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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They should have kept Felder in place. Taylor is terrible.[/quote]

I can’t go that far. Taylor is trash but so was Felder. Sadly, it’s been a long time since MCPS has had a qualified and competent superintendent.[/quote]

Felder was substantive. Taylor is all style, but substance. [/quote]

You are correct that he has no substance. But he is worse than that. He doesn't listen and he thinks he has all the answers. He is an extreme change agent who doesn't care if he is breaking things or if what he creates is poor quality. We need to get rid of him and do it in a timely manner so the BOE is not forced into a hasty decision, like it was when they hired him.[/quote]

He met with a group of parents recently and tried to foist blame for this on the Board of Ed, saying he would have preferred to wait. Yeah, right. [/quote]

Wait, what?  Can you say more about this?[/quote]

I heard it secondhand. Parents from some of the magnet programs (RMIB and Blair SMCS) met with him recently and that's what they told me in a conversation after the fact. I'm sorry I don't have more details than that. [/quote]

Got it, thanks.  Did the people you talked to find that argument from him convincing or did you get the sense they thought he was just trying to avoid blame?[/quote]

I was there. Taylor seemed to be shifting blame to the BOE. He said a few alarming things in the meeting, including having only to have to plan one year of programming at a time. Year one of regional programs = 1 year of curriculum. Year two, he said he only had to plan that second year's worth of programming. In year three, he only had to plan the third year of programming, and in year four, he had only to create the year four programming.

That is not how curriculum is developed. You develop learning outcomes, and then begin to develop scope and sequence. This should be a comprehensive initiative. Taylor was pledging to provide us with incompetent educational programming, while also diminishing the catchment areas of flagship programs.

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Thanks for the insight, really appreciate it (although yes, alarming.)  Can you say more about how he was shifting blame to the BoE?  Did he make it sound like he would be willing to push the timing back a year if the Board wanted that, but that he felt his hands were tied, or what?[/quote]

Taylor said the Board of Education told him to do the boundaries studies and the program analysis. He would have waited. He said the CIP is tied to the program analysis and the boundary studies. He said he is a planner by nature. He said that the MCCPTA said, "We don't have enough access to criteria-based programs and gifted programs," implying that MCCPTA told him to do the program analysis.

I don't see that the CIP is not tied to the program analysis. They are placing programs in high school facilities that are not properly equipped and designed to receive them - an inconvenient fact that Taylor ignores.

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That's nuts, he knows perfectly damn well that the Board of Ed will defer to almost everything he recommends, and if he really thought it should be done differently he has an obligation to say that in front of the Board for their consideration and he hasn't.

And even if everything he said was true, it wouldn't force him to ram through huge amounts of changes really quickly... he could slow down a year like people are asking. [/quote]

DP - does MCCPTA have meeting with the BOE this week? Might be good to ask them to get clarification during that meeting about Taylor's claims. Perhaps folks that heard these claims could reach out to MCCPTA.[/quote]

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