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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For perspective - My daughter applied to Fairfax a few months ago from another county.  She had eight interviews (all remote) the day she applied.  Eight job offers on the spot.  She still gets calls even though she has accepted a position.  Fairfax needs teachers.  [/quote]

Another perspective, I contacted HR more than once in the spring to see if there could be any negotiation on the salary scale.  I work in a neighboring district and would like to come to FCPS as an experienced and certified special ed teacher so I could be in the same district as my children.  It would be a big pay cut since they won’t give experienced teachers all of their years of experience.  I would make less even if I was put on the same step but it would be closer than their max entry that is posted.  I never got a response. [/quote]

They should just remove that maximum entry step. If you come over with 20 years exp, credit the 20.[/quote]

+1. FCPS is beyond stupid to not remove the maximum entry step, especially in the critical shortage positions. It's also time to consider signing bonuses for certain teaching and classroom positions. [/quote]

If other districts did the same, how long until teachers just jumped between districts every year? [/quote]

Experienced teacher here.  Why would we do that? Some of us started teaching long before we had kids.  Now that are own children are older, we want to work in the same district and be on the same schedule as our children but a 20k - 30k pay cut makes that hard to justify.  What would anyone gain by switching every year?[/quote]

Because of seniority is fully portable between districts, you could easily cycle between FCPS, FCCPS, ACPS, and LCPS depending on where you live and collect signing bonuses every year. [/quote]

I work in one of those districts and we don’t give signing bonuses. If the others do, I doubt they are much.  As I posted before, I would be taking a 20-30k pay cut to come to FCPS and can’t do it.  I would consider if it was a 10k cut to be on the same schedule as my kids.  After 20 years of teaching, a 1-2k signing bonus isn’t worth the hassle of changing classrooms, new teachers orientation, getting to know new staff and admin, shall I go on?  Experienced teachers wouldn’t care about a signing bonus.  Like many, my husband makes more than me which is how I can afford to stay in teaching for a full career.

But out of curiosity, how much are they offering? [/quote]

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