Anyone know who Superintendent Finalist Canidates are?

[Anonymous]

Best to my knowledge, the entire public has been shut out from the process in the last couple of months. Anyone have any inside tips? Really hoping we get better than the Braindead Brabrand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Best to my knowledge, the entire public has been shut out from the process in the last couple of months. Anyone have any inside tips? Really hoping we get better than the Braindead Brabrand.

Why would you think that? Look at who is doing the hiring - the most corrupt, incompetent School Board in FCPS history.

[Anonymous]

CEO time commitment for crap salary. Who would want this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Best to my knowledge, the entire public has been shut out from the process in the last couple of months. Anyone have any inside tips? Really hoping we get better than the Braindead Brabrand.

Most applicants do not want their name revealed until they have the job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Best to my knowledge, the entire public has been shut out from the process in the last couple of months. Anyone have any inside tips? Really hoping we get better than the Braindead Brabrand.

Most applicants do not want their name revealed until they have the job.

That’s not how searches for college presidents are conducted. Often the finalists agree to be identified and then meet publicly with the key stakeholders with the final decision made by the trustees.

The loonies on the FCPS School Board will conduct a search in secret and then almost surely saddle FCPS with some hire who knows nothing about FCPS but “has a strong commitment to equity.”

[Anonymous]

I think they aren't finding any really good candidates. Like someone else said, the pay is just not good enough to attract a highly qualified employee to oversee such a large school division. I wonder what happened to that survey asking people for nominees?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Best to my knowledge, the entire public has been shut out from the process in the last couple of months. Anyone have any inside tips? Really hoping we get better than the Braindead Brabrand.

Most applicants do not want their name revealed until they have the job.

+1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they aren't finding any really good candidates. Like someone else said, the pay is just not good enough to attract a highly qualified employee to oversee such a large school division. I wonder what happened to that survey asking people for nominees?

Then that tells you they need to increase the pay or recommend splitting the Titanic called FCPS into districts that can be managed by candidates with lesz operating skills.

Example - Brabrand may have been equipped to manage a school system as small as Lynchburg City. He was quickly in well over his head in Fairfax.

We’ve had strong superintendents before like Spillane and Domenech but their equivalents won’t come to FCPS if they are going to be hen-pecked by a bunch of third-rate politicians on the School Board.

[Anonymous]

The priorities of the current School Board over the past 2+ years have been such an odd mix:

1. Dragging their heels when it came to getting kids back into buildings, leading to over 10,000 FCPS students exiting the system within two years

2. Prioritizing admissions changes at TJHSST in order to reduce the percentage of Asian kids

3. Keeping uber-wealthy Langley free of economic diversity

4. Ignoring struggling IB programs (only 3% of Mount Vernon seniors getting IB diplomas) but spending money on a new "Leadership" academy at IB Lewis

5. Spending money on building additions while nearby poorer schools remain under-enrolled or more overcrowded schools get ignored

6 Converting Dunn Loring administrative building back into an elementary school when it isn't needed, in order to save a dog park in Oakton

7. Litigating with the Youngkin administrative over "local control" at every opportunity

No talented school administrator would want to step into this morass and immediately be asked to fix the damage these folks have been doing. The School Board's entire philosophy seems to be to want to soil the nest so much that no one else will want to get involved.

[Anonymous]

This is a situation -- especially after the past 2 years -- where anyone we would want for the job is smart enough not to apply for it. That leaves a second-tier group of people who are conceited enough to think they can do better and ambitious enough to need a higher position than they currently have.

We aren't going to get someone good, because those people wouldn't want what we are offering (especially with this hen-picking school board, and the intensity of these parents).

I'm just trying to get my last kid through the next three years... and then we are out.

[Anonymous]

Maybe someone from the VDOE list?

https://www.doe.virginia.gov/boe/meetings/2022/03-mar/item-a.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Best to my knowledge, the entire public has been shut out from the process in the last couple of months. Anyone have any inside tips? Really hoping we get better than the Braindead Brabrand.

Most applicants do not want their name revealed until they have the job.

That’s not how searches for college presidents are conducted. Often the finalists agree to be identified and then meet publicly with the key stakeholders with the final decision made by the trustees.

The loonies on the FCPS School Board will conduct a search in secret and then almost surely saddle FCPS with some hire who knows nothing about FCPS but “has a strong commitment to equity.”

FCPS is not a college

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CEO time commitment for crap salary. Who would want this?

I think this is an issue when it comes to attracting people to serve on the school board too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they aren't finding any really good candidates. Like someone else said, the pay is just not good enough to attract a highly qualified employee to oversee such a large school division. I wonder what happened to that survey asking people for nominees?

They had a hard time finding people the last time, I don’t think the landscape has changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think they aren't finding any really good candidates. Like someone else said, the pay is just not good enough to attract a highly qualified employee to oversee such a large school division. I wonder what happened to that survey asking people for nominees?

Then that tells you they need to increase the pay or recommend splitting the Titanic called FCPS into districts that can be managed by candidates with lesz operating skills.

Example - Brabrand may have been equipped to manage a school system as small as Lynchburg City. He was quickly in well over his head in Fairfax.

We’ve had strong superintendents before like Spillane and Domenech but their equivalents won’t come to FCPS if they are going to be hen-pecked by a bunch of third-rate politicians on the School Board.

You think it's the school board they're worried about? No, having a family member who is the Superintendent of a much smaller school district, the thing people are most worried about are the political parents -- on BOTH ends of the spectrum. Everyone is well aware of groups like Fairfax Parents/Open FCPS and equivalents and they don't want to deal with it. School administrators talk, PP. Nobody wants this job.