Board wants Monifa to step down

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Anonymous wrote:The schoolboard needs to step down also. The whole MC education system need to be revamped, including materials taught.

Talk about jobs that don't pay enough to get quality candidates with the kind of experience needed - the BOE members make $25,000 per year. They are basically volunteers. They also have virtually no staff separate from MCPS staff. They are good-hearted but do not have the skills or the resources to provide true oversight to MCPS let alone run it themselves if the administration is not doing a good job.

Need a lawyer or two as in the board

BOE member Lynne Harris is an attorney

So is BOE member Brenda Wolff.

Pretty sure that poster was being sarcastic. Nobody likes lawyers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Holy smokes, is this really the culture at MCPS? It’s beyond disturbing if even remotely true.

I don’t know if it is all true but some of it definitely is true

[Anonymous]

Anyone else catch the gentlemen in the crowd yelling “How did you vote?” to each BOE member after they introduced themselves at todays budget work session? He didn’t yell it to Wolf or Evans though. A sign that they’re the only 2 who still support McKnight?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else catch the gentlemen in the crowd yelling “How did you vote?” to each BOE member after they introduced themselves at todays budget work session? He didn’t yell it to Wolf or Evans though. A sign that they’re the only 2 who still support McKnight?

That wouldn’t surprise me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else catch the gentlemen in the crowd yelling “How did you vote?” to each BOE member after they introduced themselves at todays budget work session? He didn’t yell it to Wolf or Evans though. A sign that they’re the only 2 who still support McKnight?

Maybe this is overly cynical, but if you wanted to make this about race, perhaps you wouldn't want to know how the black women voted.

[Anonymous]

Once the board tell you they want you out - you are out. Not really rocket science. I believe there is a sensitive issue (not race, gender) the board is tiptoeing around because that sensitive issue puts her in a protected class. Pretty obvious by them asking her to "step away". It is actually as kind a way an employer can do it. Agree with reading the room. Her tenure in MCPS is over. However, the same sensitive issue is impacting her judgment in how she has handled this in public. The media and the public are never on your side in a mess that could be handled quietly and with discretion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a different opinion. My opinion is:
- her mishandling of covid
- during the school shooting incident: needing a police escort to cut through traffic, showing up late to the press conference, delaying the release of students to worried parents so everyone could see her on TV in an inappropriately bright Barbie pink outfit
- letting MCPS waste money on million dollar bocce, millions on Kid Museum, Leader in Me, electric buses versus fixing schools with asbestos or bad infrastructure
- wasting time on racism witch hunts while MCPS academics slid off the US News rankings

Should I go on?

I don't think covid was mishandled except they should have continued masking much longer. However agree with everything you said but you didn't include the curriculum, lack of discipline, and many other issues.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have a different opinion. My opinion is:
- her mishandling of covid
- during the school shooting incident: needing a police escort to cut through traffic, showing up late to the press conference, delaying the release of students to worried parents so everyone could see her on TV in an inappropriately bright Barbie pink outfit
- letting MCPS waste money on million dollar bocce, millions on Kid Museum, Leader in Me, electric buses versus fixing schools with asbestos or bad infrastructure
- wasting time on racism witch hunts while MCPS academics slid off the US News rankings

Should I go on?

I don't think covid was mishandled except they should have continued masking much longer. However agree with everything you said but you didn't include the curriculum, lack of discipline, and many other issues.

I don’t think Covid was mishandled. Nor do I think it’s a problem she got stuck in traffic after a school shooting(it’s not like someone can plan for that in their day). I don’t have a problem with Bocce or Leader in Me being tried and then dismissed. And clearly them isn’t racism witch hunts but very real racism and racist incidents occurring in the district.

Curriculum, implementation and teacher understanding of standards and pacing could be better. Boundaries are needed around IDEA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once the board tell you they want you out - you are out. Not really rocket science. I believe there is a sensitive issue (not race, gender) the board is tiptoeing around because that sensitive issue puts her in a protected class. Pretty obvious by them asking her to "step away". It is actually as kind a way an employer can do it. Agree with reading the room. Her tenure in MCPS is over. However, the same sensitive issue is impacting her judgment in how she has handled this in public. The media and the public are never on your side in a mess that could be handled quietly and with discretion.

+1 they gave her a chance to leave without being fired. Now it is going to be so much worse for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once the board tell you they want you out - you are out. Not really rocket science. I believe there is a sensitive issue (not race, gender) the board is tiptoeing around because that sensitive issue puts her in a protected class. Pretty obvious by them asking her to "step away". It is actually as kind a way an employer can do it. Agree with reading the room. Her tenure in MCPS is over. However, the same sensitive issue is impacting her judgment in how she has handled this in public. The media and the public are never on your side in a mess that could be handled quietly and with discretion.

+1. Her play here is puzzling. So let’s say it works out and she keeps her job. Then what? How can she manage a staff that knows the board wanted to get rid of her? How does she manage a board that wanted to get rid of her? How can she be an effective advocate with the council or state legislators, both of whom know the board tried to get rid of her?

[Anonymous]

She should have agreed to resign effective the end of the school year with a severence so she could go quietly. She has handled this very, very badly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Once the board tell you they want you out - you are out. Not really rocket science. I believe there is a sensitive issue (not race, gender) the board is tiptoeing around because that sensitive issue puts her in a protected class. Pretty obvious by them asking her to "step away". It is actually as kind a way an employer can do it. Agree with reading the room. Her tenure in MCPS is over. However, the same sensitive issue is impacting her judgment in how she has handled this in public. The media and the public are never on your side in a mess that could be handled quietly and with discretion.

+1. Her play here is puzzling. So let’s say it works out and she keeps her job. Then what? How can she manage a staff that knows the board wanted to get rid of her? How does she manage a board that wanted to get rid of her? How can she be an effective advocate with the council or state legislators, both of whom know the board tried to get rid of her?

She doesn't need to be effective to still collect $320k. Presumably this comes down to money. And she's not likely to find another job that will pay her that much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Once the board tell you they want you out - you are out. Not really rocket science. I believe there is a sensitive issue (not race, gender) the board is tiptoeing around because that sensitive issue puts her in a protected class. Pretty obvious by them asking her to "step away". It is actually as kind a way an employer can do it. Agree with reading the room. Her tenure in MCPS is over. However, the same sensitive issue is impacting her judgment in how she has handled this in public. The media and the public are never on your side in a mess that could be handled quietly and with discretion.

+1 they gave her a chance to leave without being fired. Now it is going to be so much worse for everyone.

She wouldn't have gotten a pay-out if she resigned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She should have agreed to resign effective the end of the school year with a severence so she could go quietly. She has handled this very, very badly.

Totally setting aside whether termination is justified, she must be living in some kind of crazy echo chamber to think this was the right play.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Once the board tell you they want you out - you are out. Not really rocket science. I believe there is a sensitive issue (not race, gender) the board is tiptoeing around because that sensitive issue puts her in a protected class. Pretty obvious by them asking her to "step away". It is actually as kind a way an employer can do it. Agree with reading the room. Her tenure in MCPS is over. However, the same sensitive issue is impacting her judgment in how she has handled this in public. The media and the public are never on your side in a mess that could be handled quietly and with discretion.

+1 they gave her a chance to leave without being fired. Now it is going to be so much worse for everyone.

She wouldn't have gotten a pay-out if she resigned.

And there are 3 BOE seats of election so of some of them were planning to run again they are also going to have more explaining to do.