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.

Andn those are not things that happened before she got there, that she is taking the fall for. They're on her.

You seem confused about the timeline.

*Are you disputing that Dr. McKnight was the superintendent between May 2023 and September 2023? If so, she disagrees, and I think there’s ample evidence to back her claim that she was superintendent during this time frame.
*Are you disrupting that she recommended Joel Biedleman be promoted to principal of Paint Branch? If so, that’s on video.
*Are you disputing that she failed to notify the board of the Biedlman misconduct and Post inquiries in a timely manner in July and August? If so, that’s in the Jackson Lewis report, authored by a law firm with which she had a previous relationship.
*Are you disputing that the report was fraudulently altered in July? That too is in the Jackson Lewis report.
*Are you disputing that she failed to implement board policies related to sexual misconduct and sexual harassment investigations during her entire tenure? If so, that’s in the IG report.

Please explain what’s wrong here. The board has multiple bases to terminate her for things that happened while she was superintendent. This list includes just a few.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want to know who else in MCPS they were partying with.

Are you sure? To know if your Principal was there? ha

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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.

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?

Mass flooding of emails to the BOE demanding to remove her immediately. BOE members are elected they are going to listen to the people who vote for them if the voice is loud enough.

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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 agenda? She is an experienced journalist who followed the story. No one involved in the story has called her out for inaccuracies.

Except you. Please share additional information that you personally know that contradicts Robbins' reporting.

She's more of an author than a true journalist. When you look at her record and writings, she's happy to blur the line between reporting facts and activism. More recently we saw that with her activities related to covid and schools.

Again, that doesn't mean you should ignore her work. Just understand you're reading the words of someone that wants you to walk away with certain conclusions and feelings after reading them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I want to know who else in MCPS they were partying with.

Are you sure? To know if your Principal was there? ha

Yes....

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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 agenda? She is an experienced journalist who followed the story. No one involved in the story has called her out for inaccuracies.

Except you. Please share additional information that you personally know that contradicts Robbins' reporting.

She's more of an author than a true journalist. When you look at her record and writings, she's happy to blur the line between reporting facts and activism. More recently we saw that with her activities related to covid and schools.

Again, that doesn't mean you should ignore her work. Just understand you're reading the words of someone that wants you to walk away with certain conclusions and feelings after reading them.

Her motivations don't matter. If she went digging for dirt and found none, we wouldn't be here now. But she did.

[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.

Andn those are not things that happened before she got there, that she is taking the fall for. They're on her.

You seem confused about the timeline.

*Are you disputing that Dr. McKnight was the superintendent between May 2023 and September 2023? If so, she disagrees, and I think there’s ample evidence to back her claim that she was superintendent during this time frame.
*Are you disrupting that she recommended Joel Biedleman be promoted to principal of Paint Branch? If so, that’s on video.
*Are you disputing that she failed to notify the board of the Biedlman misconduct and Post inquiries in a timely manner in July and August? If so, that’s in the Jackson Lewis report, authored by a law firm with which she had a previous relationship.
*Are you disputing that the report was fraudulently altered in July? That too is in the Jackson Lewis report.
*Are you disputing that she failed to implement board policies related to sexual misconduct and sexual harassment investigations during her entire tenure? If so, that’s in the IG report.

Please explain what’s wrong here. The board has multiple bases to terminate her for things that happened while she was superintendent. This list includes just a few.

What? Are you responding to the wrong post?

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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 agenda? She is an experienced journalist who followed the story. No one involved in the story has called her out for inaccuracies.

Except you. Please share additional information that you personally know that contradicts Robbins' reporting.

She's more of an author than a true journalist. When you look at her record and writings, she's happy to blur the line between reporting facts and activism. More recently we saw that with her activities related to covid and schools.

Again, that doesn't mean you should ignore her work. Just understand you're reading the words of someone that wants you to walk away with certain conclusions and feelings after reading them.

Her motivations don't matter. If she went digging for dirt and found none, we wouldn't be here now. But she did.

I wouldn't go that far, but yes, read what she says. But also understand that's she's one source of information. Not everything will necessarily be accurate. Not everything will be covered. And not everything has been approached in an objective manner.

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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 agenda? She is an experienced journalist who followed the story. No one involved in the story has called her out for inaccuracies.

Except you. Please share additional information that you personally know that contradicts Robbins' reporting.

She's more of an author than a true journalist. When you look at her record and writings, she's happy to blur the line between reporting facts and activism. More recently we saw that with her activities related to covid and schools.

Again, that doesn't mean you should ignore her work. Just understand you're reading the words of someone that wants you to walk away with certain conclusions and feelings after reading them.

Her motivations don't matter. If she went digging for dirt and found none, we wouldn't be here now. But she did.

I wouldn't go that far, but yes, read what she says. But also understand that's she's one source of information. Not everything will necessarily be accurate. Not everything will be covered. And not everything has been approached in an objective manner.

Instead of blowing smoke, why don't you be specific about what she wrote about McKnight/Beidleman/MCPS that was incorrect? You can meander off-topic again, but unless you have something specific to the question just posed, you really have nothing to say.

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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 agenda? She is an experienced journalist who followed the story. No one involved in the story has called her out for inaccuracies.

Except you. Please share additional information that you personally know that contradicts Robbins' reporting.

She's more of an author than a true journalist. When you look at her record and writings, she's happy to blur the line between reporting facts and activism. More recently we saw that with her activities related to covid and schools.

Again, that doesn't mean you should ignore her work. Just understand you're reading the words of someone that wants you to walk away with certain conclusions and feelings after reading them.

Her motivations don't matter. If she went digging for dirt and found none, we wouldn't be here now. But she did.

I wouldn't go that far, but yes, read what she says. But also understand that's she's one source of information. Not everything will necessarily be accurate. Not everything will be covered. And not everything has been approached in an objective manner.

Instead of blowing smoke, why don't you be specific about what she wrote about McKnight/Beidleman/MCPS that was incorrect? You can meander off-topic again, but unless you have something specific to the question just posed, you really have nothing to say.

How would I know? But she has a history of not being objective, so how would anyone know if she's leaving details out? Or intentionally describing things in vague terms hoping you'll interpret them in the worst possible way.

Heck, it didn't even need do be intentional. Maybe her sources are leading details out. Or describing things so her in vague ways.

But the fact that everything is coming from unnamed sources should give you pause.

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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 agenda? She is an experienced journalist who followed the story. No one involved in the story has called her out for inaccuracies.

Except you. Please share additional information that you personally know that contradicts Robbins' reporting.

She's more of an author than a true journalist. When you look at her record and writings, she's happy to blur the line between reporting facts and activism. More recently we saw that with her activities related to covid and schools.

Again, that doesn't mean you should ignore her work. Just understand you're reading the words of someone that wants you to walk away with certain conclusions and feelings after reading them.

Her motivations don't matter. If she went digging for dirt and found none, we wouldn't be here now. But she did.

I wouldn't go that far, but yes, read what she says. But also understand that's she's one source of information. Not everything will necessarily be accurate. Not everything will be covered. And not everything has been approached in an objective manner.

Instead of blowing smoke, why don't you be specific about what she wrote about McKnight/Beidleman/MCPS that was incorrect? You can meander off-topic again, but unless you have something specific to the question just posed, you really have nothing to say.

How would I know? But she has a history of not being objective, so how would anyone know if she's leaving details out? Or intentionally describing things in vague terms hoping you'll interpret them in the worst possible way.

Heck, it didn't even need do be intentional. Maybe her sources are leading details out. Or describing things so her in vague ways.

But the fact that everything is coming from unnamed sources should give you pause.

The fact that the OIG was able to verify what she reported should give everyone pause about listening to you.

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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 agenda? She is an experienced journalist who followed the story. No one involved in the story has called her out for inaccuracies.

Except you. Please share additional information that you personally know that contradicts Robbins' reporting.

She's more of an author than a true journalist. When you look at her record and writings, she's happy to blur the line between reporting facts and activism. More recently we saw that with her activities related to covid and schools.

Again, that doesn't mean you should ignore her work. Just understand you're reading the words of someone that wants you to walk away with certain conclusions and feelings after reading them.

Her motivations don't matter. If she went digging for dirt and found none, we wouldn't be here now. But she did.

I wouldn't go that far, but yes, read what she says. But also understand that's she's one source of information. Not everything will necessarily be accurate. Not everything will be covered. And not everything has been approached in an objective manner.

Instead of blowing smoke, why don't you be specific about what she wrote about McKnight/Beidleman/MCPS that was incorrect? You can meander off-topic again, but unless you have something specific to the question just posed, you really have nothing to say.

How would I know? But she has a history of not being objective, so how would anyone know if she's leaving details out? Or intentionally describing things in vague terms hoping you'll interpret them in the worst possible way.

Heck, it didn't even need do be intentional. Maybe her sources are leading details out. Or describing things so her in vague ways.

But the fact that everything is coming from unnamed sources should give you pause.

Her reporting has been verified by Jackson Lewis report and the OIG multiple times over. So what are you blathering on about?

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And maybe will continue, or maybe it won't. Or perhaps something in-between.

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Anonymous wrote:And maybe will continue, or maybe it won't. Or perhaps something in-between.

To review, with regards to the Biedelman scandal, Robbins has provided very detailed and well sourced reporting that was verified by two different entities including the school district's own law firm. It sounds like you are trying to smear her name - what personal interest do you have in this? Since you are so concerned with ethics, tell us who you are and what connection you have to the people involved in the scandal.

[Anonymous]

I feel Monifa has to go. What credibility does she have left to lead with. If she insists on staying, she will be a lame duck and absolutely nothing will get done