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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is a tough time for superintendents but McKnight definitely seems to be in over her head[/quote]

Y’all are just racist and misogynistic.  McKnight is no worse or no better than any of the rest of our ‘leaders’.  She’s trying to do the best she can with the information given to her by DHHS.  She is not a public health expert and she should not be expected to have that knowledge.[/quote]

So tiresome. Every critique of a non-white person is not racist, nor is every critique of a woman misogynistic.

She can't handle this job. Period.[/quote]

Not a chance.

Under Jack Smith, my kid was virtual for over a year.  At least Dr. McKnight has tried to keep our kids in school.  When she realized the 5% threshold wasn’t working correctly, she adjusted course.

She is doing better than Smith, IMO.  I’ll take her any day over Smith.

Your criticisms show your racist tendencies, sorry.  [/quote]

I give her a ton of credit on the pivot. I can see where her head was at with the color-coded stuff, but that's a 2020 strategy not in alignment with the rest of the region/nation. A pivot back to normal couldn't have been easy, but it was the right decision. Communications have been a bit rough, but a good leader knows when it's time to pull the plug on something that's not going to work vs. doubling down on it.[/quote]

+1000[/quote]

Exactly.  Would you rather she double down on a strategy that is clearly not working?[/quote]

Well, a smart leader would not draw a bright red line and paint him or herself into a corner.[/quote]

NP- She didn’t, the 5% threshold was a point for determining if a school needed to go virtual. Which is why she should of just stayed the course with the policy, separated out the data for staff and students, (maybe even thrown in subs assigned) and proceeded along the same course with updated communications.  We’re many /all schools going to get to red at some point? Sure, buts that’s not a variable anyone in MCPS has any control over.  The above would have reflected a commitment to keep schools open as long as they were safe effective environments, while being transparent.  It also would have acknowledged that there are differences between schools.  For instance a title 1 school with smaller classes and potentially more resource staff may have been better able to manage teacher outages with larger sizes and internal coverage for 1-2 wks.  The same might not be true for an average ES, and then contend with the rate of vaccination for ages 5-10 in the county. A high school with more missing kids than staff may have been okay because it represents absences across 4 grades and a whole range of classes.  100 students absent or in quarantine isn’t worth making 1900 more be virtual. If a highschool is missing teachers, it may still be okay, if you can move students to libraries or the cafeteria or even outside.  A free study period or extra break never hurt any HS kid.

Now no one has any idea whats going on or going to happen, which makes no sense and is going to ratchet up anxiety for some.  And frankly likely to result in more screaming over time as people complain about risk, lack of quality education time for kids, etc  etc.[/quote]

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