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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

You know FCPS ranks 6th out of 8 for teacher pay among local jurisdictions, right? And like 1.1% of FCPS employees are central office-- whose work includes minor matters like making sure paychecks are issued, job applications are processed in a timely manner, the massive fleet of busses that rivals Greyhound in size is operational, that the accomplishments of kids and teachers are highlighted, documented and recognized, and IT is up and running at 200 different schools for 183k kids.

Tell your company they should 86 the finance team, their HR or IT department and see how it goes...[/quote]

No private companies are handing out 5% raises to HR and other admin employees. Plus central office is also full of highly paid specialists, special program managers, chiefs, and more useless positions. Many of which are filled with failed principals. These people already make a lot of money and do not deserve a 5% raises.

Also, teacher pay isn’t 5 out of 8. It depends on the level of teacher and that ranking didn’t account for the total compensation package. Just salary. But I am fine giving teachers and others who work with students a 6% (or more raise). It’s the others (new school board staffers, for example) who don’t deserve a 5% raise. Certainly not at the expense of the school staff.[/quote]

Yeah it's the teachers with MASTERS degrees who have teacher pay well below nearly all other jurisdictions. Does that clarification make you feel better? Also, I'm willing to bet your private sector company or federal/state agency has given you several consecutive years of healthy raises while teachers pay stagnated ... and now it's time to play catch up and this time, they have a union so for once, they can't be told to sit on their hands...[/quote]

You are once again missing the point. I’m fine with teachers getting a 6% raise. What I don’t understand is why teachers support their jobs being made harder to give central office a 5% raise.

And [b]my raise was 2% last year and will be less this year[/b] because the economy has been killed by Trump.[/quote]

What does this have to do with the salary increases of others and class sizes in schools?[/quote]

It was a response to the statement made by the PP I was a responding to - “Also, I'm willing to bet your private sector company or federal/state agency has given you several consecutive years of healthy raises while teachers pay stagnated.”  That person thinks everyone has been swimming in raises but we have not.[/quote]

Mine this year was 3% and that's by far the lowest it's been in the past 20 years, so yeah, most people in the private sector have been doing really well for ourselves. I'm happy to see teachers get a large raise that they deserve. This shouldn't be an us vs. them thing, you whining like this is just really selfish and bratty of you.[/quote]

Once again, read the thread before you write. I also support teacher raises.[/quote]

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