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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New poster here and now I'm getting annoyed by the "old news" poster. You doth protest too much. I don't remember ever seeing that list of inappropriate items that administrators purchased using their MCPS-issued credit cards. If that PP is the MCPS PR person, they are really, really bad because all they're doing is irritating me and making me think they're hiding even more. [/quote]

No the "old news" posters (there's more than one of us) are just people who follow the news well enough to already know what happened and find pretending like there was another scandal to be dishonest. We also don't need a list of what was inappropriately bought to care, but maybe some people do.

Honestly, I think the tiresome constant dumbest of MCPS SCANDAL from types like OP does more harm than good. OP looks like a deranged loon ranting, and that makes it harder, not easier, to deal with actual problems (which this understandably is).[/quote]

+1 If you read the report, it is the same two individuals who were implicated earlier in the year. Yes, this report has a longer list of the prohibited or personal use items that they purchased, but it also has a longer list of the reforms MCPS has undertaken as a result. This is OP's second post in one day about this topic, and the first had a headline clearly aiming to make the rest of us believe this was a brand new scandal with brand new perpetrators.

Yes, this is bad, but I'm actually heartened that it was: A) Caught in an internal audit; B) Followed up on appropriately; C) Criminally prosecuted; and D) Followed by an assessment and evaluation of how to avoid it being repeated. Bad actors exist, but good system (like internal audits!) can help ameliorate the impact of those bad actors.[/quote]

And clearly you didn't read the report at all. The report says it was not followed up appropriately, the internal audit was never completed, there was no criminal prosecution, the BOE did not follow up on this at all and hasn't implemented the needed safeguards to avoid repetition.

The conclusion of the Report is that the BOE is not safeguarding education funds.  
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