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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It won’t go into effect until the next school board is sworn in.

Personally, I’m in favor of it. It’s a thankless job that requires countless hours. Who would you expect to run? How could someone hold down a full-time job AND do this? If the salary isn’t raised, you’re only going to have candidates that are wealthy. [/quote]

It should be a part-time position and they should be meet at night to provide community oversight.  They meet constantly to justify their importance but they accomplish very little and, to the extent they do anything, it’s mostly meddling with staff decisions to advance their own personal agendas.  That’s not going to change, and they’ll feel even more empowered to be useless busybodies if they make almost 2x as much. [/quote]

That's just not how a school board operates in a system as big as ours. They have meetings at night but then also day-long work sessions. They have to go to schools, meet with principals, tour buildings and step in on classes. They have to go to PTA meetings and other community events. They have to respond to go many parents and constituents and communicate with all the high level staff and superintendent. That's a full time job.

Running for school board should be accessible to working parents and with a 30k salary, it isn't really to most people unless you own your own company or are rich.[/quote]

FCPS has a very large staff that does most of these things, and does so more effectively than the School Board.  They have a “full-time job” in large part to dissuade others from running against them.  Rather than pay them more to meddle even more, they should scale back their activities and hire a strong Superintendent - instead, the main criteria for top leadership now is the extent to which they’ll allow themselves to get bosses around.  If anything, there is an inverse correlation between the number of hours Board members meet and the effective operation of FCPS. [/quote]

What you're effectively saying is you don't want oversight of the staff. I know there is a large talented staff, but we need a strong school board to provide oversight of it.

This isn't about this current school board. This is about ensuring that we have a pool of qualified candidates for the board who can hold the staff accountable and respond to constituent needs. [/quote]

So be it. In this day and age of social media coverage, superintendents aren't going to get away with wild acts and corruption in the public eye. We don't need unqualified politicians wasting time and energy to purportedly keep staff in check. It's grown to be the opposite - we've lost the ability to keep the Board in check as they go on to do whatever they please.[/quote]

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