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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Starr left a known sexual predator in a classroom. Fact. Source: The Washington Post.[/quote]

+1 Starr was also in charge while 2.0 was being created, rolled out and implemented. He was at helm when the decisions were made about the ridiculous P grading system, ending math acceleration, removing final exams because too many kids were failing, and the creation of all the flawed material.

Anyone who has ever walked into organization and taken over from a predecessor knows that they have a short window to assess and then they own it. Who hasn't inherited a project with problems? Starr hadn't and he didn't know what to do. He didn't even know enough to pay attention to anything other than tweeting and trying to get national attention for himself.

Starr could have recognized the problem and course corrected. Starr could have delayed the implementation - remember how this was rolled out and there were almost no materials. It really screwed the teachers. What did Star tell the principals? Starr told them I've got your back if you've got mine. I know several principals and they ALL  spoke about how Starr was easy to work for because you just had to keep things quiet and always focus on positive PR. Starr could have demanded quality control and fired staff in the curriculum office who were creating shoddy materials. Starr could have listened to the complaints. Starr could have paid attention to the early data coming in with dropping scores. He didn't. He did nothing and just clung to his talking point that everything was great, teachers just weren't trained in 2.0 and parents just weren't educated enough to see the depth of 2.0

So how did this all work out? Seven years of kids received a crappy education with a failed curriculum. MCPS dropped from being 1st in the state to being 9th in the state. Howard, Frederick, DC, and VA all made strides forward while Starr knocked our school system down to the point that it may never recover. Starr's legacy is failure and hurting over 100K students. After failing in Conn and failing so miserable in MCPS I doubt another school system will ever hire him and he certainly will never get a national appointment that was always his goal.[/quote]

Agree. Welll said.

I’m waiting for the JHu school of Ed case study on how MCPS cannibalizes itself.[/quote]

Yep.  And maybe it doesn't do any good to figure out who is to blame.  However, parents are still at the point of looking at their own kid and saying I think it's okay.  One data point is useless, it really was seven years of dropping scores behind the scenes and administrators pretending that once the curriculum was fully implemented, the issues would disappear.[/quote]

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