Fairfax County--in the top 10 worst places for a teacher to work

[Anonymous]

This shit is real. If you want the best teachers to stay, you have to pay them so they can afford to live here.

http://qz.com/305109/the-best-places-to-be-a-teacher-in-the-us/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This shit is real. If you want the best teachers to stay, you have to pay them so they can afford to live here.

http://qz.com/305109/the-best-places-to-be-a-teacher-in-the-us/

Read the article. It basically takes into consideration 1 metric for stating the best and worst places to teach. Lifetime earnings.

This chart only includes the adjusted lifetime pay—earnings over 30 years, adjusted for cost of living expenses—for the average public school teacher.
It should be noted that the rankings do not take into account benefits and incentives, which vary widely across states and districts.

Benefits in FCPS are good. Likely much better than those in the top 10.

[Anonymous]

This was brought up at last night's Superintendent's Teacher Advisory Council meeting.

The rankings are really not a surprise when cost of living is figured in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This shit is real. If you want the best teachers to stay, you have to pay them so they can afford to live here.

http://qz.com/305109/the-best-places-to-be-a-teacher-in-the-us/

Read the article. It basically takes into consideration 1 metric for stating the best and worst places to teach. Lifetime earnings.

This chart only includes the adjusted lifetime pay—earnings over 30 years, adjusted for cost of living expenses—for the average public school teacher.
It should be noted that the rankings do not take into account benefits and incentives, which vary widely across states and districts.

Benefits in FCPS are good. Likely much better than those in the top 10.

Benefits are decent, some better than others. Count supplemental retirement is a good deal. Healthcare benefits (cost) for retirees are terrible. Healthcare costs for active employees are so-so.

[Anonymous]

Boo hoo hoo, it sucks to be you.

Why don't you quit if you don't like it?

Oh, it is super tough to get a job with the same pay and benefits.

[Anonymous]

The website says benefits and incentives are not included and neither are test scores to determine student success rates, lol really dumb article. Columbus Ohio is a complete shithole.

[Anonymous]

so that’s the right way to judge the best and worst places for a teacher to work - lifetime earnings? That’s it? Noting else matters?

DC goes to private now, but I thought generally speaking, the teachers in FCPS were quite good, especially the younger ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boo hoo hoo, it sucks to be you.

Why don't you quit if you don't like it?

Oh, it is super tough to get a job with the same pay and benefits.

You'll be singing a different tune when the good teachers at your kid's HS school leave because the switch in start times (a good thing) makes their commute untenable (a bad thing) because they can't afford to live closer to your tony neighborhood (another bad thing).

[Anonymous]

The “media” outlet that published this story is “Quartz.” Hardly a reputable source for this type of article.
And, the headline is terribly misleading.
To claim that a place is the “best place to teach” based on only ONE criterion is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The website says benefits and incentives are not included and neither are test scores to determine student success rates, lol really dumb article. Columbus Ohio is a complete shithole.

Have you ever been to Columbus? It is a very nice place to raise a family.

[Anonymous]

FCPS has insanely good benefits and for everyone I know who works there, it's a second salary -- wife works FCPS, husband does something higher-paying but less secure (much like the DC families who have one fed for the stability and one private sector for the cash).

[Anonymous]

(And no, I'm not saying everyone in FCPS is a married female. I'm saying everyone I personally know who works there is.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has insanely good benefits and for everyone I know who works there, it's a second salary -- wife works FCPS, husband does something higher-paying but less secure (much like the DC families who have one fed for the stability and one private sector for the cash).

I know one teacher who was on maternity leave three times in 4 years. And not over the summer either. During the school year. Appears to have taken the job for the benefits since her husband had a good job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has insanely good benefits and for everyone I know who works there, it's a second salary -- wife works FCPS, husband does something higher-paying but less secure (much like the DC families who have one fed for the stability and one private sector for the cash).

I know one teacher who was on maternity leave three times in 4 years. And not over the summer either. During the school year. Appears to have taken the job for the benefits since her husband had a good job.

Prior PP here. This is the kind of thing I'm talking about. I know a teacher who did the same. Yearlong maternity leave, three times in a row. She still has her decently-paying job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has insanely good benefits and for everyone I know who works there, it's a second salary -- wife works FCPS, husband does something higher-paying but less secure (much like the DC families who have one fed for the stability and one private sector for the cash).

I know one teacher who was on maternity leave three times in 4 years. And not over the summer either. During the school year. Appears to have taken the job for the benefits since her husband had a good job.

Prior PP here. This is the kind of thing I'm talking about. I know a teacher who did the same. Yearlong maternity leave, three times in a row. She still has her decently-paying job.

Simple supply and demand. If FCPS doesn't show flexibility to good teachers who are willing to work for mediocre pay (with the cost of living here) and often have quite a commute to their school (since some of the best schools with the most demanding parents are in neighborhoods where teachers can't afford to live on their salaries) the system would soon run out of decent teachers.