Washington Post article about Former Farquhar Administrator

[Anonymous]

McKnight's silence is deafening

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:McKnight's silence is deafening

What has she said about this?

[Anonymous]

McKnight might survive this scandal but if she does MCPS won’t.

A message needs to be sent here that this type of blatant negligence, under the guise that “it’s our turn to turn a blind eye to sexual harassment and corruption,” should not be tolerated.

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Anonymous wrote:[quote/] "My former principal brought vodka to school and was just as vindictive as this guy. Just as many complaints. He is going to be admin at a different school now. We are scared of retaliation so in same position.

Hi, Alexandra Robbins here. If any of you on this thread would like to share your experiences with admin or central office for a potential future article, please feel free to email me at [e-mail]

Even if an anonymous email is sent, people can track the IP address and names can still be gathered from the information indirectly. I'll share my story here. I'm a former MCPS student who went to an East County school from K-8, and a W school from 9-12 (parents got a promotion so we moved).

My first month of freshman year, I was elected to a student council leadership position, and a couple of people decided it was OK to call me (a non-White but straight male) a "monkey" in a group chat one weekend. Someone sent it over to me. Needless to say, I had prepared to non-violently but firmly & loudly confront the two individuals. It's not my fault that I simply wanted belonging in a new environment and wanted to hone/share my talents. So, I confronted them the minute I got to school that Monday, and, of course, it was a whole scene where people were confused and "calling me angry", which feeds into long-standing stereotypes. The AP of my grade (who was a Black man) chastises me for being angry at them, even when I was literally attacked. He promises to do an investigation and loop me in, but he never speaks to the 2 perpetrators. Instead, he thinks it's a good decision to say "turn the other cheek" and play kumbaya. He was also the sponsor for the Minority Scholars Program at my school, which I also belonged to, and we worked together on student council stuff. So for all 4 years, I had to deal with his indignant, passive aggressive, quick to blame, snarky attitude -- all because he wanted to look good for our new principal and not ruffle any feathers. He became an AP at another school and pushed out of the county because he was also creepy in his mannerisms. Nobody liked him, but hey, MCAAP is a powerful union and almost every school needs a token POC administrator. He was totally ineffective otherwise. Did I probably have the ability to handle it better? Yes, but it was warranted as I stand by the substance behind it. In my time of need and in the face of blatant racism, a culture of looking the other way reared its head, and to this day, I have been scared to speak about things. This long, drawn out process has also driven me to constant depression, anxiety, binge eating, etc. and I am always reminded of it.

Then, at the same school, there was a Pre-Calculus teacher who was older and very racist. Everyone reported her form every background. She would barely help the Black kids or be very short with them. One time, I had a personal issue and tried to go to her with some homework I had made up. Keep in mind that math is not my strength due to ADHD - I'm more of a humanities person, especially English and History. It's bad enough that I hate math and only took that class because it was part of the math pathway for college. When I try to see her at the end of the day, she literally barks at me "I'm tired of grading" and shoos me out of there. I reported her to my AP and counselor, but because it's very hard to find a pre-calc teacher, she knew she was protected. "Oh, I'm conservative, people of color should work for what they want" OK, with your wrinkly ass. You know nothing about me. I used to be proud of MCPS, but we are absolutely slipping as a system because of good old boy behavior, tenure rules, half-assed processes, etc.

I ain’t reading all that. I’m happy for you, or sorry that happened to you

I hope nobody actually emails this fake troll gmail account. Pretty sure robbins would have a post email

She doesn’t work at the post. She is an author who submitted an article that the post fact checked and ran.

Please ignore the MCPS spin machine that wants to silence complaints to be reported to the media. It takes the media to investigate and link multiple sources to bring these allegations to the public.

If you have a similar experience as the victims in the Washington Post article, please reach out to the Post directly or the email above. MCPS will continue the coverups unless the media reports on problems.

Toxic environments in MCPS schools affect employees and students. As long as MCPS controls the investigations and offers up victims to be retaliated against, bullies and sexual predators will flock to work for MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:McKnight might survive this scandal but if she does MCPS won’t.

A message needs to be sent here that this type of blatant negligence, under the guise that “it’s our turn to turn a blind eye to sexual harassment and corruption,” should not be tolerated.

The sky is falling!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:McKnight's silence is deafening

Terrible she has said NOTHING yet

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Has McKnight made a statement at all
about the article?

I imagine she is consulting with her lawyer who will dictate exactly what she should say. Which is what beidleman did. Originally he refused to comment on the article, but apparently last minute his lawyer told him to respond with all that “there’s no evidence” bs

There will be the usual canned email from her about how mcps cares about employees so much and does not tolerate such behavior blah blah blah! All fake

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Anonymous wrote:Has McKnight made a statement at all
about the article?

I imagine she is consulting with her lawyer who will dictate exactly what she should say. Which is what beidleman did. Originally he refused to comment on the article, but apparently last minute his lawyer told him to respond with all that “there’s no evidence” bs

I also find this whole innocent to proven guilty so frustrating!

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Anonymous wrote:Man, this gives all the MCPS principals a bad name. I’d be pissed if I were a MCPS principal who did nothing wrong, and perhaps knew their supervisors were letting this all go down unchallenged. I do wonder however why other principals didn’t speak up. Some must have known. The principals need to bad together to oust the bad actors among them if the higher ups are turning a blind eye.

They were worried about their own schools and speaking up would break the code.

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Anonymous wrote:McKnight's silence is deafening

Terrible she has said NOTHING yet

Doesn't this date back to long before McKnight's tenure? I mean most of this went on under Smith right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:McKnight's silence is deafening

Terrible she has said NOTHING yet

Doesn't this date back to long before McKnight's tenure? I mean most of this went on under Smith right?

A lot of the worst went on under her watch and she just approved his promotion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:McKnight's silence is deafening

Terrible she has said NOTHING yet

Doesn't this date back to long before McKnight's tenure? I mean most of this went on under Smith right?

But who is in charge now? Who supervises the department that closed this case? Who supervises the people that gave this guy a promotion? Who???

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Anonymous wrote:McKnight's silence is deafening

Terrible she has said NOTHING yet

Doesn't this date back to long before McKnight's tenure? I mean most of this went on under Smith right?

But who is in charge now? Who supervises the department that closed this case? Who supervises the people that gave this guy a promotion? Who???

+1 what did they do about the numerous complaints over the 7 years? Nothing? No one investigated?

Where's the accountability here from MCPS? Super frustrating.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has McKnight made a statement at all
about the article?

I imagine she is consulting with her lawyer who will dictate exactly what she should say. Which is what beidleman did. Originally he refused to comment on the article, but apparently last minute his lawyer told him to respond with all that “there’s no evidence” bs

I also find this whole innocent to proven guilty so frustrating!

The juxtaposition of the mountains of evidence of harassment and cover-up against the blanket denials of wrongdoing was telling.

Anyway the standard of proof needed for a criminal conviction needn’t be met to conclude they need to clean house in MCPS, starting with McKnight. She obviously lacks both integrity and sound judgment and needs to either resign or be terminated.

[Anonymous]

First female superintendant. How ridiculous this all is, in the name of racial and gender optics trusting our kids education to predators and incompetents. A snake that eats its own tail - that’s the limousine liberals’ politics of Moco. I used to be moderately democrat. If McKinght keeps her job after this, i will donate to whoever campaigns to unseat the current Board of Education. Hope many other responsible parents will do too.