Board wants Monifa to step down

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Anonymous wrote:We also have a situation here where people are seemingly ignoring the fact that McKnight was actively protecting a predator, and that, right there, is enough to ask for her to leave. It doesn’t matter if you’re left or right, bottom line, her being loyal to Beidleman and not to the staff and students of this district is straight-up disgusting. (Never mind making an argument that this is a racial witch hunt, when that has nothing to do with what Beidleman actually did. Or what McKnight did. It’s just smoke.)

Isn't the argument that she was letting the personnel investigationand action process play out, rather than publicly condemning someone before due process was completed?

Not exactly. If we assume Khalid Walker can back up his allegations with receipts, the investigation did play out and JB was found to be in wild violation of the MCPS Code of Conduct but also basic human professional norms. That investigation was suppressed and fraudulently rewritten, at the direct instruction of two folks who report to McKnight.

She also appears to have baldly lied to the Board of Education about when she learned of the allegations and what she knew of JB's behavior.

Any of these are grounds for dismissal.

Agreed

Why would anyone risk so much to protect him? It makes no sense

I think she wrongly assumed she'd never get caught. But she did when the teachers fought back and went back to the media with the story.

Once the Washington Post got a hold of the story, McKnight and MCPS lost control of the situation and have been stumbling ever since. It's a very salient example of the power and importance of the press, particularly local journalism.

If you look at the MoCo 360 reporting, it paints a picture of an office operating with absolute impunity. They literally did not think they could ever face consequences for their actions, so they did things like lock their own compliance officer out of the system when he filed a report they didn't like.

It sounds enormously toxic, and a workplace only gets like that if they feel they have a monopoly on employees, and if they feel like no one will ever ask them hard questions about performance/compliance.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We also have a situation here where people are seemingly ignoring the fact that McKnight was actively protecting a predator, and that, right there, is enough to ask for her to leave. It doesn’t matter if you’re left or right, bottom line, her being loyal to Beidleman and not to the staff and students of this district is straight-up disgusting. (Never mind making an argument that this is a racial witch hunt, when that has nothing to do with what Beidleman actually did. Or what McKnight did. It’s just smoke.)

Isn't the argument that she was letting the personnel investigationand action process play out, rather than publicly condemning someone before due process was completed?

Not exactly. If we assume Khalid Walker can back up his allegations with receipts, the investigation did play out and JB was found to be in wild violation of the MCPS Code of Conduct but also basic human professional norms. That investigation was suppressed and fraudulently rewritten, at the direct instruction of two folks who report to McKnight.

She also appears to have baldly lied to the Board of Education about when she learned of the allegations and what she knew of JB's behavior.

Any of these are grounds for dismissal.

Agreed

Why would anyone risk so much to protect him? It makes no sense

I think she wrongly assumed she'd never get caught. But she did when the teachers fought back and went back to the media with the story.

Once the Washington Post got a hold of the story, McKnight and MCPS lost control of the situation and have been stumbling ever since. It's a very salient example of the power and importance of the press, particularly local journalism.

If you look at the MoCo 360 reporting, it paints a picture of an office operating with absolute impunity. They literally did not think they could ever face consequences for their actions, so they did things like lock their own compliance officer out of the system when he filed a report they didn't like.

It sounds enormously toxic, and a workplace only gets like that if they feel they have a monopoly on employees, and if they feel like no one will ever ask them hard questions about performance/compliance.

You should look at the source. Robbins has a personal agenda here. I'm not saying there isn't value to her reporting, but take everything with a grain of salt.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:We also have a situation here where people are seemingly ignoring the fact that McKnight was actively protecting a predator, and that, right there, is enough to ask for her to leave. It doesn’t matter if you’re left or right, bottom line, her being loyal to Beidleman and not to the staff and students of this district is straight-up disgusting. (Never mind making an argument that this is a racial witch hunt, when that has nothing to do with what Beidleman actually did. Or what McKnight did. It’s just smoke.)

Isn't the argument that she was letting the personnel investigationand action process play out, rather than publicly condemning someone before due process was completed?

Not exactly. If we assume Khalid Walker can back up his allegations with receipts, the investigation did play out and JB was found to be in wild violation of the MCPS Code of Conduct but also basic human professional norms. That investigation was suppressed and fraudulently rewritten, at the direct instruction of two folks who report to McKnight.

She also appears to have baldly lied to the Board of Education about when she learned of the allegations and what she knew of JB's behavior.

Any of these are grounds for dismissal.

Agreed

Why would anyone risk so much to protect him? It makes no sense

I think she wrongly assumed she'd never get caught. But she did when the teachers fought back and went back to the media with the story.

Once the Washington Post got a hold of the story, McKnight and MCPS lost control of the situation and have been stumbling ever since. It's a very salient example of the power and importance of the press, particularly local journalism.

If you look at the MoCo 360 reporting, it paints a picture of an office operating with absolute impunity. They literally did not think they could ever face consequences for their actions, so they did things like lock their own compliance officer out of the system when he filed a report they didn't like.

It sounds enormously toxic, and a workplace only gets like that if they feel they have a monopoly on employees, and if they feel like no one will ever ask them hard questions about performance/compliance.

You should look at the source. Robbins has a personal agenda here. I'm not saying there isn't value to her reporting, but take everything with a grain of salt.

What's the alleged personal agenda? She did write a book about subbing in MCPS, but in a different cluster than the one where JB taught/worked. Is your suggestion that working in the district gives her an agenda, and that the agenda is nefarious? You are basically alleging journalistic malpractice, so it seems worthwhile to build out the allegation a little. What, specifically, is her agenda?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We also have a situation here where people are seemingly ignoring the fact that McKnight was actively protecting a predator, and that, right there, is enough to ask for her to leave. It doesn’t matter if you’re left or right, bottom line, her being loyal to Beidleman and not to the staff and students of this district is straight-up disgusting. (Never mind making an argument that this is a racial witch hunt, when that has nothing to do with what Beidleman actually did. Or what McKnight did. It’s just smoke.)

Isn't the argument that she was letting the personnel investigationand action process play out, rather than publicly condemning someone before due process was completed?

Not exactly. If we assume Khalid Walker can back up his allegations with receipts, the investigation did play out and JB was found to be in wild violation of the MCPS Code of Conduct but also basic human professional norms. That investigation was suppressed and fraudulently rewritten, at the direct instruction of two folks who report to McKnight.

She also appears to have baldly lied to the Board of Education about when she learned of the allegations and what she knew of JB's behavior.

Any of these are grounds for dismissal.

Agreed

Why would anyone risk so much to protect him? It makes no sense

I think she wrongly assumed she'd never get caught. But she did when the teachers fought back and went back to the media with the story.

Once the Washington Post got a hold of the story, McKnight and MCPS lost control of the situation and have been stumbling ever since. It's a very salient example of the power and importance of the press, particularly local journalism.

If you look at the MoCo 360 reporting, it paints a picture of an office operating with absolute impunity. They literally did not think they could ever face consequences for their actions, so they did things like lock their own compliance officer out of the system when he filed a report they didn't like.

It sounds enormously toxic, and a workplace only gets like that if they feel they have a monopoly on employees, and if they feel like no one will ever ask them hard questions about performance/compliance.

You should look at the source. Robbins has a personal agenda here. I'm not saying there isn't value to her reporting, but take everything with a grain of salt.

You should take everything on DCUM with a grain of salt.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We also have a situation here where people are seemingly ignoring the fact that McKnight was actively protecting a predator, and that, right there, is enough to ask for her to leave. It doesn’t matter if you’re left or right, bottom line, her being loyal to Beidleman and not to the staff and students of this district is straight-up disgusting. (Never mind making an argument that this is a racial witch hunt, when that has nothing to do with what Beidleman actually did. Or what McKnight did. It’s just smoke.)

Isn't the argument that she was letting the personnel investigationand action process play out, rather than publicly condemning someone before due process was completed?

Not exactly. If we assume Khalid Walker can back up his allegations with receipts, the investigation did play out and JB was found to be in wild violation of the MCPS Code of Conduct but also basic human professional norms. That investigation was suppressed and fraudulently rewritten, at the direct instruction of two folks who report to McKnight.

She also appears to have baldly lied to the Board of Education about when she learned of the allegations and what she knew of JB's behavior.

Any of these are grounds for dismissal.

Agreed

Why would anyone risk so much to protect him? It makes no sense

I think she wrongly assumed she'd never get caught. But she did when the teachers fought back and went back to the media with the story.

Once the Washington Post got a hold of the story, McKnight and MCPS lost control of the situation and have been stumbling ever since. It's a very salient example of the power and importance of the press, particularly local journalism.

If you look at the MoCo 360 reporting, it paints a picture of an office operating with absolute impunity. They literally did not think they could ever face consequences for their actions, so they did things like lock their own compliance officer out of the system when he filed a report they didn't like.

It sounds enormously toxic, and a workplace only gets like that if they feel they have a monopoly on employees, and if they feel like no one will ever ask them hard questions about performance/compliance.

You should look at the source. Robbins has a personal agenda here. I'm not saying there isn't value to her reporting, but take everything with a grain of salt.

What's the alleged personal agenda? She did write a book about subbing in MCPS, but in a different cluster than the one where JB taught/worked. Is your suggestion that working in the district gives her an agenda, and that the agenda is nefarious? You are basically alleging journalistic malpractice, so it seems worthwhile to build out the allegation a little. What, specifically, is her agenda?

Her book The Teachers is not actually about subbing in MCPS per se: "Alexandra Robbins goes behind the scenes to tell the true, sometimes shocking, always inspirational stories of three teachers as they navigate a year in the classroom. She follows Penny, a southern middle school math teacher who grappled with a toxic staff clique at the big school in a small town; Miguel, a special ed teacher in the western United States who fought for his students both as an educator and as an activist; and Rebecca, an East Coast elementary school teacher who struggled to schedule and define a life outside of school."

[Anonymous]

Heh. I find it funny that people would attribute nefarious agendas than simply someone reporting on something that is relevant and important to this community. I work for the system, too. Do you think if I went running to the newspapers or magazines that I have some evil plan in place? Really? Any time I see anything like this it just makes me feel like there’s supporters of the current crooked system, here, which I'll remind you explicitly allowed bad apples do what they wanted for years. And if it wasn’t for the public spotlight, courtesy of Robbins (and all the staff members who came forward, publicly or privately), none of this would be public and nothing would have been done. At least now there's a small chance that the system might be fixed. I suppose that could be considered an agenda?

[Anonymous]

I just don’t understand the mentality that automatically defaults to there must be an agenda for balanced journalistic reporting, especially when it comes to predators in our school system. There should be no doubt, whatsoever, when it comes to that. And yet here we are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We also have a situation here where people are seemingly ignoring the fact that McKnight was actively protecting a predator, and that, right there, is enough to ask for her to leave. It doesn’t matter if you’re left or right, bottom line, her being loyal to Beidleman and not to the staff and students of this district is straight-up disgusting. (Never mind making an argument that this is a racial witch hunt, when that has nothing to do with what Beidleman actually did. Or what McKnight did. It’s just smoke.)

Isn't the argument that she was letting the personnel investigationand action process play out, rather than publicly condemning someone before due process was completed?

Not exactly. If we assume Khalid Walker can back up his allegations with receipts, the investigation did play out and JB was found to be in wild violation of the MCPS Code of Conduct but also basic human professional norms. That investigation was suppressed and fraudulently rewritten, at the direct instruction of two folks who report to McKnight.

She also appears to have baldly lied to the Board of Education about when she learned of the allegations and what she knew of JB's behavior.

Any of these are grounds for dismissal.

Agreed

Why would anyone risk so much to protect him? It makes no sense

I think she wrongly assumed she'd never get caught. But she did when the teachers fought back and went back to the media with the story.

Once the Washington Post got a hold of the story, McKnight and MCPS lost control of the situation and have been stumbling ever since. It's a very salient example of the power and importance of the press, particularly local journalism.

If you look at the MoCo 360 reporting, it paints a picture of an office operating with absolute impunity. They literally did not think they could ever face consequences for their actions, so they did things like lock their own compliance officer out of the system when he filed a report they didn't like.

It sounds enormously toxic, and a workplace only gets like that if they feel they have a monopoly on employees, and if they feel like no one will ever ask them hard questions about performance/compliance.

You should look at the source. Robbins has a personal agenda here. I'm not saying there isn't value to her reporting, but take everything with a grain of salt.

Well yeah. Her personal agenda is to expose a corrupt system that SUCKS. I support the “agenda” 100%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We also have a situation here where people are seemingly ignoring the fact that McKnight was actively protecting a predator, and that, right there, is enough to ask for her to leave. It doesn’t matter if you’re left or right, bottom line, her being loyal to Beidleman and not to the staff and students of this district is straight-up disgusting. (Never mind making an argument that this is a racial witch hunt, when that has nothing to do with what Beidleman actually did. Or what McKnight did. It’s just smoke.)

Isn't the argument that she was letting the personnel investigationand action process play out, rather than publicly condemning someone before due process was completed?

Not exactly. If we assume Khalid Walker can back up his allegations with receipts, the investigation did play out and JB was found to be in wild violation of the MCPS Code of Conduct but also basic human professional norms. That investigation was suppressed and fraudulently rewritten, at the direct instruction of two folks who report to McKnight.

She also appears to have baldly lied to the Board of Education about when she learned of the allegations and what she knew of JB's behavior.

Any of these are grounds for dismissal.

She thought firing Dr. Murphy and DCI Director Michaele Simmons would clear her of any wrongdoing but no such luck. McKnight needs to justify her choices or lack of supervision or step down now.

Oh she didn't fire Simmons, she just let her quietly retire with no recourse or disciplinary action against her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We also have a situation here where people are seemingly ignoring the fact that McKnight was actively protecting a predator, and that, right there, is enough to ask for her to leave. It doesn’t matter if you’re left or right, bottom line, her being loyal to Beidleman and not to the staff and students of this district is straight-up disgusting. (Never mind making an argument that this is a racial witch hunt, when that has nothing to do with what Beidleman actually did. Or what McKnight did. It’s just smoke.)

Isn't the argument that she was letting the personnel investigationand action process play out, rather than publicly condemning someone before due process was completed?

Not exactly. If we assume Khalid Walker can back up his allegations with receipts, the investigation did play out and JB was found to be in wild violation of the MCPS Code of Conduct but also basic human professional norms. That investigation was suppressed and fraudulently rewritten, at the direct instruction of two folks who report to McKnight.

She also appears to have baldly lied to the Board of Education about when she learned of the allegations and what she knew of JB's behavior.

Any of these are grounds for dismissal.

She thought firing Dr. Murphy and DCI Director Michaele Simmons would clear her of any wrongdoing but no such luck. McKnight needs to justify her choices or lack of supervision or step down now.

Oh she didn't fire Simmons, she just let her quietly retire with no recourse or disciplinary action against her.

This is all so bad. We need a major shake up. But how?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We also have a situation here where people are seemingly ignoring the fact that McKnight was actively protecting a predator, and that, right there, is enough to ask for her to leave. It doesn’t matter if you’re left or right, bottom line, her being loyal to Beidleman and not to the staff and students of this district is straight-up disgusting. (Never mind making an argument that this is a racial witch hunt, when that has nothing to do with what Beidleman actually did. Or what McKnight did. It’s just smoke.)

Isn't the argument that she was letting the personnel investigationand action process play out, rather than publicly condemning someone before due process was completed?

Not exactly. If we assume Khalid Walker can back up his allegations with receipts, the investigation did play out and JB was found to be in wild violation of the MCPS Code of Conduct but also basic human professional norms. That investigation was suppressed and fraudulently rewritten, at the direct instruction of two folks who report to McKnight.

She also appears to have baldly lied to the Board of Education about when she learned of the allegations and what she knew of JB's behavior.

Any of these are grounds for dismissal.

Agreed

Why would anyone risk so much to protect him? It makes no sense

I think she wrongly assumed she'd never get caught. But she did when the teachers fought back and went back to the media with the story.

Once the Washington Post got a hold of the story, McKnight and MCPS lost control of the situation and have been stumbling ever since. It's a very salient example of the power and importance of the press, particularly local journalism.

If you look at the MoCo 360 reporting, it paints a picture of an office operating with absolute impunity. They literally did not think they could ever face consequences for their actions, so they did things like lock their own compliance officer out of the system when he filed a report they didn't like.

It sounds enormously toxic, and a workplace only gets like that if they feel they have a monopoly on employees, and if they feel like no one will ever ask them hard questions about performance/compliance.

You should look at the source. Robbins has a personal agenda here. I'm not saying there isn't value to her reporting, but take everything with a grain of salt.

Well yeah. Her personal agenda is to expose a corrupt system that SUCKS. I support the “agenda” 100%.

Yes we need more of this agenda. Good grief

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We also have a situation here where people are seemingly ignoring the fact that McKnight was actively protecting a predator, and that, right there, is enough to ask for her to leave. It doesn’t matter if you’re left or right, bottom line, her being loyal to Beidleman and not to the staff and students of this district is straight-up disgusting. (Never mind making an argument that this is a racial witch hunt, when that has nothing to do with what Beidleman actually did. Or what McKnight did. It’s just smoke.)

Isn't the argument that she was letting the personnel investigationand action process play out, rather than publicly condemning someone before due process was completed?

Not exactly. If we assume Khalid Walker can back up his allegations with receipts, the investigation did play out and JB was found to be in wild violation of the MCPS Code of Conduct but also basic human professional norms. That investigation was suppressed and fraudulently rewritten, at the direct instruction of two folks who report to McKnight.

She also appears to have baldly lied to the Board of Education about when she learned of the allegations and what she knew of JB's behavior.

Any of these are grounds for dismissal.

She thought firing Dr. Murphy and DCI Director Michaele Simmons would clear her of any wrongdoing but no such luck. McKnight needs to justify her choices or lack of supervision or step down now.

Oh she didn't fire Simmons, she just let her quietly retire with no recourse or disciplinary action against her.

So she let her go scott-free. Got it. Which further implicates McKnight cause clearly Simmons was just doing the bidding of someone much higher than her.

[Anonymous]

How is Monifa pronounced?

Is it like Monica with an F?

Or is it like Moe-Nee-Fuh?

[Anonymous]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/01/24/joel-beidleman-leaves-montgomery-county-schools/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Heh. I find it funny that people would attribute nefarious agendas than simply someone reporting on something that is relevant and important to this community. I work for the system, too. Do you think if I went running to the newspapers or magazines that I have some evil plan in place? Really? Any time I see anything like this it just makes me feel like there’s supporters of the current crooked system, here, which I'll remind you explicitly allowed bad apples do what they wanted for years. And if it wasn’t for the public spotlight, courtesy of Robbins (and all the staff members who came forward, publicly or privately), none of this would be public and nothing would have been done. At least now there's a small chance that the system might be fixed. I suppose that could be considered an agenda?

Thank you for dreaming for the rest of us who are too cynical at this point in our career.