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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MoCo 360 article on response and reaction to the Durso hire: https://moco360.media/2024/01/10/michael-dursos-long-history-with-mcps-draws-pointed-reactions-to-his-new-role/[/quote]

Ooh, nice quotes from Starr himself [/quote]

I miss having Dr. Starr as superintendent. So do many of my teacher colleagues. I get that he had detractors, chiefly Durso, but his quotes are exactly why I liked him. He wasn’t a very good politician because he was too honest and ruffled feathers and said what he thought all the time, and I know I probably just summoned that persistent poster who thinks he mishandled situations involving employees accused of misconduct, but I believe he cared about teachers and students and would have been good for the system had he been given half a chance to continue growing in the role. I think he would have handled the pandemic and current mental health crisis better, and I think teacher morale wouldn’t be as in the toilet had he stayed. I wonder how many of the principals who signed off on his firing have second thoughts now.[/quote]

I stand by what I said. He may have appeared to care but his "theory of action " was all Harvard theory and literally NO ACTION. So his performative caring doesn't matter when he didn't really do anything to get things done. There were no crisis during his time but  there was still no action,! So no, I am not buying your theory that he would've acting when hard times come a calling! Coulda, shoulda,  woulda  but did not every single time.[/quote]

No crisis? Just children being sexually abused by known predators that he kept inclassrooms.[/quote]

Okay, so then - still no action.  [/quote]

+1. Remember Starr's first-year listening tour? He was in over his head from the start.[/quote]

My kids were in MCPS, but too young for me to really pay attention to the politicking around Starr. However, this specific critique stands out to me as someone who works with senior leadership across my sector. Someone being over their head on Day One is not a bad thing, in terms of long-term executive performance. The ideal recruit at that level might make mistakes in the early days, because it demonstrates that they still have the capacity to grow and learn.

I have no idea whether Starr was one of those people, but I have noticed that the complaints about him on this board seem kind of...petty compared to the absolute leadership dumpster fire currently on display on Hungerford Drive. I would take someone who makes some mistakes but has the intelligence to learn on his/her feet over the what we have now, which is a bunch of cronies more loyal to one another than to the students that they serve, lurching from one poorly-thought-out decision to another, and incapable of answering basic questions about their decision-making without a team of PR experts to workshop the response. [/quote]

Agree 100% [/quote]

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