MOCO BOE update: Beidleman Report summary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://montgomeryperspective.com/2023/09/21/county-inspector-general-kicks-off-two-investigations-of-mcps/

"Moving forward my office will work directly with Dr. McKnight and her staff"

Not hard to predict what the outcome will be if she is working with McKnight and company

I think you're misreading this. What Limarzi is saying is that she has no intention of working through the utterly toothless BOE. She's not wrong.

WHOA. I didn't read it that way initially, but if you're right, YIKES!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://montgomeryperspective.com/2023/09/21/county-inspector-general-kicks-off-two-investigations-of-mcps/

"Moving forward my office will work directly with Dr. McKnight and her staff"

Not hard to predict what the outcome will be if she is working with McKnight and company

I think you're misreading this. What Limarzi is saying is that she has no intention of working through the utterly toothless BOE. She's not wrong.

WHOA. I didn't read it that way initially, but if you're right, YIKES!

DP. I don't read it that way at all. "Working directly with Dr. McKnight and her staff" is appropriate for a thorough investigation into the operations of MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://montgomeryperspective.com/2023/09/21/county-inspector-general-kicks-off-two-investigations-of-mcps/

"Moving forward my office will work directly with Dr. McKnight and her staff"

Not hard to predict what the outcome will be if she is working with McKnight and company

I think you're misreading this. What Limarzi is saying is that she has no intention of working through the utterly toothless BOE. She's not wrong.

WHOA. I didn't read it that way initially, but if you're right, YIKES!

DP. I don't read it that way at all. "Working directly with Dr. McKnight and her staff" is appropriate for a thorough investigation into the operations of MCPS.

Yes, they have to work through the superintendent. This will be an adversarial engagement. Does the IG have subpoena authority?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The latest article from The Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/09/21/inspector-general-mcps-beidleman-farquhar/

The paragraph in there with feedback from MCPS staff that they were wary of talking to Jackson Lewis but will fully cooperate with the IG's office because they perceive it to be actually independent, basically renders Jackson Lewis's report worthless. If staff were (rightfully) leery of talking to them, their findings are a charade. Not that we didn't know this the second the conflict of interest became clear, but this just puts it into focus. Hopefully the IG's office will get the real lay of the land and staff will feel more comfortable to be honest with them.

What a sick system. The whole feckless BOE needs to go, and McKnight and her cronies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The latest article from The Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/09/21/inspector-general-mcps-beidleman-farquhar/

The paragraph in there with feedback from MCPS staff that they were wary of talking to Jackson Lewis but will fully cooperate with the IG's office because they perceive it to be actually independent, basically renders Jackson Lewis's report worthless. If staff were (rightfully) leery of talking to them, their findings are a charade. Not that we didn't know this the second the conflict of interest became clear, but this just puts it into focus. Hopefully the IG's office will get the real lay of the land and staff will feel more comfortable to be honest with them.

What a sick system. The whole feckless BOE needs to go, and McKnight and her cronies.

No one should write off the Jackson Lewis report entirely. Even though it wasn't independent, it gave the board enough to terminate McKnight if they choose to do so. The BOE's reckoning will be at the ballot box.

[Anonymous]

What’s the chatter among principals? Are they hopeful that Dr. McKnight will be fired?

[Anonymous]

As even this case demonstrates, problems of ignoring sexual harassment complaints and misconduct by MCPS staff have been around for years. The Board of Education wrote a Code of Conduct that gave the framework for dealing with problem employees but there was never any enforcement to give it teeth. Every school administrator and every Central Office Administrator runs a high probability that they have equally been complicit when employees, parents and students have filed complaints.

Remember the MeToo complaints regarding a teacher at Blair high school? The Washington Post broke that story as well. It maddening that Beidleman is not the first and only case where his misconduct was broadly ignore.

The Board bares responsibility. The Superintendent bares responsibility. However, so do many of the Principals and Administrators in Central Office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As even this case demonstrates, problems of ignoring sexual harassment complaints and misconduct by MCPS staff have been around for years. The Board of Education wrote a Code of Conduct that gave the framework for dealing with problem employees but there was never any enforcement to give it teeth. Every school administrator and every Central Office Administrator runs a high probability that they have equally been complicit when employees, parents and students have filed complaints.

Remember the MeToo complaints regarding a teacher at Blair high school? The Washington Post broke that story as well. It maddening that Beidleman is not the first and only case where his misconduct was broadly ignore.

The Board bares responsibility. The Superintendent bares responsibility. However, so do many of the Principals and Administrators in Central Office.

Accountability must start at the top, with the current leadership. If Josh Starr and Jack Smith allowed this to go on, the reports should say that too, especially with respect to the former because he still presents himself as a trustworthy expert.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As even this case demonstrates, problems of ignoring sexual harassment complaints and misconduct by MCPS staff have been around for years. The Board of Education wrote a Code of Conduct that gave the framework for dealing with problem employees but there was never any enforcement to give it teeth. Every school administrator and every Central Office Administrator runs a high probability that they have equally been complicit when employees, parents and students have filed complaints.

Remember the MeToo complaints regarding a teacher at Blair high school? The Washington Post broke that story as well. It maddening that Beidleman is not the first and only case where his misconduct was broadly ignore.

The Board bares responsibility. The Superintendent bares responsibility. However, so do many of the Principals and Administrators in Central Office.

Accountability must start at the top, with the current leadership. If Josh Starr and Jack Smith allowed this to go on, the reports should say that too, especially with respect to the former because he still presents himself as a trustworthy expert.

Accountability must be applied to all administrators that allowed the practice of ignoring sexual harassment and bullying to proliferate. Many knew of the complaints with Beidleman over 6 years. Many know of other similar cases. There’s a lot of soulless administrators running our schools and in Central Office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As even this case demonstrates, problems of ignoring sexual harassment complaints and misconduct by MCPS staff have been around for years. The Board of Education wrote a Code of Conduct that gave the framework for dealing with problem employees but there was never any enforcement to give it teeth. Every school administrator and every Central Office Administrator runs a high probability that they have equally been complicit when employees, parents and students have filed complaints.

Remember the MeToo complaints regarding a teacher at Blair high school? The Washington Post broke that story as well. It maddening that Beidleman is not the first and only case where his misconduct was broadly ignore.

The Board bares responsibility. The Superintendent bares responsibility. However, so do many of the Principals and Administrators in Central Office.

Accountability must start at the top, with the current leadership. If Josh Starr and Jack Smith allowed this to go on, the reports should say that too, especially with respect to the former because he still presents himself as a trustworthy expert.

Accountability must be applied to all administrators that allowed the practice of ignoring sexual harassment and bullying to proliferate. Many knew of the complaints with Beidleman over 6 years. Many know of other similar cases. There’s a lot of soulless administrators running our schools and in Central Office.

100 percent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As even this case demonstrates, problems of ignoring sexual harassment complaints and misconduct by MCPS staff have been around for years. The Board of Education wrote a Code of Conduct that gave the framework for dealing with problem employees but there was never any enforcement to give it teeth. Every school administrator and every Central Office Administrator runs a high probability that they have equally been complicit when employees, parents and students have filed complaints.

Remember the MeToo complaints regarding a teacher at Blair high school? The Washington Post broke that story as well. It maddening that Beidleman is not the first and only case where his misconduct was broadly ignore.

The Board bares responsibility. The Superintendent bares responsibility. However, so do many of the Principals and Administrators in Central Office.

Accountability must start at the top, with the current leadership. If Josh Starr and Jack Smith allowed this to go on, the reports should say that too, especially with respect to the former because he still presents himself as a trustworthy expert.

I would happily take back Dr. Starr. I know many principals who would, too. That old adage, be careful what you wish for. But regardless, he left eleven years ago, stay focused.

[Anonymous]

Or years ago anyway, maybe 8 or more

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As even this case demonstrates, problems of ignoring sexual harassment complaints and misconduct by MCPS staff have been around for years. The Board of Education wrote a Code of Conduct that gave the framework for dealing with problem employees but there was never any enforcement to give it teeth. Every school administrator and every Central Office Administrator runs a high probability that they have equally been complicit when employees, parents and students have filed complaints.

Remember the MeToo complaints regarding a teacher at Blair high school? The Washington Post broke that story as well. It maddening that Beidleman is not the first and only case where his misconduct was broadly ignore.

The Board bares responsibility. The Superintendent bares responsibility. However, so do many of the Principals and Administrators in Central Office.

Accountability must start at the top, with the current leadership. If Josh Starr and Jack Smith allowed this to go on, the reports should say that too, especially with respect to the former because he still presents himself as a trustworthy expert.

I would happily take back Dr. Starr. I know many principals who would, too. That old adage, be careful what you wish for. But regardless, he left eleven years ago, stay focused.

Yup. Would gladly take back Starr. I didn't think it could get worse than Jack Smith, but then here we are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or years ago anyway, maybe 8 or more

Starr left in Feb 2015

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As even this case demonstrates, problems of ignoring sexual harassment complaints and misconduct by MCPS staff have been around for years. The Board of Education wrote a Code of Conduct that gave the framework for dealing with problem employees but there was never any enforcement to give it teeth. Every school administrator and every Central Office Administrator runs a high probability that they have equally been complicit when employees, parents and students have filed complaints.

Remember the MeToo complaints regarding a teacher at Blair high school? The Washington Post broke that story as well. It maddening that Beidleman is not the first and only case where his misconduct was broadly ignore.

The Board bares responsibility. The Superintendent bares responsibility. However, so do many of the Principals and Administrators in Central Office.

Accountability must start at the top, with the current leadership. If Josh Starr and Jack Smith allowed this to go on, the reports should say that too, especially with respect to the former because he still presents himself as a trustworthy expert.

I would happily take back Dr. Starr. I know many principals who would, too. That old adage, be careful what you wish for. But regardless, he left eleven years ago, stay focused.

Right. Starr happily knew John Vigna was sexually abusing little 7 year old girls in his classroom and left him there.
Starr was notified in writing and that letter was evidence in Vigna’s trial. It is a fact.

But who cares about children being sexually abused?