My fingers sometimes move too fast, but a correction: "with white admin, whistration" = white administration.

As a male employee of MCPS, I fully expect my workplace to reflect the diversity inherent with this county. It does not threaten my livelihood whatsoever to have POC staff members working hand in hand with me. But I will quietly notice when a school is definitely being insidiously racist, with white admin, whistration, white staff members, and more, with the only people of color being secretarial or building services. Oh boy.

As another example: a much older industry guy I know was putting together a project and when it came out it was instantly criticized for only having white men in it. He was confronted, and he admitted that he didn't know any female participants or any poc participants to invite to this project. So, GIGO. It's not so simple as to say, "Well, only white guys applied to the position." Or whatever the demographic is.

I once noted to a school that 100% of its teaching staff was white, at a time when their student demographics were quickly changing, and I got some vicious backlash that POC just don't apply, that it's not their fault that there aren't any in the applicant pool, etc etc etc, and I was sitting there thinking to myself, gee, I wonder why POC don't bother applying. It's a downright mystery. (*sarcasm*)

Unfortunately that is not how it works at all in the real world. For example, in my other industry we found out that diverse (poc) candidates were often discouraged from applying. Which meant that all we got were usually white males. It took about five to ten years to actively do outreach to make the applicant pool better. This does not happen overnight. I would probably side-eye anything that leans in either direction, without knowing what kind of efforts were made. Considering the incredibly sexist and racist comments here, though, I would not blame some people from not applying.

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Anonymous wrote:FINALLY! The MCPS Board of Education for once makes a good decision. Hopefully they will find someone to hire by July 1, or someone else who can come in as interim.

Heard there are 4 male candidates as finalists for the position.

As a female employee, I am totally fine with that as long as they are the best candidates for the job. A position should not be staffed based on a persons gender or race. If there were no strong female candidates good for them for not moving one forward for the sake of having a diverse finalist pool.

Well said.

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Anonymous wrote:FINALLY! The MCPS Board of Education for once makes a good decision. Hopefully they will find someone to hire by July 1, or someone else who can come in as interim.

Heard there are 4 male candidates as finalists for the position.

As a female employee, I am totally fine with that as long as they are the best candidates for the job. A position should not be staffed based on a persons gender or race. If there were no strong female candidates good for them for not moving one forward for the sake of having a diverse finalist pool.

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Anonymous wrote:FINALLY! The MCPS Board of Education for once makes a good decision. Hopefully they will find someone to hire by July 1, or someone else who can come in as interim.

Heard there are 4 male candidates as finalists for the position.

Guess after McKnight faltered and Felder has fumbled, MCPS doesn't believe a woman can lead the system?

OMG, STOP! There is a rumor and you rush to judgement. Guess you are writing off 50% of population for the job, just based on gender.

I'm not writing off anyone for the job. MCPS is the one moving forward a full slate of male candidates for the superintendent position, if the PP's post is to be believed.

That's a huge "if"

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Anonymous wrote:FINALLY! The MCPS Board of Education for once makes a good decision. Hopefully they will find someone to hire by July 1, or someone else who can come in as interim.

Heard there are 4 male candidates as finalists for the position.

Guess after McKnight faltered and Felder has fumbled, MCPS doesn't believe a woman can lead the system?

OMG, STOP! There is a rumor and you rush to judgement. Guess you are writing off 50% of population for the job, just based on gender.

I'm not writing off anyone for the job. MCPS is the one moving forward a full slate of male candidates for the superintendent position, if the PP's post is to be believed.

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Anonymous wrote:FINALLY! The MCPS Board of Education for once makes a good decision. Hopefully they will find someone to hire by July 1, or someone else who can come in as interim.

Heard there are 4 male candidates as finalists for the position.

Guess after McKnight faltered and Felder has fumbled, MCPS doesn't believe a woman can lead the system?

OMG, STOP! There is a rumor and you rush to judgement. Guess you are writing off 50% of population for the job, just based on gender.

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Anonymous wrote:FINALLY! The MCPS Board of Education for once makes a good decision. Hopefully they will find someone to hire by July 1, or someone else who can come in as interim.

Heard there are 4 male candidates as finalists for the position.

Guess after McKnight faltered and Felder has fumbled, MCPS doesn't believe a woman can lead the system?

Anonymous wrote:FINALLY! The MCPS Board of Education for once makes a good decision. Hopefully they will find someone to hire by July 1, or someone else who can come in as interim.

Heard there are 4 male candidates as finalists for the position.

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Anonymous wrote:How many people are going to be let go or involuntarily transferred in each school?

Sounds like one per school, in selected schools.

Cuts in all schools. More than one position in some middle schools and average of 3 in high schools

Not in all schools. Some have posted on this forum that their school received no cuts.

How is this possible when principals were told to absorb the SDTs? That’s a 0.4 reduction in teaching allocations alone right there

I believe SDTs were reduced in secondary schools, not elementary schools.

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Anonymous wrote:How many people are going to be let go or involuntarily transferred in each school?

Sounds like one per school, in selected schools.

Cuts in all schools. More than one position in some middle schools and average of 3 in high schools

Not in all schools. Some have posted on this forum that their school received no cuts.

How is this possible when principals were told to absorb the SDTs? That’s a 0.4 reduction in teaching allocations alone right there

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Anonymous wrote:How many people are going to be let go or involuntarily transferred in each school?

Sounds like one per school, in selected schools.

It’s not. Most high schools are losing another 3-4 full time allocations. Many middle schools more than 1. This is in addition to losing multiple positions already in March. No idea about elementary yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Frederick Co schools MD has $50 million gap. Much smaller system with far fewer extra resource, DEI, etc positions to cut. Big trouble up there too right now. Can’t easily pin the blame on the superintendents. Between retiring Fed money, teacher pay raises, and the underfunded Maryland blueprint no county is able absorb these costs easily.

Howard County Public Schools are in budget trouble as well.

If this is a statewide problem, the state needs to put the Blueprint on hold until it is properly funded. If they can't come up with the funding, then no Blueprint.

From your lips to the state legislature's ears, and to the governor's ears as well.