Northam to make permanent raise for teachers’ salaries

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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!

Thank you! It is galling to hear complaints from admin and parents when they can't find anyone who can support a 2E child in math or language arts at the secondary level, or find qualified subs for special ed. Maybe, just maybe, they should try raising the pay above poverty wages and they could find people fluent in math or skilled enough to handle a special ed classroom. Also, the custodians and food service workers have been busting their asses this whole time. They deserve hazard pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

DP, but this is usually what happens. You'll read that "Richmond approved X% raise for teachers", but seldom does that actually occur locally (IME w/ FCPS). The state could very well approve a 5% raise, but I doubt if we will actually see that. We'll be lucky if we aren't frozen for the next fiscal year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

OMG- one teacher did that and now we all did! Fortunately, I don't judge parents the same way because I've seen some of them say and do some pretty messed up stuff lately. I certainly don't think every parent thinks and does that stuff!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

Thank you! It is galling to hear complaints from admin and parents when they can't find anyone who can support a 2E child in math or language arts at the secondary level, or find qualified subs for special ed. Maybe, just maybe, they should try raising the pay above poverty wages and they could find people fluent in math or skilled enough to handle a special ed classroom. Also, the custodians and food service workers have been busting their asses this whole time. They deserve hazard pay.

SPED teachers should have their own pay scale that factors in the extra time for meetings, writing and updating IEPs, etc. Plus, SPED teachers that work with ED kids, etc should get bonuses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Life was better for a pandemic nobody bothered to address meaningfully.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GOOD NEWS: Because of our strong fiscal management, and Virginians working so hard to mitigate #COVID19, we are projecting an additional $700 million in revenues over the current budget cycle—that means a permanent raise for teachers and additional relief for Virginia families.

That cash belongs to us taxpayers.
Give it back!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

Thank you! It is galling to hear complaints from admin and parents when they can't find anyone who can support a 2E child in math or language arts at the secondary level, or find qualified subs for special ed. Maybe, just maybe, they should try raising the pay above poverty wages and they could find people fluent in math or skilled enough to handle a special ed classroom. Also, the custodians and food service workers have been busting their asses this whole time. They deserve hazard pay.

Yes. We are losing our great building sub and I suspect the pay/risk ratio was too much

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GOOD NEWS: Because of our strong fiscal management, and Virginians working so hard to mitigate #COVID19, we are projecting an additional $700 million in revenues over the current budget cycle—that means a permanent raise for teachers and additional relief for Virginia families.

That cash belongs to us taxpayers.
Give it back!

Haha fuk you and your feelings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GOOD NEWS: Because of our strong fiscal management, and Virginians working so hard to mitigate #COVID19, we are projecting an additional $700 million in revenues over the current budget cycle—that means a permanent raise for teachers and additional relief for Virginia families.

That cash belongs to us taxpayers.
Give it back!

That’s not how taxes work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

OMG- one teacher did that and now we all did! Fortunately, I don't judge parents the same way because I've seen some of them say and do some pretty messed up stuff lately. I certainly don't think every parent thinks and does that stuff!

It was pwcs, not FCPS. It was on teacher and her husband. And it was a prop at a protest t highlight her message that they were putting kids at risk. I don’t understand all the outrage over that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GOOD NEWS: Because of our strong fiscal management, and Virginians working so hard to mitigate #COVID19, we are projecting an additional $700 million in revenues over the current budget cycle—that means a permanent raise for teachers and additional relief for Virginia families.

How is there 700 million in revenues? Seems like many states are facing budget shortfalls due to the pandemic.

[Anonymous]

this better have a contingency for teacher teaching IN PERSON.. not virtual, not through an Ipad.. Teaching, in -person...

[Anonymous]

This is great news. I am not a teacher. I think teachers are underpaid in general.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

Thank you! It is galling to hear complaints from admin and parents when they can't find anyone who can support a 2E child in math or language arts at the secondary level, or find qualified subs for special ed. Maybe, just maybe, they should try raising the pay above poverty wages and they could find people fluent in math or skilled enough to handle a special ed classroom. Also, the custodians and food service workers have been busting their asses this whole time. They deserve hazard pay.

SPED teachers should have their own pay scale that factors in the extra time for meetings, writing and updating IEPs, etc. Plus, SPED teachers that work with ED kids, etc should get bonuses.

Agreed, but I get the feeling that teachers are all married to lawyers or something. What constitutes being poorly paid? To me that's under $40,000 net pay after benefits. Are there a lot of teachers and staff who get paid this? I feel like each year teachers and staff get pretty high raises and each year are still "underpaid".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

Thank you! It is galling to hear complaints from admin and parents when they can't find anyone who can support a 2E child in math or language arts at the secondary level, or find qualified subs for special ed. Maybe, just maybe, they should try raising the pay above poverty wages and they could find people fluent in math or skilled enough to handle a special ed classroom. Also, the custodians and food service workers have been busting their asses this whole time. They deserve hazard pay.

SPED teachers should have their own pay scale that factors in the extra time for meetings, writing and updating IEPs, etc. Plus, SPED teachers that work with ED kids, etc should get bonuses.

Agreed, but I get the feeling that teachers are all married to lawyers or something. What constitutes being poorly paid? To me that's under $40,000 net pay after benefits. Are there a lot of teachers and staff who get paid this? I feel like each year teachers and staff get pretty high raises and each year are still "underpaid".

The per capita average income for Fairfax is around $57,000 which net would be around $43,000, so under the average for the county would be under $43,000 net pay. How many FCPS employees are we talking about that make under the median income for the county? How many teachers and if so, how many years have these people been working? This is the average income which would put the average age around 40.