Budget Battles – The Thrilla in Vahginia!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one wants to work for LCPS. We have so many teachers in FCPS who actually live in Loudoun. LCPS will try anything but it won’t work. FCPS is superior.

Who wouldn't want to work for LCPS? It used to be that FCPS paid more so people who lived in Loudoun and other surrounding counties would come to FCPS to work. But now other counties pay more, have a better calendar, and are under WAY less scrutiny. If I lived close enough to the LCPS/FCPS border, I'd move to LCPS in a heartbeat for more pay and less stress.

It seems quite charged politically

[Anonymous]

Lol tomorrow should be fun but not this fun.

[Anonymous]

Loudoun’s raise looks to be 1% when you factor in insurance increases. And do they have both pension plans like FCPS? Also different number of days off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We will get nothing. Staff meeting yesterday was our principal saying staffing ratios are getting tighter so expect larger class sizes and potential destaffing notifications coming this spring in preparation for next year. Didn't sound like a precursor to "and a raise and extra vacation!"

I am not sure that is a county-wide situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Loudoun’s raise looks to be 1% when you factor in insurance increases. And do they have both pension plans like FCPS? Also different number of days off.

FCPS is the only one with a supplemental pension plan, although the newest version is hybrid between defined benefit and defined contribution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:January 10, 2023

In a much anticipated clash of heavyweights over the future of the ever-shrinking teaching workforce, the contender in the west side of the ring has landed this year’s first haymaker! Though slightly smaller in stature, LCPS has managed a rippling, if unsurprising, first blow. A first FY24 budget proposal has BIG raises included, a jab sure to be felt for the rest of budget season. Yes, that’s 5%-8% for ALL employees in LCPS. What’s more? It was a ONE-TWO PUNCH! More days of sick leave and personal leave were included FOR ALL TEACHERS!! WHAT!? More money AND more work-life balance? UNBELIEVABLE!! They are really going for this!

To add insult to injury, Loudoun’s coach who orchestrated this start of the performance is no other than Dr. Daniel Smith, recently deserted principal of Lake Braddock Secondary School! The DRAMA!!! Even with this, you have to wonder how long he will be sticking around with the rate at which LCPS is firing their senior coaching staff!

Eyes turn quickly to the opposite side of the ring for Thursday’s reply from fighter Fairfax. Anything less than a resounding reciprocation of Loudoun’s opening salvo will be seen as a major blow in this bout, and will be sure to turn even more heads of Fairfax staff toward better paying jurisdictions. And all this in a year of increasing resignations and shortages! Edge of your seat stuff!!!

Will Fairfax respond? How will they sweeten the deal? Is this the beginning of the inevitable decline of FCPS teacher quality, or the beginning of something far grander? Tune in on Thursday at 1:30 to find out!!

Can you restate this without the hyperbole? Just the facts please. I got a headache reading this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We will get nothing. Staff meeting yesterday was our principal saying staffing ratios are getting tighter so expect larger class sizes and potential destaffing notifications coming this spring in preparation for next year. Didn't sound like a precursor to "and a raise and extra vacation!"

I am not sure that is a county-wide situation.

Staffing is a formula provided by the county level, so I would assume that part is.

Destaffing would depend on school specific enrollment though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Proposed 5-8% plus step or with step? How many more sick days and personal days? FCPS currently allows for 5 personal, if approved.

But we get like 10 sick days. I take plenty of days off during the year, 6-8 day normally and still have tons left. I’d rather have the money.

We get 12 total days per school year, 5 of which are personal. If you think that is enough you must not have kids that eat I’m your leave or had to worry about maternity leave pay. There is NO paid maternity leave through fcps… there are a few weeks of short term disability that kick in only after you have taken the first 4 weeks using your own saved up leave. So if you want to be paid for the first 6 weeks after delivering a baby yoh have to save 20 days up… so about 2 years without taking a day off.

[Anonymous]

Paid maternity leave isn’t that common in the US (though it should be).

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the laugh, OP! We'll see what tomorrow brings. Reid has brought FCPS more drama, less transparency, and every person on LT is looking out for themselves. Do you have a name for the game?