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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What specifically has Jack Smith done wrong? Not sweeping generalizations. I want specifics with evidence. [/quote]

1. Decline in academic performance on standardized testing at the state level. 
2. Rise in sexual assaults from student to student.  
3. Rise in sexual assaults from staff to student. 
4. Rise in racist incidents. 
5. Rise in on campus violence.  
6. Wasting money on useless studies that could go to improving academic opportunities or hiring more teachers. 
7. Forcing canned curriculum on MCPS meaning one size fits all curriculum without differentiation.  (Eureka Math, Benchmark). 
8. Refuses to attend public forums where parents, students or staff present questions.  He sends staff members instead.  
9. No plan for Covoid.  No plans to adapt buildings to support eventual return to school.  
10. Increased size of central office bureaucracy, wasting money that could be going to actually helping students. 
11. Hiring disgraced retreads in central office.  Google Janet Wilson Garrett County.  
12. Rude to BOE members and treats them as inferiors to him.  
13. Implementing a completely disaster of a LMS (Synergy).

That's a few off the top of my head.  MCPS used to be a great school district.  It is still really good but it has been in decline the past four years.  If he serves out the next four years of his contract, it will continue to decline at a rapid rate and likely will not ever reach it's previous status.  Families and students are looking and will continue to look at other education options either the private route or moving to adjacent counties like Frederick, Howard, Fairfax.

MCPS should be able to hire better leadership based on the previous status of the county.  Not some re-tread from Calvert County like Smith.   [/quote]

I went to MCPS.  We had many of the issues 20+ years ago but they were just hidden and no social media.  I doubt there are more assaults and incidents as we saw them all the time at school, but it wasn't well publicized or reported.  We had a sketchy teacher and we were all heavily discouraged from saying something.[/quote]

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