The superintendent of Worcester County Public schools announced his planned resignation date of June 2025 to finish out the school year. The announcement came on January 21, 2025, just a day after the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump. Between the new mandates coming down from the Trump administration and the controversies surrounding the superintendent, a resignation labeled as a retirement seems like an easy way of escape.
On the Worcester County Public Schools webpage, his announcement touts his legacy term as being a great success. The superintendent states:
“My entire life has been intertwined with this school system since its start.”
The keyword is intertwined. When someone is intertwined with a system, along with that comes corruption.
“Despite the challenges that have come our way, I truly believe that we have made such positive progress.”
In other words, don’t look at the man behind the curtain. Focus on the smoke and mirrors.
What challenges have come his way that would trigger a resignation?
The Trump administration will be cutting federal funding from school systems that continue to implement Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies. These policies divide people into racial/social groups and establish a system of racial stereotyping and preference. The superintendent has been a proponent of DEI, Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT), Restorative Justice Practices, and the application of an Equity Lens that forces partiality based on physical attributes, as the superintendent explains in a video found in this article:
WCPS: Why School “Restorative Practices” Are Destructive
He also supports Marxism:
Superintendent Fosters Lawlessness & Anarchy
He takes credit for establishing a private non-profit education foundation, which claims to have donated nearly $250,000 to the school system since its existence. What he’s not telling you is that the foundation has actually cost taxpayers by employing a full-time foundation director on the payroll of the school system, that has resulted in a much greater loss. The report can be found here:
Worcester County Citizens Exploited by Educational Foundation and Board of Education?
On the superintendent’s watch, millions of dollars in taxpayer funds have passed through undisclosed accounts, totaling 3.85% of the annual school budget. These accounts were excluded from the school’s yearly budget and kept in secret financial accounts off the radar:
Worcester County Commissioner Exposes School District’s Secret “Slush Fund”
When the current superintendent was vice principal at Stephen Decatur, he heard the testimony from the band director having a sexual relationship with a student. He assisted in the cover-up, when the child sex offender transferred to Somerset County Public Schools to be their band director. He did not warn anyone at that school district.
Former Worcester County teacher faces felony child abuse charge from early ’90s incident
The superintendent is downplaying school safety, “nothing to see here folks.” A failure to report school safety incidences is creating a growing threat of school violence.
Growing Threat of School Violence in Worcester County
Yeah, but despite all of that, isn’t WCPS the leading school system in the state?
The departing superintendent has always touted the performance of the county as being the best school system in the state, when academic proficiency is far from adequate. That claim has backfired, making a fluffy claim hoping that nobody would actually look. Here‘s the data:
Elementary schools have an average academic achievement of 64%
Middle schools have an average academic achievement of 60%
High schools have an average academic achievement of 61%
https://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/Graphs/#/ReportCards/ReportCardSchool/1/E/1/23/XXXX/2024
What about the elected school board and selecting a replacement superintendent?
To date, the majority of the elected school board have played into his schemes, all except for one board member. Now the scheme of an illusionary search for a replacement superintendent begins. The replacement part is quite easy as they have already selected their new superintendent. Here’s what the Worcester County Board of Education will do just to go through the formalities for the record. They will:
- Hire an expensive recruiting firm at the expense of the taxpayers to find candidates.
- Interview some of the candidates.
- Narrow down to 3 candidates.
- Put out a community survey of the candidates to make you feel involved in the selection.
- Select their Chief Safety & Academic Officer, Dr. Annette Wallace as superintendent.
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January 27, 2025. DelmarvaPTC.org.
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