MOCO BOE update: Beidleman Report summary

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just think what it took for MCPS to ignore 18 complaints of sexual harassment and bullying with the same perpetrator for a six year period. It’s an organization from the top down designed to ignore complaints. There has to be other situations that were reported via formal complaints, written complaints but considered informal because it wasn’t on the correct form, and anonymous complaints that were ignored.

I know! It's hard to believe the previous super ignored these.

Once again, while the actual abuse spanned multiple superintendents, the behavior accelerated when Dr. McKnight came into power and the actual complaints were filed under her watch. So the matter under discussion - whether MCPS ignored sexual harassment and abuse when it was reported - all happened while Dr. McKnight was in charge.

Another poster said they were ignored because they were filed anonymously or done using the wrong forms. I can understand it if people never filed these reports correctly that there was a systemic failure.

Reports were made to Maryland's Safe Schools tip line. That wasn't a case of the wrong form being used. That was MCPS ignoring information it was being provided.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:McKnight isn’t to blame. It is those under her. They cover for each other. It is a you wash my back and I will wash yours organization. It’s a big frat of people who aren’t going to tell on their frat brother. It’s the thinking that one day he may be in a leadership position and they may need him to do them a favor. Mcknight would not cover for someone like him directly. You think she has time to focus on a principal of one of the smallest middle schools in the county? Stop focusing on her and focus on her direct reports that failed to tell her and Starr. Such as Diane Morris and Elizabeth Thomas whom are both known to be sexually explicit in the work place. They laugh at disgusting humor. It is mcps culture.

SHE needs to focus on her direct reports that failed her. Not us. SHE is the head of the school district.

If people under her failed to do their jobs and withheld information from her, she should fire them and say as much.

Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

(Neither Thomas nor Morris is a direct report to McKnight.)

[Anonymous]

For PP who wants to know why Beidleman is not constantly cited: because the complaints are finally being investigated. Speaking for myself, I want him out, but believe in due process. What I want now is for MCPS to be held accountable. McKnight signed up for leadership of MCPS and a lot of this happened under her watch. I want transparency from the top to better understand who covered for Beidelman, why, and how we can stop this type of situation from happening in the future. Which likely means additional MCPS staff need to be fired. So! McKnight needs to step up, examine what went wrong, and explain to us all why as the leader of this district she is not responsible for this mind-blowing situation that happened under her watch. I'm cool with her having due process but seems like nothing yet indicates that she's even having to explain herself. Let's get that process started. Not a PR campaign CYA spin deluge for the district.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just think what it took for MCPS to ignore 18 complaints of sexual harassment and bullying with the same perpetrator for a six year period. It’s an organization from the top down designed to ignore complaints. There has to be other situations that were reported via formal complaints, written complaints but considered informal because it wasn’t on the correct form, and anonymous complaints that were ignored.

I know! It's hard to believe the previous super ignored these.

The previous super was Jack Smith. Monifa was his deputy and she was his handpicked successor.

You think he knew about it and did nothing and she didn’t know even though she was his deputy? Your spin just puts more emphasis on how Monifa failed in multiple leadership roles in MCPS.

So she wasn't involved. I get it already. Either focus on Biedleman or move on. This thread isn't about your obsession with McKngiht.

As deputy superintendent, Monifa most definitely would have been involved.

Furthermore, many of the complaints were filed when she was acting supe or supe, so again, I don't know why you keep towing this line that this all happened before her tenure. It didn't. The timeline has been posted for you multiple times.

Anyone referring to Dr. McKnight as "Monifa" isn't unbiased or objective on this or any matter. Seems like they have a real axe to grind with her and MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:McKnight isn’t to blame. It is those under her. They cover for each other. It is a you wash my back and I will wash yours organization. It’s a big frat of people who aren’t going to tell on their frat brother. It’s the thinking that one day he may be in a leadership position and they may need him to do them a favor. Mcknight would not cover for someone like him directly. You think she has time to focus on a principal of one of the smallest middle schools in the county? Stop focusing on her and focus on her direct reports that failed to tell her and Starr. Such as Diane Morris and Elizabeth Thomas whom are both known to be sexually explicit in the work place. They laugh at disgusting humor. It is mcps culture.

She came up through this system so your statement is a pretty big indictment of her. She knew the culture was broken and did nothing to fix it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McKnight isn’t to blame. It is those under her. They cover for each other. It is a you wash my back and I will wash yours organization. It’s a big frat of people who aren’t going to tell on their frat brother. It’s the thinking that one day he may be in a leadership position and they may need him to do them a favor. Mcknight would not cover for someone like him directly. You think she has time to focus on a principal of one of the smallest middle schools in the county? Stop focusing on her and focus on her direct reports that failed to tell her and Starr. Such as Diane Morris and Elizabeth Thomas whom are both known to be sexually explicit in the work place. They laugh at disgusting humor. It is mcps culture.

She came up through this system so your statement is a pretty big indictment of her. She knew the culture was broken and did nothing to fix it.

She knew nothing of the sort. This whole incident is a surprise to most of us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McKnight isn’t to blame. It is those under her. They cover for each other. It is a you wash my back and I will wash yours organization. It’s a big frat of people who aren’t going to tell on their frat brother. It’s the thinking that one day he may be in a leadership position and they may need him to do them a favor. Mcknight would not cover for someone like him directly. You think she has time to focus on a principal of one of the smallest middle schools in the county? Stop focusing on her and focus on her direct reports that failed to tell her and Starr. Such as Diane Morris and Elizabeth Thomas whom are both known to be sexually explicit in the work place. They laugh at disgusting humor. It is mcps culture.

She came up through this system so your statement is a pretty big indictment of her. She knew the culture was broken and did nothing to fix it.

She knew nothing of the sort. This whole incident is a surprise to most of us.

Beidleman’s behavior was well known throughout the system, including by his supervisors such as Thomas and Morris and higher ups like McKnight, who was at the same position level when much of it was occurring…there a very few secrets in CO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just think what it took for MCPS to ignore 18 complaints of sexual harassment and bullying with the same perpetrator for a six year period. It’s an organization from the top down designed to ignore complaints. There has to be other situations that were reported via formal complaints, written complaints but considered informal because it wasn’t on the correct form, and anonymous complaints that were ignored.

I know! It's hard to believe the previous super ignored these.

The previous super was Jack Smith. Monifa was his deputy and she was his handpicked successor.

You think he knew about it and did nothing and she didn’t know even though she was his deputy? Your spin just puts more emphasis on how Monifa failed in multiple leadership roles in MCPS.

So she wasn't involved. I get it already. Either focus on Biedleman or move on. This thread isn't about your obsession with McKngiht.

As deputy superintendent, Monifa most definitely would have been involved.

Furthermore, many of the complaints were filed when she was acting supe or supe, so again, I don't know why you keep towing this line that this all happened before her tenure. It didn't. The timeline has been posted for you multiple times.

Anyone referring to Dr. McKnight as "Monifa" isn't unbiased or objective on this or any matter. Seems like they have a real axe to grind with her and MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McKnight isn’t to blame. It is those under her. They cover for each other. It is a you wash my back and I will wash yours organization. It’s a big frat of people who aren’t going to tell on their frat brother. It’s the thinking that one day he may be in a leadership position and they may need him to do them a favor. Mcknight would not cover for someone like him directly. You think she has time to focus on a principal of one of the smallest middle schools in the county? Stop focusing on her and focus on her direct reports that failed to tell her and Starr. Such as Diane Morris and Elizabeth Thomas whom are both known to be sexually explicit in the work place. They laugh at disgusting humor. It is mcps culture.

She came up through this system so your statement is a pretty big indictment of her. She knew the culture was broken and did nothing to fix it.

She knew nothing of the sort. This whole incident is a surprise to most of us.

This is a surprise to literally nobody in central office that is a director or above. Oh except maybe the awful communications team that McKnight hired including a new $200K+ assistant chief of communications who can hardly put two thoughts together to make a sentence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McKnight isn’t to blame. It is those under her. They cover for each other. It is a you wash my back and I will wash yours organization. It’s a big frat of people who aren’t going to tell on their frat brother. It’s the thinking that one day he may be in a leadership position and they may need him to do them a favor. Mcknight would not cover for someone like him directly. You think she has time to focus on a principal of one of the smallest middle schools in the county? Stop focusing on her and focus on her direct reports that failed to tell her and Starr. Such as Diane Morris and Elizabeth Thomas whom are both known to be sexually explicit in the work place. They laugh at disgusting humor. It is mcps culture.

She came up through this system so your statement is a pretty big indictment of her. She knew the culture was broken and did nothing to fix it.

She knew nothing of the sort. This whole incident is a surprise to most of us.

She pretty much admitted she knew of the complaints when she very carefully said she didn't know there was an open investigation against him at the time of his promotion. She could have said she didn't know of any of the complaints, but she would have been lying and I'm guessing the lawyers she hired using taxpayer dollars advised her against this.

[Anonymous]

Not to mention, Biedleman was a demonstrably poor performer based on the school climate survey results. The notion that McKnight could not have known there were issues is absurd. If that is her argument, it speaks to negligence on her part.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McKnight isn’t to blame. It is those under her. They cover for each other. It is a you wash my back and I will wash yours organization. It’s a big frat of people who aren’t going to tell on their frat brother. It’s the thinking that one day he may be in a leadership position and they may need him to do them a favor. Mcknight would not cover for someone like him directly. You think she has time to focus on a principal of one of the smallest middle schools in the county? Stop focusing on her and focus on her direct reports that failed to tell her and Starr. Such as Diane Morris and Elizabeth Thomas whom are both known to be sexually explicit in the work place. They laugh at disgusting humor. It is mcps culture.

She came up through this system so your statement is a pretty big indictment of her. She knew the culture was broken and did nothing to fix it.

She knew nothing of the sort. This whole incident is a surprise to most of us.

You seem awfully confident in the Superintendent’s knowledge and the CO’s mindset.

[Anonymous]

MCPS was just trying to get him out of Farquhar and it seems Paint Branch was their only option. It just happened to be a promotion monetarily but Paint Branch is a hard pill to swallow. No one sees that school as a walk in the park. MCPS thought complainants would be happy with him gone from farquhar but that wasn’t enough for those who thought they were going to bury him because it was a deal gone bad between him and the social studies teacher. 2019-2023 is a long time to sit in a school and be sexually harassed. Hmmmm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just think what it took for MCPS to ignore 18 complaints of sexual harassment and bullying with the same perpetrator for a six year period. It’s an organization from the top down designed to ignore complaints. There has to be other situations that were reported via formal complaints, written complaints but considered informal because it wasn’t on the correct form, and anonymous complaints that were ignored.

I know! It's hard to believe the previous super ignored these.

The previous super was Jack Smith. Monifa was his deputy and she was his handpicked successor.

You think he knew about it and did nothing and she didn’t know even though she was his deputy? Your spin just puts more emphasis on how Monifa failed in multiple leadership roles in MCPS.

So she wasn't involved. I get it already. Either focus on Biedleman or move on. This thread isn't about your obsession with McKngiht.

As deputy superintendent, Monifa most definitely would have been involved.

Furthermore, many of the complaints were filed when she was acting supe or supe, so again, I don't know why you keep towing this line that this all happened before her tenure. It didn't. The timeline has been posted for you multiple times.

Anyone referring to Dr. McKnight as "Monifa" isn't unbiased or objective on this or any matter. Seems like they have a real axe to grind with her and MCPS.

It's seems like they relish disrespecting her because she's an AA woman.