Failed Principal > Central Office Pipeline Alive and Well?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would like to see the total compensation of non-school based staff. I know chiefs make well upwards of $200K and there are a lot of employees at willow oaks and gatehouse. I don’t care that they are a smaller number than school-based, we still pay them and most do very little to help teachers and students.

This and the teacher shortage is getting worse each year.

FCPS hiring a few chiefs has literally nothing to do with a teacher shortage. Their salaries are drops in the large bucket of the FCPS budget. Teachers who are upset about their salaries need to go after the real issue! a lack of funding from the state and county.

Or, start getting rid of wasteful programming that the community demands but is unnecessary:

1) AAP centers
2) AAP center transportation
3) the entire DEI department
4) the Get2Green staff

Why did Reid add so many chiefs? And she didn’t get rid of those underneath the new chiefs. And she added new positions like “special projects manager” for some (all?) of the chiefs. One of the people mentioned upthread who was arrested seems to be in one of these positions. All of this demonstrates a lack of attention to the needs at the school level. Sending those central office people back to the schools won’t solve the teacher shortage but it would help morale by showing teachers that Reid gets it and it would cut down on the extra BS that all the central office staff concoct for teachers to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would like to see the total compensation of non-school based staff. I know chiefs make well upwards of $200K and there are a lot of employees at willow oaks and gatehouse. I don’t care that they are a smaller number than school-based, we still pay them and most do very little to help teachers and students.

This and the teacher shortage is getting worse each year.

FCPS hiring a few chiefs has literally nothing to do with a teacher shortage. Their salaries are drops in the large bucket of the FCPS budget. Teachers who are upset about their salaries need to go after the real issue! a lack of funding from the state and county.

Or, start getting rid of wasteful programming that the community demands but is unnecessary:

1) AAP centers
2) AAP center transportation
3) the entire DEI department
4) the Get2Green staff

Why did Reid add so many chiefs? And she didn’t get rid of those underneath the new chiefs. And she added new positions like “special projects manager” for some (all?) of the chiefs. One of the people mentioned upthread who was arrested seems to be in one of these positions. All of this demonstrates a lack of attention to the needs at the school level. Sending those central office people back to the schools won’t solve the teacher shortage but it would help morale by showing teachers that Reid gets it and it would cut down on the extra BS that all the central office staff concoct for teachers to do.

Sorry, but no. As a teacher I could care less if she has a few chiefs. What I care about is my salary keeping pace with the cost of living. Dr. Reid sending an email saying “I have redeployed 7 individuals from Gatehouse to schools” does LITERALLY NOTHING for me, nor do 7 positions do much for schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would like to see the total compensation of non-school based staff. I know chiefs make well upwards of $200K and there are a lot of employees at willow oaks and gatehouse. I don’t care that they are a smaller number than school-based, we still pay them and most do very little to help teachers and students.

This and the teacher shortage is getting worse each year.

FCPS hiring a few chiefs has literally nothing to do with a teacher shortage. Their salaries are drops in the large bucket of the FCPS budget. Teachers who are upset about their salaries need to go after the real issue! a lack of funding from the state and county.

Or, start getting rid of wasteful programming that the community demands but is unnecessary:

1) AAP centers
2) AAP center transportation
3) the entire DEI department
4) the Get2Green staff

I love when people use " literally" I mean it must be true then right. And LITERALLY no one suggested this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would like to see the total compensation of non-school based staff. I know chiefs make well upwards of $200K and there are a lot of employees at willow oaks and gatehouse. I don’t care that they are a smaller number than school-based, we still pay them and most do very little to help teachers and students.

This and the teacher shortage is getting worse each year.

FCPS hiring a few chiefs has literally nothing to do with a teacher shortage. Their salaries are drops in the large bucket of the FCPS budget. Teachers who are upset about their salaries need to go after the real issue! a lack of funding from the state and county.

Or, start getting rid of wasteful programming that the community demands but is unnecessary:

1) AAP centers
2) AAP center transportation
3) the entire DEI department
4) the Get2Green staff

I love when people use " literally" I mean it must be true then right. And LITERALLY no one suggested this.

Thanks for contributing such thoughtful content. Literally.

[Anonymous]

As an FCPS librarian I got to have an interaction with her for the first time this month. Quickly became clear to me that she has no real experiences as a true librarian, and it is due to her disgraced exist from the principalship that she is the library supervisor.

Makes total sense. Thanks a lot Gatehouse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Central office staff don’t need a 6% raise. And we don’t need to keep adding highly paid “chiefs.”

You might be surprised to learn that many folks in the school buildings daily helping your child are central office employees. But eff them, right?

Not in elementary schools...we rarely see anyone gatehouse related unless it's a photo-op

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As an FCPS librarian I got to have an interaction with her for the first time this month. Quickly became clear to me that she has no real experiences as a true librarian, and it is due to her disgraced exist from the principalship that she is the library supervisor.

Makes total sense. Thanks a lot Gatehouse.

Girl the rest of us librarians knew this before she even started.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Central office staff don’t need a 6% raise. And we don’t need to keep adding highly paid “chiefs.”

You might be surprised to learn that many folks in the school buildings daily helping your child are central office employees. But eff them, right?

Not in elementary schools...we rarely see anyone gatehouse related unless it's a photo-op

+100, we had ONE Gatehouse employee sub a couple years ago when we started the year with EIGHT positions still not filled.

[Anonymous]

Can someone tell me what a library coordinator even does? Trying to understand if she failed up into an easier job with a higher salary. And, if so, what that says about the superintendent who put her there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Central office staff don’t need a 6% raise. And we don’t need to keep adding highly paid “chiefs.”

You might be surprised to learn that many folks in the school buildings daily helping your child are central office employees. But eff them, right?

Not in elementary schools...we rarely see anyone gatehouse related unless it's a photo-op

+100, we had ONE Gatehouse employee sub a couple years ago when we started the year with EIGHT positions still not filled.

We had one for SPED(they were not happy) and the principal told them just to go in to classrooms-they quickly were released back to GH

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone tell me what a library coordinator even does? Trying to understand if she failed up into an easier job with a higher salary. And, if so, what that says about the superintendent who put her there.

Anyone?? I'd love to know what most of these Gatehouse positions actually do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone tell me what a library coordinator even does? Trying to understand if she failed up into an easier job with a higher salary. And, if so, what that says about the superintendent who put her there.

Anyone?? I'd love to know what most of these Gatehouse positions actually do?

They deal with all of the policy questions surrounding all of the regs about book selection/materials review, interview all of the potential library candidates to help principals assess their library content knowledge, set goals for FCPS libraries as a whole, negotiate all the vendor contracts for databases/books, sit on various committees for AI/literacy/equity topics, answer questions from roughly 300ish librarians, help principals/librarians navigate book challenges, connect various specialists across disciplines with librarians (this year there was a focus on STEAM/Computer Science specialists partnering with librarians), and I’m sure other things I don’t know about.

The person in the role matters a lot to librarians as they are really the best advocates for libraries/librarians being used in innovative ways in FCPS. They are the person that Gatehouse/the school board hears from. While FCPS libraries receive a healthy book budget in comparison to other local districts, they lag behind neighboring districts in terms of library staffing (at all levels) and scheduling (at the elementary level). FCPS Libraries are actually still very much a leader in the school library world, and a strong overall leader is necessary to keep it that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone tell me what a library coordinator even does? Trying to understand if she failed up into an easier job with a higher salary. And, if so, what that says about the superintendent who put her there.

Anyone?? I'd love to know what most of these Gatehouse positions actually do?

Quite simply, they are paper pushers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone tell me what a library coordinator even does? Trying to understand if she failed up into an easier job with a higher salary. And, if so, what that says about the superintendent who put her there.

Anyone?? I'd love to know what most of these Gatehouse positions actually do?

They deal with all of the policy questions surrounding all of the regs about book selection/materials review, interview all of the potential library candidates to help principals assess their library content knowledge, set goals for FCPS libraries as a whole, negotiate all the vendor contracts for databases/books, sit on various committees for AI/literacy/equity topics, answer questions from roughly 300ish librarians, help principals/librarians navigate book challenges, connect various specialists across disciplines with librarians (this year there was a focus on STEAM/Computer Science specialists partnering with librarians), and I’m sure other things I don’t know about.

The person in the role matters a lot to librarians as they are really the best advocates for libraries/librarians being used in innovative ways in FCPS. They are the person that Gatehouse/the school board hears from. While FCPS libraries receive a healthy book budget in comparison to other local districts, they lag behind neighboring districts in terms of library staffing (at all levels) and scheduling (at the elementary level). FCPS Libraries are actually still very much a leader in the school library world, and a strong overall leader is necessary to keep it that way.

And the person who used to have that position was PHENOMENAL.

[Anonymous]

Saw N.L. present today in person to a group of librarians. I was giving her the benefit of the doubt for a year but EEK she is still clueless. I am thinking about what the previous poster said about this position needing to be an important advocate for school libraries and I just DON’T SEE IT at all. Worrying