MOCO BOE update: Beidleman Report summary

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/10/07/khalid-walker-beidleman-mcps-job/

“Still, four former central office employees told The Post that McKnight would have been aware of — and would have had to approve — her district’s recent move of Walker to an O level position with a raise. “There’s no way that McKnight wouldn’t have known, procedurally and especially given what a key figure he is in all this, in the middle of a storm. It couldn’t have slipped through,” the former central office employee said“

The level of stupid and incompetent within MCPS administration and leadership is baffling.

After getting their a**es handed to them by WaPo, the county council and the county exec, you’d think they would start to be a bit more calculating and careful with their moves.

No one in leadership thought or could foresee how promoting Khalid Walker at this moment could present a PR and perception problem as he is a central figure of a serious personnel and HR scandal?

Truly moronic and makes me question McKnight's capabilities even more. I mean, the General Counsel is literally directly under her and I'm baffled that she thought it would look okay to give this guy a promotion and movement into the General Counsel! And why the heck did the actual General Counsel think it was okay too? Are they that clueless?? Of all departments, they should have a huge awareness on how this would look to the public. OMG.

Who cares what this looks like? Nothing will happen to any of them. The IG has no power to compel them to do anything.

I fear this is actually the attitude in the CO. MCPS GC will treat the IG process as adversarial and deny access to key personnel and documents. The CO seems to think this is just like any other scandal with a short shelf life but in this case they’re mistaken. It’s not going away as easily as the others did. This time, you have our attention.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/10/07/khalid-walker-beidleman-mcps-job/

“Still, four former central office employees told The Post that McKnight would have been aware of — and would have had to approve — her district’s recent move of Walker to an O level position with a raise. “There’s no way that McKnight wouldn’t have known, procedurally and especially given what a key figure he is in all this, in the middle of a storm. It couldn’t have slipped through,” the former central office employee said“

The level of stupid and incompetent within MCPS administration and leadership is baffling.

After getting their a**es handed to them by WaPo, the county council and the county exec, you’d think they would start to be a bit more calculating and careful with their moves.

No one in leadership thought or could foresee how promoting Khalid Walker at this moment could present a PR and perception problem as he is a central figure of a serious personnel and HR scandal?

Truly moronic and makes me question McKnight's capabilities even more. I mean, the General Counsel is literally directly under her and I'm baffled that she thought it would look okay to give this guy a promotion and movement into the General Counsel! And why the heck did the actual General Counsel think it was okay too? Are they that clueless?? Of all departments, they should have a huge awareness on how this would look to the public. OMG.

Who cares what this looks like? Nothing will happen to any of them. The IG has no power to compel them to do anything.

I fear this is actually the attitude in the CO. MCPS GC will treat the IG process as adversarial and deny access to key personnel and documents. The CO seems to think this is just like any other scandal with a short shelf life but in this case they’re mistaken. It’s not going away as easily as the others did. This time, you have our attention.

CO dgaf what people are saying on DCUM. They might pay attention to a #MeToo protest, but that does not seem to be happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is he still employed??? What is anyone waiting for?

Yeah, seriously!

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/10/07/khalid-walker-beidleman-mcps-job/

“Still, four former central office employees told The Post that McKnight would have been aware of — and would have had to approve — her district’s recent move of Walker to an O level position with a raise. “There’s no way that McKnight wouldn’t have known, procedurally and especially given what a key figure he is in all this, in the middle of a storm. It couldn’t have slipped through,” the former central office employee said“

The level of stupid and incompetent within MCPS administration and leadership is baffling.

After getting their a**es handed to them by WaPo, the county council and the county exec, you’d think they would start to be a bit more calculating and careful with their moves.

No one in leadership thought or could foresee how promoting Khalid Walker at this moment could present a PR and perception problem as he is a central figure of a serious personnel and HR scandal?

Truly moronic and makes me question McKnight's capabilities even more. I mean, the General Counsel is literally directly under her and I'm baffled that she thought it would look okay to give this guy a promotion and movement into the General Counsel! And why the heck did the actual General Counsel think it was okay too? Are they that clueless?? Of all departments, they should have a huge awareness on how this would look to the public. OMG.

Who cares what this looks like? Nothing will happen to any of them. The IG has no power to compel them to do anything.

I fear this is actually the attitude in the CO. MCPS GC will treat the IG process as adversarial and deny access to key personnel and documents. The CO seems to think this is just like any other scandal with a short shelf life but in this case they’re mistaken. It’s not going away as easily as the others did. This time, you have our attention.

CO dgaf what people are saying on DCUM. They might pay attention to a #MeToo protest, but that does not seem to be happening.

What is interesting is that they are not paying attention to the Washington Post, who are not letting go of this story. So little of what happens in Montgomery County politics gets any serious media attention or scrutiny that it is easy to see how they have adopted this attitude. Most BOE and CMs spend their days on social media desperately trying to get any attention to them. This story has gotten more media attention than any MoCo story has received in my memory in the last decade. And the problem for MCPS and the BOE is that it has gotten the attention of the random, checked out county citizen who is now wondering WTF is going on at MCPS. The CO may not fully understand it yet, but they are in trouble.

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Anonymous wrote:I am enraged and disgusted with MCPS and all our elected officials that are more concerned with limiting liability than they are with keeping students and teachers safe.

I don't get that impression at all. All the evidence indicates they're trying to do a thoryough and fair investigation. Not sure where you are getting these ideas from.

They could have directly asked what McKnight knew about complaints against Biedleman when she promoted him. She would have said she couldn't answer and it would be clear she knew and is complicit in protecting him.

Really? I think if they had asked her that it would be clear she wasn't involved so please stop with the wild speculation and try to focus on the actual facts. Sure, I get your rabid about finding fault with MCPS but this is getting a bit crazy.

I love how the rabid pro mcps poster is keeping this thread alive...lol

I hope the rapid pro-MCPS poster is getting paid over time for this PR work on an anonymous message board. Although the posts are doing more harm than good, since seeing sycophants feel compelled to toe the party line like this and deliberately and repeatedly deny facts and evidence, tells you a whole lot about the kind organizational culture that’s festering within MCPS…

You mean like McKnight exhorting all admins at a district meeting to stand and chant “MCPS Proud” whether they wanted to or not? 😵‍💫

How do you know they didn't want it?

Spoke to several people who were present.

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Anonymous wrote:I am enraged and disgusted with MCPS and all our elected officials that are more concerned with limiting liability than they are with keeping students and teachers safe.

I don't get that impression at all. All the evidence indicates they're trying to do a thoryough and fair investigation. Not sure where you are getting these ideas from.

They could have directly asked what McKnight knew about complaints against Biedleman when she promoted him. She would have said she couldn't answer and it would be clear she knew and is complicit in protecting him.

Really? I think if they had asked her that it would be clear she wasn't involved so please stop with the wild speculation and try to focus on the actual facts. Sure, I get your rabid about finding fault with MCPS but this is getting a bit crazy.

I love how the rabid pro mcps poster is keeping this thread alive...lol

I hope the rapid pro-MCPS poster is getting paid over time for this PR work on an anonymous message board. Although the posts are doing more harm than good, since seeing sycophants feel compelled to toe the party line like this and deliberately and repeatedly deny facts and evidence, tells you a whole lot about the kind organizational culture that’s festering within MCPS…

You mean like McKnight exhorting all admins at a district meeting to stand and chant “MCPS Proud” whether they wanted to or not? 😵‍💫

How do you know they didn't want it?

Spoke to several people who were present.

Hearsay, Your Honor!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am enraged and disgusted with MCPS and all our elected officials that are more concerned with limiting liability than they are with keeping students and teachers safe.

I don't get that impression at all. All the evidence indicates they're trying to do a thoryough and fair investigation. Not sure where you are getting these ideas from.

They could have directly asked what McKnight knew about complaints against Biedleman when she promoted him. She would have said she couldn't answer and it would be clear she knew and is complicit in protecting him.

Really? I think if they had asked her that it would be clear she wasn't involved so please stop with the wild speculation and try to focus on the actual facts. Sure, I get your rabid about finding fault with MCPS but this is getting a bit crazy.

I love how the rabid pro mcps poster is keeping this thread alive...lol

I hope the rapid pro-MCPS poster is getting paid over time for this PR work on an anonymous message board. Although the posts are doing more harm than good, since seeing sycophants feel compelled to toe the party line like this and deliberately and repeatedly deny facts and evidence, tells you a whole lot about the kind organizational culture that’s festering within MCPS…

You mean like McKnight exhorting all admins at a district meeting to stand and chant “MCPS Proud” whether they wanted to or not? 😵‍💫

How do you know they didn't want it?

Spoke to several people who were present.

Hearsay, Your Honor!

So much juicy gossip in this thread though!! Sure, a lot of it is probably made up but it's fun reading all these wacky conspiracy theorieis.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am enraged and disgusted with MCPS and all our elected officials that are more concerned with limiting liability than they are with keeping students and teachers safe.

I don't get that impression at all. All the evidence indicates they're trying to do a thoryough and fair investigation. Not sure where you are getting these ideas from.

They could have directly asked what McKnight knew about complaints against Biedleman when she promoted him. She would have said she couldn't answer and it would be clear she knew and is complicit in protecting him.

Really? I think if they had asked her that it would be clear she wasn't involved so please stop with the wild speculation and try to focus on the actual facts. Sure, I get your rabid about finding fault with MCPS but this is getting a bit crazy.

I love how the rabid pro mcps poster is keeping this thread alive...lol

I hope the rapid pro-MCPS poster is getting paid over time for this PR work on an anonymous message board. Although the posts are doing more harm than good, since seeing sycophants feel compelled to toe the party line like this and deliberately and repeatedly deny facts and evidence, tells you a whole lot about the kind organizational culture that’s festering within MCPS…

You mean like McKnight exhorting all admins at a district meeting to stand and chant “MCPS Proud” whether they wanted to or not? 😵‍💫

How do you know they didn't want it?

Spoke to several people who were present.

Hearsay, Your Honor!

So much juicy gossip in this thread though!! Sure, a lot of it is probably made up but it's fun reading all these wacky conspiracy theorieis.

Most of these posts were made by the same 2 bocce obsessed cranks, that start all these anti-mcps threads. Sure, it's unfortunate this went on during the previous administration's tenure but it will also help them avoid similar issues in the future.

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Anonymous wrote:I am enraged and disgusted with MCPS and all our elected officials that are more concerned with limiting liability than they are with keeping students and teachers safe.

I don't get that impression at all. All the evidence indicates they're trying to do a thoryough and fair investigation. Not sure where you are getting these ideas from.

They could have directly asked what McKnight knew about complaints against Biedleman when she promoted him. She would have said she couldn't answer and it would be clear she knew and is complicit in protecting him.

Really? I think if they had asked her that it would be clear she wasn't involved so please stop with the wild speculation and try to focus on the actual facts. Sure, I get your rabid about finding fault with MCPS but this is getting a bit crazy.

I love how the rabid pro mcps poster is keeping this thread alive...lol

I hope the rapid pro-MCPS poster is getting paid over time for this PR work on an anonymous message board. Although the posts are doing more harm than good, since seeing sycophants feel compelled to toe the party line like this and deliberately and repeatedly deny facts and evidence, tells you a whole lot about the kind organizational culture that’s festering within MCPS…

You mean like McKnight exhorting all admins at a district meeting to stand and chant “MCPS Proud” whether they wanted to or not? 😵‍💫

How do you know they didn't want it?

Spoke to several people who were present.

Hearsay, Your Honor!

So much juicy gossip in this thread though!! Sure, a lot of it is probably made up but it's fun reading all these wacky conspiracy theorieis.

Most of these posts were made by the same 2 bocce obsessed cranks, that start all these anti-mcps threads. Sure, it's unfortunate this went on during the previous administration's tenure but it will also help them avoid similar issues in the future.

This would be funny if it weren't so depressing to think about how little will change.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/10/07/khalid-walker-beidleman-mcps-job/

“Still, four former central office employees told The Post that McKnight would have been aware of — and would have had to approve — her district’s recent move of Walker to an O level position with a raise. “There’s no way that McKnight wouldn’t have known, procedurally and especially given what a key figure he is in all this, in the middle of a storm. It couldn’t have slipped through,” the former central office employee said“

The level of stupid and incompetent within MCPS administration and leadership is baffling.

After getting their a**es handed to them by WaPo, the county council and the county exec, you’d think they would start to be a bit more calculating and careful with their moves.

No one in leadership thought or could foresee how promoting Khalid Walker at this moment could present a PR and perception problem as he is a central figure of a serious personnel and HR scandal?

Truly moronic and makes me question McKnight's capabilities even more. I mean, the General Counsel is literally directly under her and I'm baffled that she thought it would look okay to give this guy a promotion and movement into the General Counsel! And why the heck did the actual General Counsel think it was okay too? Are they that clueless?? Of all departments, they should have a huge awareness on how this would look to the public. OMG.

Who cares what this looks like? Nothing will happen to any of them. The IG has no power to compel them to do anything.

I fear this is actually the attitude in the CO. MCPS GC will treat the IG process as adversarial and deny access to key personnel and documents. The CO seems to think this is just like any other scandal with a short shelf life but in this case they’re mistaken. It’s not going away as easily as the others did. This time, you have our attention.

CO dgaf what people are saying on DCUM. They might pay attention to a #MeToo protest, but that does not seem to be happening.

What is interesting is that they are not paying attention to the Washington Post, who are not letting go of this story. So little of what happens in Montgomery County politics gets any serious media attention or scrutiny that it is easy to see how they have adopted this attitude. Most BOE and CMs spend their days on social media desperately trying to get any attention to them. This story has gotten more media attention than any MoCo story has received in my memory in the last decade. And the problem for MCPS and the BOE is that it has gotten the attention of the random, checked out county citizen who is now wondering WTF is going on at MCPS. The CO may not fully understand it yet, but they are in trouble.

But the random county citizen has no direct authority over the CO. Our only role is to vote for the members of the BOE, who are woefully underpaid and underresourced and are therefore just puppets of the Superintendent and her staff.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/10/07/khalid-walker-beidleman-mcps-job/

“Still, four former central office employees told The Post that McKnight would have been aware of — and would have had to approve — her district’s recent move of Walker to an O level position with a raise. “There’s no way that McKnight wouldn’t have known, procedurally and especially given what a key figure he is in all this, in the middle of a storm. It couldn’t have slipped through,” the former central office employee said“

The level of stupid and incompetent within MCPS administration and leadership is baffling.

After getting their a**es handed to them by WaPo, the county council and the county exec, you’d think they would start to be a bit more calculating and careful with their moves.

No one in leadership thought or could foresee how promoting Khalid Walker at this moment could present a PR and perception problem as he is a central figure of a serious personnel and HR scandal?

Truly moronic and makes me question McKnight's capabilities even more. I mean, the General Counsel is literally directly under her and I'm baffled that she thought it would look okay to give this guy a promotion and movement into the General Counsel! And why the heck did the actual General Counsel think it was okay too? Are they that clueless?? Of all departments, they should have a huge awareness on how this would look to the public. OMG.

Who cares what this looks like? Nothing will happen to any of them. The IG has no power to compel them to do anything.

I fear this is actually the attitude in the CO. MCPS GC will treat the IG process as adversarial and deny access to key personnel and documents. The CO seems to think this is just like any other scandal with a short shelf life but in this case they’re mistaken. It’s not going away as easily as the others did. This time, you have our attention.

CO dgaf what people are saying on DCUM. They might pay attention to a #MeToo protest, but that does not seem to be happening.

What is interesting is that they are not paying attention to the Washington Post, who are not letting go of this story. So little of what happens in Montgomery County politics gets any serious media attention or scrutiny that it is easy to see how they have adopted this attitude. Most BOE and CMs spend their days on social media desperately trying to get any attention to them. This story has gotten more media attention than any MoCo story has received in my memory in the last decade. And the problem for MCPS and the BOE is that it has gotten the attention of the random, checked out county citizen who is now wondering WTF is going on at MCPS. The CO may not fully understand it yet, but they are in trouble.

But the random county citizen has no direct authority over the CO. Our only role is to vote for the members of the BOE, who are woefully underpaid and under resourced and are therefore just puppets of the Superintendent and her staff.

Doesn’t matter. Most people hardly know the BOE exists and are putting pressure/asking questions of their CMs. The CMs in turn will be looking to reduce the heat on them by looking to pressure the BOE/MCPS directly or even using MSDE to do so, or both. And to be clear, they will only do so reluctantly and only if the heat stays on. Thankfully the Washington Post has no intention of letting this story go. A lot also depends on what the teachers themselves do. A Title IX lawsuit would probably help significantly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am enraged and disgusted with MCPS and all our elected officials that are more concerned with limiting liability than they are with keeping students and teachers safe.

I don't get that impression at all. All the evidence indicates they're trying to do a thoryough and fair investigation. Not sure where you are getting these ideas from.

They could have directly asked what McKnight knew about complaints against Biedleman when she promoted him. She would have said she couldn't answer and it would be clear she knew and is complicit in protecting him.

Really? I think if they had asked her that it would be clear she wasn't involved so please stop with the wild speculation and try to focus on the actual facts. Sure, I get your rabid about finding fault with MCPS but this is getting a bit crazy.

I love how the rabid pro mcps poster is keeping this thread alive...lol

I hope the rapid pro-MCPS poster is getting paid over time for this PR work on an anonymous message board. Although the posts are doing more harm than good, since seeing sycophants feel compelled to toe the party line like this and deliberately and repeatedly deny facts and evidence, tells you a whole lot about the kind organizational culture that’s festering within MCPS…

You mean like McKnight exhorting all admins at a district meeting to stand and chant “MCPS Proud” whether they wanted to or not? 😵‍💫

How do you know they didn't want it?

Spoke to several people who were present.

Hearsay, Your Honor!

So much juicy gossip in this thread though!! Sure, a lot of it is probably made up but it's fun reading all these wacky conspiracy theorieis.

Most of these posts were made by the same 2 bocce obsessed cranks, that start all these anti-mcps threads. Sure, it's unfortunate this went on during the previous administration's tenure but it will also help them avoid similar issues in the future.

Previous admin? McKnight resigned already!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am enraged and disgusted with MCPS and all our elected officials that are more concerned with limiting liability than they are with keeping students and teachers safe.

I don't get that impression at all. All the evidence indicates they're trying to do a thoryough and fair investigation. Not sure where you are getting these ideas from.

They could have directly asked what McKnight knew about complaints against Biedleman when she promoted him. She would have said she couldn't answer and it would be clear she knew and is complicit in protecting him.

Really? I think if they had asked her that it would be clear she wasn't involved so please stop with the wild speculation and try to focus on the actual facts. Sure, I get your rabid about finding fault with MCPS but this is getting a bit crazy.

I love how the rabid pro mcps poster is keeping this thread alive...lol

I hope the rapid pro-MCPS poster is getting paid over time for this PR work on an anonymous message board. Although the posts are doing more harm than good, since seeing sycophants feel compelled to toe the party line like this and deliberately and repeatedly deny facts and evidence, tells you a whole lot about the kind organizational culture that’s festering within MCPS…

You mean like McKnight exhorting all admins at a district meeting to stand and chant “MCPS Proud” whether they wanted to or not? 😵‍💫

How do you know they didn't want it?

Spoke to several people who were present.

Hearsay, Your Honor!

So much juicy gossip in this thread though!! Sure, a lot of it is probably made up but it's fun reading all these wacky conspiracy theorieis.

Most of these posts were made by the same 2 bocce obsessed cranks, that start all these anti-mcps threads. Sure, it's unfortunate this went on during the previous administration's tenure but it will also help them avoid similar issues in the future.

Previous admin? McKnight resigned already!

No, these incidents happened before she was super. I get that facts are often inconvenient for your anti-MCPS crusade.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/10/07/khalid-walker-beidleman-mcps-job/

“Still, four former central office employees told The Post that McKnight would have been aware of — and would have had to approve — her district’s recent move of Walker to an O level position with a raise. “There’s no way that McKnight wouldn’t have known, procedurally and especially given what a key figure he is in all this, in the middle of a storm. It couldn’t have slipped through,” the former central office employee said“

The level of stupid and incompetent within MCPS administration and leadership is baffling.

After getting their a**es handed to them by WaPo, the county council and the county exec, you’d think they would start to be a bit more calculating and careful with their moves.

No one in leadership thought or could foresee how promoting Khalid Walker at this moment could present a PR and perception problem as he is a central figure of a serious personnel and HR scandal?

Truly moronic and makes me question McKnight's capabilities even more. I mean, the General Counsel is literally directly under her and I'm baffled that she thought it would look okay to give this guy a promotion and movement into the General Counsel! And why the heck did the actual General Counsel think it was okay too? Are they that clueless?? Of all departments, they should have a huge awareness on how this would look to the public. OMG.

Who cares what this looks like? Nothing will happen to any of them. The IG has no power to compel them to do anything.

I fear this is actually the attitude in the CO. MCPS GC will treat the IG process as adversarial and deny access to key personnel and documents. The CO seems to think this is just like any other scandal with a short shelf life but in this case they’re mistaken. It’s not going away as easily as the others did. This time, you have our attention.

CO dgaf what people are saying on DCUM. They might pay attention to a #MeToo protest, but that does not seem to be happening.

What is interesting is that they are not paying attention to the Washington Post, who are not letting go of this story. So little of what happens in Montgomery County politics gets any serious media attention or scrutiny that it is easy to see how they have adopted this attitude. Most BOE and CMs spend their days on social media desperately trying to get any attention to them. This story has gotten more media attention than any MoCo story has received in my memory in the last decade. And the problem for MCPS and the BOE is that it has gotten the attention of the random, checked out county citizen who is now wondering WTF is going on at MCPS. The CO may not fully understand it yet, but they are in trouble.

But the random county citizen has no direct authority over the CO. Our only role is to vote for the members of the BOE, who are woefully underpaid and under resourced and are therefore just puppets of the Superintendent and her staff.

Doesn’t matter. Most people hardly know the BOE exists and are putting pressure/asking questions of their CMs. The CMs in turn will be looking to reduce the heat on them by looking to pressure the BOE/MCPS directly or even using MSDE to do so, or both. And to be clear, they will only do so reluctantly and only if the heat stays on. Thankfully the Washington Post has no intention of letting this story go. A lot also depends on what the teachers themselves do. A Title IX lawsuit would probably help significantly.

From what I have seen those Title IX investigations are SLOW.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am enraged and disgusted with MCPS and all our elected officials that are more concerned with limiting liability than they are with keeping students and teachers safe.

I don't get that impression at all. All the evidence indicates they're trying to do a thoryough and fair investigation. Not sure where you are getting these ideas from.

They could have directly asked what McKnight knew about complaints against Biedleman when she promoted him. She would have said she couldn't answer and it would be clear she knew and is complicit in protecting him.

Really? I think if they had asked her that it would be clear she wasn't involved so please stop with the wild speculation and try to focus on the actual facts. Sure, I get your rabid about finding fault with MCPS but this is getting a bit crazy.

I love how the rabid pro mcps poster is keeping this thread alive...lol

I hope the rapid pro-MCPS poster is getting paid over time for this PR work on an anonymous message board. Although the posts are doing more harm than good, since seeing sycophants feel compelled to toe the party line like this and deliberately and repeatedly deny facts and evidence, tells you a whole lot about the kind organizational culture that’s festering within MCPS…

You mean like McKnight exhorting all admins at a district meeting to stand and chant “MCPS Proud” whether they wanted to or not? 😵‍💫

How do you know they didn't want it?

Spoke to several people who were present.

Hearsay, Your Honor!

So much juicy gossip in this thread though!! Sure, a lot of it is probably made up but it's fun reading all these wacky conspiracy theorieis.

Most of these posts were made by the same 2 bocce obsessed cranks, that start all these anti-mcps threads. Sure, it's unfortunate this went on during the previous administration's tenure but it will also help them avoid similar issues in the future.

Previous admin? McKnight resigned already!

No, these incidents happened before she was super. I get that facts are often inconvenient for your anti-MCPS crusade.

The “incident” of Beidleman being promoted happened during McKnight’s time. That is all on her.
But if she is gone now then we can all move on.