Board wants Monifa to step down

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In the moco360 article, it spoke about 2 chiefs and McKnight who were at a social gathering where someone tried to drunkenly remove their clothes. Diane Morris is one of the Chiefs, who is the other? Dana Edwards? Ruschelle Reuben?

Diane is not one of them. And thinking of Ruschelle (who is gone and no longer a chief) is

Maybe Stephanie Sheron, Chief, Office of Strategic Initiatives, another former MS principal crony McKnight promoted?

All I know is whoever the people on this post like should never be in charge of MCPS. It's like some kind of crazed witchhunt where gossip and rumor runs rampant.

They were out for Dr. McKnight's head from day 1. This was just the excuse they were looking for. It didn't even matter what Bieddleman did or didn't do. They never cared. It was always about McKnight.

As excuses go, even you have to admit that these excuses were really good ones.

The board did her the COURTESY of offering her the chance to resign quietly. What did she do with that courtesy? She threw it back in their faces by making their PRIVATE conversations PUBLIC. SHE made it impossible to continue as an employee of the board and SHE made it impossible to continue as a manager in this school system. Now she’s dragging the credibility of the NAACP down with her. Her behavior has been shameful. I hope the BOE goes with her because all of them allegedly oversaw this mess longer than she did.

If you want all to go, get the Montgomery county council to take action. If they don't, vote the council members out!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In the moco360 article, it spoke about 2 chiefs and McKnight who were at a social gathering where someone tried to drunkenly remove their clothes. Diane Morris is one of the Chiefs, who is the other? Dana Edwards? Ruschelle Reuben?

Diane is not one of them. And thinking of Ruschelle (who is gone and no longer a chief) is

Maybe Stephanie Sheron, Chief, Office of Strategic Initiatives, another former MS principal crony McKnight promoted?

All I know is whoever the people on this post like should never be in charge of MCPS. It's like some kind of crazed witchhunt where gossip and rumor runs rampant.

They were out for Dr. McKnight's head from day 1. This was just the excuse they were looking for. It didn't even matter what Bieddleman did or didn't do. They never cared. It was always about McKnight.

As excuses go, even you have to admit that these excuses were really good ones.

The board did her the COURTESY of offering her the chance to resign quietly. What did she do with that courtesy? She threw it back in their faces by making their PRIVATE conversations PUBLIC. SHE made it impossible to continue as an employee of the board and SHE made it impossible to continue as a manager in this school system. Now she’s dragging the credibility of the NAACP down with her. Her behavior has been shameful. I hope the BOE goes with her because all of them allegedly oversaw this mess longer than she did.

If you want all to go, get the Montgomery county council to take action. If they don't, vote the council members out!

The County Council cannot force the BOE to fire McKnight

[Anonymous]

Maybe she needs some restorative justice?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Someone start a petition to get the board to fire McKnight and the other chiefs. If enough sign and they don’t fire her then we will fire the board. Pretty simple

Do it!

The BOE, in charge of firing the superintendent, is firing her. We just don't know what the pay-off is going to be yet.

[Anonymous]

Friedson says he wants to see the un-redacted report before the Feb. 8th council hearing:

https://moco360.media/2024/01/29/friedson-calls-for-release-of-unredacted-mcps-beidleman-report-says-council-wont-remove-school-board-members

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Anonymous wrote:Friedson says he wants to see the un-redacted report before the Feb. 8th council hearing:

https://moco360.media/2024/01/29/friedson-calls-for-release-of-unredacted-mcps-beidleman-report-says-council-wont-remove-school-board-members

That's nice. But not enough. Even without the unredacted report, there's enough for the Council to be incensed.

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Anonymous wrote:Friedson says he wants to see the un-redacted report before the Feb. 8th council hearing:

https://moco360.media/2024/01/29/friedson-calls-for-release-of-unredacted-mcps-beidleman-report-says-council-wont-remove-school-board-members

That's nice. But not enough. Even without the unredacted report, there's enough for the Council to be incensed.

They can be incensed. It's not their job, though. The BoE is the duly elected body to handle it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Friedson says he wants to see the un-redacted report before the Feb. 8th council hearing:

https://moco360.media/2024/01/29/friedson-calls-for-release-of-unredacted-mcps-beidleman-report-says-council-wont-remove-school-board-members

That's nice. But not enough. Even without the unredacted report, there's enough for the Council to be incensed.

They can be incensed. It's not their job, though. The BoE is the duly elected body to handle it.

If it wasn’t the council’s job to fire the school board they wouldn’t have the authority to do it. I don’t think the council should fire the school board right now but it is actually part of their job.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Friedson says he wants to see the un-redacted report before the Feb. 8th council hearing:

https://moco360.media/2024/01/29/friedson-calls-for-release-of-unredacted-mcps-beidleman-report-says-council-wont-remove-school-board-members

That's nice. But not enough. Even without the unredacted report, there's enough for the Council to be incensed.

They can be incensed. It's not their job, though. The BoE is the duly elected body to handle it.

If it wasn’t the council’s job to fire the school board they wouldn’t have the authority to do it. I don’t think the council should fire the school board right now but it is actually part of their job.

Council certainly can if they need to.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Friedson says he wants to see the un-redacted report before the Feb. 8th council hearing:

https://moco360.media/2024/01/29/friedson-calls-for-release-of-unredacted-mcps-beidleman-report-says-council-wont-remove-school-board-members

That's nice. But not enough. Even without the unredacted report, there's enough for the Council to be incensed.

They can be incensed. It's not their job, though. The BoE is the duly elected body to handle it.

If it wasn’t the council’s job to fire the school board they wouldn’t have the authority to do it. I don’t think the council should fire the school board right now but it is actually part of their job.

They don't need to fire board members but they need to exert more pressure on them publicly and privately to clean up MCPS. The messes are overwhelming.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Friedson says he wants to see the un-redacted report before the Feb. 8th council hearing:

https://moco360.media/2024/01/29/friedson-calls-for-release-of-unredacted-mcps-beidleman-report-says-council-wont-remove-school-board-members

That's nice. But not enough. Even without the unredacted report, there's enough for the Council to be incensed.

They can be incensed. It's not their job, though. The BoE is the duly elected body to handle it.

If it wasn’t the council’s job to fire the school board they wouldn’t have the authority to do it. I don’t think the council should fire the school board right now but it is actually part of their job.

Not easily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Friedson says he wants to see the un-redacted report before the Feb. 8th council hearing:

https://moco360.media/2024/01/29/friedson-calls-for-release-of-unredacted-mcps-beidleman-report-says-council-wont-remove-school-board-members

If he were serious about this he would have asked the AG for an opinion stating whether MCPS's redactions were required by law or whether they were discretionary. This is grandstanding from someone who wants to be county executive. The BOE is going to tell him to get lost and he'll quietly let it slide.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Friedson says he wants to see the un-redacted report before the Feb. 8th council hearing:

https://moco360.media/2024/01/29/friedson-calls-for-release-of-unredacted-mcps-beidleman-report-says-council-wont-remove-school-board-members

If he were serious about this he would have asked the AG for an opinion stating whether MCPS's redactions were required by law or whether they were discretionary. This is grandstanding from someone who wants to be county executive. The BOE is going to tell him to get lost and he'll quietly let it slide.

Correct. It's empty gesturing and posturing.

[Anonymous]

If the BOE wants to terminate McKnight, and the unredacted version would implicate McKnight (and her direct reports), isn't it beneficial to their case to share that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the BOE wants to terminate McKnight, and the unredacted version would implicate McKnight (and her direct reports), isn't it beneficial to their case to share that?

Yes, but you don't also want to get fired for personnel/HR law.