Putting Students First Community Engagement Events

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Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

Because I don’t like her. I didn’t like her predecessors either. I feel MCPS spends way too much money marketing themselves, creating ridiculous equity programs or socio-emotional support initiatives, changing curriculum every few years and paying boatloads to lawyers to fend off complaints from families of children with special needs. That money could be used to far greater effect on actual, rigorous instruction, for example, teaching phonetic-based reading, which has been shown to be very successful method for all reader types, particularly dyslexic children.

No amount of glad-handing and photo ops will compensate for misuse of funds.


I am grateful and happy with some of the teachers and programs in MCPS. But I feel they exist in despite of, not thanks to, top leadership.

So you hate the idea of equity and especially can't stand a minority running MCPS.

Funny how all you can do is scream race when someone does not share your thinking and raises valid points.

And all you can do is spread hate and complain.

If she was competent and did a good job, do you really think I would complain? Do you think the stacks of CFPs and DOE OCR open case files are because she's awesome? How about the qualified teacher, staff, bus driver gap?

Sorry but if you want a cheerleader, go join the NFL. Her job is to EDUCATE, not travel around the country trying to find teachers because she screwed up.

I hope her replacement reaches out to teachers that left and hears their concerns. Maybe some of them will come back then, and we won't have this revolving door anymore.

This. Treat the ones well that you have so they stay and if they are happy more will come. She has recruiters to recruit.

9 other states asked for NG help. Whoop dee doo. It just means MC was in the bottom 20% worst planning nationwide, and worst in the NCR. Still not sure why teachers should feel proud of that?

To get back on topic, I think McKnight is focusing on teaching by recruiting top-notch teachers. You can't teach if you don't have teachers!

She went to ONE school with a tiny education department. Now, if she went to Towson and tried to show those graduates why MCPS is the place to go over other Maryland jurisdictions, then I might applaud the effort. This was just a photo op.

We are so short teachers, especially those in special education. What is she doing about it?

But an HBCU isn't good enough for you?

I don’t care if it’s an HBCU and would certainly welcome more diversity. My issue is the size of the program and the likelihood of those graduates coming to a very high COL suburb in Maryland. Maryland’s largest education program is Towson and many of those graduates are used to the suburbs. Seems like an obvious place to start. But sure, call me racist, whatever.

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Anonymous wrote:Dr. McKnight is holding three in person community engagement forums following Spring Break. I’m surprised that there’s not an online option but I guess meeting with a few hundred parents will check off a box for community engagement.

I am not understanding how this implies MCPS is putting students first. Wasn’t that part of her 100 days slogan? How were students put first for this school year?

https://mcpsweb.wufoo.com/forms/all-together-now-putting-our-students-first/

I love that she does this! We're so lucky to have such a great leader!

What a strange definition of "great leader" you have.

A "great leader" who published the stoplight chart, then by Friday recanted when the schools popped Red, had to put 31 schools remote that weren't even having covid outbreaks because the drivers were sick and she had no Plan B so MCPS had to appeal to the National Guard who told MCPS to pound sand, then changed the reporting metric, then cut out daily reporting altogether March 1st because there was another spike; all the while infecting over 2100+ staff and teachers and 9%+ of the entire student body of MCPS - but now MCPS hides the actual daily numbers so that no one has an accurate count of who got sick on a particular day, making it difficult for the Public to analyze covid trends in time to pull their kids from school?

Or does "great leader" refer to the money management skills with the $160M electric bus fiasco, multi-million covid ESSER fiasco, or renovation bias? Maybe it's because MCPS hit the top-20 open discrimination cases at the DoE OCR this summer? Or the way she turned a merit-based Magnet program into a lottery? I know it was "great leadership" to keep anxious parents waiting outside while their kids were held until the press conference she was late to because of being stuck in traffic?

I guess if you're comparing "great leadership" to Putin and Kim Jong-Il.. maybe?

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Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

Because I don’t like her. I didn’t like her predecessors either. I feel MCPS spends way too much money marketing themselves, creating ridiculous equity programs or socio-emotional support initiatives, changing curriculum every few years and paying boatloads to lawyers to fend off complaints from families of children with special needs. That money could be used to far greater effect on actual, rigorous instruction, for example, teaching phonetic-based reading, which has been shown to be very successful method for all reader types, particularly dyslexic children.

No amount of glad-handing and photo ops will compensate for misuse of funds.


I am grateful and happy with some of the teachers and programs in MCPS. But I feel they exist in despite of, not thanks to, top leadership.

So you hate the idea of equity and especially can't stand a minority running MCPS.

Funny how all you can do is scream race when someone does not share your thinking and raises valid points.

And all you can do is spread hate and complain.

If she was competent and did a good job, do you really think I would complain? Do you think the stacks of CFPs and DOE OCR open case files are because she's awesome? How about the qualified teacher, staff, bus driver gap?

Sorry but if you want a cheerleader, go join the NFL. Her job is to EDUCATE, not travel around the country trying to find teachers because she screwed up.

I hope her replacement reaches out to teachers that left and hears their concerns. Maybe some of them will come back then, and we won't have this revolving door anymore.

This. Treat the ones well that you have so they stay and if they are happy more will come. She has recruiters to recruit.

9 other states asked for NG help. Whoop dee doo. It just means MC was in the bottom 20% worst planning nationwide, and worst in the NCR. Still not sure why teachers should feel proud of that?

To get back on topic, I think McKnight is focusing on teaching by recruiting top-notch teachers. You can't teach if you don't have teachers!

She went to ONE school with a tiny education department. Now, if she went to Towson and tried to show those graduates why MCPS is the place to go over other Maryland jurisdictions, then I might applaud the effort. This was just a photo op.

We are so short teachers, especially those in special education. What is she doing about it?

But an HBCU isn't good enough for you?

I don’t care if it’s an HBCU and would certainly welcome more diversity. My issue is the size of the program and the likelihood of those graduates coming to a very high COL suburb in Maryland. Maryland’s largest education program is Towson and many of those graduates are used to the suburbs. Seems like an obvious place to start. But sure, call me racist, whatever.

All our schools are very diverse, so maybe you re at one of the richer schools but that was your choice.

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Anonymous wrote:Dr. McKnight is holding three in person community engagement forums following Spring Break. I’m surprised that there’s not an online option but I guess meeting with a few hundred parents will check off a box for community engagement.

I am not understanding how this implies MCPS is putting students first. Wasn’t that part of her 100 days slogan? How were students put first for this school year?

https://mcpsweb.wufoo.com/forms/all-together-now-putting-our-students-first/

I love that she does this! We're so lucky to have such a great leader!

What a strange definition of "great leader" you have.

A "great leader" who published the stoplight chart, then by Friday recanted when the schools popped Red, had to put 31 schools remote that weren't even having covid outbreaks because the drivers were sick and she had no Plan B so MCPS had to appeal to the National Guard who told MCPS to pound sand, then changed the reporting metric, then cut out daily reporting altogether March 1st because there was another spike; all the while infecting over 2100+ staff and teachers and 9%+ of the entire student body of MCPS - but now MCPS hides the actual daily numbers so that no one has an accurate count of who got sick on a particular day, making it difficult for the Public to analyze covid trends in time to pull their kids from school?

Or does "great leader" refer to the money management skills with the $160M electric bus fiasco, multi-million covid ESSER fiasco, or renovation bias? Maybe it's because MCPS hit the top-20 open discrimination cases at the DoE OCR this summer? Or the way she turned a merit-based Magnet program into a lottery? I know it was "great leadership" to keep anxious parents waiting outside while their kids were held until the press conference she was late to because of being stuck in traffic?

I guess if you're comparing "great leadership" to Putin and Kim Jong-Il.. maybe?

Its not the national guard's job to drive buses and its shocking one would even ask or demand that.

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Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

Because I don’t like her. I didn’t like her predecessors either. I feel MCPS spends way too much money marketing themselves, creating ridiculous equity programs or socio-emotional support initiatives, changing curriculum every few years and paying boatloads to lawyers to fend off complaints from families of children with special needs. That money could be used to far greater effect on actual, rigorous instruction, for example, teaching phonetic-based reading, which has been shown to be very successful method for all reader types, particularly dyslexic children.

No amount of glad-handing and photo ops will compensate for misuse of funds.

I am grateful and happy with some of the teachers and programs in MCPS. But I feel they exist in despite of, not thanks to, top leadership.

So you hate the idea of equity and especially can't stand a minority running MCPS.

Equity exists. Time to teach.

There is not any equity for our kids. Many go without their needs being met.

Using the term equity for leadership makes no sense. You hire the best person for the job. You don’t hire off race. No one cares a minority is running mcps. We do care that she puts kids needs first.

Your definitions of "equity" and "minority" makes no sense.

Equality means each individual or group of people is given the same resources or opportunities. Equity recognizes that each person has different circumstances and allocates the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome. However, Title I's already receive more resources through funding. If you're saying you want to reduce or eliminate equal access by Whites and Asians to resources (ex. what was done to the Magnet program by making it "lottery" versus "merit"), that eliminates their Equality based upon skin color - which is Racial Discrimination and should be investigated by the Maryland Inspector General as a potential criminal violation?

You do realize that AA are barely a minority in Montgomery County. AA's are only a minority in comparison to White-only and no other races. Asians are far more of a minority than AA's or Hispanic/Latino's are by percentage. By your rationale, we should have an Asian, American-Indian, or Pacific Islander as the Superintendent?

I don't care about the race of the leadership and we are very much a minority at our school. If you want the same funding as a title one school, put your kids in one. But, as a parent whose kids go to those title one schools, I can tell you we got far less and had to spend a fortune in private services for our SN child.

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Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

Because I don’t like her. I didn’t like her predecessors either. I feel MCPS spends way too much money marketing themselves, creating ridiculous equity programs or socio-emotional support initiatives, changing curriculum every few years and paying boatloads to lawyers to fend off complaints from families of children with special needs. That money could be used to far greater effect on actual, rigorous instruction, for example, teaching phonetic-based reading, which has been shown to be very successful method for all reader types, particularly dyslexic children.

No amount of glad-handing and photo ops will compensate for misuse of funds.

I am grateful and happy with some of the teachers and programs in MCPS. But I feel they exist in despite of, not thanks to, top leadership.

So you hate the idea of equity and especially can't stand a minority running MCPS.

Funny how all you can do is scream race when someone does not share your thinking and raises valid points.

And all you can do is spread hate and complain.

If she was competent and did a good job, do you really think I would complain? Do you think the stacks of CFPs and DOE OCR open case files are because she's awesome? How about the qualified teacher, staff, bus driver gap?

Sorry but if you want a cheerleader, go join the NFL. Her job is to EDUCATE, not travel around the country trying to find teachers because she screwed up.

I hope her replacement reaches out to teachers that left and hears their concerns. Maybe some of them will come back then, and we won't have this revolving door anymore.

This. Treat the ones well that you have so they stay and if they are happy more will come. She has recruiters to recruit.

9 other states asked for NG help. Whoop dee doo. It just means MC was in the bottom 20% worst planning nationwide, and worst in the NCR. Still not sure why teachers should feel proud of that?

To get back on topic, I think McKnight is focusing on teaching by recruiting top-notch teachers. You can't teach if you don't have teachers!

This is NOT a top school. This school graduates 50 undergraduates a year in education. There are plenty of local Black colleges she could recruit from that have a much higher turn out and much more likely to have students to work at MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

Because I don’t like her. I didn’t like her predecessors either. I feel MCPS spends way too much money marketing themselves, creating ridiculous equity programs or socio-emotional support initiatives, changing curriculum every few years and paying boatloads to lawyers to fend off complaints from families of children with special needs. That money could be used to far greater effect on actual, rigorous instruction, for example, teaching phonetic-based reading, which has been shown to be very successful method for all reader types, particularly dyslexic children.

No amount of glad-handing and photo ops will compensate for misuse of funds.

I am grateful and happy with some of the teachers and programs in MCPS. But I feel they exist in despite of, not thanks to, top leadership.

So you hate the idea of equity and especially can't stand a minority running MCPS.

Funny how all you can do is scream race when someone does not share your thinking and raises valid points.

And all you can do is spread hate and complain.

If she was competent and did a good job, do you really think I would complain? Do you think the stacks of CFPs and DOE OCR open case files are because she's awesome? How about the qualified teacher, staff, bus driver gap?

Sorry but if you want a cheerleader, go join the NFL. Her job is to EDUCATE, not travel around the country trying to find teachers because she screwed up.

I hope her replacement reaches out to teachers that left and hears their concerns. Maybe some of them will come back then, and we won't have this revolving door anymore.

This. Treat the ones well that you have so they stay and if they are happy more will come. She has recruiters to recruit.

9 other states asked for NG help. Whoop dee doo. It just means MC was in the bottom 20% worst planning nationwide, and worst in the NCR. Still not sure why teachers should feel proud of that?

To get back on topic, I think McKnight is focusing on teaching by recruiting top-notch teachers. You can't teach if you don't have teachers!

Calling South Carolina State U "top-notch" is a stretch. It's not nationally ranked or even a top HCBU. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/south-carolina-state-3446/overall-rankings

Did she visit Xavier, Morehouse, Tuskegee? And why MUST she only recruit at HCBU's? Isn't that racist? She is not able to advocate for anyone except AA? Recruit the best teachers for MCPS - don't care what their skin color, race, national origin, sexual orientation, religion is. If anything - if this lady is going to only promote AA's - that's racist in itself. This nation is all about treating everyone equally, not giving any preference at all to any particular skin color - period.

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Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

Because I don’t like her. I didn’t like her predecessors either. I feel MCPS spends way too much money marketing themselves, creating ridiculous equity programs or socio-emotional support initiatives, changing curriculum every few years and paying boatloads to lawyers to fend off complaints from families of children with special needs. That money could be used to far greater effect on actual, rigorous instruction, for example, teaching phonetic-based reading, which has been shown to be very successful method for all reader types, particularly dyslexic children.

No amount of glad-handing and photo ops will compensate for misuse of funds.

I am grateful and happy with some of the teachers and programs in MCPS. But I feel they exist in despite of, not thanks to, top leadership.

So you hate the idea of equity and especially can't stand a minority running MCPS.

Funny how all you can do is scream race when someone does not share your thinking and raises valid points.

And all you can do is spread hate and complain.

If she was competent and did a good job, do you really think I would complain? Do you think the stacks of CFPs and DOE OCR open case files are because she's awesome? How about the qualified teacher, staff, bus driver gap?

Sorry but if you want a cheerleader, go join the NFL. Her job is to EDUCATE, not travel around the country trying to find teachers because she screwed up.

I hope her replacement reaches out to teachers that left and hears their concerns. Maybe some of them will come back then, and we won't have this revolving door anymore.

This. Treat the ones well that you have so they stay and if they are happy more will come. She has recruiters to recruit.

9 other states asked for NG help. Whoop dee doo. It just means MC was in the bottom 20% worst planning nationwide, and worst in the NCR. Still not sure why teachers should feel proud of that?

To get back on topic, I think McKnight is focusing on teaching by recruiting top-notch teachers. You can't teach if you don't have teachers!

She went to ONE school with a tiny education department. Now, if she went to Towson and tried to show those graduates why MCPS is the place to go over other Maryland jurisdictions, then I might applaud the effort. This was just a photo op.

We are so short teachers, especially those in special education. What is she doing about it?

Exactly! Towson, Howard and several others are a day trip and more likely to have students who are applying to MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

Because I don’t like her. I didn’t like her predecessors either. I feel MCPS spends way too much money marketing themselves, creating ridiculous equity programs or socio-emotional support initiatives, changing curriculum every few years and paying boatloads to lawyers to fend off complaints from families of children with special needs. That money could be used to far greater effect on actual, rigorous instruction, for example, teaching phonetic-based reading, which has been shown to be very successful method for all reader types, particularly dyslexic children.

No amount of glad-handing and photo ops will compensate for misuse of funds.

I am grateful and happy with some of the teachers and programs in MCPS. But I feel they exist in despite of, not thanks to, top leadership.

So you hate the idea of equity and especially can't stand a minority running MCPS.

Funny how all you can do is scream race when someone does not share your thinking and raises valid points.

And all you can do is spread hate and complain.

If she was competent and did a good job, do you really think I would complain? Do you think the stacks of CFPs and DOE OCR open case files are because she's awesome? How about the qualified teacher, staff, bus driver gap?

Sorry but if you want a cheerleader, go join the NFL. Her job is to EDUCATE, not travel around the country trying to find teachers because she screwed up.

I hope her replacement reaches out to teachers that left and hears their concerns. Maybe some of them will come back then, and we won't have this revolving door anymore.

This. Treat the ones well that you have so they stay and if they are happy more will come. She has recruiters to recruit.

9 other states asked for NG help. Whoop dee doo. It just means MC was in the bottom 20% worst planning nationwide, and worst in the NCR. Still not sure why teachers should feel proud of that?

To get back on topic, I think McKnight is focusing on teaching by recruiting top-notch teachers. You can't teach if you don't have teachers!

She went to ONE school with a tiny education department. Now, if she went to Towson and tried to show those graduates why MCPS is the place to go over other Maryland jurisdictions, then I might applaud the effort. This was just a photo op.

We are so short teachers, especially those in special education. What is she doing about it?

But an HBCU isn't good enough for you?

Of course it is but you entirely missed the point that there are multiple local HBCU that produce more education graduates a year that are local so those students are much more likely to apply to MCPS. How many teachers do we have who graduated from this particularly college?

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Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

Because I don’t like her. I didn’t like her predecessors either. I feel MCPS spends way too much money marketing themselves, creating ridiculous equity programs or socio-emotional support initiatives, changing curriculum every few years and paying boatloads to lawyers to fend off complaints from families of children with special needs. That money could be used to far greater effect on actual, rigorous instruction, for example, teaching phonetic-based reading, which has been shown to be very successful method for all reader types, particularly dyslexic children.

No amount of glad-handing and photo ops will compensate for misuse of funds.

I am grateful and happy with some of the teachers and programs in MCPS. But I feel they exist in despite of, not thanks to, top leadership.

So you hate the idea of equity and especially can't stand a minority running MCPS.

Funny how all you can do is scream race when someone does not share your thinking and raises valid points.

And all you can do is spread hate and complain.

If she was competent and did a good job, do you really think I would complain? Do you think the stacks of CFPs and DOE OCR open case files are because she's awesome? How about the qualified teacher, staff, bus driver gap?

Sorry but if you want a cheerleader, go join the NFL. Her job is to EDUCATE, not travel around the country trying to find teachers because she screwed up.

I hope her replacement reaches out to teachers that left and hears their concerns. Maybe some of them will come back then, and we won't have this revolving door anymore.

This. Treat the ones well that you have so they stay and if they are happy more will come. She has recruiters to recruit.

9 other states asked for NG help. Whoop dee doo. It just means MC was in the bottom 20% worst planning nationwide, and worst in the NCR. Still not sure why teachers should feel proud of that?

To get back on topic, I think McKnight is focusing on teaching by recruiting top-notch teachers. You can't teach if you don't have teachers!

She went to ONE school with a tiny education department. Now, if she went to Towson and tried to show those graduates why MCPS is the place to go over other Maryland jurisdictions, then I might applaud the effort. This was just a photo op.

We are so short teachers, especially those in special education. What is she doing about it?

But an HBCU isn't good enough for you?

Of course it is but you entirely missed the point that there are multiple local HBCU that produce more education graduates a year that are local so those students are much more likely to apply to MCPS. How many teachers do we have who graduated from this particularly college?

They are also more likely to do internships with mcps.

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Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

Because I don’t like her. I didn’t like her predecessors either. I feel MCPS spends way too much money marketing themselves, creating ridiculous equity programs or socio-emotional support initiatives, changing curriculum every few years and paying boatloads to lawyers to fend off complaints from families of children with special needs. That money could be used to far greater effect on actual, rigorous instruction, for example, teaching phonetic-based reading, which has been shown to be very successful method for all reader types, particularly dyslexic children.

No amount of glad-handing and photo ops will compensate for misuse of funds.

I am grateful and happy with some of the teachers and programs in MCPS. But I feel they exist in despite of, not thanks to, top leadership.

So you hate the idea of equity and especially can't stand a minority running MCPS.

Funny how all you can do is scream race when someone does not share your thinking and raises valid points.

And all you can do is spread hate and complain.

If she was competent and did a good job, do you really think I would complain? Do you think the stacks of CFPs and DOE OCR open case files are because she's awesome? How about the qualified teacher, staff, bus driver gap?

Sorry but if you want a cheerleader, go join the NFL. Her job is to EDUCATE, not travel around the country trying to find teachers because she screwed up.

I hope her replacement reaches out to teachers that left and hears their concerns. Maybe some of them will come back then, and we won't have this revolving door anymore.

This. Treat the ones well that you have so they stay and if they are happy more will come. She has recruiters to recruit.

9 other states asked for NG help. Whoop dee doo. It just means MC was in the bottom 20% worst planning nationwide, and worst in the NCR. Still not sure why teachers should feel proud of that?

To get back on topic, I think McKnight is focusing on teaching by recruiting top-notch teachers. You can't teach if you don't have teachers!

She went to ONE school with a tiny education department. Now, if she went to Towson and tried to show those graduates why MCPS is the place to go over other Maryland jurisdictions, then I might applaud the effort. This was just a photo op.

We are so short teachers, especially those in special education. What is she doing about it?

But an HBCU isn't good enough for you?

Of course it is but you entirely missed the point that there are multiple local HBCU that produce more education graduates a year that are local so those students are much more likely to apply to MCPS. How many teachers do we have who graduated from this particularly college?

They are also more likely to do internships with mcps.

Not a surprise since its #36 on the HBCU list? I bet if MCPS recruited at #37 and #38 there would be even more jumping at the chance for internships? The point is that just because more are likely to do an internship doesn't mean that MCPS is getting the best teachers. MCPS should be recruiting the best across the nation, not at just this school.

Needing a police escort because she lives in another county and her kids don't even attend MCPS? Maybe she wears this every day, but it projects a bad image when an official wears pink to a student shooting press conference with police? Students first? Really? How can you take that seriously?

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Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

Because I don’t like her. I didn’t like her predecessors either. I feel MCPS spends way too much money marketing themselves, creating ridiculous equity programs or socio-emotional support initiatives, changing curriculum every few years and paying boatloads to lawyers to fend off complaints from families of children with special needs. That money could be used to far greater effect on actual, rigorous instruction, for example, teaching phonetic-based reading, which has been shown to be very successful method for all reader types, particularly dyslexic children.

No amount of glad-handing and photo ops will compensate for misuse of funds.

I am grateful and happy with some of the teachers and programs in MCPS. But I feel they exist in despite of, not thanks to, top leadership.

So you hate the idea of equity and especially can't stand a minority running MCPS.

Funny how all you can do is scream race when someone does not share your thinking and raises valid points.

And all you can do is spread hate and complain.

If she was competent and did a good job, do you really think I would complain? Do you think the stacks of CFPs and DOE OCR open case files are because she's awesome? How about the qualified teacher, staff, bus driver gap?

Sorry but if you want a cheerleader, go join the NFL. Her job is to EDUCATE, not travel around the country trying to find teachers because she screwed up.

I hope her replacement reaches out to teachers that left and hears their concerns. Maybe some of them will come back then, and we won't have this revolving door anymore.

This. Treat the ones well that you have so they stay and if they are happy more will come. She has recruiters to recruit.

9 other states asked for NG help. Whoop dee doo. It just means MC was in the bottom 20% worst planning nationwide, and worst in the NCR. Still not sure why teachers should feel proud of that?

To get back on topic, I think McKnight is focusing on teaching by recruiting top-notch teachers. You can't teach if you don't have teachers!

She went to ONE school with a tiny education department. Now, if she went to Towson and tried to show those graduates why MCPS is the place to go over other Maryland jurisdictions, then I might applaud the effort. This was just a photo op.

We are so short teachers, especially those in special education. What is she doing about it?

But an HBCU isn't good enough for you?

Of course it is but you entirely missed the point that there are multiple local HBCU that produce more education graduates a year that are local so those students are much more likely to apply to MCPS. How many teachers do we have who graduated from this particularly college?

They are also more likely to do internships with mcps.

Not a surprise since its #36 on the HBCU list? I bet if MCPS recruited at #37 and #38 there would be even more jumping at the chance for internships? The point is that just because more are likely to do an internship doesn't mean that MCPS is getting the best teachers. MCPS should be recruiting the best across the nation, not at just this school.

Needing a police escort because she lives in another county and her kids don't even attend MCPS? Maybe she wears this every day, but it projects a bad image when an official wears pink to a student shooting press conference with police? Students first? Really? How can you take that seriously?

I like the outfit but she should be in black, navy or grey.

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Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

Because I don’t like her. I didn’t like her predecessors either. I feel MCPS spends way too much money marketing themselves, creating ridiculous equity programs or socio-emotional support initiatives, changing curriculum every few years and paying boatloads to lawyers to fend off complaints from families of children with special needs. That money could be used to far greater effect on actual, rigorous instruction, for example, teaching phonetic-based reading, which has been shown to be very successful method for all reader types, particularly dyslexic children.

No amount of glad-handing and photo ops will compensate for misuse of funds.

I am grateful and happy with some of the teachers and programs in MCPS. But I feel they exist in despite of, not thanks to, top leadership.

So you hate the idea of equity and especially can't stand a minority running MCPS.

Funny how all you can do is scream race when someone does not share your thinking and raises valid points.

And all you can do is spread hate and complain.

If she was competent and did a good job, do you really think I would complain? Do you think the stacks of CFPs and DOE OCR open case files are because she's awesome? How about the qualified teacher, staff, bus driver gap?

Sorry but if you want a cheerleader, go join the NFL. Her job is to EDUCATE, not travel around the country trying to find teachers because she screwed up.

I hope her replacement reaches out to teachers that left and hears their concerns. Maybe some of them will come back then, and we won't have this revolving door anymore.

This. Treat the ones well that you have so they stay and if they are happy more will come. She has recruiters to recruit.

9 other states asked for NG help. Whoop dee doo. It just means MC was in the bottom 20% worst planning nationwide, and worst in the NCR. Still not sure why teachers should feel proud of that?

To get back on topic, I think McKnight is focusing on teaching by recruiting top-notch teachers. You can't teach if you don't have teachers!

She went to ONE school with a tiny education department. Now, if she went to Towson and tried to show those graduates why MCPS is the place to go over other Maryland jurisdictions, then I might applaud the effort. This was just a photo op.

We are so short teachers, especially those in special education. What is she doing about it?

But an HBCU isn't good enough for you?

Who cares if she’s at a HBCU? Our school is primarily Hispanic, so how does it help our kids?

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Why aren’t any of these meeting virtual for parents not comfortable in a large indoor group setting?

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Anonymous wrote:Why aren’t any of these meeting virtual for parents not comfortable in a large indoor group setting?

As someone who was traveling out of state and not wearing a mask (and as someone who contracted COVID during winter break) Dr. McKnight doesn’t consider that some families still are trying to prevent bringing COVID home to family members.

COVID rates are on the rise in Montgomery County and the numbers are going to jump when maskless students and staff return from spring break. Holding large indoor maskless meetings right after spring break is not a good idea. At a minimum, have a virtual option available so parents can participate safely. Education was online for 18 months so MCPS should have the technology.