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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unbelievable.  Glad the teacher got a favorable resolution after all that MCPS induced trauma but sad that there is 500k less going into our kids’ educations next year.

Does the MCPS Board have a budget line item to pay out lawsuits for its incompetence or do we just expect class sizes to be bigger next year?[/quote]

This.  The BOE needs to be held accountable as does Taylor and central office. [/quote]

I’m just worried more lawsuits are coming as the political climate is very favorable to them.

Meanwhile, I have colleagues who are racist and there doesn’t seem to be anyway to dislodge them from positions working with our most vulnerable students.[/quote]

Don't blame this on the "political climate."  [b]The BCC principal admitted he fabricated evidence defaming a teacher on the stand.  The jury didn't even have to deliberate for more than a few hours.[/b] MCPS had a crap case.  But yes, I would be worried if this is the level of competence MCPS has. So much of our education tax dollars are going to go to pay out people who have legit claims of being harmed by MCPS.[/quote]

Then why did the jury absolve him of responsibility?[/quote]

Because he said a whole lot of people at MCPS approved his statement that fabricated evidence.  The jury found the MCPS Board responsible. [/quote]

How would they know though [/quote]

Right, if Mooney drafted the letter including the made-up quote, and then sent it to central office for approval, how would they know the quote was made up? [/quote]

That's my big question[/quote]

They wouldn't know that he made up the quote, and that goes to how MCPS investigates and addresses incidents like these to begin with. [/quote]

Correct. The failure here is that MCPS had inadequate oversight, procedures and leadership that enabled a principal to come up with and broadcast a lie about a teacher and not catch it before it was sent out to the public and cause reputational harm to said teacher.[/quote]

But also there's Mooney's failure in making up the fake quote in the first place. Principals should know better than that.[/quote]

Maybe some central office comms person word-smithed it and made it more slanderous--I can't imagine Mooney spending that much time writing press releases.  It's too bad the reporting on the trial is so limited, local news being what it is these days.[/quote]

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