Washington Post article about Former Farquhar Administrator

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Anonymous wrote:I completely agree with the PPs that call for higher pay for BOE members. It's a $3 billion budget.l, and that's just the operating side. The fact that school board members get paid so little across the country is frankly shameful and reflects how lite we care about children. No wonder MCPS lacks accountability. There is nobody with sufficient resources and power to put a check on the superintendent.

Monifa is paid over $300k plus insane benefits and she did nothing. Only a moco kook would respond to this organized ineptitude with a call for pay raises.

As every Montgomery County voter should know, the superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools is not a member of the Montgomery County Board of Education. The Montgomery County Board of Education hires the superintendent and provides (or is supposed to provide) leadership and oversight for MCPS by setting goals, establishing policies, and committing resources.

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As a MCPS employee, I am ashamed of this organization? Where is the outrage from those in charge? They have known this story was coming and still no word. They placed the guy on leave making 190k some time ago. I wish we had better leadership all around. Too many assist. Supers and directors and no one takes accountability.

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"In May 2022, one of them anonymously emailed Superintendent Monifa McKnight and the school board that Beidleman emotionally abused and sexually harassed staff, according to the letter, which they provided to The Post"

This is what kills me. How the hell did McKnight approve this guy's promotion and $191K salary knowing that there are complaints about him! She's just as guilty to allow this behavior to continue. She must go. I imagine Montgomery County council will support this, for the sole reason of protecting the county's reputation.

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Anonymous wrote:I completely agree with the PPs that call for higher pay for BOE members. It's a $3 billion budget.l, and that's just the operating side. The fact that school board members get paid so little across the country is frankly shameful and reflects how lite we care about children. No wonder MCPS lacks accountability. There is nobody with sufficient resources and power to put a check on the superintendent.

They literally are the power.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d love an ama with that teacher who praised him to wapo (though apparently knew the allegations were true.) girl, you need to run your media decisions by someone else next time.

Yes.

But it’s also interesting and I want to know why he chose his victims.

I was wondering about that too. Maybe he wasn’t all bad but it seems a weird time to praise him.

Did I read here or was it in the article that all his victims were white women?

I had a hunch about the teacher who defended him. I googled her to see if my hunch was correct or not. Oh geez, my hunch was correct. This is such a bad look and will do so much damage to racial progress.

Give it a rest-now is not the time for your racist musings. The guy is the worst, that teacher is a dummy, mcps an absolutely failed institution. See? No need to speculate about race and postulate racial conspiracies there isn’t evidence of.

MCPS makes everything about race. For students, staff and stats.

Take it up with MCPS if you do not want to discuss ‘racist musings’.

Right. While he was at one of his previous schools there was a culture of bullying white kids with quips like "check your privilege!" Made by administrators to white students who were committing crimes like standing up during lunch.

They've created a culture of coving up for each other based on a race based fraternity and bullying white students and teachers. Not a word comes out of the schools that isn't attached to something about race and the budget spending follows.


They can now be accountable for what they've created.

I’m sorry to have to explain this to you but here goes: it sounds like you don’t think it’s okay for you or your kids to have racial malice attributed to you when there is no evidence that applies in a specific situation and (now stick with me here) it turns out it’s also not okay to do that to Black people either.

No. You're imposing what you wish was the argument here. The argument was the school district has made everything about race and so this is about race.

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+100 zealots see their higher purpose- in this case anti racism- as a higher purpose than the day to day problems like a predatory principal in our children's schools. Because they knew what he was doing and not o ly failed to act but increased his power over his victims says everything.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d love an ama with that teacher who praised him to wapo (though apparently knew the allegations were true.) girl, you need to run your media decisions by someone else next time.

Yes.

But it’s also interesting and I want to know why he chose his victims.

I was wondering about that too. Maybe he wasn’t all bad but it seems a weird time to praise him.

Did I read here or was it in the article that all his victims were white women?

I had a hunch about the teacher who defended him. I googled her to see if my hunch was correct or not. Oh geez, my hunch was correct. This is such a bad look and will do so much damage to racial progress.

Give it a rest-now is not the time for your racist musings. The guy is the worst, that teacher is a dummy, mcps an absolutely failed institution. See? No need to speculate about race and postulate racial conspiracies there isn’t evidence of.

MCPS makes everything about race. For students, staff and stats.

Take it up with MCPS if you do not want to discuss ‘racist musings’.

Right. While he was at one of his previous schools there was a culture of bullying white kids with quips like "check your privilege!" Made by administrators to white students who were committing crimes like standing up during lunch.

They've created a culture of coving up for each other based on a race based fraternity and bullying white students and teachers. Not a word comes out of the schools that isn't attached to something about race and the budget spending follows.


They can now be accountable for what they've created.

I’m sorry to have to explain this to you but here goes: it sounds like you don’t think it’s okay for you or your kids to have racial malice attributed to you when there is no evidence that applies in a specific situation and (now stick with me here) it turns out it’s also not okay to do that to Black people either.

No. You're imposing what you wish was the argument here. The argument was the school district has made everything about race and so this is about race.

This

+100 zealots see their higher purpose- in this case anti racism- as a higher purpose than the day to day problems like a predatory principal in our children's schools. Because they knew what he was doing and not o ly failed to act but increased his power over his victims says everything.

It’s like a religion for some of them. They ignore bad behavior in the name of their higher purpose (anti-racism).

Just like the Catholic Church. Eerily similar.

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Anonymous wrote:"In May 2022, one of them anonymously emailed Superintendent Monifa McKnight and the school board that Beidleman emotionally abused and sexually harassed staff, according to the letter, which they provided to The Post"

This is what kills me. How the hell did McKnight approve this guy's promotion and $191K salary knowing that there are complaints about him! She's just as guilty to allow this behavior to continue. She must go. I imagine Montgomery County council will support this, for the sole reason of protecting the county's reputation.

This is not the first time this has happened.

I agree that McKnight needs to go, but doubt it will happen. Also, who else do they have that will take the job?

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Anonymous wrote:I completely agree with the PPs that call for higher pay for BOE members. It's a $3 billion budget.l, and that's just the operating side. The fact that school board members get paid so little across the country is frankly shameful and reflects how lite we care about children. No wonder MCPS lacks accountability. There is nobody with sufficient resources and power to put a check on the superintendent.

Monifa is paid over $300k plus insane benefits and she did nothing. Only a moco kook would respond to this organized ineptitude with a call for pay raises.

Only a Russian troll would respond with such idiocy.

Only a moron resorts to disagreement with "Russian troll" every single day

Actually this is one of only a handful of times I have ever used that term. I reserve it for the dumbest comments such as yours where you confused the superintendent for a member of the BOE (who make less than $30k to oversee a $3 billion budget). And then called me a "MoCo kook" lol. Please.

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Anonymous wrote:I completely agree with the PPs that call for higher pay for BOE members. It's a $3 billion budget.l, and that's just the operating side. The fact that school board members get paid so little across the country is frankly shameful and reflects how lite we care about children. No wonder MCPS lacks accountability. There is nobody with sufficient resources and power to put a check on the superintendent.

They literally are the power.

School board members get paid $25,000 a year, except for the school board president, who gets paid $29,000 a year.

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Anonymous wrote:I completely agree with the PPs that call for higher pay for BOE members. It's a $3 billion budget.l, and that's just the operating side. The fact that school board members get paid so little across the country is frankly shameful and reflects how lite we care about children. No wonder MCPS lacks accountability. There is nobody with sufficient resources and power to put a check on the superintendent.

They literally are the power.

You need both resources and power. Nobody can oversee a $3 billion budget as part of a part time job with a skeleton staff.

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Anonymous wrote:"In May 2022, one of them anonymously emailed Superintendent Monifa McKnight and the school board that Beidleman emotionally abused and sexually harassed staff, according to the letter, which they provided to The Post"

This is what kills me. How the hell did McKnight approve this guy's promotion and $191K salary knowing that there are complaints about him! She's just as guilty to allow this behavior to continue. She must go. I imagine Montgomery County council will support this, for the sole reason of protecting the county's reputation.

I will cut her a tiny bit of slack on this because it was an anonymous email. It might be harder to verify claims when somebody’s name isn’t signed. They could’ve investigated, but I’m cutting her a tiny bit of slack on this.

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Anonymous wrote:Without change at BOE, you’re probably right. But this makes all of them look awful. Not sure what would tip the balance. Maybe county council will take action.

There needs to be a change at the Board of Education, and I don't mean a change in who is on it. I mean a change in the structural relationship between MCPS and the Board of Education. The Board of Education is supposed to lead MCPS, but right now, MCPS has 99.9% of the power. Does the Board of Education have ANYONE who works for them? In addition, school board member is a part-time position that pays $25,000 a year, unless you're the president, and then you get a whole $29,000 a year. Shouldn't the voters expect more of school board members and also pay them more?

Yes: https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/directory/directory_Boxoffice.aspx?processlevel=10711

What does the "internal audit unit" do?

They probably do some investigations/data analyses that don't get made public.

Ask an thou shall receive

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/auditing

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/iaf/

Further, the state audit that was triggered last year:
https://dls.maryland.gov/pubs/prod/NoPblTabPDF/MCPS22.pdf

Not that bad, all considered.

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Anonymous wrote:I completely agree with the PPs that call for higher pay for BOE members. It's a $3 billion budget.l, and that's just the operating side. The fact that school board members get paid so little across the country is frankly shameful and reflects how lite we care about children. No wonder MCPS lacks accountability. There is nobody with sufficient resources and power to put a check on the superintendent.

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We need to pay a good salary and it should be a full time job. Then we will attract competent people. Right now we have incompetent board or a board actively covering up predators. Both situations are bad.

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Anonymous wrote:I completely agree with the PPs that call for higher pay for BOE members. It's a $3 billion budget.l, and that's just the operating side. The fact that school board members get paid so little across the country is frankly shameful and reflects how lite we care about children. No wonder MCPS lacks accountability. There is nobody with sufficient resources and power to put a check on the superintendent.

They literally are the power.

School board members get paid $25,000 a year, except for the school board president, who gets paid $29,000 a year.

No wonder we have such a poor board who can't do anything.

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We should follow Singapore model where they get paid high salary and attract top talents for something this important.