Local Outreach Program Turns At-Risk High Schoolers Into Artists October 30, 2023 – By Savannah Jarrett, Moderately MoCo Intern It’s 2023, and rap music is more prevalent than ever in today’s society. A cornerstone of Black culture, the genre of music that started in New York block parties during theContinue Reading
October 13, 2023 – 6:15pm The following email was sent to staff at MCPS schools from Dr. McKnight. We’ve written recently on Beidleman case fallout here and the report was released yesterday here. Dear Colleagues, In our welcome back video (MCPS Welcome Back 2023 – YouTube) that kicked off thisContinue Reading
October 13, 2023 – Darci Rochkind – Senior at MCPS High School On Wednesday, Dr. Monifa B. McKnight, superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools, released a statement encouraging parents to “be vigilant regarding distressing social media content.” She urged parents to talk to their students “about the content they mayContinue Reading
October 12, 2023 – 10:30AM We got a tip yesterday that Dr. Patrick Murphy, deputy superintendent is no longer employed by MCPS. Murphy was one of the high-ranking school officials who participated in the County Council Meeting about two weeks ago. He is still listed as the Deputy Superintendent onContinue Reading
Today the Montgomery County Board of Education provided an update on the Beidleman report. The MoCo BOE only publicly posts on X (formerly known as Twitter), we wanted to share with you any updates to this case since not everyone is on that platform. There is a letter to localContinue Reading
September 2, 2023 Coming off back to back 4A State Championships, Quince Orchard High School Football Team had a different start to this season traveling to Virginia to face South County (a top Virginia High School). Quince Orchard will play with a target on their back all season as aContinue Reading
August 21, 2023 – Christian Lee Full video interview aired on YouTube July 11, 2023 Being a police officer is a rewarding, albeit demanding job. Similar to school teachers, cafeteria workers, and guidance counselors, policemen sacrifice every hour of every day in order to serve our students and protect ourContinue Reading
A reader wrote in to share their terrible experiences at Farquhard MS with Joel Beidelman as principal without revealing their identity… The full incident details are quite severe, but details have been removed to protect identities. For those not familiar with the current events surrounding Joel Beidelman, he was recentlyContinue Reading
July 15, 2023 – By Savannah Jarrett There are some exciting changes happening here at Moderately MOCO! First, we’re excited to welcome new summer interns to the company! These high school students are working hard to bring news and important information to the people of Montgomery County, as well asContinue Reading
Written by Unisha Poudel (intern at Moderately MOCO) **Interviewee’s names will not be shown for privacy reasons Q&A Interview with multiple graduated seniors As a Junior myself I sat myself down (or more accurately virtually zoomed) with a wide variety of graduated seniors I could contact. Many were going toContinue Reading
