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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jerry Weast, Pat O'Neil and Barclay (the BOE guy that got caught stealing money to buy stuff at Target and PopEye chicken) were responsible for hatching the bad idea. The plan was to ignore university peer reviewed curriculums and partner with Pearson to make up their own and resell it. Terrible mistake for Pearson and MCPS believing that unqualified MCPS employees could just come up with a curriculum.

The most blame lands on Starr though who took this mistake to a whole new level demonstrating what true incompetence can do to a system. He was so unqualified himself for the job that he didn't recognize how unqualified Marty and Eric Lang were as well. Lang got to staff up his office and filled it with more unqualified people. Rather than providing a shred of quality control or review, they all kept barreling forward. There was a HUGE outpouring of complaints from parents and teachers. Did Starr look into any of the complaints? Nope he hired more PR people and just behaved arrogantly.

It really escalated the creation of a toxic environment where the only ideas allowed in the central office were yes men who fanned over each other. The central office became increasingly insular never learning or addressing its own mistakes-just demonizing anyone that disagreed with them. Starr had a history in Connecticut in always focusing on you scratch my back and I'll scratch your back and punishing staff that rock the boat. He took this to another level in MCPS both with hiding the sex offenders and ignoring all the obvious signs of problems within the curriculum.

I honestly think that Weast would have done something or at least stopped the 30% errors in the materials that were coming out of the central office. [/quote]

This ^ is exactly what happened.  Starr really screwed MCPS and the curriculum has been absolutely horrible and never really improved.  It has greatly affected the quality of education and our kids can't get this time back. [/quote]

My kids started in MCPS 7 years ago and we have been watching the school system since before that.  Has been so frustrating to watch.  Talk to any teachers who have been there long enough, and they will happily describe their frustrations with the county.  [/quote]

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