FCPS FY25 Budget

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4% is more than my raise this year.
FCPS looking greedy.

It’s much more than my raise this year. And they just got a 2% raise in January on top of whatever raise they got last July (3%? 4?).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:4% is more than my raise this year.
FCPS looking greedy.

It’s much more than my raise this year. And they just got a 2% raise in January on top of whatever raise they got last July (3%? 4?).

And you have to understand that America has gotten away with underpaying a female dominated profession for a very long time. The landscape has changed since girls and women have so many more career paths open to them, and the result is that school districts now have to compete for labor. I understand that this is a struggle for some to comprehend but the laws of economics are at play here.

[Anonymous]

They need three salary scales: non-teaching positions like Gatehouse, teaching positions, and special ed teaching positions. E.g., A classroom teacher in an ED classroom absolutely should be paid more for work that is much more difficult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:4% is more than my raise this year.
FCPS looking greedy.

It’s much more than my raise this year. And they just got a 2% raise in January on top of whatever raise they got last July (3%? 4?).

And you have to understand that America has gotten away with underpaying a female dominated profession for a very long time. The landscape has changed since girls and women have so many more career paths open to them, and the result is that school districts now have to compete for labor. I understand that this is a struggle for some to comprehend but the laws of economics are at play here.

The laws of economics? What are you even talking about? Guaranteed raises each year - particularly as performance is sub par - is not a law of economics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:4% is more than my raise this year.
FCPS looking greedy.

It’s much more than my raise this year. And they just got a 2% raise in January on top of whatever raise they got last July (3%? 4?).

And you have to understand that America has gotten away with underpaying a female dominated profession for a very long time. The landscape has changed since girls and women have so many more career paths open to them, and the result is that school districts now have to compete for labor. I understand that this is a struggle for some to comprehend but the laws of economics are at play here.

The raise is for bureaucrats, not teachers

[Anonymous]

This is pretty standard for this type of organization, OP.

And before you ask, I received a 1% raise this year (and yes, I go into the office 5 days a week and no, I don't get summers off).

[Anonymous]

OP - do you live in Fairfax County? Did you vote for the meals tax several years back? For some crazy reason, all of the teachers that I knew back then did NOT vote for it. It would have been guaranteed money for them, but they didn't want to pay more on eating out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:4% is more than my raise this year.
FCPS looking greedy.

It’s much more than my raise this year. And they just got a 2% raise in January on top of whatever raise they got last July (3%? 4?).

And you have to understand that America has gotten away with underpaying a female dominated profession for a very long time. The landscape has changed since girls and women have so many more career paths open to them, and the result is that school districts now have to compete for labor. I understand that this is a struggle for some to comprehend but the laws of economics are at play here.

It's supply and demand. Teaching has always been one of the easiest degrees to get (at least until recently with the addition of lots of even easier programs) and the supply of teachers is has always been huge, and thanks to the unions bad teachers don't get removed from the system. The reason teaching wages are rising fast is that the cost of living has exploded, thanks to the massive inflation of the past couple years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:4% is more than my raise this year.
FCPS looking greedy.

It’s much more than my raise this year. And they just got a 2% raise in January on top of whatever raise they got last July (3%? 4?).

And you have to understand that America has gotten away with underpaying a female dominated profession for a very long time. The landscape has changed since girls and women have so many more career paths open to them, and the result is that school districts now have to compete for labor. I understand that this is a struggle for some to comprehend but the laws of economics are at play here.

It's supply and demand. Teaching has always been one of the easiest degrees to get (at least until recently with the addition of lots of even easier programs) and the supply of teachers is has always been huge, and thanks to the unions bad teachers don't get removed from the system. The reason teaching wages are rising fast is that the cost of living has exploded, thanks to the massive inflation of the past couple years.

Also there are far less people wanting to do the job which is why they have to increase the incentive to do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP - do you live in Fairfax County? Did you vote for the meals tax several years back? For some crazy reason, all of the teachers that I knew back then did NOT vote for it. It would have been guaranteed money for them, but they didn't want to pay more on eating out.

Yes, I live in Fairfax. Yes, I voted for the meals tax. And I hope the supervisors put one in place this year.

And, to the people who are saying I don’t want raises for teachers, you obviously didn’t read my post. I want more raises for teachers and others in schools and less for non-school based employees. I also want more raises for positions where we have more shortages, such as special ed. When resources are limited, I think we need to target raises to the positions that directly help our students the most.

I think its irresponsible that Reid and most of the board didn’t look into it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:4% is more than my raise this year.
FCPS looking greedy.

It’s much more than my raise this year. And they just got a 2% raise in January on top of whatever raise they got last July (3%? 4?).

You’ve never received a raise of 3% or more?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:4% is more than my raise this year.
FCPS looking greedy.

It’s much more than my raise this year. And they just got a 2% raise in January on top of whatever raise they got last July (3%? 4?).

You’ve never received a raise of 3% or more?

NP. No, there has NEVER been a flat across the board raise in our company. It is based on performance. People who meet or exceed expectations get raises. People who do not will not get a raise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is pretty standard for this type of organization, OP.

And before you ask, I received a 1% raise this year (and yes, I go into the office 5 days a week and no, I don't get summers off).

Teachers salaries reflect that they do not work over the summer. They can choose to be paid over the course of the year or just during the school year but a part of the reason that Teachers salaries are lower is because they do not work for 12 months out of the year. They do work more then 40 hours a week and most are working over winter and spring break.

I think the idea of different raises based on position makes sense. Gatehouse should see a smaller pay raise, regular teachers a larger raise and special ed teachers the largest raise. The money should be going more to the people doing the work of teaching kids and less to the admin and staff. Special ed teachers are by far the most over worked teachers on staff and should see some additional money because of that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:4% is more than my raise this year.
FCPS looking greedy.

It’s much more than my raise this year. And they just got a 2% raise in January on top of whatever raise they got last July (3%? 4?).

You’ve never received a raise of 3% or more?

NP. No, there has NEVER been a flat across the board raise in our company. It is based on performance. People who meet or exceed expectations get raises. People who do not will not get a raise.

A school isn’t a company.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is pretty standard for this type of organization, OP.

And before you ask, I received a 1% raise this year (and yes, I go into the office 5 days a week and no, I don't get summers off).

Teachers salaries reflect that they do not work over the summer. They can choose to be paid over the course of the year or just during the school year but a part of the reason that Teachers salaries are lower is because they do not work for 12 months out of the year. They do work more then 40 hours a week and most are working over winter and spring break.

I think the idea of different raises based on position makes sense. Gatehouse should see a smaller pay raise, regular teachers a larger raise and special ed teachers the largest raise. The money should be going more to the people doing the work of teaching kids and less to the admin and staff. Special ed teachers are by far the most over worked teachers on staff and should see some additional money because of that.

Special education teachers do get paid more. They have for the past few years and will continue to be in a higher scale for FY 2025.