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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found this bit interesting.  I'm confused by what "attempts to alert previous leadership" means-- either you alert someone or you don't (if you tell them and they don't take action, you have still successfully "alerted" them.) Or does it mean that the lower-level staff tried to get their bosses to tell past superintendents and their bosses wouldn't?

"Contrary to assertions made by the Superintendent, OIG staff enjoyed an excellent working relationship with numerous MCPS staff involved in the background check process. We found 
these staff members and their counterparts to be open and forthcoming about the challenges in 
their work, including their attempts to alert previous leadership about the criminal history and 
CPS check backlogs."[/quote]

I think previous leadership means April Key, since as head of HR, she would have been the one overseeing the BSO.[/quote]

So do you think it means the lower-level staff failed to alert April Key because they were blocked by other HR staff?  [b]Or that they failed to alert past superintendents because they were blocked by April Key?[/b]  Or something else?

Regardless, I feel like this is an important piece of the story that needs to come out...[/quote]

Sort of this. I think previous superintendents knew and told April to block, bury and deflect.

Unfortunately for April, she is the fall guy and so she was demoted.  But for her loyalty in taking one for the team, she only gets demoted to being a coordinator of an Infant and Toddler Care center, instead of being fired as she would in most normal organizations.[/quote]

So if you take one for the team, you get demoted? Is that what happened with former principal of BCC https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1284429.page ? Did he take one for the failure of MCPS communications (the ones who don't have time for dcum nor to properly review contents of a letter https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1112215.page ) ?[/quote]

In general, with the MCPS admin class, if you take one for the team and/or activate your union to fight like hell against your removal, you end up with a cushy gig in some other area of MCPS.

For example:

Casey Crouse, the Damascus High School principal who failed in the broomstick sexual assault scandal and was given a "special assignment" in the HR department: https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2019/05/damascus-principal-struck-deal-to-resign-retain-160k-salary-in-mcps-office-job/

Others with similar sweetheart deals include:
- Doug Nelson from Wootton, principal who was dismissed from Wootton and now works in the Office of Curriculum and Instructional Programs[/quote]

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