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MOCO BOE update: Beidleman Report summary
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Anonymous
| I think they are all going to refer to the IG investigation and say they have to wait for that. |
Anonymous
Thank goodness she was there when Biedleman came up for promotion... |
Anonymous
All of them will be there tomorrow. |
Anonymous
The IG is one of the expected attendees tomorrow. |
Anonymous
And she won’t say anything. |
Anonymous
If by biased you mean Jawando has to much integrity to be part of this witch hunt then sure. |
Anonymous
I can't imagine she can answer any substantive questions at this point. Maybe she can give then a timeline. |
Anonymous
I don’t think that’s what the PP meant. All 11 members are showing up. I expect hard questions from Luedtke, Fani-Gonzalez, Friedson, and Stewart. If this is a witch hunt, how do you explain MCPS’s failure to follow its own investigations policy and the other serious systemic failures that were identified by MCPS’s own lawyers? |
Anonymous
Can you please elaborate and substantiate these failures? All I've gotten from this is a bunch of gossip and innuendo from some people that seem to have a bone to pick with public schools. |
Anonymous
DP. That has been done already by The Washington Post. |
Anonymous
Anyone calling the Biedleman investigation, and subsequent dive into the failings of MCPS leadership a "witch hunt" is so impossibly biased, I don't think we can even have a conversation with them. As for Jawando, he always loves to get a sound bite or two if he thinks it will help his self interest, and I can't imagine he has any reason whatsoever to cover for Biedleman or MCPS in any way. If anything he may come out heavy today compared to the rest of the council. |
Anonymous
Chris Cram, your email automatic reply says you are unavailable until next week. Are you unavailable so you can spend all your time posting the same inane comments on this thread? |
Anonymous
+1 the below is just some excerpts from the WaPo investigation. I left out the most obscene quotes from Biedleman. ( source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023...ry-county-principal/ ) - "MCPS treated Beidleman as a rising star. Despite six staff members’ reports to MCPS about his conduct in 2023, officials promoted him in June to run Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville, a position that oversees a larger staff than Farquhar’s and would have raised his salary by $32,000, to $191,000." - “He is the most vindictive person I’ve ever met,” a Farquhar English teacher said. “Even teachers who left Farquhar are scared of him to this day,” said former Farquhar media assistant Cathy Stanton, who departed MCPS in 2021 because of what she called the school’s “toxic leadership.” - "In July 2017, former Farquhar PTA president Chelsea Curtis said she hand-delivered a letter to the central office that carbon-copied the principal to request a change of schools for her younger children after Beidleman told her eighth-grade daughter: “Don’t be like [your friend]. She’s a whore.” MCPS granted the transfer." - "During two Jan. 31, 2018, assemblies for seventh- and eighth-grade students and staff, Beidleman lamented that Farquhar girls were dressing and acting “like hos and thots” (both derogatory terms for promiscuous women), according to multiple witnesses." - "When parents complained about the assembly, then-Director of School Support and Improvement Eric Minus, Beidleman’s boss, spoke with teachers. One told him about additional instances of workplace misconduct, the teacher said in an interview. But when another tried to do the same, Minus asked to confine the discussion to what Beidleman had said at the assemblies, she said. Several educators were aware that the two men were friends." - "He berated, humiliated or yelled at staff frequently, according to more than two dozen educators. " - "A Lakelands teacher said she left that school because of Beidleman, who on numerous occasions “screamed in my face.” - "Teachers at Lakelands, Clemente and Farquhar said Beidleman often commented on women’s bodies and outfits. During two annual Farquhar staff presentations about professional attire, he showed a picture of a woman’s midsection in tight leggings and said, “Camel toe is not allowed,” several attendees said." - "When a male science teacher told Beidleman his wife was pregnant, the principal replied that his wife would “change for the worse,” the teacher recounted in an email to Walker obtained by The Post." - "A teacher told The Post that Beidleman said to her in front of a colleague, who confirmed the conversation in an interview: “You look like you peg your husband and that you do butt stuff.” When that teacher disagreed with Beidleman in discussions, she and a witness said the principal told her: “Maybe your husband needs lessons in bed so you can be calmed down.” The comments were memorialized in a list of aggressions toward staff compiled by Farquhar’s building union representative this year." - "In April 2021, Beidleman invited an MCPS teacher who had worked with him previously to apply to be his assistant principal at Farquhar, she said....Beidleman told The Post the teacher’s candidacy was rejected “prior to any personal conversations.” But screenshots from the teacher’s phone show that he texted personal messages, including lewd ones, to her more than 400 times between the day he asked if she wanted the job and the date she was informed that she would not be considered for the role." |
Anonymous
Especially since he's running for Senate (and has no chance). |
Anonymous
| The whole County Council has pulled up in force. |