Anonymous wrote:This news is so incredibly disturbing, especially after the football coach was arrested for soliciting an undercover cop posing as a teenager.

McLean Police District— Detectives from our Major Crimes Bureau have arrested a Langley High School Instructional Assistant after he was seen masturbating in a classroom.

On October 11, during school hours, a School Resource Officer was notified by school administration that a student observed an instructional assistant masturbating in a classroom behind his desk. Detectives were notified and immediately began investigating.

Preliminarily, detectives determined that David Scalea, 40, of Great Falls was in a classroom and began inappropriately touching himself underneath his desk. A student observed Scalea and immediately notified school administration. No students were physically harmed.

On October 11, Scalea was arrested and charged with Obscene Sexual Display and Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor. Scalea was placed on administrative leave and has been an instructional assistant with Fairfax County Public Schools since 2020. He is currently being held without bond at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center.

Link to Instructional Assistant arrest: https://fcpdnews.wordpress.com/2024/10/14/fcps-instructional-assistant-arrested-for-obscene-sexual-display/

Link to coach story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/08/12/langley-high-football-coach-soliciting-sex-detective-teen-fairfax/

Anonymous wrote:Not at all to excuse this behavior, but it should be known that this staff member had a number of disabilities - according to his Facebook page he suffered a stroke in-utero and has not had a typical life.

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Anonymous wrote:Goodness, we're really scraping the bottom of the barrel in education, aren't we?

Have you seen the IA pay scale? https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/fy25-cis.pdf

Not many people with options want to work for $25-30k per year. If they work summer school too, maybe an extra $2 or $3k. That's not a living wage even for a single person with roommates. If you want good people to take these jobs, pay them better wages.

Minimum wage in Maryland right over the river is $15/hr. A full time worker at literally any job in MD makes the same money.

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Anonymous wrote:Goodness, we're really scraping the bottom of the barrel in education, aren't we?

Have you seen the IA pay scale? https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/fy25-cis.pdf

Not many people with options want to work for $25-30k per year. If they work summer school too, maybe an extra $2 or $3k. That's not a living wage even for a single person with roommates. If you want good people to take these jobs, pay them better wages.

Minimum wage in Maryland right over the river is $15/hr. A full time worker at literally any job in MD makes the same money.

+1. And many IAs don’t get benefits. It’s a sh&tty job. If you want better people working in schools, pay them better, offer benefits, and treat them as professionals/train them as such. We currently don’t do any of that in our school system and therefore wind up with a lot of bad staff members in schools.

Cut the fat at Gatehouse. Pay more to those who are critical.

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Anonymous wrote:Goodness, we're really scraping the bottom of the barrel in education, aren't we?

Have you seen the IA pay scale? https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/fy25-cis.pdf

Not many people with options want to work for $25-30k per year. If they work summer school too, maybe an extra $2 or $3k. That's not a living wage even for a single person with roommates. If you want good people to take these jobs, pay them better wages.

Minimum wage in Maryland right over the river is $15/hr. A full time worker at literally any job in MD makes the same money.

+1. And many IAs don’t get benefits. It’s a sh&tty job. If you want better people working in schools, pay them better, offer benefits, and treat them as professionals/train them as such. We currently don’t do any of that in our school system and therefore wind up with a lot of bad staff members in schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Goodness, we're really scraping the bottom of the barrel in education, aren't we?

Have you seen the IA pay scale? https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/fy25-cis.pdf

Not many people with options want to work for $25-30k per year. If they work summer school too, maybe an extra $2 or $3k. That's not a living wage even for a single person with roommates. If you want good people to take these jobs, pay them better wages.

Minimum wage in Maryland right over the river is $15/hr. A full time worker at literally any job in MD makes the same money.

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Anonymous wrote:Goodness, we're really scraping the bottom of the barrel in education, aren't we?

Have you seen the IA pay scale? https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/fy25-cis.pdf

Not many people with options want to work for $25-30k per year. If they work summer school too, maybe an extra $2 or $3k. That's not a living wage even for a single person with roommates. If you want good people to take these jobs, pay them better wages.

Minimum wage in Maryland right over the river is $15/hr. A full time worker at literally any job in MD makes the same money.

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Anonymous wrote:Goodness, we're really scraping the bottom of the barrel in education, aren't we?

Have you seen the IA pay scale? https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/fy25-cis.pdf

Not many people with options want to work for $25-30k per year. If they work summer school too, maybe an extra $2 or $3k. That's not a living wage even for a single person with roommates. If you want good people to take these jobs, pay them better wages.

Minimum wage in Maryland right over the river is $15/hr. A full time worker at literally any job in MD makes the same money.

Anonymous wrote:Goodness, we're really scraping the bottom of the barrel in education, aren't we?

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Anonymous wrote:They are both named David. Normally I don't make jokes about this, but "Ew, David!" fits here.

With apologies to David Shannon I guess. My kids loved those books.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-scalea-a4999434/

This teacher was openly homosexual and proudly displayed pride flags in his room.

In and of itself this would not be an issue. Men like this do more damage to gay rights than anything any bigot or prejudice person could ever do.

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Anonymous wrote:Goodness, we're really scraping the bottom of the barrel in education, aren't we?

This is what happens when parents get confused and think they control what happens in schools and seek to micromanage curricular and individual classrooms. The good teachers had enough and quit. So, we brought it on ourselves in recent years. We get what we deserve, and we deserved this.

Yeah, no. That’s not the problem, dingbat.

Anonymous wrote:Not at all to excuse this behavior, but it should be known that this staff member had a number of disabilities - according to his Facebook page he suffered a stroke in-utero and has not had a typical life.

Anonymous wrote:They are both named David. Normally I don't make jokes about this, but "Ew, David!" fits here.

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Anonymous wrote:Goodness, we're really scraping the bottom of the barrel in education, aren't we?

This is what happens when parents get confused and think they control what happens in schools and seek to micromanage curricular and individual classrooms. The good teachers had enough and quit. So, we brought it on ourselves in recent years. We get what we deserve, and we deserved this.