All this does is just underscore once again how completely inept and corrupt this School Board is. They are an echo chamber of party activists who advance their own agendas and they hand-pick who gets to have a voice in their decisions (hint: agreeing with them in advance is what matters).

The Fairfax NAACP doesn’t usually object to that process because they usually have an outsized influence on FCPS, but in this particular instance they didn’t like the School Board’s apparent preference for Reid, so they decided to foul the nest, ostensibly by claiming about the lack of transparency but more obviously to try and promote Logan over Reid.

Not surprisingly, it’s backfired, since Logan withdrew from consideration over the past 24 hours and some of the Democratic loyalists are demanding an investigation into who breached their NDA and disclosed the finalists to the NAACP.

The irony, of course, is that all the inside baseball and treachery demonstrates why so few qualified candidates were interested in the position and why the replacement of the back-stabbing hacks on the School Board in 2023 is far more important than the appointment of a new superintendent in 2022 (after all, a new School Board can terminate the contact of Reid or any other puppet the current SB appoints this year).

Anonymous wrote:I love how the NAACP called the community member that breached the NDA a ‘whistleblower’. Like there was some sort of illegal going ons with the process.

Apparently, they thought they could force a candidate into the position with fake outrage. This whole ‘disrupt’ movement is out of control.

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I love how the NAACP called the community member that breached the NDA a ‘whistleblower’. Like there was some sort of illegal going ons with the process.

Apparently, they thought they could force a candidate into the position with fake outrage. This whole ‘disrupt’ movement is out of control.

Anonymous wrote:https://omaha.com/news/local/education/ops-superintendent-cheryl-logan-withdraws-from-virginia-school-district-superintendent-search/article_72050ce2-b85c-11ec-98a8-938cec993135.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_OWHnews

lol less than 24 hours after the NAACP endorsed a candidate, she withdraws.

Great job Fairfax NAACP! Can't wait to read your press release.

The NAACP letter acknowledged in their public letter (tantrum) that someone from the community panel broke their NDA.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why couldn’t FCPS have conducted a transparent process in the first place with, say, four finalists that met publicly with community members, not the usual hand-picked insiders?

FCPS screws up everything it touches.

There was a transparent process. Final interviews are not the place for that. Apparently the screw up by FCPS is expecting that community participants would abide by the NDAs that they signed. The lesson is they should not use community interviewers next time.

Do we know it was one of the community members who leaked the name? Could have been a school board member or someone in the central office. Regardless, the situation is a giant mess.

Anonymous wrote:Why couldn’t FCPS have conducted a transparent process in the first place with, say, four finalists that met publicly with community members, not the usual hand-picked insiders?

FCPS screws up everything it touches.

There was a transparent process. Final interviews are not the place for that. Apparently the screw up by FCPS is expecting that community participants would abide by the NDAs that they signed. The lesson is they should not use community interviewers next time.

https://omaha.com/news/local/education/ops-superintendent-cheryl-logan-withdraws-from-virginia-school-district-superintendent-search/article_72050ce2-b85c-11ec-98a8-938cec993135.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_OWHnews

lol less than 24 hours after the NAACP endorsed a candidate, she withdraws.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The NAACP letter is incredibly slanted relying on nebulous claims of the interviewers’ impressions as a I highly doubt they went around the room to get everyone’s opinions but just were looking for a way to justifying to pick the most racial diverse candidate. LMAO at cherry on top of them claiming a 50 percent minority student district population in Washington as “minimal diversity”.

Because 50% of 20,000 is only 10,000. 10,000 total minority student is very little even if they are 50% of the total student population. FCPS has over 100,000 minority students.

By that metric neither is the Omaha woman. 100,000 minority students alone is more than 98% of all school district enrollments let alone minority standing alone.

https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2022/04/fairfax-naacp-expresses-concern-over-potential-school-system-superintendent-picks/

Anonymous wrote:The NAACP letter is incredibly slanted relying on nebulous claims of the interviewers’ impressions as a I highly doubt they went around the room to get everyone’s opinions but just were looking for a way to justifying to pick the most racial diverse candidate. LMAO at cherry on top of them claiming a 50 percent minority student district population in Washington as “minimal diversity”.

Because 50% of 20,000 is only 10,000. 10,000 total minority student is very little even if they are 50% of the total student population. FCPS has over 100,000 minority students.

I think it’s likely Michelle Reid. Seems to be pretty close to Dan Domenech and Karen Garza, two of the most recent superintendents.

Why couldn’t FCPS have conducted a transparent process in the first place with, say, four finalists that met publicly with community members, not the usual hand-picked insiders?

FCPS screws up everything it touches.

Community panelists breached their NDAs? That’s awful and they should be sued. But FCPS can’t have yet another legal battle on its hands.

Anonymous wrote:FCPS is a sad remnant of what it used to be. This School Board and its immediate predecessors have ruined it through years of incompetence, hypocrisy, and neglect.

For her own sake I hope Hogan realizes it is a sinking ship before signing on to captain the Titanic.

Sorry, Logan.