Northam to make permanent raise for teachers’ salaries

[Anonymous]

Sorry, for all the screechers, for mentioning Farfax County. I believe this is the deal-the counties have to agree to match the state to get the money.

[Anonymous]

I fully support teachers getting paid more. It's such a difficult and important job. I also think part of their salaries should be performance-based, like a bonus based on annual performance reviews. Increase their base salary, but also add bonuses for performance!

[Anonymous]

I hope this extends to other staff. The pay for those who support the school (IAs, subs(!!!), custodians and food service) is way below where it should be for the amount of work required of them. Everything rolls downhill at schools and the lowest paid are put in the worst positions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, for all the screechers, for mentioning Farfax County. I believe this is the deal-the counties have to agree to match the state to get the money.

Do you have a link that explains the requirements that localities match the funding? I can't find it anywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope this extends to other staff. The pay for those who support the school (IAs, subs(!!!), custodians and food service) is way below where it should be for the amount of work required of them. Everything rolls downhill at schools and the lowest paid are put in the worst positions.

I'm a teacher and I agree x100!

[Anonymous]

How much of a raise are we talking about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How much of a raise are we talking about?

Does it matter? You’re still going to whine and b¡tch about it either way

[Anonymous]

I hope this is true, we got our step increase taken away last year and a few years ago as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope this is true, we got our step increase taken away last year and a few years ago as well.

At FCPS? At LCPS we have had our steps respected. THANKFULLY

[Anonymous]

There are literally zero reasons to not raise salaries right now. Zero.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a very good thing. Schools have been balancing budgets at the expense of teachers for years. It’s time for teachers to start getting salary increases they’ve been promised for years.

Teachers earn a salary competitive to. Feds when education and a 10 month work year are factored in. Before we pay teachers more, how about they give us a good faith effect, quit griping and at least try to teacher from a classroom.

Teachers were doing that for years before the pandemic while having promised raises taken away. How about we square up those past years first and then talk about this year?

And in the prior 12 years my kids have been in FCPS, I would have been strongly in favor of teacher raises. Okay, to be fair, there were a couple of recession years when the system was dead broke and class sizes skyrocketed. So maybe not them. But besides that, I’m normally all for it.

This year? The teacher ADA crap tanked in person start this August and they are still fighting in person return a year in. Just no. Go into the classrooms. Teach the rest of the year. Make a good faith effort to start next year in person— 5 days a week if the governor allows it. Then, I will support raises.

Until then, it’s awesome we have extra education funds. How about paying teachers who want to work 11 or 12 months to help repeat the damage. In person. They still get a bigger salary, amd we actually help kids. Which is the point of education, less you think it’s to employ teachers and get them vaccines.

Kids need too much extra held after the last year to pay teachers more unless they work more to help solve the problem they created by sensing in thousands of ADA requests and having an obnoxious union.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a very good thing. Schools have been balancing budgets at the expense of teachers for years. It’s time for teachers to start getting salary increases they’ve been promised for years.

Teachers earn a salary competitive to. Feds when education and a 10 month work year are factored in. Before we pay teachers more, how about they give us a good faith effect, quit griping and at least try to teacher from a classroom.

Well, if you don’t want schools to start suffering a serious brain drain in the faculty, it would be a good idea not to play the dickering cheapo. Teachers are extremely underpaid for their level of education.

I’m a federal lawyer, ten years in. Controlling for 10 vs 12 months I make about what a teacher with a masters and a couple certifications makes at about my experience level, assuming non-managerial for both positions. I’m sorry working for the government pays less. But, you aren’t earning less than other prove cession all government employees with similar (or more!) education. You just aren’t. If you can find this mythical higher paying job with the time off and benefits, by all means find it. I think you will be disappointed.

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Anonymous wrote:It will be good for retention.

Which is important.

It’s really not. FCPS has lost 20% of its students this year. They got lucky and were held harmless. That won’t happen next year. Teachers are b*tc hint and moaning themselves straight out of jobs.

And seriously, if another NoVA district or private is so much better, go work there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are literally zero reasons to not raise salaries right now. Zero.

I can name two:

1. Salary raises are supposed to be tied to merit, a good attitude and going above and beyond when asked. FCPS teachers are sorely lacking in these areas. If you want a raise, stop carrying around baby coffin, stop with the we have 10x more ADA need than LCPS crap, report to school if you have ADA once you are vaccinated and stop saying “my job can be done just as well without ever interactimg with a live child”.

2. We need the money for summer and 2021-2022 remediation, make up services, mental health services, credit recovery and the huge drop off in revenue when we finally lose funding for 1/5 of our students.

[Anonymous]

Wow. That whole VA is a blue state thing was sure short lived. My 2021 vote will never go to a candidate who supports the unions.

Life was better when VA was red and teachers taught from classrooms. If that’s what we need to head back to, so be it.