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MOCO BOE update: Beidleman Report summary
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Anonymous
He isn’t leaving quietly. No one implicated him for wrong doing. Some of the complaints have two sides. Like nude pictures and consensual exchanges. |
Anonymous
| It’s not considered consensual/mutual even if they sent it to him and even if they wanted the relationship because of the power imbalance. Legally he’s in a bad place regardless. |
Anonymous
Or at least to have a single open meeting on the issue. |
Anonymous
These are all adults not children. |
Anonymous
Doesn’t matter legally. If he supervises them, then it’s a power imbalance. This is something he would have known as it’s a mandatory part of Mcps sexual harassment training. Which in my opinion makes it even worse that they let this all slide for so long. They make everyone sit through training on policies and laws they don’t enforce, or enforce only when and how it suits them. |
Anonymous
MCPS will indemnify him and pay his legal fees to keep him on the team. |
Anonymous
Beidleman is that you who keeps defending yourself and mcps nonsensically on this thread? |
Anonymous
Consensual or not, in what universe is it ethical for supervisors to engage in this type of behavior with their employees?!
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Anonymous
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Yeah I don't think you can wave away the allegations against Biedleman on the basis of one or two "consensual" relationships.
( source: https://www.washingtonpos...principal/ ) - "MCPS treated Beidleman as a rising star. Despite six staff members’ reports to MCPS about his conduct in 2023, officials promoted him in June to run Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville, a position that oversees a larger staff than Farquhar’s and would have raised his salary by $32,000, to $191,000." - “He is the most vindictive person I’ve ever met,” a Farquhar English teacher said. “Even teachers who left Farquhar are scared of him to this day,” said former Farquhar media assistant Cathy Stanton, who departed MCPS in 2021 because of what she called the school’s “toxic leadership.” - "In July 2017, former Farquhar PTA president Chelsea Curtis said she hand-delivered a letter to the central office that carbon-copied the principal to request a change of schools for her younger children after Beidleman told her eighth-grade daughter: “Don’t be like [your friend]. She’s a whore.” MCPS granted the transfer." - "During two Jan. 31, 2018, assemblies for seventh- and eighth-grade students and staff, Beidleman lamented that Farquhar girls were dressing and acting “like hos and thots” (both derogatory terms for promiscuous women), according to multiple witnesses." - "When parents complained about the assembly, then-Director of School Support and Improvement Eric Minus, Beidleman’s boss, spoke with teachers. One told him about additional instances of workplace misconduct, the teacher said in an interview. But when another tried to do the same, Minus asked to confine the discussion to what Beidleman had said at the assemblies, she said. Several educators were aware that the two men were friends." - "He berated, humiliated or yelled at staff frequently, according to more than two dozen educators. " - "A Lakelands teacher said she left that school because of Beidleman, who on numerous occasions “screamed in my face.” - "Teachers at Lakelands, Clemente and Farquhar said Beidleman often commented on women’s bodies and outfits. During two annual Farquhar staff presentations about professional attire, he showed a picture of a woman’s midsection in tight leggings and said, “Camel toe is not allowed,” several attendees said." - "When a male science teacher told Beidleman his wife was pregnant, the principal replied that his wife would “change for the worse,” the teacher recounted in an email to Walker obtained by The Post." - "A teacher told The Post that Beidleman said to her in front of a colleague, who confirmed the conversation in an interview: “You look like you peg your husband and that you do butt stuff.” When that teacher disagreed with Beidleman in discussions, she and a witness said the principal told her: “Maybe your husband needs lessons in bed so you can be calmed down.” The comments were memorialized in a list of aggressions toward staff compiled by Farquhar’s building union representative this year." - "In April 2021, Beidleman invited an MCPS teacher who had worked with him previously to apply to be his assistant principal at Farquhar, she said....Beidleman told The Post the teacher’s candidacy was rejected “prior to any personal conversations.” But screenshots from the teacher’s phone show that he texted personal messages, including lewd ones, to her more than 400 times between the day he asked if she wanted the job and the date she was informed that she would not be considered for the role." |
Anonymous
| I didn’t think principal had the power to choose or reject their assistant principals. I thought that was something central office did? Or maybe Beidleman was treated differently in this regard as well? |
Anonymous
Exactly makes no sense |
Anonymous
Principals don't hire APs? |
Anonymous
While there is a “panel” of school staff who participate in the interview process, Principals have the primary role in selecting their APs from a pool of candidates or from current APs. |
Anonymous
Principals are not GODs people. MCPS should have a training to teach teachers to stop holding these people in such high regard. This isn’t a cult, it’s not the president of the united states either. It’s a simple man that runs a school that really doesn’t run the school because it’s really ran by central office. |
Anonymous
The acting principal and AP selected the current acting AP. Or at least recruited and had a big say in the matter. Teachers have been trying to tell you for years that principals have too much power in MCPSnd people are still questioning us! |