FCPS School board mtg at 10:00 Thurs...live stream

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a county that has so many well-educated people, overall a good tax base, and the expertise of a large school system..... FCPS has not done very well.

I understand that this was very abrupt to switch education from in-person to on-line. I give them a break for the rest of this year (to some degree).

But, this whole school board meeting and the big FAIL gives me no confidence at all that FCPS is going to handle next school year well.

I watch Cuomo's press conf. everyday. He gives the impression of being seriously on the task and giving us the facts. I would feel comfortable following him into battle. Watching the FCPS administrators, I do not have confidence and would not want to follow them into battle. It would be like the Keystone Cops.... bumbling into each other and getting captured by the enemy. a mess.

Please don't talk about Cuomo.... so many people dying under his watch right now!

And I don't think he is personally to blame. But that's off topic for this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a county that has so many well-educated people, overall a good tax base, and the expertise of a large school system..... FCPS has not done very well.

I understand that this was very abrupt to switch education from in-person to on-line. I give them a break for the rest of this year (to some degree).

But, this whole school board meeting and the big FAIL gives me no confidence at all that FCPS is going to handle next school year well.

I watch Cuomo's press conf. everyday. He gives the impression of being seriously on the task and giving us the facts. I would feel comfortable following him into battle. Watching the FCPS administrators, I do not have confidence and would not want to follow them into battle. It would be like the Keystone Cops.... bumbling into each other and getting captured by the enemy. a mess.

If you have followed our schoolboard for the past couple of years, you would see that as they have gotten more and more dominated by one side, their focus has been very far from the basics of educating the students.

Their emphasis has been on Ryan McEleven inspired pet projects that have zero to do with education.

Add that to a bloated Gatehouse full of overpaid "leaders" and now we have what we have.

I would bet most Fairfax residents have never set foot into fcps main office building. If they did, they would be stunned by how top heavy this district is.

The school board has been very poor stewards of our resources and students for many years, and have gotten a pass due to so many quality teachers.

Date: January 05, 2018 04:35AM

10 highest paid
Brabrand, Scott S 290,000 Division Superintendent
Lockard, Steven A 227,586 Deputy Superintendent
Luftglass, Marie E 206,506 Assistant Superintendent, Information Technology
Quinn, Susan S 206,133 Chief Operating Officer
Platenberg, Jeffrey K 198,488 Assistant Superintendent, Facilities & Transport Services
Smith, Marty K 194,244 Chief of Staff
Foster, John E 190,780 Division Counsel
Ko, Yee Chung 187,039 Auditor General
Presidio, Sloan J 183,372 Assistant Superintendent, Instructional Services
Ramey, R Chace H 183,372 Assistant Superintendent, Human Resources



I've seen their 'a la carte' cafeteria. They for sure don't eat what they feed the kids everyday!

[Anonymous]

I think that when this is over and social distancing is relaxed, every voter in fcps needs to take a little bit of time to walk through the main school district office complex to see what they are voting for.

[Anonymous]

This Luftglass woman is insufferable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From the Underground Leak in 2018:

Brabrand, Scott S Division Superintendent $290,000

That's actually not THAT much money when you think about the size of the system.

[Anonymous]

And Blackboard is kicking people off the school board meeting, making them log back in repeatedly. Shit.Show.

[Anonymous]

So bascially it's all SBTS and teachers' fault. Got it, Branband.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the Underground Leak in 2018:

Brabrand, Scott S Division Superintendent $290,000

That's actually not THAT much money when you think about the size of the system.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/maryland-schools-superintendent-gets-raise-to-315000/2020/02/28/1341fef4-58dc-11ea-9000-f3cffee23036_story.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's revealed now that teachers were TOLD they could use guest links.

And FCPS lady is saying no one warned them what could happen.

IT woman said that it was just word of mouth among teachers to set things up via guest links. It wasn't the IT dept who caused this, according to her, it was other teachers giving bad info to their fellow teachers.

That is a bold faced lie. Teachers were given their moderator link, and then a guest link to give to students.

[Anonymous]

No option other than open guest link was provided to this teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's revealed now that teachers were TOLD they could use guest links.

And FCPS lady is saying no one warned them what could happen.

IT woman said that it was just word of mouth among teachers to set things up via guest links. It wasn't the IT dept who caused this, according to her, it was other teachers giving bad info to their fellow teachers.

That is a bold faced lie. Teachers were given their moderator link, and then a guest link to give to students.

Can confirm- it was assigned to us. We didn't create anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's revealed now that teachers were TOLD they could use guest links.

And FCPS lady is saying no one warned them what could happen.

IT woman said that it was just word of mouth among teachers to set things up via guest links. It wasn't the IT dept who caused this, according to her, it was other teachers giving bad info to their fellow teachers.

That is a bold faced lie. Teachers were given their moderator link, and then a guest link to give to students.

Can confirm- it was assigned to us. We didn't create anything.

Yup!

[Anonymous]

Man, Luftglass just loves blaming teachers for everything.

[Anonymous]

Yes, 'FCPS failed our teachers and didn't prepared them adequately'

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BB guy is saying that tests were done when the software was first installed and that they've had this load before (back to school week) with no trouble so they "didn't not anticipate issues with load this week."

He's an absolute idiot.

IT person here. From waht I saw, the issue is not on BB's side. THey have plenty of capacity. It's the login side (used for more than just BB, also other services). That part uses FCPS servers and they couldn't handle the load.

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