Star Principal Finally Suspended After Washington Post Report

People who have the luxury of never being sexually assaulted were shocked when the #MeToo Movement got co-opted by mainstream America.  I'm really glad that phase is over with.  Because I couldn't stand everyone saying, "Wow, it's shocking what rich, powerful, white men get away with!"

Because really they could drop the first three qualifiers.  In my experience, in America men pretty much get to do as they please almost across the board without consequences.  That's unless the police and prosecutors happen to want to stitch them up, like with the Central Park Five or West Memphis Three.  If they feel like they need to punish somebody, it could be anyone who can't fight back, like poor Junius Stinney.  But the person who actually did the sex crime has no worries. 

Like Larry Nassar, this Maryland situation is another one where some nobody of a schlub, some schmoe who would be very easy to replace, a guy who doesn't make all that much money and is nothing special, has allegedly been allowed to just do whatever he wants for years.  This one is named Joel Biedleman.

His shitty boss is named Monifa B. McKnight.  May she be working at Walmart real soon.

Just like with Larry Nassar, all Biedleman has to do is say, "No, I didn't," over and over again, and the people he works for say, "all is well then" and give him a promotion.   That's literally his only defense here, same as Nassar.  No matter how many people contradict him, Biedleman just keeps saying, "No, they're all wrong, I didn't do it."  And Nassar is still saying all he did was physical therapy.  But at least Nassar is in jail.  Monifa McKnight probably would've promoted him.

The Washington Post report details:

• A 2022-2023 MCPS staff survey asking "How positive is the climate that leadership sets at your school?" revealed that over 40% answered "Not at all," the second-worst of any MCPS middle school.  Monifa McKnight:  "Great job, Joel!  Take more money!"
  
• Nine teachers who mentioned his abuse as their reason for quitting
  
• 18 reports of misconduct against him by parents, teachers, and union stewards since 2016
  
• A former PTA president who requested a change of schools for her children after he told her daughter "not to be a whore" like her friend
  
• Another parent who was so concerned about his frequently calling her daughter into his office to interrogate her about her clothing and appearance that she hired an attorney
  
• An assembly where he called the girls in his student body "hos and thots," which he later denied despite a dozen outraged teacher eyewitnesses
  
• An in-service on professional attire in which 24 teachers claim he said, "Camel toe is not allowed," which Biedleman denies.  Remember folks, all he has to say is, "No" and they're all liars who have to go away
  
• One teacher who was offered an assistant principal job.  Then  he sent her text messages asking for sex.  When he sent her a text saying he was on her way to his house, She made it clear in no uncertain terms not to come,  and reminded him that they were "just friends," which she felt was "career suicide."  Twelve days later she learned that she was not in the selection pool.  She was texted 400 times, including pressure for sexual favors, between being offered the job and being rejected for it.
  
• Told one teacher she looked like she "pegged her husband" and did butt stuff
  
• And many more issues, read the linked article.
  

"Until last week, MCPS treated Beidleman as a rising star. Despite six staff members’ reports to MCPS about his conduct in 2023, officials promoted him in June to run Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville, a position that oversees a larger staff than Farquhar’s and would have raised his salary by $32,000, to $191,000.
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After The Post submitted a list of questions last week, MCPS placed Beidleman on “extended leave,” said it wanted staff members who’d been mistreated to come forward and launched “an independent, external investigation about all matters brought to our attention by the Washington Post.”

Also from the Washington Post article, we see an example of the people who make life unsurvivable for people like me:  Miya Page.   She's another version of the white people MLK warned us about.  She must not be Biedleman's type.

"Farquhar history teacher Miya Page said that while she was aware of his bullying, she did not personally experience it. “He’s very focused on student achievement and making sure students feel safe, loved and appreciated,” she said. “Whenever I had a concern, I could go to him. He usually took my thoughts and ideas and implemented them. I felt heard with him. I personally had a great time working for him.”

Except for the girls he's interrogating about their slutty clothes, or calling whores.

Hey Miya, if you ever need help with anything, don't come to me for real.  Take your stab wounds or whatever and cry to your good buddy Joel.  Let him do your CPR.