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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I can agree that MCPS's DEI department and training are a laughing stock. But Doug left himself open for precisely this kind of thing by not complying with training requirements.

If he thought the trainings were sucky or ineffective, he should have said so out loud and lobbied to improve them. Instead, he thought he could do what he wanted without consequence.[/quote]

It’s December. If this training was mandatory, it sounds like MCPS administration and the superintendent just realizing it wasn’t done in August is just as fault. This school was the only one in the hundreds that somehow slipped thru the cracks on mandatory training. Come on lol [/quote]

I agree with that. Doug Nelson's director and associate superintendent also need to be held to account.[/quote]

That could be why the communications have been coming from Moran and not them.[/quote]

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