Didn't FCPS just say that now they have the lowest vacancy rate since during the school closures for Covid (no one was quitting that sweet gig).

When they asked for the 7 percent, the economy was fine.
Now, its not. County is making across the board cuts. Thats how life goes.

What's smart is to increase the pay only for people working directly with students and more money in hard to fill positions-teachers for emptional disabilities, math etc.

Economy is crashing, no one is quitting en masse.

Anonymous wrote:Asking for a 7 percent raise for all
Employees is so incredibly tone deaf when we are heading into a depression.

1) We were not heading into a depression when this was negotiated last year.
2) Even in fantastic years, there are never large raises. That is why we are behind other districts.
3) We are unable to fill classrooms with licensed, qualified teachers. There are two options to change that: Pay more to attract people, or change the job requirements (smaller classes, shorter school day with more planning time) to make the current pay worth it. If neither of those happens, we are saying that it is okay to fill classrooms with temporary roles.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t they get a step increase every year or no?

No. Over 30% of years it’s been “frozen” (no step, no cola). Many years I made less than prior years with health insurance premiums increasing.

Wow that’s crazy. How do they account for inflation?

They don't.

Yes, they do. They have been giving the same raises to all employees (last year was 4% and an extra 2% in January) - they just didn’t give steps. And considering the union bargained for another percentage raise rather than steps, I guess that is what employees wanted.

Asking for a 7 percent raise for all
Employees is so incredibly tone deaf when we are heading into a depression.

Anonymous wrote:The school board will have to determine the raises it gives after they get the amount of the county transfer. It’s not going to be 7% but could probably still be 4%, especially if the school board does differentiated pay just for certain jobs, like teachers, rather than the across the board raise they have proposed so far (gatehouse staff would get the same raise as a classroom teacher). It could probably even be higher if the school board tried to make some cuts to their expenses but they haven’t bothered to do that.

School based staff are the only ones who deserve the full raise.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t they get a step increase every year or no?

No. Over 30% of years it’s been “frozen” (no step, no cola). Many years I made less than prior years with health insurance premiums increasing.

Wow that’s crazy. How do they account for inflation?

They don't.

i have been teaching 10 years so i should be going to step 11 next year....

but i am stuck on step 6.

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what is sad is that fcps doesn't even compensate you at your yearly salary to determine what they contribute to your retirement, the base it on your step value.

that's another way teachers are getting shafted.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t they get a step increase every year or no?

No. Over 30% of years it’s been “frozen” (no step, no cola). Many years I made less than prior years with health insurance premiums increasing.

Wow that’s crazy. How do they account for inflation?

The school board will have to determine the raises it gives after they get the amount of the county transfer. It’s not going to be 7% but could probably still be 4%, especially if the school board does differentiated pay just for certain jobs, like teachers, rather than the across the board raise they have proposed so far (gatehouse staff would get the same raise as a classroom teacher). It could probably even be higher if the school board tried to make some cuts to their expenses but they haven’t bothered to do that.

Anonymous wrote:Don’t they get a step increase every year or no?

No. Over 30% of years it’s been “frozen” (no step, no cola). Many years I made less than prior years with health insurance premiums increasing.

I appreciate my colleagues fight for collective bargaining and I think some good will come from it. But 7% will not be it. Haha

Anonymous wrote:Don’t they get a step increase every year or no?

I’ve been with FCPS for 32 years. There have been a good number of years with no step increase.

Anonymous wrote:Don’t they get a step increase every year or no?

LOL! In the 25 years I have been teaching, it seems like we've been "frozen" more than not. I know that's not accurate, but it seems like it.

In reality, I think we've been frozen somewhere between 5 and 10 of the years I've been teaching.