Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 20:11     Subject: School board increases salaries for teachers with LARGER class sizes?
Can’t find the new pay scales?
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 20:08     Subject: School board increases salaries for teachers with LARGER class sizes?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Should read the room. The feds who survived are looking at 0% raise next year.


Teachers still need raises.


Never said they don't deserve it. Just saying 6% is a bit extravagant and tone deaf considering the current times.


They're underpaid, it should be more.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 20:08     Subject: School board increases salaries for teachers with LARGER class sizes?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


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...


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.


Sure they are.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 20:08     Subject: School board increases salaries for teachers with LARGER class sizes?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Should read the room. The feds who survived are looking at 0% raise next year.


Nobody cares. It’s not about you this time.


This forum is always telling teachers who complain to quit their jobs, parents can do that too if they are unhappy at their jobs.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 20:06     Subject: School board increases salaries for teachers with LARGER class sizes?
Anonymous wrote:Should read the room. The feds who survived are looking at 0% raise next year.

The two are not related.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 20:06     Subject: School board increases salaries for teachers with LARGER class sizes?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Should read the room. The feds who survived are looking at 0% raise next year.


Teachers still need raises.


Never said they don't deserve it. Just saying 6% is a bit extravagant and tone deaf considering the current times.


Do you mean the current times where teachers are completely disrespected by parents AND many students? Those times?
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 20:05     Subject: School board increases salaries for teachers with LARGER class sizes?
I'd rather my kid have a qualified teacher and a large class size than some RIFed Fed who doesn't give a shit babysitting a smaller group of kids and quitting halfway through the year.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 20:05     Subject: School board increases salaries for teachers with LARGER class sizes?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


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...


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.


You are complaining about a very, very small group of people.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 20:03     Subject: School board increases salaries for teachers with LARGER class sizes?
Anonymous wrote:Should read the room. The feds who survived are looking at 0% raise next year.


Feel free to become a teacher if you think it's so much better.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 19:53     Subject: School board increases salaries for teachers with LARGER class sizes?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Should read the room. The feds who survived are looking at 0% raise next year.


Teachers still need raises.


Never said they don't deserve it. Just saying 6% is a bit extravagant and tone deaf considering the current times.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 19:52     Subject: School board increases salaries for teachers with LARGER class sizes?
Anonymous wrote:Should read the room. The feds who survived are looking at 0% raise next year.


Nobody cares. It’s not about you this time.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 19:47     Subject: School board increases salaries for teachers with LARGER class sizes?
With the larger class sizes, there is a chance many secondary teachers will have greater than 150 students. There is a sliding scale for additional pay once you go over 150.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 19:39     Subject: School board increases salaries for teachers with LARGER class sizes?
Anonymous wrote:Should read the room. The feds who survived are looking at 0% raise next year.


I'm a fed and this kind of zero sum game thinking it ridiculous and toxic.

The teachers absolutely are underpaid and I see absolutely no reason why me not getting a raise change means anything about their pay.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 19:38     Subject: School board increases salaries for teachers with LARGER class sizes?
Anonymous wrote:Moon gave a multimillion dollar amount as the cost for a 5% raise for the highly paid non union employees. It could have easily covered special ed chairs, aarts, classroom monitors and more. You would think teachers would want those things but the union seem to have sided with raises for highly paid central office employees instead of things that would have helped them at the school level.


Union leaders and negotiators look out for union leaders and negotiators.

Just wait. It will get worse. They do not look out for teachers. They begin that way, but they also become like politcos.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2025 19:34     Subject: School board increases salaries for teachers with LARGER class sizes?
Anonymous wrote:Moon gave a multimillion dollar amount as the cost for a 5% raise for the highly paid non union employees. It could have easily covered special ed chairs, aarts, classroom monitors and more. You would think teachers would want those things but the union seem to have sided with raises for highly paid central office employees instead of things that would have helped them at the school level.


+1
2/3 of the board agreeing to suspend the rules and not allow for any new amendments or debates on the budget before the vote didn’t help. Bad situation.