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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Washington Post is covering this now too: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/12/10/wootton-high-racial-slur-desk/

This is a significant black eye for MCPS. Taylor needs to roll up his sleeves and get to work.[/quote]

I am going to let you in on something I know you already know. Vulgar words and hate are committed every day at every high school in every state in every decade.

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My God, People are overreacting to this and it’s utterly ridiculous. The principal is not an omnipresent force in the school that can prevent a misbehaving student from writing hateful language on a desk with a pencil. The whole crisis counselor thing is stupid too. HS students will pretend to be traumatized just to skip their classes. [/quote]

Please watch the video of Taylor discussing why the Principal was removed.  He stated that there was mandated staff training required by MCPS that the Principal had chosen not to have the Wootton staff do.   Taylor found out the Principal had not done his job and had staff do the required before school opened training.  This is not about the Principal needing to be “omnipresent” but about basic job expectations.  For any job if you fail to do a large required task you can loose your job. Add to this that Wootton had not followed required MCPS reporting protocol and that Wootton students had testified recently at the BOE about racism not being properly addressed at Wootton.

I am thrilled MCPS has a Superintendent who will follow policy and impose consequences on staff rather than hiding administrative incompetence.  Not protecting incompetent staff is a good start to improving MCPS again. Just because some people think the Principal was a nice guy is not an excuse to keep him when he failed to do his job of following MCPS policy including the mandated training.  There can be no discipline if administrators do not follow rules.  I hope this heralds more stringent discipline and accountability at all schools.  For folks following along the issue causing his removal was not that a student drew the N word on another student’s desk.  (That hopefully is now being handled with consequences  given to the offending student.)  The issue was that this Principal ran the school like a fiefdom where he did not have to follow rules or meet his job requirements.  And yes that should get him fired. [/quote]

Which training?

We are adults. We went to school (not MCPS, thankfully.)

Present the information in a coherent document with cited sources, like our English students are supposed to do. Publish it so it can be shared and referenced.
Don't tell us to watch a TikTok. [/quote]

A mandated (likely DEI) training that is useless and takes time away from teachers actually doing their job of teaching kids. This training is completely irrelevant to the incident and they were just looking for a reason to fire him so they can make the bad PR go away. Good luck hiring anyone that is actually a good principal when MOCO throws competent employees under the bus for political expediency. [/quote]

These are two different things.  It is reasonable to question/debate the utility of DEI training.  I haven't seen the training (nor certainly have you), so I don't express an opinion about how useful it is.  FWIW, I'm strongly in favor of DEI generally, but I've seen a lot of evidence suggesting this type of training isn't very useful.  So this is a reasonable thing to debate (among people who know what they're talking about, which is not either of us).

It's not reasonable to argue that a principal can unilaterally waive the required training in their school.  For any reason, really.  But particularly if the school has known issues with this specific topic.  The principal is welcome to question/debate/challenge the utility of the training to their boss.  But they aren't welcome to just skip such a requirement on their own.  They shouldn't expect to retain their job if ignore the requirements of their job.

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DEI training is beyond wasteful.  It only further divides teachers from one another based on race (not to mention dividing students on the basis of skin color, leading to MORE racial division and racism.

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