School Board Proposes 77% Pay Increase for Themselves

[Anonymous]

Is there some link that there is even a proposed raise, and if so what is the amount? I have no idea if OP is just making s h I t up to stir the pot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t mind the pay increase because the $32,000 they make is way too little for the amount of time they spend. They have lots of meetings and people email and call them and expect immediate constituent responses. I hope the pay increase means some regular people can now try for the job, not just connected politician wannabes.

The law limits when they can give themselves raises and they haven’t had one since 2015. There’s only 12 of them so it makes no sense to compare it to staff raises.

It’s not a coincidence that they waited until after the June 20th deadline to register to run in the fall elections had passed before they dropped this bombshell. So the additional candidates that you seem to think a higher salary might elicit won’t be the ones making these ridiculous salaries. It will more likely be incompetent chumps like Karl Frisch and flakes like Melanie Meren, who have been total failures in office.

These people should be utterly ashamed of themselves.

It's been on the agenda since before June 20th. You just haven't been paying attention.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The entire School Board approach to education policy needs to be done away with. What are the benefits to having an elected board who only get their position through name recognition and political party fundraising?

We'd be far better off having real professionals with real degrees who are hired competitively into Board-like roles to represent each district. This would also remove bias and conflict of interest as each representative would likely be independent instead of having hidden agendas for their children's pyramids.

I remember when the SB wasn’t an elected position and so many people were thankful that it was changing to an elected one.

That was decades ago and whatever hopes people had that elected members would turn out to be an improvement have long since been dashed. You could not come up with a worse group of people than the current members - and the way in which they are going about increasing their own salaries is just more evidence of this. They stick kids in trailers and want to be paid more than many full-time employees. They are disgusting.

Are there many candidates vying for these positions? Are they better?

They aren't needed. Just do away with them and have the BOS with a school specialist on their team.

I’ll take that to say that there aren’t a plethora of quality candidates clamoring to be in the SB.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Many of the FCPS SB members I know work at least as many hours as a full time job. If you don’t pay them a living wage, then the only people who will run are privileged people who can afford to work for a small amount of money - retirees, wealthy people, stay at home moms, etc. or by people who have to work another job to make ends meet and don’t have the time to commit to the SB. I think the community would best be represented by people with skills and experience who view the job as a full time paid position.

+1 I want SB member to be a well-paid position because, otherwise, the types of people who are currently on the school board are going to be … the only people on the school board. Pay it like a full time job, because it basically is one, and you’ll get candidates who want to take the job seriously as a full time job and aren’t limited by not being independently wealthy. Not just use it as a stepping stone to whatever else.

The SB should oversee and advise, but I disagree that it should be a FT job. The stepping stone-seekers will always seek out this position, because Fairfax. We need Dr. Reid and the other high paid staff at Gatehouse to lead—not the SB and especially not this SB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there some link that there is even a proposed raise, and if so what is the amount? I have no idea if OP is just making s h I t up to stir the pot.

By the time you figure anything out, they’ll have already given themselves a raise, dope.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is there some link that there is even a proposed raise, and if so what is the amount? I have no idea if OP is just making s h I t up to stir the pot.

By the time you figure anything out, they’ll have already given themselves a raise, dope.

Aren’t you lovely? So you are just here to make s h I t up. Got it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The entire School Board approach to education policy needs to be done away with. What are the benefits to having an elected board who only get their position through name recognition and political party fundraising?

We'd be far better off having real professionals with real degrees who are hired competitively into Board-like roles to represent each district. This would also remove bias and conflict of interest as each representative would likely be independent instead of having hidden agendas for their children's pyramids.

I remember when the SB wasn’t an elected position and so many people were thankful that it was changing to an elected one.

That was decades ago and whatever hopes people had that elected members would turn out to be an improvement have long since been dashed. You could not come up with a worse group of people than the current members - and the way in which they are going about increasing their own salaries is just more evidence of this. They stick kids in trailers and want to be paid more than many full-time employees. They are disgusting.

“They stick kids in trailers.”

No, Fairfax County residents do that when they vote against taxes (meals tax anyone?). The construction budget isn’t nearly enough to fix the facility problem, and redistricting is the only thing that makes residents more unhappy than taxes.

[Anonymous]

They shouldn't have sold the land to the Saudis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With next to no advance notice the School Board is proposing to award themselves 77% pay increases to over $60K at tomorrow night’s meeting.

They’ve clearly turned what was intended to be a part-time job into a full-time job by scheduling meetings at times that discourage people with real jobs from seeking office. But they haven’t done anything that warrants this type of pay increase. It seems obscene.

This school board IS obscene, so they're certainly playing to type.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These people do not deserve to make $60K when all they do is accelerate the decline of FCPS.

Well said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:they get paid very little and this is why no one who is qualified wants the job. they should pay more to attract some talent.

Now take what you just said and apply it to teachers. THOSE are the people who deserve a massive pay raise.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is there some link that there is even a proposed raise, and if so what is the amount? I have no idea if OP is just making s h I t up to stir the pot.

By the time you figure anything out, they’ll have already given themselves a raise, dope.

Aren’t you lovely? So you are just here to make s h I t up. Got it.

The full text of the proposed raise got posted on the agenda for the School Board’s meeting tomorrow night over the weekend. No one is making anything up but you are clearly too stupid to acknowledge that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Many of the FCPS SB members I know work at least as many hours as a full time job. If you don’t pay them a living wage, then the only people who will run are privileged people who can afford to work for a small amount of money - retirees, wealthy people, stay at home moms, etc. or by people who have to work another job to make ends meet and don’t have the time to commit to the SB. I think the community would best be represented by people with skills and experience who view the job as a full time paid position.

+1 I want SB member to be a well-paid position because, otherwise, the types of people who are currently on the school board are going to be … the only people on the school board. Pay it like a full time job, because it basically is one, and you’ll get candidates who want to take the job seriously as a full time job and aren’t limited by not being independently wealthy. Not just use it as a stepping stone to whatever else.

The SB should oversee and advise, but I disagree that it should be a FT job. The stepping stone-seekers will always seek out this position, because Fairfax. We need Dr. Reid and the other high paid staff at Gatehouse to lead—not the SB and especially not this SB.

That is fundamentally undemocratic. We need some oversight of our school system. If the current SB is as awful as they're made out to be, they will lose their reelections and their supported candidates will lose too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is there some link that there is even a proposed raise, and if so what is the amount? I have no idea if OP is just making s h I t up to stir the pot.

By the time you figure anything out, they’ll have already given themselves a raise, dope.

Aren’t you lovely? So you are just here to make s h I t up. Got it.

The full text of the proposed raise got posted on the agenda for the School Board’s meeting tomorrow night over the weekend. No one is making anything up but you are clearly too stupid to acknowledge that.

It didn't just get posted. It has been posted. You just now figured it out. I've known about this for over a week because I read the agendas.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there some link that there is even a proposed raise, and if so what is the amount? I have no idea if OP is just making s h I t up to stir the pot.

By the time you figure anything out, they’ll have already given themselves a raise, dope.

Aren’t you lovely? So you are just here to make s h I t up. Got it.

The full text of the proposed raise got posted on the agenda for the School Board’s meeting tomorrow night over the weekend. No one is making anything up but you are clearly too stupid to acknowledge that.

It didn't just get posted. It has been posted. You just now figured it out. I've known about this for over a week because I read the agendas.

Not everyone has time to read everything on the SB Boarddocs.