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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many of the FCPS SB members I know work at least as many hours as a full time job. If you don’t pay them a living wage, then the only people who will run are privileged people who can afford to work for a small amount of money - retirees, wealthy people, stay at home moms, etc. or by people who have to work another job to make ends meet and don’t have the time to commit to the SB. I think the community would best be represented by people with skills and experience who view the job as a full time paid position. [/quote]

+1 I want SB member to be a well-paid position because, otherwise, the types of people who are currently on the school board are going to be … the only people on the school board. Pay it like a full time job, because it basically is one, and you’ll get candidates who want to take the job seriously as a full time job and aren’t limited by not being independently wealthy. Not just use it as a stepping stone to whatever else. [/quote]

The SB should oversee and advise, but I disagree that it should be a FT job. The stepping stone-seekers will always seek out this position, because Fairfax. We need Dr. Reid and the other high paid staff at Gatehouse to lead—not the SB and especially not this SB.[/quote]

That is fundamentally undemocratic. We need some oversight of our school system. If the current SB is as awful as they're made out to be, they will lose their reelections and their supported candidates will lose too.[/quote]

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