Board Fires Dr. McKnight

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That garbage, self-serving, self-praise statement from McKnight just reaffirms how poor of a leader she is. She fails to read the room or hold herself accountable. She's just worried about looking like she did a great job as superintendent when her tenure has been nothing but an ongoing dumpster fire.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.[/quote

I don't know how you can talk about a professional that way, but it does tell me a lot about you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rumor is three years salary.

$960,000!!

Is that a real number? That makes me so mad. That is funds that could have gone to actually educate students and pay teachers and staff.

If you think that's bad, you don't want to look at how much they spend on lawyers to avoid providing special education services.

[Anonymous]

Here's how I see it.

Giant school districts are always "plagued by scandals" and sexual harassment claims. Often for cause. Nothing extraordinary happened on Dr. McKnight's watch that didn't happen before. Except recovering from covid.

So, the black woman took a job that no one else wanted at an impossible time, shepherded the MoCo school system through it, wanted to keep her job after... And some yahoos at Fox, happily continuing their work to dismantle public education, decided she was a soft target to rally the base.

I don't have any particular opinion about McKnight's competence or lack thereof. But this smells like a political hit job, and the way the posters here talk about her: using her first name (which by the way, Jeff, you could have stopped a lot earlier), referring to her with usual coded words you people like to use to talk about women, especially Black women... And the way you're nominating these two cut-rate journalists for "breaking a story" that you can't even explain?

Yeah. This is a hit job. You people are gross, and we've all seen this play before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's how I see it.

Giant school districts are always "plagued by scandals" and sexual harassment claims. Often for cause. Nothing extraordinary happened on Dr. McKnight's watch that didn't happen before. Except recovering from covid.

So, the black woman took a job that no one else wanted at an impossible time, shepherded the MoCo school system through it, wanted to keep her job after... And some yahoos at Fox, happily continuing their work to dismantle public education, decided she was a soft target to rally the base.

I don't have any particular opinion about McKnight's competence or lack thereof. But this smells like a political hit job, and the way the posters here talk about her: using her first name (which by the way, Jeff, you could have stopped a lot earlier), referring to her with usual coded words you people like to use to talk about women, especially Black women... And the way you're nominating these two cut-rate journalists for "breaking a story" that you can't even explain?

Yeah. This is a hit job. You people are gross, and we've all seen this play before.

This has nothing to do with race and she's had three years to clean them up. I'm sure they had others who wanted the job.

[Anonymous]

Forced to resign. Good!

[Anonymous]

I’m not involved with MCPS and I may have missed something. But what were the problems?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's how I see it.

Giant school districts are always "plagued by scandals" and sexual harassment claims. Often for cause. Nothing extraordinary happened on Dr. McKnight's watch that didn't happen before. Except recovering from covid.

So, the black woman took a job that no one else wanted at an impossible time, shepherded the MoCo school system through it, wanted to keep her job after... And some yahoos at Fox, happily continuing their work to dismantle public education, decided she was a soft target to rally the base.

I don't have any particular opinion about McKnight's competence or lack thereof. But this smells like a political hit job, and the way the posters here talk about her: using her first name (which by the way, Jeff, you could have stopped a lot earlier), referring to her with usual coded words you people like to use to talk about women, especially Black women... And the way you're nominating these two cut-rate journalists for "breaking a story" that you can't even explain?

Yeah. This is a hit job. You people are gross, and we've all seen this play before.

What are the scandals plaguing PG, Howard, DC, Arlington, and Fairfax?

[Anonymous]

We won. Pat yourself on the back. No more anti racism teachings from consultants with zero real action.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's how I see it.

Giant school districts are always "plagued by scandals" and sexual harassment claims. Often for cause. Nothing extraordinary happened on Dr. McKnight's watch that didn't happen before. Except recovering from covid.

So, the black woman took a job that no one else wanted at an impossible time, shepherded the MoCo school system through it, wanted to keep her job after... And some yahoos at Fox, happily continuing their work to dismantle public education, decided she was a soft target to rally the base.

I don't have any particular opinion about McKnight's competence or lack thereof. But this smells like a political hit job, and the way the posters here talk about her: using her first name (which by the way, Jeff, you could have stopped a lot earlier), referring to her with usual coded words you people like to use to talk about women, especially Black women... And the way you're nominating these two cut-rate journalists for "breaking a story" that you can't even explain?

Yeah. This is a hit job. You people are gross, and we've all seen this play before.

Lucy Hayes or whichever NAACP McKnight acolyte this is, give it up. It's not a hit job. She took the job and fumbled out of the gate. The failures are too numerous to count.

Including the first school shooting happening in MCPS history at Magruder in 2022. Yes, the first black superintendent's abysmal leadership and failed security strategy led to a young black boy getting shot and permanently injured. His black mother is currently suing McKnight and the district over it too.

She is nobody's savior or champion. Go away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's how I see it.

Giant school districts are always "plagued by scandals" and sexual harassment claims. Often for cause. Nothing extraordinary happened on Dr. McKnight's watch that didn't happen before. Except recovering from covid.

So, the black woman took a job that no one else wanted at an impossible time, shepherded the MoCo school system through it, wanted to keep her job after... And some yahoos at Fox, happily continuing their work to dismantle public education, decided she was a soft target to rally the base.

I don't have any particular opinion about McKnight's competence or lack thereof. But this smells like a political hit job, and the way the posters here talk about her: using her first name (which by the way, Jeff, you could have stopped a lot earlier), referring to her with usual coded words you people like to use to talk about women, especially Black women... And the way you're nominating these two cut-rate journalists for "breaking a story" that you can't even explain?

Yeah. This is a hit job. You people are gross, and we've all seen this play before.

Total hit job. She was clearly set up when she promoted her bff and happy hour partner to principal in the face of dozens of sexual harassment claims and then lied about what she knew and when she knew it.

We should thank her for taking the $450,000 per year job that literally no one else wanted, as you noted. Who would want to be paid nearly a half million dollars to oversee a large school system that, as you pointed out, is going to have serious sexual harassment crises no matter what you do thereby excusing your poor performance as “this is just the way it is”?

No wonder why she hired a bunch of her friends into newly created senior leadership positions paying $200k plus who bullied central office staff and created such a toxic culture that disproportionately high numbers of principals are leaving the system. I mean, if you can never be blamed for anything because you did us all the favor of taking a tremendously high paying job that no one wanted, why not take care of your friends so they too can join the gravy train?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We won. Pat yourself on the back. No more anti racism teachings from consultants with zero real action.

Oh....I wouldn't say that. If the whispers are true about her interim replacement being Monique Felder, there'll be more of that to come.

Which I can tolerate, provided it's coherent, actionable and not an absolute waste of everyone's time like Monifa's version of antiracism work.

[Anonymous]

I don’t care about test scores and stats. I care that my kid stays alive and uninjured in the classroom. Hopefully we’ll now get leadership than focuses on that. Get the violent kids out of our schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care about test scores and stats. I care that my kid stays alive and uninjured in the classroom. Hopefully we’ll now get leadership than focuses on that. Get the violent kids out of our schools.

I HOPE McKnight's departure means the restraints on that front will be loosened, but I fear the real reason we're not able to get those kids out of our system has to do with the board and its policies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A million thank yous to Alexandra Robbins and Nicole Asbury. This would not have happened without your steadfast, continuous, and absolutely fabulous effort to bring the truth to light. This shows why local journalism is so critical. We are indebted to you!!

YES!

Alexandra Robbins is MOCO WOMAN OF THE YEAR in my book.

Amazing work. A superintendent vanquished by a sub.

I think she did great work on this, but you know this isn’t a sub taking down the superintendent, right? She’s a NYT bestselling author who probably only subbed as research for her book on teachers (fun fact: She’s a Whitman grad). https://alexandrarobbins.com/about/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's how I see it.

Giant school districts are always "plagued by scandals" and sexual harassment claims. Often for cause. Nothing extraordinary happened on Dr. McKnight's watch that didn't happen before. Except recovering from covid.

So, the black woman took a job that no one else wanted at an impossible time, shepherded the MoCo school system through it, wanted to keep her job after... And some yahoos at Fox, happily continuing their work to dismantle public education, decided she was a soft target to rally the base.

I don't have any particular opinion about McKnight's competence or lack thereof. But this smells like a political hit job, and the way the posters here talk about her: using her first name (which by the way, Jeff, you could have stopped a lot earlier), referring to her with usual coded words you people like to use to talk about women, especially Black women... And the way you're nominating these two cut-rate journalists for "breaking a story" that you can't even explain?

Yeah. This is a hit job. You people are gross, and we've all seen this play before.

Dr. McKnight was a bully. She went through leadership staff at a rapid pace. She protected a bully who sexually harassed women for several years. She lied to the board about her knowledge of the Beidleman investigation and proceeded to promote him to a HS principal. You need to go back to August 2023 media reports and read forward from then. If you think this is a hit job, you are wrong.

What are the scandals plaguing PG, Howard, DC, Arlington, and Fairfax?