Board wants Monifa to step down

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Anonymous wrote:I think her career is over. What school system will want to hire someone who brought down all kinds of unwanted attention, never mind legal issues? She's too much of a hot potato, right now.

She’s also proven that she won’t quietly resign, so no one in their right mind should give her more than a one-year contract.

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Anonymous wrote:The Moco 360 article is alarming on a number of fronts. We have a school district that is at least $50 million in the red this fiscal year (maybe more, probably) and a superintendent focused on negotiating her separation agreement with the BOE. Many leaders appointed by the superintendent are problematic, per the article.

Who does the board appoint as interim superintendent when the time comes?

Honestly, this is the biggest conundrum we face. Brian Hull, who was named acting sup when Monifa was out on sick leave is not a good option, since he's at the heart of many of the scandals rocking MCPS including:

- Massive safety and security failures
- The Khalid Walker retaliation and meddling
- The budget deficits

And now, Stephanie Sheron has been implicated as being a McKnight acolyte so she's tainted too. I don't know who's up next. The bench is nonexistent.

You need new leadership to build up the bench. McKnight will just continue to hire her buddies.

What if the board brought back Scott Joftus for an interim super appointment? He actually has expertise in this field. (Yes, I know the Kid Museum-haters will not go for this idea.)

+1M; would love it if Joftus were appointed for this role & know he cares deeply about the district. Would be a great play.

This. And bring in some good principals who left this year to help him. I would love to see Dr. Cohen who left Seneca Valley a few months ago to help out.

The same Joftus who was on the board of ed previously? I thought he lost his election by 70 points. Why would the BOE have confidence that he’s the right person for the job when he had such a low level of confidence from the public? They picked him once to fill a vacancy and he did such a poor job that voters threw him out. You think they’d run it back with him and pick him again for another position?

For one thing, interim superintendent is an entirely different job than board of education member. His expertise is in working with school systems and their staffs, not with constituent services.

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Anonymous wrote:Her career as a superintendent, anywhere, though, I think is over. Sure, you have convicted supers who have moved on, and still work in the industry in other positions, but not usually in a supervisory role.

LOL
Ever heard of Joshua Starr?
Left Stamford in the middle of a sexual abuse scandal he covered up and moved right on to MCPS where the BOE was happy to have a superintendent who covered up sexual abuse.

https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Former-Stamford-superintendent-was-told-about-5918443.php

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Anonymous wrote:Ever heard of Joshua Starr? Left Stamford in the middle of a sexual abuse scandal he covered up and moved right on to MCPS where the BOE was happy to have a superintendent who covered up sexual abuse.

You’re right, sorry, I had totally forgotten about that, though I’ll point out that he moved from a smaller district to a larger district, and he hasn’t been put in charge of another one since then. Though it is interesting that he may have gotten in trouble in MCPS for his poor handling of sexual-abuse incidents on school grounds. Déjà vu!

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Ugh sickening

You mess up, you get rewarded

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Does a resignation mean no release of the unredacted report and testifying under oath at the meeting the Council had scheduled for next Thursday? Y'all cant find out who else was partying with McKnight and her sorority.

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Settlement of FEW YeARS? What?

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Publics are trash.

Private or homeschool for normal people.

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Anonymous wrote:Does a resignation mean no release of the unredacted report and testifying under oath at the meeting the Council had scheduled for next Thursday? Y'all cant find out who else was partying with McKnight and her sorority.

That’s mostly the point.

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Anonymous wrote:They definitely got what was coming to them. Dana Edwards, then Dana Davison was a well known bully when she was principal at Martin Luther King MS. She bullied her teachers constantly. She completely ignored ADA accommodations and would retaliate against them by placing them on PAR. Several complaints were made with the union and the county. What did the county do instead of firing her? They keep on promoting her...That's why she thought she could get away with the Beidleman mess, her best friend! Pathetic!

I was puzzled why she was appointed to chief. She has no operational background and had never been a Director in any of the Divisions

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Council should remove the BOE or they are complicit

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Anonymous wrote:They definitely got what was coming to them. Dana Edwards, then Dana Davison was a well known bully when she was principal at Martin Luther King MS. She bullied her teachers constantly. She completely ignored ADA accommodations and would retaliate against them by placing them on PAR. Several complaints were made with the union and the county. What did the county do instead of firing her? They keep on promoting her...That's why she thought she could get away with the Beidleman mess, her best friend! Pathetic!

I was puzzled why she was appointed to chief. She has no operational background and had never been a Director in any of the Divisions

She had been director of certification and staffing in HR from 2016-21.

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Anonymous wrote:The Moco 360 article is alarming on a number of fronts. We have a school district that is at least $50 million in the red this fiscal year (maybe more, probably) and a superintendent focused on negotiating her separation agreement with the BOE. Many leaders appointed by the superintendent are problematic, per the article.

Who does the board appoint as interim superintendent when the time comes?

Honestly, this is the biggest conundrum we face. Brian Hull, who was named acting sup when Monifa was out on sick leave is not a good option, since he's at the heart of many of the scandals rocking MCPS including:

- Massive safety and security failures
- The Khalid Walker retaliation and meddling
- The budget deficits

And now, Stephanie Sheron has been implicated as being a McKnight acolyte so she's tainted too. I don't know who's up next. The bench is nonexistent.

You need new leadership to build up the bench. McKnight will just continue to hire her buddies.

What if the board brought back Scott Joftus for an interim super appointment? He actually has expertise in this field. (Yes, I know the Kid Museum-haters will not go for this idea.)

+1M; would love it if Joftus were appointed for this role & know he cares deeply about the district. Would be a great play.

This. And bring in some good principals who left this year to help him. I would love to see Dr. Cohen who left Seneca Valley a few months ago to help out.

The same Joftus who was on the board of ed previously? I thought he lost his election by 70 points. Why would the BOE have confidence that he’s the right person for the job when he had such a low level of confidence from the public? They picked him once to fill a vacancy and he did such a poor job that voters threw him out. You think they’d run it back with him and pick him again for another position?

For one thing, interim superintendent is an entirely different job than board of education member. His expertise is in working with school systems and their staffs, not with constituent services.

Constituent services? He wasn’t serving as mayor or congressman where he needed to make sure constituents got their passports in time or a tour of the capitol. His job was literally to “work with the school system and its staff” in a way that helped the school system. And he failed miserably at it. He barely got more votes than the guy who filed to run in district 1 and then never answered a single voter questionnaire, never campaigned, and never responded to media inquiries. You have to be pretty bad at your job as an incumbent to not only lose your election but to barely get more votes than a ghost. Stop trying to make Scott Joftus for interim super happen. The BOE gave him a shot when they picked him to fill a vacancy last time and he failed. Miserably.

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Anonymous wrote:Council should remove the BOE or they are complicit

They said they won't. Look at the list of BOe candidates up this year. One has been on the board over a decade. Need more candidates to run in the next BOE election for voters to vote out someone.