MOCO BOE update: Beidleman Report summary

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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.

True but why let facts stand in the way of a good narrative?

A fact is something true. The statement "these incidents happened before she was super" is a bald-faced lie.

That they keep repeating, despite multiple corrections.

I know people keep repeating the lies. Everyone knows she wasn't super when this all went down. They just want to find fault with McKngith regardless of the facts.

Alright, come clean now. Which corrupt person are you? Marc Elrich? Sidney Katz? Someone from from MCPS CO?

I don't Marc Elrich is invested in covering for Monifa. This has to be a flack in CO.

Absolutely. No one has the time and energy to troll this hard unless they are being paid to do so.

I think you underestimate trolls.

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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.

True but why let facts stand in the way of a good narrative?

A fact is something true. The statement "these incidents happened before she was super" is a bald-faced lie.

That they keep repeating, despite multiple corrections.

I know people keep repeating the lies. Everyone knows she wasn't super when this all went down. They just want to find fault with McKngith regardless of the facts.

Alright, come clean now. Which corrupt person are you? Marc Elrich? Sidney Katz? Someone from from MCPS CO?

I don't Marc Elrich is invested in covering for Monifa. This has to be a flack in CO.

Absolutely. No one has the time and energy to troll this hard unless they are being paid to do so.

I think you underestimate trolls.

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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.

True but why let facts stand in the way of a good narrative?

A fact is something true. The statement "these incidents happened before she was super" is a bald-faced lie.

That they keep repeating, despite multiple corrections.

I know people keep repeating the lies. Everyone knows she wasn't super when this all went down. They just want to find fault with McKngith regardless of the facts.

This isn’t even smart trolling because MCPS itself has admitted that the promotion went down while McKnight was super. It seems like your only play is to confuse.

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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.

True but why let facts stand in the way of a good narrative?

A fact is something true. The statement "these incidents happened before she was super" is a bald-faced lie.

That they keep repeating, despite multiple corrections.

I know people keep repeating the lies. Everyone knows she wasn't super when this all went down. They just want to find fault with McKngith regardless of the facts.

This isn’t even smart trolling because MCPS itself has admitted that the promotion went down while McKnight was super. It seems like your only play is to confuse.

You're moving the goal posts. Last week you were blaming McKnight for these incidents that went on before her tenure. Now that someone has called you on it you just focus on the promotion. Got it.

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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.

True but why let facts stand in the way of a good narrative?

A fact is something true. The statement "these incidents happened before she was super" is a bald-faced lie.

That they keep repeating, despite multiple corrections.

I know people keep repeating the lies. Everyone knows she wasn't super when this all went down. They just want to find fault with McKngith regardless of the facts.

This isn’t even smart trolling because MCPS itself has admitted that the promotion went down while McKnight was super. It seems like your only play is to confuse.

You're moving the goal posts. Last week you were blaming McKnight for these incidents that went on before her tenure. Now that someone has called you on it you just focus on the promotion. Got it.

New poster. They know it happened on her watch and are trolling you. If I wasn't convinced before I am now that it's a troll.

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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.

True but why let facts stand in the way of a good narrative?

A fact is something true. The statement "these incidents happened before she was super" is a bald-faced lie.

That they keep repeating, despite multiple corrections.

I know people keep repeating the lies. Everyone knows she wasn't super when this all went down. They just want to find fault with McKngith regardless of the facts.

This isn’t even smart trolling because MCPS itself has admitted that the promotion went down while McKnight was super. It seems like your only play is to confuse.

You're moving the goal posts. Last week you were blaming McKnight for these incidents that went on before her tenure. Now that someone has called you on it you just focus on the promotion. Got it.

You skipped the very specific timeline that addresses that McKnight was involved as deputy superintendent, acting superintendent and superintendent.

You are a flying monkey from the Wizard of Oz.

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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.

True but why let facts stand in the way of a good narrative?

A fact is something true. The statement "these incidents happened before she was super" is a bald-faced lie.

That they keep repeating, despite multiple corrections.

I know people keep repeating the lies. Everyone knows she wasn't super when this all went down. They just want to find fault with McKngith regardless of the facts.

This isn’t even smart trolling because MCPS itself has admitted that the promotion went down while McKnight was super. It seems like your only play is to confuse.

You're moving the goal posts. Last week you were blaming McKnight for these incidents that went on before her tenure. Now that someone has called you on it you just focus on the promotion. Got it.

I’m not sure that you even understand what you’re arguing about anymore.

Bidelman’s promotion is the scandal. Everyone is focused on it because he was promoted despite having all of these allegations having over his head. McKnight’s defense is that she didn’t know.

It’s not a very complicated story so I’m surprised you have a hard time keeping up.

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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.

True but why let facts stand in the way of a good narrative?

A fact is something true. The statement "these incidents happened before she was super" is a bald-faced lie.

That they keep repeating, despite multiple corrections.

I know people keep repeating the lies. Everyone knows she wasn't super when this all went down. They just want to find fault with McKngith regardless of the facts.

This isn’t even smart trolling because MCPS itself has admitted that the promotion went down while McKnight was super. It seems like your only play is to confuse.

You're moving the goal posts. Last week you were blaming McKnight for these incidents that went on before her tenure. Now that someone has called you on it you just focus on the promotion. Got it.

Like others, I think you were trolling at this point, but if anyone is reading this thread and is confused, it's worth pointing out that while some of the abuse predates Dr. McKnight's tenure, the actual reporting of the abuse happened while she was superintendent.

The scandal isn't just that harassment happened, it's that it happened, was reported, and nothing came of it.

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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.

True but why let facts stand in the way of a good narrative?

A fact is something true. The statement "these incidents happened before she was super" is a bald-faced lie.

That they keep repeating, despite multiple corrections.

I know people keep repeating the lies. Everyone knows she wasn't super when this all went down. They just want to find fault with McKngith regardless of the facts.

This isn’t even smart trolling because MCPS itself has admitted that the promotion went down while McKnight was super. It seems like your only play is to confuse.

You're moving the goal posts. Last week you were blaming McKnight for these incidents that went on before her tenure. Now that someone has called you on it you just focus on the promotion. Got it.

Like others, I think you were trolling at this point, but if anyone is reading this thread and is confused, it's worth pointing out that while some of the abuse predates Dr. McKnight's tenure, the actual reporting of the abuse happened while she was superintendent.

The scandal isn't just that harassment happened, it's that it happened, was reported, and nothing came of it.

But something did come out of the harassment being reported to MCPS. They promoted the harasser!

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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.

Worth filing though if incident occurred within the last 180 days. It’s a simple and free process. Directions are on the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights website.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, MCPS’s spokesperson confirmed that Walker was moved into a role with a higher salary. Then he was moved into another role and back to his original salary. Also confirmed.

Perhaps there is a completely logical and legitimate reason to do so that is so unfortunately unable to be shared due to personnel policies….but I’ve honestly been trying to come up with one that makes any sense.

I thought this was explained in the Post article. They moved both Simmons and Walker out of Compliance and Investigations while the IG investigation is hapoening. A former assistant general counsel was tapped to oversee Compliance and Investigations in the interim. This left a vacancy in the general counsel office. Walker has a law degree so they moved him to the general counsel office to fill that vacancy, temporarily.

The law degree isn’t new. Why wasn’t he in a legal position years ago instead of an investgator?

Lots of people have law degrees but work in other capacities.

Did the complainants know that he has a law degree when he met with him? I would think that it’s a lack of ethics to not disclose the degree so complainants can make arrangements to be equally represented with their attorneys present. Special Education also has a habit of bringing in staff to meetings without notice of their position or their law degree.

The ability to jump to an from the General Counsel’s Office demonstrates how the whole system is stacked to defend MCPS and deny problems instead of working with complainants to fix the toxic problems in schools.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, MCPS’s spokesperson confirmed that Walker was moved into a role with a higher salary. Then he was moved into another role and back to his original salary. Also confirmed.

Perhaps there is a completely logical and legitimate reason to do so that is so unfortunately unable to be shared due to personnel policies….but I’ve honestly been trying to come up with one that makes any sense.

I thought this was explained in the Post article. They moved both Simmons and Walker out of Compliance and Investigations while the IG investigation is hapoening. A former assistant general counsel was tapped to oversee Compliance and Investigations in the interim. This left a vacancy in the general counsel office. Walker has a law degree so they moved him to the general counsel office to fill that vacancy, temporarily.

The law degree isn’t new. Why wasn’t he in a legal position years ago instead of an investgator?

Lots of people have law degrees but work in other capacities.

Did the complainants know that he has a law degree when he met with him? I would think that it’s a lack of ethics to not disclose the degree so complainants can make arrangements to be equally represented with their attorneys present. Special Education also has a habit of bringing in staff to meetings without notice of their position or their law degree.

The ability to jump to an from the General Counsel’s Office demonstrates how the whole system is stacked to defend MCPS and deny problems instead of working with complainants to fix the toxic problems in schools.

It’s a culture problem at all levels of administration to deny problems exist and move problematic employees around, often with promotions. Every principal, Director, Associate Superintendent, etc. on up works on a platform to deflect and say that the harassment and bullying did not occur. The result is that bullies and harassers have carte blanches to behave badly.

MCPS is in a rock and a hard place if the people who ignored the complaints were just following orders.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, MCPS’s spokesperson confirmed that Walker was moved into a role with a higher salary. Then he was moved into another role and back to his original salary. Also confirmed.

Perhaps there is a completely logical and legitimate reason to do so that is so unfortunately unable to be shared due to personnel policies….but I’ve honestly been trying to come up with one that makes any sense.

I thought this was explained in the Post article. They moved both Simmons and Walker out of Compliance and Investigations while the IG investigation is hapoening. A former assistant general counsel was tapped to oversee Compliance and Investigations in the interim. This left a vacancy in the general counsel office. Walker has a law degree so they moved him to the general counsel office to fill that vacancy, temporarily.

The law degree isn’t new. Why wasn’t he in a legal position years ago instead of an investgator?

Lots of people have law degrees but work in other capacities.

Did the complainants know that he has a law degree when he met with him? I would think that it’s a lack of ethics to not disclose the degree so complainants can make arrangements to be equally represented with their attorneys present. Special Education also has a habit of bringing in staff to meetings without notice of their position or their law degree.

The ability to jump to an from the General Counsel’s Office demonstrates how the whole system is stacked to defend MCPS and deny problems instead of working with complainants to fix the toxic problems in schools.

It’s a culture problem at all levels of administration to deny problems exist and move problematic employees around, often with promotions. Every principal, Director, Associate Superintendent, etc. on up works on a platform to deflect and say that the harassment and bullying did not occur. The result is that bullies and harassers have carte blanches to behave badly.

MCPS is in a rock and a hard place if the people who ignored the complaints were just following orders.

Addressing the culture problem should have been the superintendent’s highest priority. Strong leaders don’t allow their organizations to behave this way. This kind of behavior is widespread, and the BOE and leaders have circled the wagons tightly to prevent it from being exposed.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, MCPS’s spokesperson confirmed that Walker was moved into a role with a higher salary. Then he was moved into another role and back to his original salary. Also confirmed.

Perhaps there is a completely logical and legitimate reason to do so that is so unfortunately unable to be shared due to personnel policies….but I’ve honestly been trying to come up with one that makes any sense.

I thought this was explained in the Post article. They moved both Simmons and Walker out of Compliance and Investigations while the IG investigation is hapoening. A former assistant general counsel was tapped to oversee Compliance and Investigations in the interim. This left a vacancy in the general counsel office. Walker has a law degree so they moved him to the general counsel office to fill that vacancy, temporarily.

The law degree isn’t new. Why wasn’t he in a legal position years ago instead of an investgator?

Lots of people have law degrees but work in other capacities.

Did the complainants know that he has a law degree when he met with him? I would think that it’s a lack of ethics to not disclose the degree so complainants can make arrangements to be equally represented with their attorneys present. Special Education also has a habit of bringing in staff to meetings without notice of their position or their law degree.

The ability to jump to an from the General Counsel’s Office demonstrates how the whole system is stacked to defend MCPS and deny problems instead of working with complainants to fix the toxic problems in schools.

It’s a culture problem at all levels of administration to deny problems exist and move problematic employees around, often with promotions. Every principal, Director, Associate Superintendent, etc. on up works on a platform to deflect and say that the harassment and bullying did not occur. The result is that bullies and harassers have carte blanches to behave badly.

MCPS is in a rock and a hard place if the people who ignored the complaints were just following orders.

But they aren't denying it occurred. They're claiming they didn't know about the many complaints, which strains credulity.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, MCPS’s spokesperson confirmed that Walker was moved into a role with a higher salary. Then he was moved into another role and back to his original salary. Also confirmed.

Perhaps there is a completely logical and legitimate reason to do so that is so unfortunately unable to be shared due to personnel policies….but I’ve honestly been trying to come up with one that makes any sense.

I thought this was explained in the Post article. They moved both Simmons and Walker out of Compliance and Investigations while the IG investigation is hapoening. A former assistant general counsel was tapped to oversee Compliance and Investigations in the interim. This left a vacancy in the general counsel office. Walker has a law degree so they moved him to the general counsel office to fill that vacancy, temporarily.

The law degree isn’t new. Why wasn’t he in a legal position years ago instead of an investgator?

Lots of people have law degrees but work in other capacities.

Did the complainants know that he has a law degree when he met with him? I would think that it’s a lack of ethics to not disclose the degree so complainants can make arrangements to be equally represented with their attorneys present. Special Education also has a habit of bringing in staff to meetings without notice of their position or their law degree.

The ability to jump to an from the General Counsel’s Office demonstrates how the whole system is stacked to defend MCPS and deny problems instead of working with complainants to fix the toxic problems in schools.

It’s a culture problem at all levels of administration to deny problems exist and move problematic employees around, often with promotions. Every principal, Director, Associate Superintendent, etc. on up works on a platform to deflect and say that the harassment and bullying did not occur. The result is that bullies and harassers have carte blanches to behave badly.

MCPS is in a rock and a hard place if the people who ignored the complaints were just following orders.

Addressing the culture problem should have been the superintendent’s highest priority. Strong leaders don’t allow their organizations to behave this way. This kind of behavior is widespread, and the BOE and leaders have circled the wagons tightly to prevent it from being exposed.

It’s my belief, given the administrative positions Dr. McKnight has had in MCPS, she knew this was the culture and as Superintendent, she kept the status quo.

Denying sexual harassment and bullying worked for MCPS for years. Looking at the Biedleman case, complaints were made for six years. MCPS never thought that the teachers would unite their cases and collectively go to the Washington Post. MCPS keeps each case separate and state in letters of findings that no sexual harassment or bullying occurred. Staff remain in their positions and victims are retaliated.

How do you fix the culture? It’s so rampant that a complete overhaul will be needed. This would include the General Counsel’s Office who has advised MCPS to deny sexual harassment and bullying was occurring.