School board increases salaries for teachers with LARGER class sizes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s worse is they increased salaries for non teachers by 5%. Central office highly paid staff get 5% more! But teacher positions are cut and school support like classroom monitors. Their priorities are so out of whack.

Yes. Cut Gatehouse staffing by 50% and put the money into hiring more classroom teachers to reduce class sizes…

[Anonymous]

Totally! No one will get checks on time, it will take even longer to process new hires, broken computers and IT problems can just rot with no one to fix them, great idea!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Totally! No one will get checks on time, it will take even longer to process new hires, broken computers and IT problems can just rot with no one to fix them, great idea!

Exactly. The majority of people at Central office are not part of the overpaid leadership.

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Anonymous wrote:Totally! No one will get checks on time, it will take even longer to process new hires, broken computers and IT problems can just rot with no one to fix them, great idea!

Exactly. The majority of people at Central office are not part of the overpaid leadership.

I think everyone wants the people who do necessary work to be paid. But, should they be paid more than the teachers? i don't know.

However, from the organization charts, there are plenty of people who appear to be in support of instruction, but are really not necessary. Three people to investigate Title IX violations?

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Anonymous wrote:Totally! No one will get checks on time, it will take even longer to process new hires, broken computers and IT problems can just rot with no one to fix them, great idea!

Exactly. The majority of people at Central office are not part of the overpaid leadership.

I think everyone wants the people who do necessary work to be paid. But, should they be paid more than the teachers? i don't know.

However, from the organization charts, there are plenty of people who appear to be in support of instruction, but are really not necessary. Three people to investigate Title IX violations?

They are 12-month employees so I wouldn’t be surprised to find out their salary is higher.

So there are about 180,000 students and over 40,000 employees, and those three employees investigate discrimination (gender, race, gender) issues? They may be be overworked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What? A 6% salary increase is astronomical. I was lucky to get 1.5% at my PhD level position. And because of this they have to increase class sizes? None of this is in the best interests of the students. I’m so tired of FCPS.

Oh shut up. Teacher pay has been dragging behind other professions for too long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moon gave a multimillion dollar amount as the cost for a 5% raise for the highly paid non union employees. It could have easily covered special ed chairs, aarts, classroom monitors and more. You would think teachers would want those things but the union seem to have sided with raises for highly paid central office employees instead of things that would have helped them at the school level.

The union sided with no one but the members they represent. They had absolutely nothing to do with the 5% raise given to the non union employees since they do not represent them.

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Anonymous wrote:Moon gave a multimillion dollar amount as the cost for a 5% raise for the highly paid non union employees. It could have easily covered special ed chairs, aarts, classroom monitors and more. You would think teachers would want those things but the union seem to have sided with raises for highly paid central office employees instead of things that would have helped them at the school level.

The union sided with no one but the members they represent. They had absolutely nothing to do with the 5% raise given to the non union employees since they do not represent them.

They could have pointed out the hypocrisy. They could have pointed out that more dollars could have been given to instructional staff.

However, who do they really represent? They represent themselves. I think you will find that most are quite active in one of the political parties.

[Anonymous]

So teachers get a raise of some sort. IN SCHOOL support staff may be cut and people may loose their jobs. Classes will be bigger. There may be additional duties added to the school day. Is this really what union negotiating is all about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So teachers get a raise of some sort. IN SCHOOL support staff may be cut and people may loose their jobs. Classes will be bigger. There may be additional duties added to the school day. Is this really what union negotiating is all about?

Go read the contract. Read about all the time off union reps get.

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Anonymous wrote:So teachers get a raise of some sort. IN SCHOOL support staff may be cut and people may loose their jobs. Classes will be bigger. There may be additional duties added to the school day. Is this really what union negotiating is all about?

Go read the contract. Read about all the time off union reps get.

Also, remember, their membership includes support staff, etc.
It looks like most anyone who works for FCPS can be a member. So, why would they discourage a raise for HQ?

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Anonymous wrote:With the larger class sizes, there is a chance many secondary teachers will have greater than 150 students. There is a sliding scale for additional pay once you go over 150.

I think the class size issues is just for elementary since that’s where they absorbed openings and that’s the issues with AART and sped chairs.

In addition to the proposed cuts to AARTs and Sped leads at the elementary level, there was an additional adjustment in the staffing formula for all grades which will result in a net loss of around 270 positions, with an average of 1.5 per school. Whether those are absorbed somehow or actually result in job losses is yet to be seen.

Got it. There will definitely be destaffs again and moving around to fill in what’s left. I’m sure she will be thrilled to say we are fully staffed for real next time!

Smoke and mirrors the FCPS way

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Anonymous wrote:What? A 6% salary increase is astronomical. I was lucky to get 1.5% at my PhD level position. And because of this they have to increase class sizes? None of this is in the best interests of the students. I’m so tired of FCPS.

Oh shut up. Teacher pay has been dragging behind other professions for too long.

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Anonymous wrote:Should read the room. The feds who survived are looking at 0% raise next year.

Teachers still need raises.

Never said they don't deserve it. Just saying 6% is a bit extravagant and tone deaf considering the current times.

Do you mean the current times where teachers are completely disrespected by parents AND many students? Those times?

What good is a 6% raise if your classes go from manageable 25 kids to out of control 35 kids and all the aides have been eliminated? Is it really worth it? How many aide positions could have been saved if it was more moderate like 3 or 4% raise?

Since when have class sizes been 25? My kids routinely had 30-35 kids in their classes from 3rd grade up.

That doesn't make it right or best practice-teachers can only do so much for so many-get a clue.

[Anonymous]

Fire half the Gatehouse staff. No raise for the rest of Gatehouse Hire more teachers and instructional aides and have smaller classes. Give teachers and instructional aides a pay raise.

So simple a 5 year old could come up with the right answer, yet it is beyond Reid and the school board.