New Blair principal

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Anonymous wrote:He was in the running to win Principal of the year at RM - this seems very different from what you’re saying PP?

Also- is this a demotion for him, coming from CO?

Massive demotion. He had to screw up pretty bad for this to happen. He’s probably crying right now. I don’t know him, but I know ppl who worked for him and they are NOiT fans. I feel bad for Blair.

There was a restructuring in CO, which is common when new superintendents take over. Within the restructuring, 80+ jobs were eliminated. Often, those individuals go back to school-based positions.

Not vouching for him or other individuals who lost jobs but in this current climate, is this really shocking? People all over are accepting jobs that they may have done in the past that's a complete departure from their most recent line of work.

Gossip certainly gives us something to do but again, in this current climate, when it comes to employment, is this best?

No gossip.

When people make claims about individuals being a womanizer, that is gossip. Nothing in this post suggests he is inappropriate with staff members.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s the plawsuit against Monteleone:
https://marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/legalopinions/2019/032019/Hoover.Op.19-12.pdf

Better document:

https://www.marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/legalopinions/012019/Hoover.Op.No.19-03.pdf

Looks like two toxic people butting heads

+1. Gives you an insight that Monteleone can be quite cunning.

Cunning? This dirtbag sounds like a nightmare. He definitely bullied his AP. The fact that he was promoted after this goes to show how corrupt MCPS is. He’s Joel 2.0.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s the plawsuit against Monteleone:
https://marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/legalopinions/2019/032019/Hoover.Op.19-12.pdf

Better document:

https://www.marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/legalopinions/012019/Hoover.Op.No.19-03.pdf

Looks like two toxic people butting heads

+1. Gives you an insight that Monteleone can be quite cunning.

Cunning? This dirtbag sounds like a nightmare. He definitely bullied his AP. The fact that he was promoted after this goes to show how corrupt MCPS is. He’s Joel 2.0.

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Anonymous wrote:Blair is a massive school. I doubt they would pick someone incompetent for the job. That being said, there are slim pickings these days for the principal positions.

There are slim pickings...

There are slim pickings if you only look at internal candidates. MCPS refuses to HS principals from outside of the system.

I thought MCPS opened up an outside-the-system search for Blair candidates.

None of the three open high school principals went to external candidates. They all went to internal Central Office people.

What does that tell you about the MCPS hiring process?

It's connected to the central office restructuring. Former principals were bound to get open principal positions.

So we cycle people in and out of CO, without seeing if outside talent might be found. I don't like the sound of the new Blair principal. And the new Kennedy HS principal has never been a principal, and comes directly from CO mid-management.

Not very inspiring.

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Anonymous wrote:Blair is a massive school. I doubt they would pick someone incompetent for the job. That being said, there are slim pickings these days for the principal positions.

There are slim pickings...

There are slim pickings if you only look at internal candidates. MCPS refuses to HS principals from outside of the system.

I thought MCPS opened up an outside-the-system search for Blair candidates.

None of the three open high school principals went to external candidates. They all went to internal Central Office people.

What does that tell you about the MCPS hiring process?

It's connected to the central office restructuring. Former principals were bound to get open principal positions.

So we cycle people in and out of CO, without seeing if outside talent might be found. I don't like the sound of the new Blair principal. And the new Kennedy HS principal has never been a principal, and comes directly from CO mid-management.

Not very inspiring.

The Blair principal position had been posted for more than a year. Ample time and opportunity for outside candidates to apply.

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Anonymous wrote:Blair is a massive school. I doubt they would pick someone incompetent for the job. That being said, there are slim pickings these days for the principal positions.

There are slim pickings...

There are slim pickings if you only look at internal candidates. MCPS refuses to HS principals from outside of the system.

I thought MCPS opened up an outside-the-system search for Blair candidates.

None of the three open high school principals went to external candidates. They all went to internal Central Office people.

What does that tell you about the MCPS hiring process?

It's connected to the central office restructuring. Former principals were bound to get open principal positions.

So we cycle people in and out of CO, without seeing if outside talent might be found. I don't like the sound of the new Blair principal. And the new Kennedy HS principal has never been a principal, and comes directly from CO mid-management.

Not very inspiring.

The Blair principal position had been posted for more than a year. Ample time and opportunity for outside candidates to apply.

Correct. But they are only hiring internal candidates.

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Anonymous wrote:Monteleone was liked by most when my child was at RM but the IB parents hated hiim. I wonder how he will be for Blairs Magnet..

Why did the IB parents have an issue?

There's a lengthy old thread about it:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/649903.page

Sounds like it’s the same issue as lawsuit which read as a conflict with one staff member to me.

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Damon is smart, thoughtful, cares deeply about how kids do in school holistically, not just academically...and he has a very high regard for himself.

I think he's a talented school administrator and also think he's really conceited and this gets in the way of progress sometimes - he can be "my way or the highway."

But I think his experience at RM and at CO will serve him well as principal at Blair and it's a placement that makes a lot of sense to me.

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Anonymous wrote:Blair is a massive school. I doubt they would pick someone incompetent for the job. That being said, there are slim pickings these days for the principal positions.

There are slim pickings...

There are slim pickings if you only look at internal candidates. MCPS refuses to HS principals from outside of the system.

I thought MCPS opened up an outside-the-system search for Blair candidates.

None of the three open high school principals went to external candidates. They all went to internal Central Office people.

What does that tell you about the MCPS hiring process?

It's connected to the central office restructuring. Former principals were bound to get open principal positions.

So we cycle people in and out of CO, without seeing if outside talent might be found. I don't like the sound of the new Blair principal. And the new Kennedy HS principal has never been a principal, and comes directly from CO mid-management.

Not very inspiring.

The Blair principal position had been posted for more than a year. Ample time and opportunity for outside candidates to apply.

Correct. But they are only hiring internal candidates.

Maybe the external applicants weren't very good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Blair is a massive school. I doubt they would pick someone incompetent for the job. That being said, there are slim pickings these days for the principal positions.

There are slim pickings...

There are slim pickings if you only look at internal candidates. MCPS refuses to HS principals from outside of the system.

I thought MCPS opened up an outside-the-system search for Blair candidates.

None of the three open high school principals went to external candidates. They all went to internal Central Office people.

What does that tell you about the MCPS hiring process?

It's connected to the central office restructuring. Former principals were bound to get open principal positions.

So we cycle people in and out of CO, without seeing if outside talent might be found. I don't like the sound of the new Blair principal. And the new Kennedy HS principal has never been a principal, and comes directly from CO mid-management.

Not very inspiring.

The Blair principal position had been posted for more than a year. Ample time and opportunity for outside candidates to apply.

Correct. But they are only hiring internal candidates.

Maybe the external applicants weren't very good.

Clearly you've never served on any of the interview panels AND you're deluded into thinking MCPS makes decisions objectively and based on merit.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Blair is a massive school. I doubt they would pick someone incompetent for the job. That being said, there are slim pickings these days for the principal positions.

There are slim pickings...

There are slim pickings if you only look at internal candidates. MCPS refuses to HS principals from outside of the system.

I thought MCPS opened up an outside-the-system search for Blair candidates.

None of the three open high school principals went to external candidates. They all went to internal Central Office people.

What does that tell you about the MCPS hiring process?

It's connected to the central office restructuring. Former principals were bound to get open principal positions.

So we cycle people in and out of CO, without seeing if outside talent might be found. I don't like the sound of the new Blair principal. And the new Kennedy HS principal has never been a principal, and comes directly from CO mid-management.

Not very inspiring.

The Blair principal position had been posted for more than a year. Ample time and opportunity for outside candidates to apply.

Correct. But they are only hiring internal candidates.

Maybe the external applicants weren't very good.

Clearly you've never served on any of the interview panels AND you're deluded into thinking MCPS makes decisions objectively and based on merit.

Do you know who the external applicants were?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Damon is smart, thoughtful, cares deeply about how kids do in school holistically, not just academically...and he has a very high regard for himself.

I think he's a talented school administrator and also think he's really conceited and this gets in the way of progress sometimes - he can be "my way or the highway."

But I think his experience at RM and at CO will serve him well as principal at Blair and it's a placement that makes a lot of sense to me.

I don't know him, but this seems like a thoughtful analysis that describes a lot of folks I've worked with in my life. He's not ancient, which also means he may yet be growing/improving. That's a good thing, and I hope he has the chance to do that at Blair.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Blair is a massive school. I doubt they would pick someone incompetent for the job. That being said, there are slim pickings these days for the principal positions.

There are slim pickings...

There are slim pickings if you only look at internal candidates. MCPS refuses to HS principals from outside of the system.

I thought MCPS opened up an outside-the-system search for Blair candidates.

None of the three open high school principals went to external candidates. They all went to internal Central Office people.

What does that tell you about the MCPS hiring process?

MCPS has not had success hiring outside principals. I think 2 or 3 hired within the past few years have left or been unsuccessful. I get it though, MCPS is very different than most school districts and it is hard to acclimate to the culture fresh from the outside. Plus MCPS invests a lot of time and money into training and growing administrators so it makes sense to promote from within or hire experienced administrators from central office.

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s the plawsuit against Monteleone:
https://marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/legalopinions/2019/032019/Hoover.Op.19-12.pdf

So Monteleone was not found to have bullied this teacher.

I teach at RM and know all about this. That dismissed administrator was ineffective, mean, and corrupt. She was just mad she got held accountable and had the resources to make a (failed) stink. This isn’t your smoking gun that Damon is bad.

Now do rigging the AP scores.

Now provide some evidence.

DP here. I was there when Hoover vanished in the middle of AP testing. She didn’t rig scores, but she allowed at least one student without extended time to have extra time on the AP testing Hoover was proctoring. That’s what triggered the administrative leave and investigation. Monteleone covered up the extent of whatever had happened, because he didn’t want the entire school scores to be cancelled. Hoover then held that over him, which meant that a lot of the stuff she had been doing never came out.

Good times.

Your evidence for these points are what exactly?

That you worked at RM?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s the plawsuit against Monteleone:
https://marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/legalopinions/2019/032019/Hoover.Op.19-12.pdf

Better document:

https://www.marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/legalopinions/012019/Hoover.Op.No.19-03.pdf

Looks like two toxic people butting heads

+1. Gives you an insight that Monteleone can be quite cunning.

Cunning? This dirtbag sounds like a nightmare. He definitely bullied his AP. The fact that he was promoted after this goes to show how corrupt MCPS is. He’s Joel 2.0.

Anonymous rant with no evidence…

Really? No evidence?

How do you know?