Jawando forces Monteleone to admit they're cutting RJ coach stipend after trying to tapdance around it

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Anonymous wrote:I'm no fan of Jawando. He touts public education, but his kids go to private/public charter schools. He's a public official who espouses to support black and brown families, however, he knowingly took financial donations from corporate donors who are bulldozing the Bethesda cemetary which contains the bones and bodies of slaves.

They are in private. He’s very financially comfortable and often cannot relate to the kids he proclaims to be helping. Want to do good, get more supports for kids behind, bring back tutoring, more help for sped and focus on behavior with real consequences and safety. Cut the waste out of mcps and bring back the basics.

I think Jawando is a typical DC political striver who will say what it takes to get to the next step...BUT the guy grew up in Quebec Terrace. He knows much more about the lives of Black and brown kids in this district than 99% of the folks who post on this board.

I just can't sign up for sniping at Black success - just because he "made good" does not mean he "cannot relate" to MCPS kids.

He has no clue what's going on today in the HS in MCPS. He should walk the halls, sit in the classrooms, and try to find an open bathroom in 3 minutes in between class with 1000+ kids in the halls.

He knows. He doesn’t care. It has no impact on him. His kids are young and in private.

Again, stop with the lies. Only one of his kids is in private school.

Private is super expensive like $40k/year per kid. I didn't realize councilmen were that well off.

The school aged kids are in privates. It’s on his social media.

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Private is super expensive like $40k/year per kid. I didn't realize councilmen were that well off.

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Anonymous wrote:Private is super expensive like $40k/year per kid. I didn't realize councilmen were that well off.

He's a lawyer and clearly has money as he has a very nice house, travels with his family all the time, and shows them living it up. Him trying to relate to others his is claiming to save is a bit of a joke. He's got four kids but all don't look school aged.

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Anonymous wrote:Private is super expensive like $40k/year per kid. I didn't realize councilmen were that well off.

He's a lawyer and clearly has money as he has a very nice house, travels with his family all the time, and shows them living it up. Him trying to relate to others his is claiming to save is a bit of a joke. He's got four kids but all don't look school aged.

His brother is the Governor Wes Moore.

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Watch from 19:00 - 26:00. I'm no Jawando fan but he successfully forced slippery Damon Monteleone to admit what he wasn't trying to admit.

Why are MCPS officials like this? Why do they lie and hide and pretend so much?

What bothers me about this exchange is that Jawando in his story about the Principal who loved RJ was clearly talking about the impact of a restorative justice specialist. The county has I think 8 of these specially trained people who draw a full salary and usually split time at schools that most need them. There are many stories of the good these specialists achieve. This is NOT THE SAME as the RJ coaches. RJ coaches are school staff members who are minimally trained and given a stipend to be a RJ coach in addition to their usual job. RJ specialists and RJ coaches are not the same. I wish this was made clear in their conversation. A case could be made for cutting RJ coaches — the stipend positions- but keeping or even adding more RJ specialists.

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Watch from 19:00 - 26:00. I'm no Jawando fan but he successfully forced slippery Damon Monteleone to admit what he wasn't trying to admit.

Why are MCPS officials like this? Why do they lie and hide and pretend so much?

What bothers me about this exchange is that Jawando in his story about the Principal who loved RJ was clearly talking about the impact of a restorative justice specialist. The county has I think 8 of these specially trained people who draw a full salary and usually split time at schools that most need them. There are many stories of the good these specialists achieve. This is NOT THE SAME as the RJ coaches. RJ coaches are school staff members who are minimally trained and given a stipend to be a RJ coach in addition to their usual job. RJ specialists and RJ coaches are not the same. I wish this was made clear in their conversation. A case could be made for cutting RJ coaches — the stipend positions- but keeping or even adding more RJ specialists.

Correct. Essie and Jawando were both fumbling and mixing up the Specialists versus the Coaches. Damon tried to correct him but it still came out confusing.

You're right that Jawando was talking about the impact and value of the specialist, not the coach. Frankly, I'd be surprised if the stipended coaches had any value at all. It's extra credit work that is going to be subject to a whole of variability in individual performance.

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MCPS v Jawando: DCUM's head explodes.

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Watch from 19:00 - 26:00. I'm no Jawando fan but he successfully forced slippery Damon Monteleone to admit what he wasn't trying to admit.

Why are MCPS officials like this? Why do they lie and hide and pretend so much?

What bothers me about this exchange is that Jawando in his story about the Principal who loved RJ was clearly talking about the impact of a restorative justice specialist. The county has I think 8 of these specially trained people who draw a full salary and usually split time at schools that most need them. There are many stories of the good these specialists achieve. This is NOT THE SAME as the RJ coaches. RJ coaches are school staff members who are minimally trained and given a stipend to be a RJ coach in addition to their usual job. RJ specialists and RJ coaches are not the same. I wish this was made clear in their conversation. A case could be made for cutting RJ coaches — the stipend positions- but keeping or even adding more RJ specialists.

Correct. Essie and Jawando were both fumbling and mixing up the Specialists versus the Coaches. Damon tried to correct him but it still came out confusing.

You're right that Jawando was talking about the impact and value of the specialist, not the coach. Frankly, I'd be surprised if the stipended coaches had any value at all. It's extra credit work that is going to be subject to a whole of variability in individual performance.[/quote

Overall, I wish MCPS had been more clear in naming these positions. If they had chosen to call Restorative Justice Specialists by that title, the other people should have been called something more like Assistant RJ coaches or something else to make clear this was a very different and very less trained position then an actual RJ specialist. Calling both positions by such a similar title was inevitably going to lead to confusion. Anyways, I think the stipend RJ coach positions are a waste of money at a time when cuts need to be made. But I think the RJ specialists have shown they can have a positive impact on the schools they serve so yes those 8 positions should be preserved or even expanded. And I wish Jawando had been listening well enough/ done his prep work better to understand these are two different types of positions or that Damon had offered a more basic and clear explanation so that the conversation around funding could have been less weird and unproductive.

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Watch from 19:00 - 26:00. I'm no Jawando fan but he successfully forced slippery Damon Monteleone to admit what he wasn't trying to admit.

Why are MCPS officials like this? Why do they lie and hide and pretend so much?

What bothers me about this exchange is that Jawando in his story about the Principal who loved RJ was clearly talking about the impact of a restorative justice specialist. The county has I think 8 of these specially trained people who draw a full salary and usually split time at schools that most need them. There are many stories of the good these specialists achieve. This is NOT THE SAME as the RJ coaches. RJ coaches are school staff members who are minimally trained and given a stipend to be a RJ coach in addition to their usual job. RJ specialists and RJ coaches are not the same. I wish this was made clear in their conversation. A case could be made for cutting RJ coaches — the stipend positions- but keeping or even adding more RJ specialists.

This is a good point. I don't get the high stipend when they are doing it during work hours. The comparison to sports coaches and after school activities is not comparable as some of those folks put in many extra hours after school and on weekends, where this is just a side job during school hours. Get rid of the coaches and keep the specialists who can work at a few schools and help.

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RJ coaches get paid more than math coaches. #priorities.

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Anonymous wrote:RJ coaches get paid more than math coaches. #priorities.

They get paid more than pretty much every stipend position for MCPS. Absolute waste.

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Anonymous wrote:Private is super expensive like $40k/year per kid. I didn't realize councilmen were that well off.

He's a lawyer and clearly has money as he has a very nice house, travels with his family all the time, and shows them living it up. Him trying to relate to others his is claiming to save is a bit of a joke. He's got four kids but all don't look school aged.

His brother is the Governor Wes Moore.

Please tell me you are not really suggesting that they are related by blood and/or were raised together?
Please tell me you didn't see a social media post of the two of them where Jawando referred to "my brother" and concluded there is familial relation?

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Anonymous wrote:Private is super expensive like $40k/year per kid. I didn't realize councilmen were that well off.

He's a lawyer and clearly has money as he has a very nice house, travels with his family all the time, and shows them living it up. Him trying to relate to others his is claiming to save is a bit of a joke. He's got four kids but all don't look school aged.

fat handouts from developers?

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Anonymous wrote:RJ coaches get paid more than math coaches. #priorities.

They get paid more than pretty much every stipend position for MCPS. Absolute waste.

No one would do it otherwise.

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Anonymous wrote:Private is super expensive like $40k/year per kid. I didn't realize councilmen were that well off.

He's a lawyer and clearly has money as he has a very nice house, travels with his family all the time, and shows them living it up. Him trying to relate to others his is claiming to save is a bit of a joke. He's got four kids but all don't look school aged.

fat handouts from developers?

His wife works so many she is making great money. He doesn’t look like he’s working outside this beyond a book he wrote so it could be handouts.