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[quote=Anonymous]Where was Dr. McKnight during the 10 days BEFORE staff and students were to report back to school following winter break?  Dr. McKnight and her six figure cohorts took extra vacations. That left no one to track the reports for COVID parents and staff were reporting for those 10 days. That left the lack of bus drivers unidentifiable. There was no one at Central Office to plan for the necessary changes in staffing and bus routes or even to communicate the situation with parents - even after Central Office had supposedly two administrative work days while schools were closed due to snow.

Taking a vacation during a crisis is not leadership. Spending $850,000 on extra leave for the most highly paid employees in MCPS is a waste of resources.

To attract teachers, bus drivers, substitutes, and support staff - increase pay and benefits. These positions are hard to fill especially in a pandemic because they are overworked and underpaid. If part-time hourly employees, many do not earn annual leave, sick leave, retirement benefits, health insurance, dental insurance, or any other type of benefits.  This is why MCPS is experiencing a staffing crisis and have been all year.

Could a plan of action to address these areas have been developed since June 2021 when Dr. McKnight assumed the Interim Superintendent position? Yes. Did she or her staff including a recruiter in MCPS who lives in Georgia adequately plan, promote, and hire the front line staff that schools need? No. They spent more time pulling staff from schools to fill the bloat from Central Office.

Where’s the Board’s oversight during the absolute train wreck of a school system?  They are a bunch of puppy dogs doing whatever MCPS wants them to do. No oversight. No hard questions. Just rubber stamp every bad decision by Dr. McKnight along the way.

MCPS needs a clean house. We need to downsize Central Office so money goes to staff schools. We need new Board members who are independent thinkers and willing to call emergency meetings during urgent crisis. We need oversight by the Board of Ed and I agree their silence and complacency speaks volumes to their leadership capabilities and ethics.[/quote]

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