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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]That's right, folks--if the PP didn't make it crystal clear, we ARE NOT PAID during the summer. We are 10-month contract employees who have to turn in our employee badges, keys, etc. when we leave the building in June, and don't get them back until August. (And yes, parents, this is why we might not respond immediately to those mid-summer emails you send us--we are technically between jobs). Saying that we are on vacation during this time suggests a PAID vacation--that is not what the summer is for teachers. Many teachers take on other jobs, or teach summer school to help pay the bills during this period. [/quote]

Do you get benefits during this time?  And, if you don't get paid during the summer, then you are paid a salary for ten months.  You do understand that you get about a month off during that time?

I was a teacher and I appreciate very much how hard the job is.  However, there are certain benefits that go with the job: time off.  Teachers should be paid more than they are, but right now, there really is no money.  [b]And, no, I don't want to pay more in taxes.  
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I do think the stress of all this testing is awful and that it needs to go away.

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And you think you're alone in this?????  I'll go out on a limb and assert that NO ONE wants to pay more in taxes, but sometimes you don't have a choice when it's for the greater good of a community as a whole.  Sheesh, the people around here who expect something for nothing.   Perhaps the only way for folks to get it is for schools to fall apart and home values to decline as a result.  Maybe then the idea of collectively paying a little more to proper fund the quality institutions we all seem to want, won't seem like such a bad deal.  [/quote]

I don't want to pay any more in taxes, but I also don't want to cut of my nose to spite my face.

Raise property taxes by a few cents. At least property tax money stays in the county. [/quote]

I thought they should have gone to $1.10.[/quote]

It was .89 on 2008. The [b]rate [/b]has already gone up 22.5% since then.   In addition, the base increasing every year, which proxies living costs, and new housing is added (and taxes collected) which is where the new people live. That's how they've paid for the massive budget increases (44%) in FCPS.

When you do simple math, it's easy to see where the lies are.  Please people, do the math.[/quote]

The rate has gone UP and DOWN.  When we moved here in 1997, the [b]rate[/b] was [/b]$1.23.[b]  So, since then the rate has gone down. You conveniently picked the nadir of the rate to "prove" your case.  [/quote]

Memories are short! How could I forget this. They need to move property tax levels right back up there.[/quote]

Edit: I'm not the PP who posted above about the .89 cent rate. [/quote]

I am. I used the 2008 number because that's what Garza is using in her propaganda claiming 500M in cuts.

Pick any year you want, but be honest use the same one throughout.  FCPS budget increases were actually much greater prior to 2008.  2008 is the first full tax year that reflected the "housing bubble" busting.

1997-2008 budgets were going up even faster due to housing prices soaring, county budgets were going up very fast and even with the rate reduction left much more money in the till.

If you're having trouble with the math, I'll do it for you. We can compute property tax burden (rate * base) and FCPS budget (total from all sources).  They don't make it transparent but it's published.

Garza picked 2008 because it's the only possible way to twist the numbers and pretend there are cuts. If you go back before the housing bubble it's an embarrassment of riches. Not that is isn't pretty bad now.[/quote]

If everything in the county is an "embarrassment of riches" then why can't we pay our teachers more, and why are cuts to ANY services being suggested?[/quote]

We could give teachers COLA raises.. They just choose to allocate the money to other things. Heck, they just voted themselves a massive raise..... It's just about priorities.[/quote]

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