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Anonymous wrote:Debunked or not: who has sources?

It is true that "kids were held in school." There was a lockdown. After a shooting in the building. But they were not being held "to wait for a press conference."

Separately, it is also true that a press conference, which was at a different school, was delayed because Dr. McKnight was stuck in traffic and needed a police escort.

Anonymous wrote:Debunked or not: who has sources?

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Anonymous wrote:Lot of BS stuff about social emotional learning and nothing about how they are going to close the achievement gap and the learning loss.

plan is to lower the standards enough so that everyone can perform at same level. Highly abled need to slow down and chill out. not work so hard on subjects so that others can catch up.

This is a false narrative designed to sow seeds of dissent among different groups within MCPS. We need to collaborate as a community and work together to solve myriad issues within MCPS. The Princeton-bound kid is not suffering because another child is 15 and functionally illiterate. Both are important for the future of our community.

Agree sure I hear this all the time BUT my own kids have had many wonderful opportunities to achieve and be challenged. One had around 30 college credits from APs and the other is on track to do similarly.

We're also happy. Many just enjoy complaining, but in my experience, MCPS is made up of many teachers and administrators who have gone above and beyond to put kids first.

+1. This board would have you believing MCPS is horrible. Its not. Sure there are a few bad apples here and there but that would be true anywhere. Are there things that MCPS can improve upon, sure but this is true anywhere. Whats really needed is community engagement, support, and effort. But many just like engaging in complaint. Ask them to run for the school PTA, MCCPTA, attend community meetings about BOE and county council candidates, or do extra homework/practice with their kids and you’ll get crickets.

Exactly, then they'll sock puppet a torrent of posts on their pet issue drowning out any dissent.

MCPS has paid staff that monitor and post on this forum. Dr. McKnight needs more staff for her propaganda campaign that she put a $500,000 contract in next year’s budget for a PR Firm. The only sock puppetry is MCPS posing as parents who love MCPS.

Please give Q my regards!

That poster seems obsessed with Dr. McKnight but at least they aren't referring to her as Monifa any more.

They insist in recycling misinformation that's been debunked. Maybe they can invest a few new conspiracies.

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Anonymous wrote:Lot of BS stuff about social emotional learning and nothing about how they are going to close the achievement gap and the learning loss.

plan is to lower the standards enough so that everyone can perform at same level. Highly abled need to slow down and chill out. not work so hard on subjects so that others can catch up.

This is a false narrative designed to sow seeds of dissent among different groups within MCPS. We need to collaborate as a community and work together to solve myriad issues within MCPS. The Princeton-bound kid is not suffering because another child is 15 and functionally illiterate. Both are important for the future of our community.

Agree sure I hear this all the time BUT my own kids have had many wonderful opportunities to achieve and be challenged. One had around 30 college credits from APs and the other is on track to do similarly.

We're also happy. Many just enjoy complaining, but in my experience, MCPS is made up of many teachers and administrators who have gone above and beyond to put kids first.

+1. This board would have you believing MCPS is horrible. Its not. Sure there are a few bad apples here and there but that would be true anywhere. Are there things that MCPS can improve upon, sure but this is true anywhere. Whats really needed is community engagement, support, and effort. But many just like engaging in complaint. Ask them to run for the school PTA, MCCPTA, attend community meetings about BOE and county council candidates, or do extra homework/practice with their kids and you’ll get crickets.

Exactly, then they'll sock puppet a torrent of posts on their pet issue drowning out any dissent.

MCPS has paid staff that monitor and post on this forum. Dr. McKnight needs more staff for her propaganda campaign that she put a $500,000 contract in next year’s budget for a PR Firm. The only sock puppetry is MCPS posing as parents who love MCPS.

Please give Q my regards!

That poster seems obsessed with Dr. McKnight but at least they aren't referring to her as Monifa any more.

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Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

DP. I'm not the person you're asking this to, but I do think she's a terrible administrator and needs to be removed. I think she doesn't care about MCPS or kids, just her own career.

1. I read she doesn't live in the county or send her kids to MCPS. During the school shooting, the police had to escort her through traffic for a press conference while anxious parents and busses waited to let kids out of the school.
2. January's covid response was a total disaster. Instead of preparing, she made YouTube videos about what her favorite subject in school was or cafeteria lunch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbZjpank-s0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_yWDfS2p9g). The 31 schools shut down in January weren't even the ones with the most serious covid infections. MCPS replaced metrics so that in just 15 instructional days in January, 2100+ staff and 9%+ of the student body were infected. There was a data suppression rule that was never explained, and the metrics were changed again (daily reporting stopped on March 1st) to obfuscate any covid issues using a 10-day-window metric instead of daily totals (ex. the 40'ish infected at Whitman HS).
3. January covid bus driver losses were so bad they called the National Guard to try to bus kids in.
https://wjla.com/news/local/montgomery-co-200-national-guard-troops-school-bus-driver-shortage-marc-elrich-montgomery-county-public-schools-larry-hogan
4. She's had two no confidence votes by the MCEA while interim Superintendent and she was STILL confirmed by the MC BOE.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-co-public-schools-teachers-union-votes-no-confidence-council-holding-emergency-session
5. This summer MCPS was a top-20 in open DoE OCR discrimination cases, so anything she's doing now is because she didn't look at her inbox.
6. How did MCPS spend $780K on bocci ball, $4M on diversity training, $2M on Kid Museum, when it was supposed to be covid money?
7. Hear anything about the $160M electric bus fiasco lately? https://www.schoolbusfleet.com/10156263/investigation-prompts-leave-for-two-maryland-transportation-directors I would think that deserved some attention.

Since the MC BOE confirmed her knowing all of this tells you how deep this runs.

ABC7 is going to answer #7 Thursday at 6 PM.

1) Why does where she live or send her kids to school have anything yo do with her job.
2) As has been debunked plenty of times, kids were not held in school to wait for a press conference
3) How is she solely responsible for the number of OCE cases and note she wasn’t even Interim Super until starting this past summer. In the midst of a pandemic
4) Covid money was spent on and is allocated for a bunch if things why is it these are the three that keep being bought up? Have you even read the budget? What do ya’ll have against Bocce ball and kids playing?
5) So instead if trying to find people to drive buses, should she have just left kids at bus stops?

This makes far too much sense when compared to the wild conspiracy theories and debunked misinformation that's being pushed in this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

DP. I'm not the person you're asking this to, but I do think she's a terrible administrator and needs to be removed. I think she doesn't care about MCPS or kids, just her own career.

1. I read she doesn't live in the county or send her kids to MCPS. During the school shooting, the police had to escort her through traffic for a press conference while anxious parents and busses waited to let kids out of the school.
2. January's covid response was a total disaster. Instead of preparing, she made YouTube videos about what her favorite subject in school was or cafeteria lunch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbZjpank-s0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_yWDfS2p9g). The 31 schools shut down in January weren't even the ones with the most serious covid infections. MCPS replaced metrics so that in just 15 instructional days in January, 2100+ staff and 9%+ of the student body were infected. There was a data suppression rule that was never explained, and the metrics were changed again (daily reporting stopped on March 1st) to obfuscate any covid issues using a 10-day-window metric instead of daily totals (ex. the 40'ish infected at Whitman HS).
3. January covid bus driver losses were so bad they called the National Guard to try to bus kids in.
https://wjla.com/news/local/montgomery-co-200-national-guard-troops-school-bus-driver-shortage-marc-elrich-montgomery-county-public-schools-larry-hogan
4. She's had two no confidence votes by the MCEA while interim Superintendent and she was STILL confirmed by the MC BOE.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-co-public-schools-teachers-union-votes-no-confidence-council-holding-emergency-session
5. This summer MCPS was a top-20 in open DoE OCR discrimination cases, so anything she's doing now is because she didn't look at her inbox.
6. How did MCPS spend $780K on bocci ball, $4M on diversity training, $2M on Kid Museum, when it was supposed to be covid money?
7. Hear anything about the $160M electric bus fiasco lately? https://www.schoolbusfleet.com/10156263/investigation-prompts-leave-for-two-maryland-transportation-directors I would think that deserved some attention.

Since the MC BOE confirmed her knowing all of this tells you how deep this runs.

ABC7 is going to answer #7 Thursday at 6 PM.

OMG I can't believe they would waste money on something like saving our planet! That's outrageous!!!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

DP. I'm not the person you're asking this to, but I do think she's a terrible administrator and needs to be removed. I think she doesn't care about MCPS or kids, just her own career.

1. I read she doesn't live in the county or send her kids to MCPS. During the school shooting, the police had to escort her through traffic for a press conference while anxious parents and busses waited to let kids out of the school.
2. January's covid response was a total disaster. Instead of preparing, she made YouTube videos about what her favorite subject in school was or cafeteria lunch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbZjpank-s0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_yWDfS2p9g). The 31 schools shut down in January weren't even the ones with the most serious covid infections. MCPS replaced metrics so that in just 15 instructional days in January, 2100+ staff and 9%+ of the student body were infected. There was a data suppression rule that was never explained, and the metrics were changed again (daily reporting stopped on March 1st) to obfuscate any covid issues using a 10-day-window metric instead of daily totals (ex. the 40'ish infected at Whitman HS).
3. January covid bus driver losses were so bad they called the National Guard to try to bus kids in.
https://wjla.com/news/local/montgomery-co-200-national-guard-troops-school-bus-driver-shortage-marc-elrich-montgomery-county-public-schools-larry-hogan
4. She's had two no confidence votes by the MCEA while interim Superintendent and she was STILL confirmed by the MC BOE.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-co-public-schools-teachers-union-votes-no-confidence-council-holding-emergency-session
5. This summer MCPS was a top-20 in open DoE OCR discrimination cases, so anything she's doing now is because she didn't look at her inbox.
6. How did MCPS spend $780K on bocci ball, $4M on diversity training, $2M on Kid Museum, when it was supposed to be covid money?
7. Hear anything about the $160M electric bus fiasco lately? https://www.schoolbusfleet.com/10156263/investigation-prompts-leave-for-two-maryland-transportation-directors I would think that deserved some attention.

Since the MC BOE confirmed her knowing all of this tells you how deep this runs.

ABC7 is going to answer #7 Thursday at 6 PM.

1) Why does where she live or send her kids to school have anything yo do with her job.
2) As has been debunked plenty of times, kids were not held in school to wait for a press conference
3) How is she solely responsible for the number of OCE cases and note she wasn’t even Interim Super until starting this past summer. In the midst of a pandemic
4) Covid money was spent on and is allocated for a bunch if things why is it these are the three that keep being bought up? Have you even read the budget? What do ya’ll have against Bocce ball and kids playing?
5) So instead if trying to find people to drive buses, should she have just left kids at bus stops?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

DP. I'm not the person you're asking this to, but I do think she's a terrible administrator and needs to be removed. I think she doesn't care about MCPS or kids, just her own career.

1. I read she doesn't live in the county or send her kids to MCPS. During the school shooting, the police had to escort her through traffic for a press conference while anxious parents and busses waited to let kids out of the school.
2. January's covid response was a total disaster. Instead of preparing, she made YouTube videos about what her favorite subject in school was or cafeteria lunch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbZjpank-s0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_yWDfS2p9g). The 31 schools shut down in January weren't even the ones with the most serious covid infections. MCPS replaced metrics so that in just 15 instructional days in January, 2100+ staff and 9%+ of the student body were infected. There was a data suppression rule that was never explained, and the metrics were changed again (daily reporting stopped on March 1st) to obfuscate any covid issues using a 10-day-window metric instead of daily totals (ex. the 40'ish infected at Whitman HS).
3. January covid bus driver losses were so bad they called the National Guard to try to bus kids in.
https://wjla.com/news/local/montgomery-co-200-national-guard-troops-school-bus-driver-shortage-marc-elrich-montgomery-county-public-schools-larry-hogan
4. She's had two no confidence votes by the MCEA while interim Superintendent and she was STILL confirmed by the MC BOE.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-co-public-schools-teachers-union-votes-no-confidence-council-holding-emergency-session
5. This summer MCPS was a top-20 in open DoE OCR discrimination cases, so anything she's doing now is because she didn't look at her inbox.
6. How did MCPS spend $780K on bocci ball, $4M on diversity training, $2M on Kid Museum, when it was supposed to be covid money?
7. Hear anything about the $160M electric bus fiasco lately? https://www.schoolbusfleet.com/10156263/investigation-prompts-leave-for-two-maryland-transportation-directors I would think that deserved some attention.

Since the MC BOE confirmed her knowing all of this tells you how deep this runs.

ABC7 is going to answer #7 Thursday at 6 PM.

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Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

DP. I'm not the person you're asking this to, but I do think she's a terrible administrator and needs to be removed. I think she doesn't care about MCPS or kids, just her own career.

1. I read she doesn't live in the county or send her kids to MCPS. During the school shooting, the police had to escort her through traffic for a press conference while anxious parents and busses waited to let kids out of the school.
2. January's covid response was a total disaster. Instead of preparing, she made YouTube videos about what her favorite subject in school was or cafeteria lunch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbZjpank-s0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_yWDfS2p9g). The 31 schools shut down in January weren't even the ones with the most serious covid infections. MCPS replaced metrics so that in just 15 instructional days in January, 2100+ staff and 9%+ of the student body were infected. There was a data suppression rule that was never explained, and the metrics were changed again (daily reporting stopped on March 1st) to obfuscate any covid issues using a 10-day-window metric instead of daily totals (ex. the 40'ish infected at Whitman HS).
3. January covid bus driver losses were so bad they called the National Guard to try to bus kids in.
https://wjla.com/news/local/montgomery-co-200-national-guard-troops-school-bus-driver-shortage-marc-elrich-montgomery-county-public-schools-larry-hogan
4. She's had two no confidence votes by the MCEA while interim Superintendent and she was STILL confirmed by the MC BOE.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-co-public-schools-teachers-union-votes-no-confidence-council-holding-emergency-session
5. This summer MCPS was a top-20 in open DoE OCR discrimination cases, so anything she's doing now is because she didn't look at her inbox.
6. How did MCPS spend $780K on bocci ball, $4M on diversity training, $2M on Kid Museum, when it was supposed to be covid money?
7. Hear anything about the $160M electric bus fiasco lately? https://www.schoolbusfleet.com/10156263/investigation-prompts-leave-for-two-maryland-transportation-directors I would think that deserved some attention.

Since the MC BOE confirmed her knowing all of this tells you how deep this runs.

ABC7 is going to answer #7 Thursday at 6 PM.

1) Why does where she live or send her kids to school have anything yo do with her job.
2) As has been debunked plenty of times, kids were not held in school to wait for a press conference
3) How is she solely responsible for the number of OCE cases and note she wasn’t even Interim Super until starting this past summer. In the midst of a pandemic
4) Covid money was spent on and is allocated for a bunch if things why is it these are the three that keep being bought up? Have you even read the budget? What do ya’ll have against Bocce ball and kids playing?
5) So instead if trying to find people to drive buses, should she have just left kids at bus stops?

You sound clear-headed and reasonable. (At 6:51 am too!)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

DP. I'm not the person you're asking this to, but I do think she's a terrible administrator and needs to be removed. I think she doesn't care about MCPS or kids, just her own career.

1. I read she doesn't live in the county or send her kids to MCPS. During the school shooting, the police had to escort her through traffic for a press conference while anxious parents and busses waited to let kids out of the school.
2. January's covid response was a total disaster. Instead of preparing, she made YouTube videos about what her favorite subject in school was or cafeteria lunch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbZjpank-s0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_yWDfS2p9g). The 31 schools shut down in January weren't even the ones with the most serious covid infections. MCPS replaced metrics so that in just 15 instructional days in January, 2100+ staff and 9%+ of the student body were infected. There was a data suppression rule that was never explained, and the metrics were changed again (daily reporting stopped on March 1st) to obfuscate any covid issues using a 10-day-window metric instead of daily totals (ex. the 40'ish infected at Whitman HS).
3. January covid bus driver losses were so bad they called the National Guard to try to bus kids in.
https://wjla.com/news/local/montgomery-co-200-national-guard-troops-school-bus-driver-shortage-marc-elrich-montgomery-county-public-schools-larry-hogan
4. She's had two no confidence votes by the MCEA while interim Superintendent and she was STILL confirmed by the MC BOE.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-co-public-schools-teachers-union-votes-no-confidence-council-holding-emergency-session
5. This summer MCPS was a top-20 in open DoE OCR discrimination cases, so anything she's doing now is because she didn't look at her inbox.
6. How did MCPS spend $780K on bocci ball, $4M on diversity training, $2M on Kid Museum, when it was supposed to be covid money?
7. Hear anything about the $160M electric bus fiasco lately? https://www.schoolbusfleet.com/10156263/investigation-prompts-leave-for-two-maryland-transportation-directors I would think that deserved some attention.

Since the MC BOE confirmed her knowing all of this tells you how deep this runs.

ABC7 is going to answer #7 Thursday at 6 PM.

1) Why does where she live or send her kids to school have anything yo do with her job.
2) As has been debunked plenty of times, kids were not held in school to wait for a press conference
3) How is she solely responsible for the number of OCE cases and note she wasn’t even Interim Super until starting this past summer. In the midst of a pandemic
4) Covid money was spent on and is allocated for a bunch if things why is it these are the three that keep being bought up? Have you even read the budget? What do ya’ll have against Bocce ball and kids playing?
5) So instead if trying to find people to drive buses, should she have just left kids at bus stops?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

DP. I'm not the person you're asking this to, but I do think she's a terrible administrator and needs to be removed. I think she doesn't care about MCPS or kids, just her own career.

1. I read she doesn't live in the county or send her kids to MCPS. During the school shooting, the police had to escort her through traffic for a press conference while anxious parents and busses waited to let kids out of the school.
2. January's covid response was a total disaster. Instead of preparing, she made YouTube videos about what her favorite subject in school was or cafeteria lunch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbZjpank-s0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_yWDfS2p9g). The 31 schools shut down in January weren't even the ones with the most serious covid infections. MCPS replaced metrics so that in just 15 instructional days in January, 2100+ staff and 9%+ of the student body were infected. There was a data suppression rule that was never explained, and the metrics were changed again (daily reporting stopped on March 1st) to obfuscate any covid issues using a 10-day-window metric instead of daily totals (ex. the 40'ish infected at Whitman HS).
3. January covid bus driver losses were so bad they called the National Guard to try to bus kids in.
https://wjla.com/news/local/montgomery-co-200-national-guard-troops-school-bus-driver-shortage-marc-elrich-montgomery-county-public-schools-larry-hogan
4. She's had two no confidence votes by the MCEA while interim Superintendent and she was STILL confirmed by the MC BOE.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-co-public-schools-teachers-union-votes-no-confidence-council-holding-emergency-session
5. This summer MCPS was a top-20 in open DoE OCR discrimination cases, so anything she's doing now is because she didn't look at her inbox.
6. How did MCPS spend $780K on bocci ball, $4M on diversity training, $2M on Kid Museum, when it was supposed to be covid money?
7. Hear anything about the $160M electric bus fiasco lately? https://www.schoolbusfleet.com/10156263/investigation-prompts-leave-for-two-maryland-transportation-directors I would think that deserved some attention.

Since the MC BOE confirmed her knowing all of this tells you how deep this runs.

ABC7 is going to answer #7 Thursday at 6 PM.

1) Why does where she live or send her kids to school have anything yo do with her job.
2) As has been debunked plenty of times, kids were not held in school to wait for a press conference
3) How is she solely responsible for the number of OCE cases and note she wasn’t even Interim Super until starting this past summer. In the midst of a pandemic
4) Covid money was spent on and is allocated for a bunch if things why is it these are the three that keep being bought up? Have you even read the budget? What do ya’ll have against Bocce ball and kids playing?
5) So instead if trying to find people to drive buses, should she have just left kids at bus stops?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

DP. I'm not the person you're asking this to, but I do think she's a terrible administrator and needs to be removed. I think she doesn't care about MCPS or kids, just her own career.

1. I read she doesn't live in the county or send her kids to MCPS. During the school shooting, the police had to escort her through traffic for a press conference while anxious parents and busses waited to let kids out of the school.
2. January's covid response was a total disaster. Instead of preparing, she made YouTube videos about what her favorite subject in school was or cafeteria lunch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbZjpank-s0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_yWDfS2p9g). The 31 schools shut down in January weren't even the ones with the most serious covid infections. MCPS replaced metrics so that in just 15 instructional days in January, 2100+ staff and 9%+ of the student body were infected. There was a data suppression rule that was never explained, and the metrics were changed again (daily reporting stopped on March 1st) to obfuscate any covid issues using a 10-day-window metric instead of daily totals (ex. the 40'ish infected at Whitman HS).
3. January covid bus driver losses were so bad they called the National Guard to try to bus kids in.
https://wjla.com/news/local/montgomery-co-200-national-guard-troops-school-bus-driver-shortage-marc-elrich-montgomery-county-public-schools-larry-hogan
4. She's had two no confidence votes by the MCEA while interim Superintendent and she was STILL confirmed by the MC BOE.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-co-public-schools-teachers-union-votes-no-confidence-council-holding-emergency-session
5. This summer MCPS was a top-20 in open DoE OCR discrimination cases, so anything she's doing now is because she didn't look at her inbox.
6. How did MCPS spend $780K on bocci ball, $4M on diversity training, $2M on Kid Museum, when it was supposed to be covid money?
7. Hear anything about the $160M electric bus fiasco lately? https://www.schoolbusfleet.com/10156263/investigation-prompts-leave-for-two-maryland-transportation-directors I would think that deserved some attention.

Since the MC BOE confirmed her knowing all of this tells you how deep this runs.

ABC7 is going to answer #7 Thursday at 6 PM.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

DP. I'm not the person you're asking this to, but I do think she's a terrible administrator and needs to be removed. I think she doesn't care about MCPS or kids, just her own career.

1. I read she doesn't live in the county or send her kids to MCPS. During the school shooting, the police had to escort her through traffic for a press conference while anxious parents and busses waited to let kids out of the school.
2. January's covid response was a total disaster. Instead of preparing, she made YouTube videos about what her favorite subject in school was or cafeteria lunch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbZjpank-s0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_yWDfS2p9g). The 31 schools shut down in January weren't even the ones with the most serious covid infections. MCPS replaced metrics so that in just 15 instructional days in January, 2100+ staff and 9%+ of the student body were infected. There was a data suppression rule that was never explained, and the metrics were changed again (daily reporting stopped on March 1st) to obfuscate any covid issues using a 10-day-window metric instead of daily totals (ex. the 40'ish infected at Whitman HS).
3. January covid bus driver losses were so bad they called the National Guard to try to bus kids in.
https://wjla.com/news/local/montgomery-co-200-national-guard-troops-school-bus-driver-shortage-marc-elrich-montgomery-county-public-schools-larry-hogan
4. She's had two no confidence votes by the MCEA while interim Superintendent and she was STILL confirmed by the MC BOE.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-co-public-schools-teachers-union-votes-no-confidence-council-holding-emergency-session
5. This summer MCPS was a top-20 in open DoE OCR discrimination cases, so anything she's doing now is because she didn't look at her inbox.
6. How did MCPS spend $780K on bocci ball, $4M on diversity training, $2M on Kid Museum, when it was supposed to be covid money?
7. Hear anything about the $160M electric bus fiasco lately? https://www.schoolbusfleet.com/10156263/investigation-prompts-leave-for-two-maryland-transportation-directors I would think that deserved some attention.

Since the MC BOE confirmed her knowing all of this tells you how deep this runs.

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Anonymous wrote:Lot of BS stuff about social emotional learning and nothing about how they are going to close the achievement gap and the learning loss.

plan is to lower the standards enough so that everyone can perform at same level. Highly abled need to slow down and chill out. not work so hard on subjects so that others can catch up.

This is a false narrative designed to sow seeds of dissent among different groups within MCPS. We need to collaborate as a community and work together to solve myriad issues within MCPS. The Princeton-bound kid is not suffering because another child is 15 and functionally illiterate. Both are important for the future of our community.

Agree sure I hear this all the time BUT my own kids have had many wonderful opportunities to achieve and be challenged. One had around 30 college credits from APs and the other is on track to do similarly.

We're also happy. Many just enjoy complaining, but in my experience, MCPS is made up of many teachers and administrators who have gone above and beyond to put kids first.

+1. This board would have you believing MCPS is horrible. Its not. Sure there are a few bad apples here and there but that would be true anywhere. Are there things that MCPS can improve upon, sure but this is true anywhere. Whats really needed is community engagement, support, and effort. But many just like engaging in complaint. Ask them to run for the school PTA, MCCPTA, attend community meetings about BOE and county council candidates, or do extra homework/practice with their kids and you’ll get crickets.

Exactly, then they'll sock puppet a torrent of posts on their pet issue drowning out any dissent.

MCPS has paid staff that monitor and post on this forum. Dr. McKnight needs more staff for her propaganda campaign that she put a $500,000 contract in next year’s budget for a PR Firm. The only sock puppetry is MCPS posing as parents who love MCPS.

Please give Q my regards!