Taylor: “What’s the Worst That Could Happen? They Fire Me?”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I really dislike Taylor and disagree with most of the decisions he's been making and the way he's been approaching things.

But this email does not bother me.

The email itself doesn’t bother me. But it does hint to him being overwhelmed with the job and not giving two Fs anymore.

Nah, I think he's just being jokey. You gotta say something casual to lighten the mood after you say your "I'm gonna do what I think is right even if they fire me" thing.

My God. The Taylor apologists are capable of the most ridiculous mental gymnastics I've ever seen.

Dr. McKnight would have been nailed at the stake if she said this. But Taylor? Oh, he's just joking. Incredible.

You do understand that Communications Director Chris Cram is personally posting on this thread to make his boss look better.

You realize you have a mental health disorder

One that is fact based. MCPS admin have already been caught posting anonymously.
It is a well known tactic of MCPS and other school systems.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I really dislike Taylor and disagree with most of the decisions he's been making and the way he's been approaching things.

But this email does not bother me.

The email itself doesn’t bother me. But it does hint to him being overwhelmed with the job and not giving two Fs anymore.

Nah, I think he's just being jokey. You gotta say something casual to lighten the mood after you say your "I'm gonna do what I think is right even if they fire me" thing.

My God. The Taylor apologists are capable of the most ridiculous mental gymnastics I've ever seen.

Dr. McKnight would have been nailed at the stake if she said this. But Taylor? Oh, he's just joking. Incredible.

You do understand that Communications Director Chris Cram is personally posting on this thread to make his boss look better.

You realize you have a mental health disorder

One that is fact based. MCPS admin have already been caught posting anonymously.
It is a well known tactic of MCPS and other school systems.

DP. Caught? By whom?

Even if MCPS admin do sometimes post anonymously, I don't see the problem with that. But to claim that any post that ever disagrees with you must be Chris Cram or 'MCPS lawyer' is ridiculous. And no, I do not work for MCPS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I really dislike Taylor and disagree with most of the decisions he's been making and the way he's been approaching things.

But this email does not bother me.

The email itself doesn’t bother me. But it does hint to him being overwhelmed with the job and not giving two Fs anymore.

Nah, I think he's just being jokey. You gotta say something casual to lighten the mood after you say your "I'm gonna do what I think is right even if they fire me" thing.

My God. The Taylor apologists are capable of the most ridiculous mental gymnastics I've ever seen.

Dr. McKnight would have been nailed at the stake if she said this. But Taylor? Oh, he's just joking. Incredible.

You do understand that Communications Director Chris Cram is personally posting on this thread to make his boss look better.

You realize you have a mental health disorder

One that is fact based. MCPS admin have already been caught posting anonymously.
It is a well known tactic of MCPS and other school systems.

DP. Caught? By whom?

Even if MCPS admin do sometimes post anonymously, I don't see the problem with that. But to claim that any post that ever disagrees with you must be Chris Cram or 'MCPS lawyer' is ridiculous. And no, I do not work for MCPS.

Why should we pay for Chris Cram to post here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly this makes me like him more. I like that he’s not afraid to challenge the politicians and wont roll over for them.

Same. The richy riches are just worried they won't be able to boss him around.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I really dislike Taylor and disagree with most of the decisions he's been making and the way he's been approaching things.

But this email does not bother me.

The email itself doesn’t bother me. But it does hint to him being overwhelmed with the job and not giving two Fs anymore.

Nah, I think he's just being jokey. You gotta say something casual to lighten the mood after you say your "I'm gonna do what I think is right even if they fire me" thing.

My God. The Taylor apologists are capable of the most ridiculous mental gymnastics I've ever seen.

Dr. McKnight would have been nailed at the stake if she said this. But Taylor? Oh, he's just joking. Incredible.

You do understand that Communications Director Chris Cram is personally posting on this thread to make his boss look better.

You realize you have a mental health disorder

One that is fact based. MCPS admin have already been caught posting anonymously.
It is a well known tactic of MCPS and other school systems.

DP. Caught? By whom?

Even if MCPS admin do sometimes post anonymously, I don't see the problem with that. But to claim that any post that ever disagrees with you must be Chris Cram or 'MCPS lawyer' is ridiculous. And no, I do not work for MCPS.

Why should we pay for Chris Cram to post here?

So he's supposed to be on the clock 24/7 with zero personal time?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Adam Pagnucco posted an email that was forwarded to him from a community member who engaged with Taylor after Md. State Senator Cheryl Kagan criticized MCPS and Taylor for their decisions on Wootton. The response to the community member was quite revealing and Pagnucco reprinted it since he felt it revealed something about Taylor's character and/or his state of mind.

SOURCE: https://montgomeryperspective.com/2026/02/23/taylor-whats-the-worst-that-could-happen-they-fire-me/

Taylor’s email to the reader is printed below.

*****

This really means a lot. The data is what the data is – I can’t change it. Politicians who chest-thump is nothing new in Montgomery County. I work for politicians, but I am not one and I also don’t wobble when they fuss (this makes them uncomfortable). Been doing this a long time…what’s the worst that could happen? They fire me? …great! Maybe I’ll get a full night’s sleep for once. 🙂

In all seriousness, the state has no role in this, especially individual legislators. We’ll get through this. And yes – Magruder finally has a clear path! They will be in the next CIP…I just wish it didn’t take so dang long to get stuff done around here.

Again, thanks for reaching out. Onward…!

All my best,

Thomas

Love Taylor so much. What a complete badass who keeps things in perspective and does the right thing.

Where were kids mentioned in his response? Is there something deleted? The worst thing that can happen is the public school education of our children collapses and children are denied an education.

No one is being denied an education, boo. Stop acting like a histrionic ninny.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He sounds like he had no idea exactly what a monster he was walking into by taking this job, with all the politics, nepotism, and hysterical loony parents. This isn't little Stafford County.

This is the first time I've felt a slight sense of empathy for him. No one sane would want this job. The systems are too big, the problematic admins and their minions have wormed their tentacles in for 30+ years and no one superintendent can tease it all out, and a significant minority of the parents in this county are utterly vile.

I don't like him, but the perfect candidate isn't out there. Because again, nobody decent wants this job.

He definitely did not grasp the scope and complexity of the job, but unlike you, I have no empathy for him because he should have done his homework and he lacks humility.

It’s like you regard yourself as an important stakeholder or something.

You aren’t. You’re just a parent. Stay in your lane.

[Anonymous]

Funny how parents will complain about lost learning on a snow day but not when their child is sick. Is your kid doomed to get a substandard education because they got the flu and missed 3 days in December? A kid who breaks his leg will never pass an AP test because they missed time for appointments and surgery? Time not in class is time not in class. Maybe you're just the monsters who send your kids to school when they are sick.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Adam Pagnucco posted an email that was forwarded to him from a community member who engaged with Taylor after Md. State Senator Cheryl Kagan criticized MCPS and Taylor for their decisions on Wootton. The response to the community member was quite revealing and Pagnucco reprinted it since he felt it revealed something about Taylor's character and/or his state of mind.

SOURCE: https://montgomeryperspective.com/2026/02/23/taylor-whats-the-worst-that-could-happen-they-fire-me/

Taylor’s email to the reader is printed below.

*****

This really means a lot. The data is what the data is – I can’t change it. Politicians who chest-thump is nothing new in Montgomery County. I work for politicians, but I am not one and I also don’t wobble when they fuss (this makes them uncomfortable). Been doing this a long time…what’s the worst that could happen? They fire me? …great! Maybe I’ll get a full night’s sleep for once. 🙂

In all seriousness, the state has no role in this, especially individual legislators. We’ll get through this. And yes – Magruder finally has a clear path! They will be in the next CIP…I just wish it didn’t take so dang long to get stuff done around here.

Again, thanks for reaching out. Onward…!

All my best,

Thomas

Oh this email only confirms again that he is a narcissist. I appreciate him not bending toward politicians, but meanwhile it also reveals his extreme arrogance and belief in himself that he is always the smartest elephant in the room.

So, where did you go to medical school, pp? And how many times have you sat with Dr. Taylor ?

Asking since you’re handing out clinical diagnoses. Would love to know your credentials to do that.

What? You don’t have them? Then sit down and shut up, because nothing you say is valid. And you’re the worst kind of person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The email is fine. You all love to complain about everything. It is a nightmare job.

The Mad Mommies of MoCo are always Big Mad.

They are exactly like MAGA. Same intellect as well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People hate every superintendent here, so honestly, why should he care what anybody says? People hated Weast. They hated Starr. They hated Smith. They hated McKnight. Now they hate Taylor. The internet wasn't much of a thing yet under Paul Vance but I'm sure the ancestors of DCUM posters were mailing letters about how much they hated him.

At a certain point, if you are never happy with a single thing or a single person and scream about every decision made and are unable to engage with any issue in a way that shows you understand its complexity and aren't just navel-gazing, people in positions of power treat your feedback and behavior with the disdain it deserves. And they burn out. And the replacement candidates you want refuse to come here.

And don't point out that we should have gotten someone who ended up being successful elsewhere. Because if they'd come here, it wouldn't have happened that way.

The difference is under Weast we had a strong school system, and it's been downhill ever since. And yes, I am aware of the changing demographics of the county affecting this, but no one has been able to stop the downward slide of a once great school system. Taylor's grenade (the new program areas) is going to blow things up, but it won't fix the ailing school system and will make the already bad traffic much, much worse, and cost a whole h@ll of a lot more

Under Weast it was a strong school system for middle and upper class white students. Weast did not have to deal with the fallout from COVID, the exploding numbers of Hispanic immigrants due to our county being a sanctuary county, the exponential growth in special education students, the free fall of our county’s economy, loss of federal funding, smart phone addiction, etc. Everything has gone to hell in a hand basket and the school system reflects that. Not to excuse some of the terrible decisions made by MCPS in the last 10 years

+1000 Everyone acting like 2026 is 1985 and a million different things having changed in school and in America. Mass shootings weren’t a thing in my childhood and yet they’ve been around the entire time my kids have been alive. Miniature computers in everyone’s pocket not a thing when I was a kid, but a just an everyday occurrence for my kids. AI explosion fairly recent but schools still have to deal with it. Special Education laws and enforcement, wildly different, funding 30%. Sheer number of students in schools grew over years and years and now declining, but someone had to deal with it while it was growing. Helicopter parenting and over optimized kids, rampant, but yet and still schools must deal with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Adam Pagnucco posted an email that was forwarded to him from a community member who engaged with Taylor after Md. State Senator Cheryl Kagan criticized MCPS and Taylor for their decisions on Wootton. The response to the community member was quite revealing and Pagnucco reprinted it since he felt it revealed something about Taylor's character and/or his state of mind.

SOURCE: https://montgomeryperspective.com/2026/02/23/taylor-whats-the-worst-that-could-happen-they-fire-me/

Taylor’s email to the reader is printed below.

*****

This really means a lot. The data is what the data is – I can’t change it. Politicians who chest-thump is nothing new in Montgomery County. I work for politicians, but I am not one and I also don’t wobble when they fuss (this makes them uncomfortable). Been doing this a long time…what’s the worst that could happen? They fire me? …great! Maybe I’ll get a full night’s sleep for once. 🙂

In all seriousness, the state has no role in this, especially individual legislators. We’ll get through this. And yes – Magruder finally has a clear path! They will be in the next CIP…I just wish it didn’t take so dang long to get stuff done around here.

Again, thanks for reaching out. Onward…!

All my best,

Thomas

Oh this email only confirms again that he is a narcissist. I appreciate him not bending toward politicians, but meanwhile it also reveals his extreme arrogance and belief in himself that he is always the smartest elephant in the room.

So, where did you go to medical school, pp? And how many times have you sat with Dr. Taylor ?

Asking since you’re handing out clinical diagnoses. Would love to know your credentials to do that.

What? You don’t have them? Then sit down and shut up, because nothing you say is valid. And you’re the worst kind of person.

Oh, so now people need to prove their credentials to post on an anonymous message board? -NP

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly this makes me like him more. I like that he’s not afraid to challenge the politicians and wont roll over for them.

Same. The richy riches are just worried they won't be able to boss him around.

+1 same

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly this makes me like him more. I like that he’s not afraid to challenge the politicians and wont roll over for them.

Same. The richy riches are just worried they won't be able to boss him around.

+1 same

You are confused. He’s the richly rich. He makes triple what the elected officials makes and lives in a $2.8M house in the most expensive zip code in the county.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly this makes me like him more. I like that he’s not afraid to challenge the politicians and wont roll over for them.

Same. The richy riches are just worried they won't be able to boss him around.

The idea that Dr. Taylor is a man of the people and not part of the elite himself is absurd on its face. Kind of like Trump.