New Super Being Announced Monday

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know who is behind this site but just saw this posted and it seems they are usually right. https://www.instagram.com/p/C8Qfg0yxqI9/?igsh=MWtleHV0MGM4M2o4cA==

Was just coming to post this. Not sure how someone from Stafford County is ready for the diversity and complexity of a massive county like MoCo. If he is the candidate, he’s in for one hell of a learning curve.

Stafford is smaller than MCPS but their diversity is very similar.

MCPS is majority white?

Both school districts are majority-minority.

White is a minority?
https://nces.ed.gov/Programs/Edge/ACSDashboard/5103660

This data shows them as similar: https://www.staffordschools.net/Page/33849

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Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, I’d love for Starr to return. He was level headed and it felt like the county was not on a roller coaster. With McKnight we were just waiting for the next problem to pop up.

This does not mean there were not problems. With a county of this size and this much diversity, there will be problems. But it felt like they were handled without huge headlines or disruptions to my work.

Regardless of whom it is, that’s my hope. Let’s get back to putting students first and headlines way down the list.

The challenge to this is that social media has increased as has 24/7 media since the time that Starr was around.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know who is behind this site but just saw this posted and it seems they are usually right. https://www.instagram.com/p/C8Qfg0yxqI9/?igsh=MWtleHV0MGM4M2o4cA==

Was just coming to post this. Not sure how someone from Stafford County is ready for the diversity and complexity of a massive county like MoCo. If he is the candidate, he’s in for one hell of a learning curve.

Stafford is smaller than MCPS but their diversity is very similar.

MCPS is majority white?

Both school districts are majority-minority.

White is a minority?
https://nces.ed.gov/Programs/Edge/ACSDashboard/5103660

This data shows them as similar: https://www.staffordschools.net/Page/33849

It does not.

Hispanic is largest in MCPS.

Largest in Stafford is white.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know who is behind this site but just saw this posted and it seems they are usually right. https://www.instagram.com/p/C8Qfg0yxqI9/?igsh=MWtleHV0MGM4M2o4cA==

Was just coming to post this. Not sure how someone from Stafford County is ready for the diversity and complexity of a massive county like MoCo. If he is the candidate, he’s in for one hell of a learning curve.

Stafford is smaller than MCPS but their diversity is very similar.

MCPS is majority white?

Both school districts are majority-minority.

White is a minority?
https://nces.ed.gov/Programs/Edge/ACSDashboard/5103660

This data shows them as similar: https://www.staffordschools.net/Page/33849

It does not.

Hispanic is largest in MCPS.

Largest in Stafford is white.

It's just a few percentage points. I know that means a lot to all the autists on DCUM but it really doesn't matter.

If it’s him it’s not the demographic percentages that are overwhelming, it’s the amount of population that make up those percentages and then what that means. He would be going from a schools system with 34 schools to one with 4 times many. He’ll be coming to a school system that is the largest in the state and the pressures and expectations that come along with that (like leading from the front on many MSDE and other legislative mandates). He’d be coming to a place where people are going to be much more vocal about what they see or what they want.

He’s got a PhD an MBA as well as time as both a Deputy and Super so maybe he’s got the skill set and leadership skills. But it’s still going to be drinking from a firehose on stage with very bright spotlights.

PP. I agree with you. But the most important factor in the success or failure of the new super will be whether (s)he sees the problems in MCPS and is willing to try to fix them or if they continue policies that focus 80% of the resources on the 20% of students who aren't even trying.

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Seems like this was a trial balloon the BoE has sent out. And given the tepid criticism so far, sounds like he will be received fine on DCUM. I am curious how groups representing communities of color will react.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like this was a trial balloon the BoE has sent out. And given the tepid criticism so far, sounds like he will be received fine on DCUM. I am curious how groups representing communities of color will react.

Ballsy "trial balloon" if they scheduled an announcement.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like this was a trial balloon the BoE has sent out. And given the tepid criticism so far, sounds like he will be received fine on DCUM. I am curious how groups representing communities of color will react.

Ballsy "trial balloon" if they scheduled an announcement.

Supposed superintendent picks have withdrawn in the past.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like this was a trial balloon the BoE has sent out. And given the tepid criticism so far, sounds like he will be received fine on DCUM. I am curious how groups representing communities of color will react.

They'll be fine. It's east county progs who will screech the loudest.

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Interesting article on Stafford’s recent decision to ban cell phones combined with allocating budget to create a new Office of Student Conduct, with a Dean of students in each high school focused on discipline. Sounds like this was controversial because the budget could have been spent on increasing teacher pay.

https://www.fredericksburgfreepress.com/2024/06/12/stafford-schools-ban-cell-phones-establish-office-of-student-conduct/

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like this was a trial balloon the BoE has sent out. And given the tepid criticism so far, sounds like he will be received fine on DCUM. I am curious how groups representing communities of color will react.

They'll be fine. It's east county progs who will screech the loudest.

But they picked him. They love him already.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like this was a trial balloon the BoE has sent out. And given the tepid criticism so far, sounds like he will be received fine on DCUM. I am curious how groups representing communities of color will react.

They'll be fine. It's east county progs who will screech the loudest.

But they picked him. They love him already.

PP. Yikes. I didn't think of that but you're right. Based on this, MCPS can't be fixed until the BOE moves away from the far left and toward the center, aka more liberal. But we're about to elect 3 far left zealots so that means MCPS is doomed for at least 4 more years.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting article on Stafford’s recent decision to ban cell phones combined with allocating budget to create a new Office of Student Conduct, with a Dean of students in each high school focused on discipline. Sounds like this was controversial because the budget could have been spent on increasing teacher pay.

https://www.fredericksburgfreepress.com/2024/06/12/stafford-schools-ban-cell-phones-establish-office-of-student-conduct/

There's no chance east county progs will let someone like that get hired. I mean, he sounds exactly who MCPS needs but they live in fantasy not reality.

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I think if the super is open and transparent with communication, it will go along way. People in MoCo are generally reasonable—just don’t hide information or lie about what you’re doing.

Open the books. Explain why you’re making certain decisions. I’m reminded of an old scene in the West Wing when Bartlett is first running for president. A voter in NH asks why he raised the price of milk and that it screwed him. Bartletts response explains the number of kids in poverty and that he didn’t want to make it harder to buy milk for kids. And then he acknowledges that the dairy farmer got screwed.

I think if MoCo parents had an understanding of the rationale behind decisions, it would go along way to the new supers success. The county is too big and too diverse for everyone to always agree but be transparent, show the raw data, and people would probably be more understanding.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting article on Stafford’s recent decision to ban cell phones combined with allocating budget to create a new Office of Student Conduct, with a Dean of students in each high school focused on discipline. Sounds like this was controversial because the budget could have been spent on increasing teacher pay.

https://www.fredericksburgfreepress.com/2024/06/12/stafford-schools-ban-cell-phones-establish-office-of-student-conduct/

I’d actually be curious to see what HS and maybe NS teachers ghjnk about a discipline dean in their school as opposed to a small pay increase. My sense is that many would pick discipline over a small increase. I don’t think this would be useful in ES but maybe I’m wrong. A family member was the dean of discipline at a very troubled urban HS … knowing them. I can’t really imagine that they were great at it but they were at least a point person to interact with the police.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting article on Stafford’s recent decision to ban cell phones combined with allocating budget to create a new Office of Student Conduct, with a Dean of students in each high school focused on discipline. Sounds like this was controversial because the budget could have been spent on increasing teacher pay.

https://www.fredericksburgfreepress.com/2024/06/12/stafford-schools-ban-cell-phones-establish-office-of-student-conduct/

I’d actually be curious to see what HS and maybe NS teachers ghjnk about a discipline dean in their school as opposed to a small pay increase. My sense is that many would pick discipline over a small increase. I don’t think this would be useful in ES but maybe I’m wrong. A family member was the dean of discipline at a very troubled urban HS … knowing them. I can’t really imagine that they were great at it but they were at least a point person to interact with the police.

I think this would be needed at both the MS and HS level in MCPS. In our middle school, the inmates are definitely running the asylum.

Based on what I am reading from that article, I do think it's promising if they did go with him. They definitely need to put in place actual disciplinary measures. RJ is not working, and anyone who spends time in secondary schools on a daily basis knows it.