Board Fires Dr. McKnight

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Anonymous wrote:A million thank yous to Alexandra Robbins and Nicole Asbury. This would not have happened without your steadfast, continuous, and absolutely fabulous effort to bring the truth to light. This shows why local journalism is so critical. We are indebted to you!!

YES!

Alexandra Robbins is MOCO WOMAN OF THE YEAR in my book.

Amazing work. A superintendent vanquished by a sub.

I think she did great work on this, but you know this isn’t a sub taking down the superintendent, right? She’s a NYT bestselling author who probably only subbed as research for her book on teachers (fun fact: She’s a Whitman grad). https://alexandrarobbins.com/about/

Fun fact: she is AWFUL. I will never forget her attacking all of the MCPS families who needed their children to go back to school in person, Alexandra Robbins was obsessed with keeping the schools closed and created a horrific divide between parents and teachers that hasn’t healed to this day. She’s done some good work here but she did a lot of harm to our community and created deep divisions and damage and will never atone for what she did. I had actually forgotten about her and slowly the memory returned of her Facebook screeds attacking parents non stop! It was AWFUL!

How many sexual harassers and systems that enable them have you exposed?

Do you judge someone by their best work or their worst? I'm sure the PP hasn't tried to close schools, so they're probably a step or two above Robbins.

Nope and nope

You clearly weren't paying attention during the pandemic. Robbins is no ally to parents or students.

Families have no ally in MCPS, not MCEA, the BOE, Central office, nor even the MCCPTA.

Unfortunately true.

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Anonymous wrote:We won. Pat yourself on the back. No more anti racism teachings from consultants with zero real action.

Oh....I wouldn't say that. If the whispers are true about her interim replacement being Monique Felder, there'll be more of that to come.

Which I can tolerate, provided it's coherent, actionable and not an absolute waste of everyone's time like Monifa's version of antiracism work.

Wonder why the Orange County BOE didn’t want her any longer?

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Anonymous wrote:A million thank yous to Alexandra Robbins and Nicole Asbury. This would not have happened without your steadfast, continuous, and absolutely fabulous effort to bring the truth to light. This shows why local journalism is so critical. We are indebted to you!!

100% thank you from MCPS staff. Her goodbye email was as graceless as everything else she has done. Good riddance!

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Other that the harassment scandals, The biggest issue is that Mcknight was not supporting principals. Instead surrounded herself with yes men and grew the central office 30% for no obvious benefit. Totally tone deaf to teachers and school based workers.

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Anonymous wrote:Alexandra robbins we need you to investigate what’s happening at Travilah elementary!!!

Teachers leaving in DROVES, front office admins who have been there for 20 years retired early, teachers have been trying to get help from union and BOE alleging hostile work environment, walking on eggshells around angry and demanding principal who drowns them in paperwork and creates a miserable work environment, written up for anything that happens including encouraging teachers to speak up dj things are going wrong.
We are seriously worried as parents about our wonderful school, teachers are afraid and they are leaving and teachers are our treasure and our MVPS, we need them supported and cared for!!!

You may want to create a new thread for this topic.

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Anonymous wrote:A million thank yous to Alexandra Robbins and Nicole Asbury. This would not have happened without your steadfast, continuous, and absolutely fabulous effort to bring the truth to light. This shows why local journalism is so critical. We are indebted to you!!

YES!

Alexandra Robbins is MOCO WOMAN OF THE YEAR in my book.

I see her publisher found this thread. Or maybe Robbins herself.

I remember when she wrote "Pledged".

She was way ahead of her time with that one. Alabama Rush and RuskTok are taking in millions now, there are Netflix series, etc. I forgot she was onto this stuff way back then. Clearly has a good eye for what people care about.

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Will they hire some one better? I’m not optimistic

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Anonymous wrote:We won. Pat yourself on the back. No more anti racism teachings from consultants with zero real action.

Oh....I wouldn't say that. If the whispers are true about her interim replacement being Monique Felder, there'll be more of that to come.

Which I can tolerate, provided it's coherent, actionable and not an absolute waste of everyone's time like Monifa's version of antiracism work.

Wonder why the Orange County BOE didn’t want her any longer?

I don’t know anything about her, but after a quick google dive, it looks like the school board in that county ended up with a new 4-3 conservative majority and her commitment to equity and other progressive ideas was a non-starter for them. It appears that she was actually doing a good job and whatnot otherwise.

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It still bothers me that so few (if any) principals came forward publicly as all of this was going on. All of the principals who had been there for the last several years knew. They talked about it with one another.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's how I see it.

Giant school districts are always "plagued by scandals" and sexual harassment claims. Often for cause. Nothing extraordinary happened on Dr. McKnight's watch that didn't happen before. Except recovering from covid.

So, the black woman took a job that no one else wanted at an impossible time, shepherded the MoCo school system through it, wanted to keep her job after... And some yahoos at Fox, happily continuing their work to dismantle public education, decided she was a soft target to rally the base.

I don't have any particular opinion about McKnight's competence or lack thereof. But this smells like a political hit job, and the way the posters here talk about her: using her first name (which by the way, Jeff, you could have stopped a lot earlier), referring to her with usual coded words you people like to use to talk about women, especially Black women... And the way you're nominating these two cut-rate journalists for "breaking a story" that you can't even explain?

Yeah. This is a hit job. You people are gross, and we've all seen this play before.

Lucy Hayes or whichever NAACP McKnight acolyte this is, give it up. It's not a hit job. She took the job and fumbled out of the gate. The failures are too numerous to count.

Including the first school shooting happening in MCPS history at Magruder in 2022. Yes, the first black superintendent's abysmal leadership and failed security strategy led to a young black boy getting shot and permanently injured. His black mother is currently suing McKnight and the district over it too.

She is nobody's savior or champion. Go away.

Why do ya’ll keep bringing up the Magruder shooting? Did you somehow think that MoCo was immune from a decidedly U.S. phenomenon?? When Uvalde happens here then this can continue to be drag into conversation, but until then thank the steadfast staff and officers who handled it appropriately.

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Anonymous wrote:It still bothers me that so few (if any) principals came forward publicly as all of this was going on. All of the principals who had been there for the last several years knew. They talked about it with one another.

It’s concerning but I can see why they remained quiet. McKnight had created such a culture of bullying and harassment of subordinates who don’t get in line with her that they would have been risking their jobs and livelihood to go public.

Look at what mcknight’s team did to Khalid Walker after he refused to doctor up his investigative report. And that was in response to a private act of defiance.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's how I see it.

Giant school districts are always "plagued by scandals" and sexual harassment claims. Often for cause. Nothing extraordinary happened on Dr. McKnight's watch that didn't happen before. Except recovering from covid.

So, the black woman took a job that no one else wanted at an impossible time, shepherded the MoCo school system through it, wanted to keep her job after... And some yahoos at Fox, happily continuing their work to dismantle public education, decided she was a soft target to rally the base.

I don't have any particular opinion about McKnight's competence or lack thereof. But this smells like a political hit job, and the way the posters here talk about her: using her first name (which by the way, Jeff, you could have stopped a lot earlier), referring to her with usual coded words you people like to use to talk about women, especially Black women... And the way you're nominating these two cut-rate journalists for "breaking a story" that you can't even explain?

Yeah. This is a hit job. You people are gross, and we've all seen this play before.

Lucy Hayes or whichever NAACP McKnight acolyte this is, give it up. It's not a hit job. She took the job and fumbled out of the gate. The failures are too numerous to count.

Including the first school shooting happening in MCPS history at Magruder in 2022. Yes, the first black superintendent's abysmal leadership and failed security strategy led to a young black boy getting shot and permanently injured. His black mother is currently suing McKnight and the district over it too.

She is nobody's savior or champion. Go away.

Why do ya’ll keep bringing up the Magruder shooting? Did you somehow think that MoCo was immune from a decidedly U.S. phenomenon?? When Uvalde happens here then this can continue to be drag into conversation, but until then thank the steadfast staff and officers who handled it appropriately.

What effective school safety plan did she have in place after SROs were expelled from high schools? If I was a parent of a Magruder student, I’d call for her job after making me wait to pick him up so she could hold her little speech. No one comes between me and my kid when it comes to issues like this. Reunite families - then press conference. Uvalde comes to mind with leaders like her.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's how I see it.

Giant school districts are always "plagued by scandals" and sexual harassment claims. Often for cause. Nothing extraordinary happened on Dr. McKnight's watch that didn't happen before. Except recovering from covid.

So, the black woman took a job that no one else wanted at an impossible time, shepherded the MoCo school system through it, wanted to keep her job after... And some yahoos at Fox, happily continuing their work to dismantle public education, decided she was a soft target to rally the base.

I don't have any particular opinion about McKnight's competence or lack thereof. But this smells like a political hit job, and the way the posters here talk about her: using her first name (which by the way, Jeff, you could have stopped a lot earlier), referring to her with usual coded words you people like to use to talk about women, especially Black women... And the way you're nominating these two cut-rate journalists for "breaking a story" that you can't even explain?

Yeah. This is a hit job. You people are gross, and we've all seen this play before.

Lucy Hayes or whichever NAACP McKnight acolyte this is, give it up. It's not a hit job. She took the job and fumbled out of the gate. The failures are too numerous to count.

Including the first school shooting happening in MCPS history at Magruder in 2022. Yes, the first black superintendent's abysmal leadership and failed security strategy led to a young black boy getting shot and permanently injured. His black mother is currently suing McKnight and the district over it too.

She is nobody's savior or champion. Go away.

Why do ya’ll keep bringing up the Magruder shooting? Did you somehow think that MoCo was immune from a decidedly U.S. phenomenon?? When Uvalde happens here then this can continue to be drag into conversation, but until then thank the steadfast staff and officers who handled it appropriately.

I don’t think people blame her for the shooting since as you correctly point out guns are a massive problem in our society. The issue was that she delayed reunification of scared parents and kids so that she could hold a press conference.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's how I see it.

Giant school districts are always "plagued by scandals" and sexual harassment claims. Often for cause. Nothing extraordinary happened on Dr. McKnight's watch that didn't happen before. Except recovering from covid.

So, the black woman took a job that no one else wanted at an impossible time, shepherded the MoCo school system through it, wanted to keep her job after... And some yahoos at Fox, happily continuing their work to dismantle public education, decided she was a soft target to rally the base.

I don't have any particular opinion about McKnight's competence or lack thereof. But this smells like a political hit job, and the way the posters here talk about her: using her first name (which by the way, Jeff, you could have stopped a lot earlier), referring to her with usual coded words you people like to use to talk about women, especially Black women... And the way you're nominating these two cut-rate journalists for "breaking a story" that you can't even explain?

Yeah. This is a hit job. You people are gross, and we've all seen this play before.

again with the race. Makes what you wrote less legitimate.

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Sorry to hear this. Seems like it was an assignation of sorts. Deep sigh.