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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They should have kept Felder in place. Taylor is terrible.[/quote]

I can’t go that far. Taylor is trash but so was Felder. Sadly, it’s been a long time since MCPS has had a qualified and competent superintendent.[/quote]

Felder was substantive. Taylor is all style, but substance. [/quote]

You are correct that he has no substance. But he is worse than that. He doesn't listen and he thinks he has all the answers. He is an extreme change agent who doesn't care if he is breaking things or if what he creates is poor quality. We need to get rid of him and do it in a timely manner so the BOE is not forced into a hasty decision, like it was when they hired him.[/quote]

He met with a group of parents recently and tried to foist blame for this on the Board of Ed, saying he would have preferred to wait. Yeah, right. [/quote]

Wait, what?  Can you say more about this?[/quote]

I heard it secondhand. Parents from some of the magnet programs (RMIB and Blair SMCS) met with him recently and that's what they told me in a conversation after the fact. I'm sorry I don't have more details than that. [/quote]

Got it, thanks.  Did the people you talked to find that argument from him convincing or did you get the sense they thought he was just trying to avoid blame?[/quote]

I can't really speculate because I can't shake my own sense that Taylor is an opportunist who cares a lot about his own image. If he was trying to shift blame from himself to a group of women (all of whom have deeper connections to this district than he does), that's pretty gross.

On the other hand, I can totally believe that there is a faction on the BoE who think the DCC and NEC are a waste of resources and want to end them. The ones who are more pro-consortia have drunk the kool-aid about DCC and NEC transportation being too expensive to replicate.

I believe the whole BoE is completed snowed by the marketing job Taylor has launched, saying this will improve equity. They're ignoring years of data on programs MCPS has started, then left to flounder (two-way immersion programs, regional IB magnets). They're also willfully ignoring that all the equity and access issues in current magnets is TOTALLY MCPS'S FAULT. MCPS handles admissions to all the magnets, so if there is lack of equity, they're the reason for it. Expecting them to magically fix that problem in future magnets is like expecting pigs to take flight. [/quote]

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