Northam to make permanent raise for teachers’ salaries

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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".

Pay might be ok but I wouldn’t agree with the part in bold.

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Staff do not get raises in APS, at least not the staff that I referred to earlier.

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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".

Pay might be ok but I wouldn’t agree with the part in bold.

Pay is not ok when I can’t afford a single family house on 60k before taxes.

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

I’m a teacher who teaches in person. There hadn’t “better” be any such thing. My colleagues are working hard at home too and aren’t lesser teachers because they have health issues.

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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".

Pay might be ok but I wouldn’t agree with the part in bold.

We definitely don't get raises every year.

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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".

Pay might be ok but I wouldn’t agree with the part in bold.

Pay is not ok when I can’t afford a single family house on 60k before taxes.

How many years have you worked and why do you need a single family home with no other tenants if it's just you? Why not an apartment or condo or townhouse? DC is a big city and is expensive. Many people live in DC and make under $53,000 and still rent or own. For that amount, you could probably afford a house around $250,000. There are 111 single family homes I'm finding in Prince George's County, 5 homes in Prince William, 4 in Montgomery County, and 1 in Loudoun. Good luck on your home search.

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School choice now. I was anti-voucher before, but not now.

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Anonymous wrote:School choice now. I was anti-voucher before, but not now.

Well, you and every other uneducated and brainwash-able citizen were probably always doomed to become Republicans. If the last 4 years didn’t teach you any lessons about that party and its policies, you are a lost cause.

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Anonymous wrote:School choice now. I was anti-voucher before, but not now.

Well, you and every other uneducated and brainwash-able citizen were probably always doomed to become Republicans. If the last 4 years didn’t teach you any lessons about that party and its policies, you are a lost cause.

Um. Democrats are the ones keeping schools closed and then paying teachers more for staying home. It’s galling. I am very educated (HYP, thanks) and have, over the course of the past year, become pro-voucher. The bottom line is that private school teachers are teaching!!!! DL for my first grader is no better than watching “educational” tv all day. Worthless.

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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".

Pay might be ok but I wouldn’t agree with the part in bold.

Pay is not ok when I can’t afford a single family house on 60k before taxes.

How many years have you worked and why do you need a single family home with no other tenants if it's just you? Why not an apartment or condo or townhouse? DC is a big city and is expensive. Many people live in DC and make under $53,000 and still rent or own. For that amount, you could probably afford a house around $250,000. There are 111 single family homes I'm finding in Prince George's County, 5 homes in Prince William, 4 in Montgomery County, and 1 in Loudoun. Good luck on your home search.

Family of 4. Live in LoCo. Not trying to go elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:School choice now. I was anti-voucher before, but not now.

Well, you and every other uneducated and brainwash-able citizen were probably always doomed to become Republicans. If the last 4 years didn’t teach you any lessons about that party and its policies, you are a lost cause.

Um. Democrats are the ones keeping schools closed and then paying teachers more for staying home. It’s galling. I am very educated (HYP, thanks) and have, over the course of the past year, become pro-voucher. The bottom line is that private school teachers are teaching!!!! DL for my first grader is no better than watching “educational” tv all day. Worthless.

Shocker

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the deal that the county has to agree to match, and Fairfax County isn't going to?

They better not after the ADA crap teachers pulled. Don’t tell me FCPS has 10x more valid requests over capita than LCPS or APS. And without the deluge of requests to process, we would have started in person hybrid in August.

Try again next year teachers.

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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.

So. Much. This.

Turns out I’m a single issue voter at the local level. I am voting in person schools/ union busting and that’s it. I hope it’s a Dem who gives it to me. But honest to G*d Corey Stewart would have gotten my kid into a classroom in August and I’d rather have him than —. This (waves hand at weeping kid with ADHD who cannot manage distance calculus). I’m not sure what what good a Democrat does me in office if he prioritizes unions over kids.

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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!

Your right. There were also all those teachers standing outside Gatehouse in Grim Reaper costumes. Klassy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School choice now. I was anti-voucher before, but not now.

Well, you and every other uneducated and brainwash-able citizen were probably always doomed to become Republicans. If the last 4 years didn’t teach you any lessons about that party and its policies, you are a lost cause.

Um. Democrats are the ones keeping schools closed and then paying teachers more for staying home. It’s galling. I am very educated (HYP, thanks) and have, over the course of the past year, become pro-voucher. The bottom line is that private school teachers are teaching!!!! DL for my first grader is no better than watching “educational” tv all day. Worthless.

Exactly! If privates are having no problems, why aren’t public school teachers going to work????