The Cost of DEI in FCPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would love to see that money go toward teacher raises!

That's about $500/year/teacher

That DEI office is only costing teachers $500/year

Surely the teachers should be willing to make that paltry sacrifice to ensure that there is someone at the head office that is concerned and laser focused on DEI stuff.

[Anonymous]

Wow. Fairfax Times has organization chart and salary chart.
Why do they need so many Title IX investigators?

Three people working on TJ, etc.

Even the administrative assistants make more than teachers.

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the $6.4 million they could hire 50 reading teachers and place them in the lowest performing schools so the 2nd graders who aren’t reading get intensive reading instruction in groups of 2-4 students.

That would be true equity making sure every child can read.

That is not the purpose of DEI.

The DEI crowd has given up on improving academic performance a long time ago.
They don't actually think that black people can catch up.

DEI is an affront to blacks.

A retired black FCPS teacher mentored my child for a while, and we got to know him. He is an outstanding mentor, and he had very specific recommendations for improvements that would help lower socioeconomic groups. But none of his approaches were implemented.

Instead DEI people at FCPS focussed on renaming schools! As if it made any difference to blacks or Hispanics.

[Anonymous]

DEI is an affront to blacks.

A retired black FCPS teacher mentored my child for a while, and we got to know him. He is an outstanding mentor, and he had very specific recommendations for improvements that would help lower socioeconomic groups. But none of his approaches were implemented.

Instead DEI people at FCPS focussed on renaming schools! As if it made any difference to blacks or Hispanics.

MANY years ago, I taught in an early Title I environment with extremely impoverished students. Most were African American. Their achievement scores were abysmal. The second year I taught there, we had a teacher write up a grant and get additional personnel. The classes were large, but we divided the kids for an hour a day--thirty minutes in the Math Lab and thirty minutes with me. The Math teacher worked with manipulatives and concepts. I worked with worksheets, drills, and flashcards.
By the end of the year, our students were in the top half of the county in math.

Why? I attribute it to the Math teacher who had a simple and cheap solution to a problem. We both worked hard and the kids were getting concepts and repetition. We, the teachers, cared and worked very hard.

It can be done. But, it will not be solved by expensive programs and people on high in Gatehouse.
Put the teachers in the classrooms--not the administrative offices.

Someone posted a graph that showed the growth of administrative positions in Fairfax vs the classroom positions. It was disgusting.

Get the money to the classroom and the students--not to people who go to lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. Fairfax Times has organization chart and salary chart.
Why do they need so many Title IX investigators?

Three people working on TJ, etc.

Even the administrative assistants make more than teachers.

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/

Investigators - Because they investigate sexual assaults and harassment claims, and there are a lot of those. It's mandated by federal law. The hearings people are responsible for the decisions on those, if you're curious. There's nothing DEI about their work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://fairfaxschoolsmonitor.com/the-cost-of-dei-in-fcps/

Looks like someone bothered to go and check. The Equity office in FCPS employs 52 and costs $6.4 million, enough to hire 125 new teachers.

And it is money well spent

[Anonymous]

Investigators - Because they investigate sexual assaults and harassment claims, and there are a lot of those. It's mandated by federal law. The hearings people are responsible for the decisions on those, if you're curious. There's nothing DEI about their work.

Then, the DEI work is certainly not affected if there are a "lot of those."

[Anonymous]

Then, the DEI work is certainly not affected if there are a "lot of those."

"effective" not "affected."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

DEI is an affront to blacks.

A retired black FCPS teacher mentored my child for a while, and we got to know him. He is an outstanding mentor, and he had very specific recommendations for improvements that would help lower socioeconomic groups. But none of his approaches were implemented.

Instead DEI people at FCPS focussed on renaming schools! As if it made any difference to blacks or Hispanics.

MANY years ago, I taught in an early Title I environment with extremely impoverished students. Most were African American. Their achievement scores were abysmal. The second year I taught there, we had a teacher write up a grant and get additional personnel. The classes were large, but we divided the kids for an hour a day--thirty minutes in the Math Lab and thirty minutes with me. The Math teacher worked with manipulatives and concepts. I worked with worksheets, drills, and flashcards.
By the end of the year, our students were in the top half of the county in math.

Why? I attribute it to the Math teacher who had a simple and cheap solution to a problem. We both worked hard and the kids were getting concepts and repetition. We, the teachers, cared and worked very hard.

It can be done. But, it will not be solved by expensive programs and people on high in Gatehouse.
Put the teachers in the classrooms--not the administrative offices.

Someone posted a graph that showed the growth of administrative positions in Fairfax vs the classroom positions. It was disgusting.

Get the money to the classroom and the students--not to people who go to lunch.

This is exactly the solution the mentor was advocating!!! And the mentor was a math teacher!

30 minutes one on one with a teacher twice a week, would have a massive impact and I saw that first hand.

Initiatives like this are how you are going to lift up poor black and Hispanic kids. Not having a chief equity officer who contributes nothing and has no impact on children who actually need help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://fairfaxschoolsmonitor.com/the-cost-of-dei-in-fcps/

Looks like someone bothered to go and check. The Equity office in FCPS employs 52 and costs $6.4 million, enough to hire 125 new teachers.

Shut up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://fairfaxschoolsmonitor.com/the-cost-of-dei-in-fcps/

Looks like someone bothered to go and check. The Equity office in FCPS employs 52 and costs $6.4 million, enough to hire 125 new teachers.

And it is money well spent

It is well spent on quacks who promote intersectionality and critical race theory and other such nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Then, the DEI work is certainly not affected if there are a "lot of those."

"effective" not "affected."

I'm not sure what your point is. I just explained that they have nothing to do with DEI.

[Anonymous]

Thomas Jefferson High School Admissions Office being a part of DEI office - What a joke! It's why TJ went downhill!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Then, the DEI work is certainly not affected if there are a "lot of those."

"effective" not "affected."

I'm not sure what your point is. I just explained that they have nothing to do with DEI.

If there are so many sexual assaults then the DEI is not effectively doing their job. Isn't their job to prevent this type of activity? To teach students to be respectful of others? If we need at least three investigators then they are not effectively doing their jobs. And, DEI training is not working.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the $6.4 million they could hire 50 reading teachers and place them in the lowest performing schools so the 2nd graders who aren’t reading get intensive reading instruction in groups of 2-4 students.

That would be true equity making sure every child can read.

Preach.