MCPS Clown Show Repository

[RFBfromDE]

Another Jew Hater in MCPS;

Montgomery Co. teacher on leave for pro-Palestinian email signature, complaint alleges - WTOP News

A filing from the Council on American Islamic Relations released Friday alleges that another Montgomery County, Maryland, teacher has been placed on leave after expressing support for Palestinians during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

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The organization says that Hajur El-Haggan, a teacher at Argyle Middle School who identifies as Muslim and is of Egyptian and Sudanese national origin, was placed on leave for a quote included in her email signature.

“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” El-Haggan’s signature reads, according to the complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Even so, El-Haggan said, the school did not adhere to its policies focused on restorative justice when responding to this incident.

“The way in which Ms. El-Haggan was treated was far from Restorative Justice and is in stark contrast to the county’s regular practices and treatment of other employees,” the complaint said.

“The way Ms. El-Haggan was treated in comparison to her colleagues is a clear example of discrimination. Ms. El-Haggan took part in the same conduct as her colleagues at school and in the county, but she was the only one placed on administrative leave,” CAIR Pro Bono Attorney Rawda Fawaz said in a news release announcing the complaint."

 

[RFBfromDE]

Navarro’s MCPS pay released: three months, $96.62 per hour

Former school board member and county councilmember’s part-time position does not come with benefits.

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Nice "work" if you can get it.

 

[MaxVO2]

Navarro’s MCPS pay released: three months, $96.62 per hour

Former school board member and county councilmember’s part-time position does not come with benefits.

moco360.media

Nice "work" if you can get it.

****Wow. Good gig. Hope she fixes literally everything wrong with the MCPS school system and closes the achievement gap as well.

Totally worth it if she can do some or any of that.

 

[RFBfromDE]

Uh, oh....

Montgomery County schools superintendent says board wants her to step down​

Linky;

MSN

 

[RFBfromDE]

And;

What did MCPS’ McKnight know about harassment scandal, and when did she know it?

Redactions in law firm report indicate she was aware of inquiry into Farquhar Middle principal but didn’t immediately tell school board

moco360.media

 

[RFBfromDE]

Montgomery Co. parents criticize delay in notifying community about fight that hospitalized student - WTOP News

Some Montgomery County, Maryland, parents are upset that their child’s middle school waited two days to tell them about a fight that sent a student to the hospital.

wtop.com

Some parents took issue with the response, including how long it took the school to notify the school community and that a town hall was held without the involvement of parents.

“I feel like they should not be speaking to students regarding certain issues, without their parents present. You don’t know what they are saying to them; you don’t know if they’re telling them to be ‘Hush, hush,’ if they’re telling them, ‘Don’t say this, don’t tell your parents that,’” said Holly Flores, who is the parent of a sixth-grader at the school."

Ms. Flores has caught on.

 

[Schipperke]

Montgomery Co. parents criticize delay in notifying community about fight that hospitalized student - WTOP News

Some Montgomery County, Maryland, parents are upset that their child’s middle school waited two days to tell them about a fight that sent a student to the hospital.

wtop.com

Some parents took issue with the response, including how long it took the school to notify the school community and that a town hall was held without the involvement of parents.

“I feel like they should not be speaking to students regarding certain issues, without their parents present. You don’t know what they are saying to them; you don’t know if they’re telling them to be ‘Hush, hush,’ if they’re telling them, ‘Don’t say this, don’t tell your parents that,’” said Holly Flores, who is the parent of a sixth-grader at the school."

Ms. Flores has caught on.

I mean, if your kid has an IQ under 80, maybe worry..

Both my kids MCPS, with College scholarships. I think there's a post elsewhere on "helicopter parenting" that fits Holly

 

[RFBfromDE]

I mean, if your kid has an IQ under 80, maybe worry..

Both my kids MCPS, with College scholarships. I think there's a post elsewhere on "helicopter parenting" that fits Holly

So I'll write you down for "I have complete trust in MCPS" did you realize this violence took place in a Middle School?

Why presume that Ms. Flores is a helicopter parent with a stupid kid. Let's hope "Flores" doesn't have anything to do with it.

After 5 pages of documented corruption and chicanery in MCPS, I say Ms. Flores has every right not to trust this school system.

 

[Schipperke]

So I'll write you down for "I have complete trust in MCPS" did you realize this violence took place in a Middle School?

Why presume that Ms. Flores is a helicopter parent with a stupid kid. Let's hope "Flores" doesn't have anything to do with it.

After 5 pages of documented corruption and chicanery in MCPS, I say Ms. Flores has every right not to trust this school system.

I'll write you down for "I lack reading comprehension"

 

[MaxVO2]

And;

What did MCPS’ McKnight know about harassment scandal, and when did she know it?

Redactions in law firm report indicate she was aware of inquiry into Farquhar Middle principal but didn’t immediately tell school board

moco360.media

****Monifa (Dr. McKnight..) is in big trouble. The dude she has been promoting and protecting all of these years is a serial sexual harasser/bully and has had *major* issues related to this and been accused of it, and witnessed doing it by *multiple* people since like 2013 ish. He should have been fired on the first incident, but was instead promoted to principal, and has continued being a serial harasser.

A LOT of parents are very upset by this and the blatant disregard shown with respect to a lack of consequences for this guy Monifa is friends with and has been protecting up to now. He hasn't worked since last year, and thankfully now his salary has stopped because he is guilty as sin.

I know several MCPS schoolteachers, and a couple of principals at MoCo schools (they live in my hood) and they all say Monifa (Dr. McKnight to you.. ) is one angry, and very vindictive person who has zero problems getting rid of people she doesn't like, and making recommendations to the board on all manner of initiatives that have zero to do with educating kids and more about indoctrination. She was hired by MoCo to the usual fanfare "First Black woman to head MCPS!..", diversity blah blah. Maybe she was hired on merit, but her actions as superintendent have been less than stellar and she has a great chance of being outright fired now, and not because she happens to be Black, or a woman, or a Black woman but because she has shown remarkably poor judgement.

Several schools have been hiding fighting, gang activity, and serious crimes perpetrated by students and trying to take care of it "internally" so it is basically off the record and doesn't make the district look bad... Ridiculous. Plenty of parents whose kids have gotten their asses beat by bullies that continue to bully and cause mayhem are basically stuck with no real recourse to help their kids, and a few students that probably have no business even being in a regular class are serial disruptors and make life terrible for the other kids - some of whom want to do more in life than go to prison or become thugs/gangbangers.

Thankfully, it seems like the board has come to their senses and is trying to boot her as she *sucks*. And, of course - she has lawyered up as has the guy she has been protecting - and he has hired Ben Crump to no doubt pull the race card out as to why his client is being harassed....Just wait for it...

That principal with all the problems is a serial screwup who no doubt was promoted over *much* better candidates because he was a personal friend of the Superintendent. There are plenty of qualified people that can handle that guys job who *havent* had multiple accusations of documented sexual harassment over a period of years and they are still waiting to be promoted to principal of a big school in MoCo but have not.

I hope Monifa gets booted. MoCo residents pay a LOT of money in taxes to send their kiddies to good schools - and this is the Superintendent they ended up with. Reap what you sow. The Board of Ed so far has refused to release the unredacted report of just how bad Beidleman was (That's Dr. Beidleman to you.. ) - and are trying to save face as there are so many teachers and others coming forward now with behavior that principal engaged in major bullying and harassment and it was documented but suppressed publically so as not to embarrass the county or Dr. McKnight herself... Kids come last I guess..

Small blurb below. Ben Crump is already talking about "Racial disparities", as both McKnight and Beidleman happen to be Black - so of course it just *has* to be racism and not that the dude just sucks at his job, and Monifa is protecting a bum who should have been booted years ago for his execreble behavior, with the Board of Ed doing their darndest to keep this scandal in house as it is embarassing.

Hopefully good riddance to her. MoCo can do better.

 

[RFBfromDE]

I mean, if your kid has an IQ under 80, maybe worry..

Both my kids MCPS, with College scholarships. I think there's a post elsewhere on "helicopter parenting" that fits Holly

I'll write you down for "I lack reading comprehension"

Yep, you'll have to explain it to me.

 

[RFBfromDE]

Even the dooshes I want to agree with are INSUFFERABLE!

"An attendee explained to MoCo360 that leaders didn’t feel psychologically safe because “When we spoke up, we were dismissed and there were repercussions. [Leadership] silenced us in meetings, shot down initiatives, bullied us in front of subordinates, excluded us from important meetings and questioned our work publicly,” said the official, who said they left MCPS because of this treatment and spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution by the school system. “It was awful because all the leaders of color had several burdens, the burden of the lived trauma of racism in our work daily, the burden to help the system deal with it while also traumatized ourselves and the burden to keep quiet [in] a hostile and unsafe [work] environment.”

Principals, administrators depart as MCPS faces cronyism, accountability concerns

Superintendent McKnight is fighting board’s attempt to oust her amid questions of cronyism and accountability

moco360.media

 

[RFBfromDE]

Another one?

An MCPS spokesperson said the district’s Chief of District Operations, Dana Edwards, is on administrative leave but did not offer more detail as to why she is on leave or for how long, citing laws surrounding personnel matters.

MSN

And you, you taxpaying worm, are entitled to know nothing. You know, because "privacy!"

 

[RFBfromDE]

McKnight out.

“Today the Montgomery County Board of Education and Dr. Monifa McKnight have mutually agreed to separate, effective February 2, 2024. The Board is grateful to Dr. McKnight for her many years of service to MCPS and public education,” the release said. “We wish her well in her next chapter. The Board will work together with staff to ensure a smooth transition.”

MCPS Chief Operating Officer Brian Hull will take over as acting superintendent until a new interim superintendent is announced Wednesday, according to the press release."

 

[spoon059]

This is all entirely over the handling of the Biedleman situation. This guy was known to be a creeper in Virginia before he was even hired here as a teacher. He was constantly making inappropriate comments to females and making them uncomfortable. MCPS has known of these allegations for YEARS and ignored them because he was buddies with McKnight. McKnight was a protected class, which meant that Beidleman was protected. They thought they would never get caught.

Now that they got caught, they are dropping like flies. They knew, they covered up, they protected and they lied.

Don't worry about them though... your tax dollars will be paying for a great severance package for all of them.

$3.2 BILLION budget...

 

[MaxVO2]

This is all entirely over the handling of the Biedleman situation. This guy was known to be a creeper in Virginia before he was even hired here as a teacher. He was constantly making inappropriate comments to females and making them uncomfortable. MCPS has known of these allegations for YEARS and ignored them because he was buddies with McKnight. McKnight was a protected class, which meant that Beidleman was protected. They thought they would never get caught.

Now that they got caught, they are dropping like flies. They knew, they covered up, they protected and they lied.

Don't worry about them though... your tax dollars will be paying for a great severance package for all of them.

$3.2 BILLION budget...

****THIS. Monifa (That's Dr. McKnight to us...) was allowed to resign to save face but would have 100% been fired outright in the private sector for the way she ran things in MoCo. She was going to, like Biedleman has done, trying to use the race card thing and got majorly called out on it and told to accept resignation and not fight - or ALL of the dirty laundry comes out embarrassing her and several of the people she put in positions of authority that have been demonstrably ineffective and *terrible* at their jobs while bullying others that even questioned their decision making. The Board of Ed had enough, and enough very influential parents with kids in the school system put a case together with a dossier of info on Biedleman and others that have been shuttled around for similar actions, and threatened to go public with it all.

They absolutely thought they were untouchable, and they were for years basically correct until some of this went public. There are other major major issues in the county with respect to crime in the schools, gang activity, drugs, and trying to hide it all from the public and get it taken care of internally - especially at the big flagship schools in the nice areas (Potomac, Bethesda, Chevy Chase) where a *very* small number of kids cause 90% of the problems but teachers and administrators are told to back off as the kids that cause the problems are *overwhelmingly* Black kids, often IEP type kids with anger management issues and clear information processing and learning disabilities - politically incorrect to point this out.

Kids that should probably be away from the general student body to get the help they really need with the realization they are not college material if by 8th or 9th grade they still can't read, or do even basic mathematics nor even be bothered to do homework nor study, etc.. Hispanic kids with language and major issues related to being in a new country are a distant second place in terms of having problems, and being involved in gang type activity but they are generally not at the nicer area schools and many drop out of school to go to work to help their families, or become gangbangers or whatever.

It is amazing how much MoCo schools have changed in the past 25 years, and the best schools are still really really good, but teachers and administrators are absolutely hamstrung and unable to remove or really do anything about kids that have really major problems that go beyond what can be reasonably expected for a regular teacher to handle with their already high workload and regular student body without the disciplinary issues. Monifa and her ilk absolutely did NOT want to hear about more minority kids having problems, or the academic achievement gaps, etc... and basically bullied the teacher and school systems to basically ignore and or quietly sweep under the rug just how dysfunctional a small subset of kids are that happen to be overwhelmingly minority students from poor, but not always poor, backgrounds who attack their teachers, and are wandering around the halls during the school day instead of being in class, etc.. They are rude, defiant, and know teachers can't do anything to them. Those kids *should* be kicked out or thrown into reform school with other kids just like them as they are disruptive and basically ruin education for the kids that actually want to be there to learn to eventually go to college or trade school, the military or whatever - to be contributing members of society.

Good riddance to that lady. The only discrimination there should be should be based on merit. Let the best people reach their potential. Holding back the truly gifted and talented kids and dumbing down curriculum hurts everyone even if the results from testing clearly show some kids are just smarter than others, pick things up quicker, and will be the high achievers while others will simply not be able to handle the work - probably ever.

Give everybody a chance to succeed but remove the kids that refuse to conform to basic standards of behavior if it seems to be a pattern of behavior that is ruining the educational experience of kids that actually have the potential to do well.. Not all kids can do more advanced schoolwork no matter how much time and tutoring and extra attention they get - but it's *worse* if they are a PITA and clearly don't want to be in school. There are a couple of MoCo principals and Board of Ed people in my hood, along with teachers and there are a lot of hopeful and happy people now that that lady is gone.

 

[spoon059]

IIRC, they have a Superintendent of something who's main job was to "reduce the achievement gap" at MCPS. Read that again... REDUCE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP... not raise the bottom 10% of grades.

The easiest and surest way to reduce the gap is to stop teaching the upper 10% and dumb them down, rather than focus on the bottom 10% and lift them up.

The reality of "no child left behind" is that we are leaving ALL of them behind. You can only go as fast as you slowest student. Rather than taking the 10% lowest and separating them and giving them extra attention and letting the other 90% work in peace, it is more favorable to let the 10% drag everyone up the bottom. You know.. for equity...

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[chilipeppermaniac]

It is amazing how much MoCo schools have changed in the past 25 years, and the best schools are still really really good, but teachers and administrators are absolutely hamstrung and unable to remove or really do anything about kids that have really major problems that go beyond what can be reasonably expected for a regular teacher to handle with their already high workload and regular student body without the disciplinary issues. Monifa and her ilk absolutely did NOT want to hear about more minority kids having problems, or the academic achievement gaps, etc... and basically bullied the teacher and school systems to basically ignore and or quietly sweep under the rug just how dysfunctional a small subset of kids are that happen to be overwhelmingly minority students from poor, but not always poor, backgrounds who attack their teachers, and are wandering around the halls during the school day instead of being in class, etc.. They are rude, defiant, and know teachers can't do anything to them. Those kids *should* be kicked out or thrown into reform school with other kids just like them as they are disruptive and basically ruin education for the kids that actually want to be there to learn to eventually go to college or trade school, the military or whatever - to be contributing members of society.

Good riddance to that lady. The only discrimination there should be should be based on merit. Let the best people reach their potential. Holding back the truly gifted and talented kids and dumbing down curriculum hurts everyone even if the results from testing clearly show some kids are just smarter than others, pick things up quicker, and will be the high achievers while others will simply not be able to handle the work - probably ever.

Give everybody a chance to succeed but remove the kids that refuse to conform to basic standards of behavior if it seems to be a pattern of behavior that is ruining the educational experience of kids that actually have the potential to do well.. Not all kids can do more advanced schoolwork no matter how much time and tutoring and extra attention they get - but it's *worse* if they are a PITA and clearly don't want to be in school. There are a couple of MoCo principals and Board of Ed people in my hood, along with teachers and there are a lot of hopeful and happy people now that that lady is gone.

Max, what schools did you go to in MoCo?

I went to some pretty good public schools here in BaltoCo, but also know at least 12 folks who are 50-60 who went to various schools in Olney, Rockville, Silver Spring, Burtonsville, and those general areas.

I am pretty sure that one went to Northwood ( I presume this was public school) the others were schools like Good Counsel, Magruder, if I remember right. None of these friends were IQ or behaviorally challenged. I witnessed their intelligence while in college and as we became adults.

I never had kids thankfully. I sure as heck would not want them in any Public Indoctrination centers that are passing themselves off as schools these days.

 

[RFBfromDE]

McKnight to get $1.3 Million to go away.

McKnight Gets $1.3 Million in Separation Payment

Former Superintendent Dr. Monifa McKnight will get $1.3 million in a separation agreement. The Montgomery County Board of Education and McKnight mutually agreed to separate effective Feb. 2, which came… Read More

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[RFBfromDE]

Sick teachers and parents use their children as pawns.

I hate these Dem fookers.

Dozens of Viers Mill Elementary Students Walk Out to Protest Loss of Title 1 Status

86 third, fourth and fifth graders at Viers Mill Elementary School missed watching the movie, Wonder, so they could march in the field behind their school and voice their displeasure… Read More

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