Anonymous
10/04/2025 16:38
Subject: Will Thomas Taylor Survive the Massive Changes He is Introducing?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What’s the reason for not considering candidates from within MCPS? This is a huge school system with complex programs operating concurrently and a huge disparity in social-economic status. How can any outsider grasp this level of complexity quickly and effectively given CO’s incompetence and corruption?
😂😭🤣. Oh, you don’t realize how few people actually want the job.
I really don’t. Look at this forum: so many meaningful and executable suggestions that are often appear as apparent low-hanging fruits that a superintendent can realize and do benefits. A reputable high-school principal within MCPS (often also has a PhD in education) can do a better job.
I get people are reluctant for BOE position as it pays so little. But sup’s salary range is descent for this area, and MC is filled with highly educated people. Why are out of candidate choices?
Look, I'm not always a fan of the Central Office, but you have got to be kidding me about the "meaningful" suggestions that originate on DCUM. They are consistently suggestions that are ignorant of (or ignore) labor law, educational best practices, or basic economic realities. They benefit one school or part of the county.
I've probably seen 3 suggestions in more than a decade on this website that are actually meaningful and actionable, rather than some variation of "why don't they just swap HS and ES start times?"
Anonymous
10/04/2025 16:24
Subject: Will Thomas Taylor Survive the Massive Changes He is Introducing?
Anonymous wrote:You want someone form the disastrous Central Office to take over? Or a Principal who can barely handle the students and parents at their school? The internal training process is a disaster, I wouldn't want any of them (and hope the current Sup gets kicked out before his cockamamie plan gets any attempt at implementation). You don't put a man who ran a 50k school system in charge of a 160k school system
Incompetent people keep getting elected to the BOE and these are the ones who select the Supe in SECRET. How can this ever lead to success?
Anonymous
10/04/2025 16:13
Subject: Will Thomas Taylor Survive the Massive Changes He is Introducing?
You want someone form the disastrous Central Office to take over? Or a Principal who can barely handle the students and parents at their school? The internal training process is a disaster, I wouldn't want any of them (and hope the current Sup gets kicked out before his cockamamie plan gets any attempt at implementation). You don't put a man who ran a 50k school system in charge of a 160k school system
Anonymous
10/04/2025 16:11
Subject: Will Thomas Taylor Survive the Massive Changes He is Introducing?
Anonymous wrote:What’s the reason for not considering candidates from within MCPS? This is a huge school system with complex programs operating concurrently and a huge disparity in social-economic status. How can any outsider grasp this level of complexity quickly and effectively given CO’s incompetence and corruption?
Anonymous
10/04/2025 14:22
Subject: Will Thomas Taylor Survive the Massive Changes He is Introducing?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What’s the reason for not considering candidates from within MCPS? This is a huge school system with complex programs operating concurrently and a huge disparity in social-economic status. How can any outsider grasp this level of complexity quickly and effectively given CO’s incompetence and corruption?
😂😭🤣. Oh, you don’t realize how few people actually want the job.
I really don’t. Look at this forum: so many meaningful and executable suggestions that are often appear as apparent low-hanging fruits that a superintendent can realize and do benefits. A reputable high-school principal within MCPS (often also has a PhD in education) can do a better job.
I get people are reluctant for BOE position as it pays so little. But sup’s salary range is descent for this area, and MC is filled with highly educated people. Why are out of candidate choices?
Plenty of people run for the BOE. It's a board position, not a full-time job. Sup. got a huge pay raise over the previous ones.
Anonymous
10/04/2025 14:21
Subject: Will Thomas Taylor Survive the Massive Changes He is Introducing?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What’s the reason for not considering candidates from within MCPS? This is a huge school system with complex programs operating concurrently and a huge disparity in social-economic status. How can any outsider grasp this level of complexity quickly and effectively given CO’s incompetence and corruption?
😂😭🤣. Oh, you don’t realize how few people actually want the job.
The school district was in a hurry to find someone after the last holdouts on the BOE finally gave way to fire McKnight. The timing wasn't ideal to attract enough quality candidates.
Why couldn’t they have kept Felder in place for another year?
Because either she was a problem or the BOE was scapegoating her to cover up for the problems under their watch.
Anonymous
10/04/2025 14:00
Subject: Will Thomas Taylor Survive the Massive Changes He is Introducing?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What’s the reason for not considering candidates from within MCPS? This is a huge school system with complex programs operating concurrently and a huge disparity in social-economic status. How can any outsider grasp this level of complexity quickly and effectively given CO’s incompetence and corruption?
😂😭🤣. Oh, you don’t realize how few people actually want the job.
I really don’t. Look at this forum: so many meaningful and executable suggestions that are often appear as apparent low-hanging fruits that a superintendent can realize and do benefits. A reputable high-school principal within MCPS (often also has a PhD in education) can do a better job.
I get people are reluctant for BOE position as it pays so little. But sup’s salary range is descent for this area, and MC is filled with highly educated people. Why are out of candidate choices?
Anonymous
10/04/2025 13:30
Subject: Will Thomas Taylor Survive the Massive Changes He is Introducing?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What’s the reason for not considering candidates from within MCPS? This is a huge school system with complex programs operating concurrently and a huge disparity in social-economic status. How can any outsider grasp this level of complexity quickly and effectively given CO’s incompetence and corruption?
😂😭🤣. Oh, you don’t realize how few people actually want the job.
The school district was in a hurry to find someone after the last holdouts on the BOE finally gave way to fire McKnight. The timing wasn't ideal to attract enough quality candidates.
Why couldn’t they have kept Felder in place for another year?
Anonymous
10/04/2025 13:27
Subject: Will Thomas Taylor Survive the Massive Changes He is Introducing?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What’s the reason for not considering candidates from within MCPS? This is a huge school system with complex programs operating concurrently and a huge disparity in social-economic status. How can any outsider grasp this level of complexity quickly and effectively given CO’s incompetence and corruption?
😂😭🤣. Oh, you don’t realize how few people actually want the job.
The school district was in a hurry to find someone after the last holdouts on the BOE finally gave way to fire McKnight. The timing wasn't ideal to attract enough quality candidates.
And McKnight herself was the last superintendent hired from within. That didn't work out too well.
Anonymous
10/04/2025 12:52
Subject: Will Thomas Taylor Survive the Massive Changes He is Introducing?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What’s the reason for not considering candidates from within MCPS? This is a huge school system with complex programs operating concurrently and a huge disparity in social-economic status. How can any outsider grasp this level of complexity quickly and effectively given CO’s incompetence and corruption?
😂😭🤣. Oh, you don’t realize how few people actually want the job.
The school district was in a hurry to find someone after the last holdouts on the BOE finally gave way to fire McKnight. The timing wasn't ideal to attract enough quality candidates.
Anonymous
10/04/2025 12:31
Subject: Will Thomas Taylor Survive the Massive Changes He is Introducing?
Anonymous wrote:What’s the reason for not considering candidates from within MCPS? This is a huge school system with complex programs operating concurrently and a huge disparity in social-economic status. How can any outsider grasp this level of complexity quickly and effectively given CO’s incompetence and corruption?
😂😭🤣. Oh, you don’t realize how few people actually want the job.
Anonymous
10/04/2025 12:30
Subject: Will Thomas Taylor Survive the Massive Changes He is Introducing?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No MCPS superintendent is going to last more than a couple years anymore. Pretty soon I expect we won't be able to get qualified candidates.
Pretty soon we will have no vetting candidates like Des Moines Iowa
Except Des Moines did vetting their candidates and their hire. Don’t make stupid comments about a really serious issue.
Anonymous
10/04/2025 12:07
Subject: Will Thomas Taylor Survive the Massive Changes He is Introducing?
What’s the reason for not considering candidates from within MCPS? This is a huge school system with complex programs operating concurrently and a huge disparity in social-economic status. How can any outsider grasp this level of complexity quickly and effectively given CO’s incompetence and corruption?
Anonymous
10/04/2025 11:55
Subject: Will Thomas Taylor Survive the Massive Changes He is Introducing?
Anonymous wrote:No MCPS superintendent is going to last more than a couple years anymore. Pretty soon I expect we won't be able to get qualified candidates.
Pretty soon we will have no vetting candidates like Des Moines Iowa
Anonymous
10/03/2025 12:14
Subject: Will Thomas Taylor Survive the Massive Changes He is Introducing?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Montgomery Blair became a magnet decades ago to stem white flight. That is widely known, and has been written about.
Apparently Taylor is not aware even though it happened when he was a HSchooler at BCC (guess he must be very busy with varsity sports and stuff). Like Whitman parents argued here, they didn't want their kids to apply Blair SMCS at the first place due to long commute. Therefore, after subtracting the W's study body, Blair SMCS will decline rapidly. The county can rest back on their own segregation of people-alike.
He was likely born in 78 if he graduated in 96 so would have been 6 or 7 when the Blair magnet opened. I thought you W school folks were all about math lol.
Likely 77 or 78, the baby bust years of the late 70s before the next baby boom and subsequent school growth. I'm sure he was acutely aware of the Blair Magnet which was nationally recognized when he was in high school. Meanwhile, B-CC HS in the mid 90s, like many older inner suburban schools, had lost its luster from the 1950s and 60s, when it had been nationally ranked. Concerned parents and faculty were desperately looking for ways to reinvent B-CC at the time and to boost its appeal to neighborhood families.