School Board Proposes 77% Pay Increase for Themselves

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06/26/2023 18:51

Subject: Re:School Board Proposes 77% Pay Increase for Themselves

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Anonymous wrote:It won’t go into effect until the next school board is sworn in.

Personally, I’m in favor of it. It’s a thankless job that requires countless hours. Who would you expect to run? How could someone hold down a full-time job AND do this? If the salary isn’t raised, you’re only going to have candidates that are wealthy.

It should be a part-time position and they should be meet at night to provide community oversight. They meet constantly to justify their importance but they accomplish very little and, to the extent they do anything, it’s mostly meddling with staff decisions to advance their own personal agendas. That’s not going to change, and they’ll feel even more empowered to be useless busybodies if they make almost 2x as much.

That's just not how a school board operates in a system as big as ours. They have meetings at night but then also day-long work sessions. They have to go to schools, meet with principals, tour buildings and step in on classes. They have to go to PTA meetings and other community events. They have to respond to go many parents and constituents and communicate with all the high level staff and superintendent. That's a full time job.

Running for school board should be accessible to working parents and with a 30k salary, it isn't really to most people unless you own your own company or are rich.

FCPS has a very large staff that does most of these things, and does so more effectively than the School Board. They have a “full-time job” in large part to dissuade others from running against them. Rather than pay them more to meddle even more, they should scale back their activities and hire a strong Superintendent - instead, the main criteria for top leadership now is the extent to which they’ll allow themselves to get bosses around. If anything, there is an inverse correlation between the number of hours Board members meet and the effective operation of FCPS.

Well said.

The SB meetings are very long--but look at how long it takes to get to the real work. Last week the meat of the meeting did not begin for two hours. The business itself lasted only one hour.

The proclamations and resolutions have gone way over the top with the statements and then the comments.

And, most of the contentiousness seems to be because of their refusal to listen to the wishes of the parents. Instead of putting academics as the focus of the Board, it is activism.

Yes, yes, yes and yes…which is why they do not need a raise. They do not need to be doing 1/2 the things they are focused on doing, which is mostly just appearances. NO ONE CARES!

If we had a strong SB that focused on academics, they wouldn’t need to spend so much time responding to angry constituents.

Plus, what are their FT assistants then doing and then also the office staff that support the entire SB?

More teachers—less SB support staff.