Monifa is loyal, that is a trait our leaders no longer exhibit and people no longer care for. She was loyal to her friend and promoted him. She stood by him as long as she could.

She should have been more loyal to her students and employees, not just her friend. That she didn't makes her a poor leader.