New Superintendent to be named on February 8th

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS has slid from bad to worse. Central Office is completely disconnected from what is going on in schools. The Board of Ed let teachers, principals, parents and students down.

The Board of Ed should require that you have a child in MCPS to sit on the board. Many of them don't have young kids or kids in MCPS so they don't know or care.

Not having a kid in school is not a prerequisite for caring about kids or society.

Yes, but when you don’t, it makes it easier to hide from your constituents! This is a sham

I personally think that the Board is derelict of its oversight responsibility because they are part-time positions, many of whom do not have an educational background other than their service on the Board, and they are advised by the same General Counsel that advises MCPS. Often, they do not take time to objectively review issues or ask MCPS important questions. The Board members just rubber stamp whatever the Superintendent asks for and they wasted tax dollars on a Superintendent search that they created a predestined outcome for.

If you now look at the experience of many of the top leaders in Central Office, MCPS hired people that left some of the worst school districts in Maryland. Is it any wonder the quality of educating students has slipped?

Well, you're part of a small minority who believes this. The majority of us will vote them back in by a landslide just like every election because we're happy with the job they're doing.

Let’s see if they get the Apple Ballot endorsement they received in the past.

That will likely depend on whether a more qualified candidate runs against an incumbent. Or a complete hack (looking at you, 6 million dollar man).

The unions will loose all credibility if they support any candidate that didn’t listen to their vote of no confidence. Teachers can’t strike (but they can call in sick) so there are limited way to get their voices heard. Not endorsing a candidate is a pretty valuable voice.

This is true. But hopefully we will see the trend continue where the apple ballot means less and less.

Don't forget that in the last competitive school board race, the apple ballot lost. Dasgupta lost.

Which frees the Board from the clutches of the MCEA, which is a good thing. They should be entirely independent of each other

As a parent, I am split -

I thought the endless calls by the MCEA to keep kids in virtual learning for 18 months as very harmful.

However, this school year was a catastrophic failure of Dr. McKnight and Central Office to plan for a surge. It also seems to be a corporate culture in MCPS to ignore the needs of students, take care of their own, and retaliate against anyone who complains of a problem. What gets lost is the idea of treating people fairly and doing what’s best for the child. I think it took a lot for teachers and school administrators to cast a vote of no confidence in someone was destined to be named Superintendent. If the MCEA named a non-incumbent for their Apple Ballot, I would highly consider voting for that candidate after the disasters of January 2022.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it true that her kids are in PG private schools? A condition of employment should be that she must live in the county. She should then enroll her own kids in public.

I thought there were at St Anselm's

I think its kinda silly to demand she move and change her kids to public. Most politicians and school officials don't have their kids in public.

I think it’s kinda silly that the public school superintendent has her kids in private schools. She’s not a politician. She is the school superintendent.

What sources do you have that relayed her school choice? How do you know she's sending her kids to private? St. Anselm's is for 6th-12th grade and her son is 11. Stop the trolling