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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Taylor is being sabotaged from within.  His executive leadership team is working hard to undermine his credibility and leadership.

They post on here anonymously to rile up the community, posting as Taylor haters and Taylor supporters.

He will celebrate when he leaves MCPS because he won’t have to work with them any longer.[/quote]

If that's the case Taylor can/could have easily cleaned house when he came in.

Other superintendents did it in other counties.

And the previous posters kind of reinforced my point about the MCPS superintendent's salary.  I'm not really a fan of Taylor and am not saying he's deserving of that salary or the job.  But can MCPS/Montgomery County even afford to pay the type of salaries that Fairfax and Loudoun Counties are able to pay their superintendents?

We might not because according to the 2020 census Loudoun County and Fairfax County were the first and fifth highest income counties in the US ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_counties_in_the_United_States ) .  Montgomery County is 20th, which isn't bad compared to the overall country, which is what people say about the school system too.  But we're not top in the area.

So we might very well have an issue in attracting desirable candidates and are limited to taking what we can get.[/quote]

He could have cleaned house when he got in for sure, and foolishly appointed saboteurs to his highest positions thinking about continuity.  A mistake he gravely regrets.

Now, it’s too late to get rid of them, as they are working hard to get rid of him.[/quote]

Dr. Taylor earns the better part of a half million dollars per year. The justification for that salary, for a public servant, is that he would make more than that if he took his "CEO" skills to the private sector.

But here's the thing -- in the private sector a new executive is expected to assess the capacity of the leadership team they inherit and to make changes as needed.

The idea that Taylor was blindsided by "saboteurs" is laughable because he willingly kept people who everyone knew were terrible. If he had engaged in genuine community dialogue with key stakeholders regarding their engagement with the Central Office, he would have absolutely cleaned house. But he didn't do that work because he's not that kind of leader, and he got what he got. [/quote]

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