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MOCO BOE update: Beidleman Report summary
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Anonymous
And you seem confident in all this unproven gossip. I want real proof. I'm not comfortable convicting people without evidence. |
Anonymous
Nobody is "convicting" McKnight of anything. We've simply lost confidence in her as a leader. We don't have the power to oust her, so lucky her, she will probably keep her job. She is not remotely a victim here. She is being protected. |
Anonymous
Calling her by her name is disrespectful? You realize that most parents don't worship the PhDs titles the way you sycophants do in education, right? |
Anonymous
Asking for leadership and accountability is not "convicting" anyone. She is the head of the school district. The buck stops with her. Period. She is accountable for the actions of those under her. This is not a radical concept in business or government. |
Anonymous
It's hard for me to believe you ever had confidence since this has been going on long before now, and the same people just look for an excuse to find fault. I mean were so busy convicting McKnight I can't even remember what it was that Biedleman did. |
Anonymous
Very little of what you said makes any sense, but since you sound confused about Biedleman, here you go (source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023...ry-county-principal/ ): - "MCPS treated Beidleman as a rising star. Despite six staff members’ reports to MCPS about his conduct in 2023, officials promoted him in June to run Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville, a position that oversees a larger staff than Farquhar’s and would have raised his salary by $32,000, to $191,000." - “He is the most vindictive person I’ve ever met,” a Farquhar English teacher said. “Even teachers who left Farquhar are scared of him to this day,” said former Farquhar media assistant Cathy Stanton, who departed MCPS in 2021 because of what she called the school’s “toxic leadership.” - "In July 2017, former Farquhar PTA president Chelsea Curtis said she hand-delivered a letter to the central office that carbon-copied the principal to request a change of schools for her younger children after Beidleman told her eighth-grade daughter: “Don’t be like [your friend]. She’s a whore.” MCPS granted the transfer." - "During two Jan. 31, 2018, assemblies for seventh- and eighth-grade students and staff, Beidleman lamented that Farquhar girls were dressing and acting “like hos and thots” (both derogatory terms for promiscuous women), according to multiple witnesses." - "When parents complained about the assembly, then-Director of School Support and Improvement Eric Minus, Beidleman’s boss, spoke with teachers. One told him about additional instances of workplace misconduct, the teacher said in an interview. But when another tried to do the same, Minus asked to confine the discussion to what Beidleman had said at the assemblies, she said. Several educators were aware that the two men were friends." - "He berated, humiliated or yelled at staff frequently, according to more than two dozen educators. " - "A Lakelands teacher said she left that school because of Beidleman, who on numerous occasions “screamed in my face.” - "Teachers at Lakelands, Clemente and Farquhar said Beidleman often commented on women’s bodies and outfits. During two annual Farquhar staff presentations about professional attire, he showed a picture of a woman’s midsection in tight leggings and said, “Camel toe is not allowed,” several attendees said." - "When a male science teacher told Beidleman his wife was pregnant, the principal replied that his wife would “change for the worse,” the teacher recounted in an email to Walker obtained by The Post." - "A teacher told The Post that Beidleman said to her in front of a colleague, who confirmed the conversation in an interview: “You look like you peg your husband and that you do butt stuff.” When that teacher disagreed with Beidleman in discussions, she and a witness said the principal told her: “Maybe your husband needs lessons in bed so you can be calmed down.” The comments were memorialized in a list of aggressions toward staff compiled by Farquhar’s building union representative this year." - "In April 2021, Beidleman invited an MCPS teacher who had worked with him previously to apply to be his assistant principal at Farquhar, she said....Beidleman told The Post the teacher’s candidacy was rejected “prior to any personal conversations.” But screenshots from the teacher’s phone show that he texted personal messages, including lewd ones, to her more than 400 times between the day he asked if she wanted the job and the date she was informed that she would not be considered for the role." |
Anonymous
Most of these posters are the same long-term cranks that go on about Bocce and could care less about Biedleman. They are simply using this crisis for their anti-McKnight crusade. |
Anonymous
Josh and Jerry actually wanted to be Josh and Jerry. |
Anonymous
+1 No one is asking for a "conviction" but Dr. McKnight needs to be asked some specific questions about what she knew and when she knew it. These include questions about Beidelman, and not just whether she was aware he was under active investigation at the time of the promotion, but also what she knew about the MCPS policy of only investigating bullying and sexual harassment complaints submitted on a specific form. If she knew that Safe Schools Maryland reports would not be investigated, and emails from specific individuals with screenshots would not be investigated, then she should be asked why she thought that policy was in the best interests of MCPS students and teachers. |
Anonymous
Teachers did not have confidence in her ability to lead, hence their vote of no confidence years ago. BOE picked her anyway. There have been multiple summaries as the Beidleman story unfolds, so try to keep up. |
Anonymous
Nah. I’m comfortable that facts as MCPS has presented them are more than sufficient grounds for a lot of dismissals at the senior leadership levels. |
Anonymous
These same people have done nothing but find fault with every one of her actions since day 1. They really could care less about the welfare of students or MCPS. They've had it in for her and despise public education. |
Anonymous
She had a duty to know that those things WERE being investigated because state law requires her to implement board policy, which was to investigate. |
Anonymous
| Has anyone heard Rebecca Smondrowski is a good friend of Beidleman? He is known to make his connections to gain advances. |
Anonymous
If she doesn’t like it, she should stop messing up so much. No doubt the money that MCPS is spending to clean up the latest mess could do more to improve the welfare of MCPS students if it were instead spent on instruction. |