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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where FCPS is really struggling in attracting the young/new teachers.  The best new teachers are no longer coming to FCPS.  Part of the issue FCPS has is they created this retirement system that attracts and secures teachers on the back end of their career, but new teachers could care less about retirement.  They have bills to pay now.[/quote]

FCPS also has a reputation for how teachers are treated. One young teacher I knew who was amazing left in her third year for Arlington. She said FCPS made her feel insignificant and like a number-said she felt like she could not be effective in a county like FCPS. She's not wrong. Between parents and obnoxious gatehouse~ teachers are made to feel like they don't matter. [b]FCPS has a lot of work to do and unfortunately this superintendent seems in over her head...or maybe FCPS is just too big.[/b][/quote]

Both of these things can be true at the same time.  And darents don't feel any differently than teachers, other than that parents aren't willing to pay even higher taxes to fund a 7% salary increase when overall they've seen how little return for their money they get from their tax dollars.

Leave for greener pastures if you must.  Maybe it will force them to hire someone better than Reid or break the county into more manageable, less bureaucratic pieces.  But as long as I'm expected to pay higher taxes to fund unnecessary crap like Dunn Loring ES and an expansion of Centreville HS to a ridiculous 3000 seats, while other schools like Herndon HS have hundreds of empty seats, I'm going to advocate that they hold the line on the property tax rate. [/quote]

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