Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 22:16     Subject: Useless positions crated by Reid/Brabrand
Anonymous wrote:You know I generally don’t defend some things but

Chief security officer not horrible

Chief engagement officer isn’t that different from chief marketing officer

Chief equity officer well honestly I’m always fascinated by how much hate this one gets but whatever

Okay now maybe those salaries could be cut by 50% but i don’t know that. Certainly I’m not crapping myself over them existing they are what they are

Now could the people in those positions do a better job at times I’m quite sure they could but that’s not for me to decide


DP. Why do we need a Chief Equity Officer, when there is already a Chief Academic Officer? They're just going to push initiatives that will require heavy legal attention as otherwise they'll invite lawsuits.
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 22:14     Subject: Useless positions crated by Reid/Brabrand
Anonymous wrote:You know I generally don’t defend some things but

Chief security officer not horrible

Chief engagement officer isn’t that different from chief marketing officer

Chief equity officer well honestly I’m always fascinated by how much hate this one gets but whatever

Okay now maybe those salaries could be cut by 50% but i don’t know that. Certainly I’m not crapping myself over them existing they are what they are

Now could the people in those positions do a better job at times I’m quite sure they could but that’s not for me to decide


Check out the size and 3xpense of staffs. Especially engagement and equity

Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 22:12     Subject: Useless positions crated by Reid/Brabrand
You know I generally don’t defend some things but

Chief security officer not horrible

Chief engagement officer isn’t that different from chief marketing officer

Chief equity officer well honestly I’m always fascinated by how much hate this one gets but whatever

Okay now maybe those salaries could be cut by 50% but i don’t know that. Certainly I’m not crapping myself over them existing they are what they are

Now could the people in those positions do a better job at times I’m quite sure they could but that’s not for me to decide
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 17:58     Subject: Useless positions crated by Reid/Brabrand
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sure there is administrative bloat, but much is in response to state and federal policy that require these positions. Even the total salaries of what you outlined, combined, are a tiny, tiny fraction of the FCPS budget


Please cite examples. I don't think the feds or the state demand positions that pay what FCPS is paying their "leaders."


New poster here:
-Virginia Literacy Act
-VDOE requires extensive monitoring of assessments and student progress
-Title 1 has extensive oversight and requires staffing for compliance


Gee. Title I has been with us for many, many years. Since the 1960's.
But, since the feds are withholding funds due to the transgender issue, I guess we don't need it anymore. However, the legal fees have certainly escalated unless they are getting it pro bono.
The Virginia Literacy Act: I would assume that somewhere i the organization there has been someone in charge of reading instruction. If there hasn't been, we are worse off than I thought. That would be the job of the person in charge to ensure that teachers have what they need-to include training. It takes a "plan"--not many people at Gatehouse with big dollar salaries.

You are excusing their bureaucracy.

Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 17:39     Subject: Useless positions crated by Reid/Brabrand
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sure there is administrative bloat, but much is in response to state and federal policy that require these positions. Even the total salaries of what you outlined, combined, are a tiny, tiny fraction of the FCPS budget


Please cite examples. I don't think the feds or the state demand positions that pay what FCPS is paying their "leaders."


New poster here:
-Virginia Literacy Act
-VDOE requires extensive monitoring of assessments and student progress
-Title 1 has extensive oversight and requires staffing for compliance
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 17:36     Subject: Useless positions crated by Reid/Brabrand
Anonymous wrote:Sure there is administrative bloat, but much is in response to state and federal policy that require these positions. Even the total salaries of what you outlined, combined, are a tiny, tiny fraction of the FCPS budget


Please cite examples. I don't think the feds or the state demand positions that pay what FCPS is paying their "leaders."
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 17:32     Subject: Useless positions crated by Reid/Brabrand
Sure there is administrative bloat, but much is in response to state and federal policy that require these positions. Even the total salaries of what you outlined, combined, are a tiny, tiny fraction of the FCPS budget
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 15:23     Subject: Useless positions crated by Reid/Brabrand
Anonymous wrote:
Prior to their tenures these positions, these positions did not exist.


“Chief Security Officer” - another useless 250k job. In addition to still having an “executive director” of security

“Chief Engagement Officer” for 250k

“Chief Equity Officer” for 250k

“Chief People Officer” for 250k in addition to retaining an almost equally highly paid “superintendent” of human officers

Increase the number of Executive Principals from 5 to 12!

A whole bunch more of paper pushing positions at Gatehouse marked “senior administrators” because Reid doesn’t have the courage to fire even the worst and most abusive principals like Thompson of Hayfield

She is taking and creating many new high paid positions for cronies to curry favor with admins spending millions of dollars that could be spent in the classrooms that she cuts from the budget, when these positions seem to have a lot of overlap with existing positions and don’t seem to add value especially compared to the leaner central staffing models of their predecessors.

She needs to be stopped.




This is absolutely false. Please state the year where there were only five executive principals.
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 15:03     Subject: Useless positions crated by Reid/Brabrand
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Then stop her, sweetheart!


How exactly? It's an unelected position.

The school board positions might as well be unelected as well given the voting behaviors of Fairfax county residents over the last 10 years, and they wholly support these moves.


I always see a lot of old people voting. They are voting Democrat, and they have no idea what is going on with FCPS. We need to talk to the old people and empty nesters in our neighborhoods and tell them what's going on.


Or just get FCDC to stop nominating idiots. If everyone who cared actually attended those nominating meetings, that might do something too.


FCDC opened up the process for voting for endorsements in 2023. You did not need to be an FCDC member to vote. You just had to sign an unenforceable pledge that you’d support the candidates seeking the FCDC endorsements who got the most votes.

This was a reaction to what happened in 2019 where Abrar Omeish exploited the prior process where only FCDC members could vote. She got scores of teenagers to join the FCDC. They were then allowed to vote for the FCDC endorsements, even though many were not old enough to vote in the general elections. It kept Ilryong Moon from getting an endorsement in 2019 even though he was an incumbent.
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 14:30     Subject: Useless positions crated by Reid/Brabrand
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Then stop her, sweetheart!


How exactly? It's an unelected position.

The school board positions might as well be unelected as well given the voting behaviors of Fairfax county residents over the last 10 years, and they wholly support these moves.


I always see a lot of old people voting. They are voting Democrat, and they have no idea what is going on with FCPS. We need to talk to the old people and empty nesters in our neighborhoods and tell them what's going on.


Or just get FCDC to stop nominating idiots. If everyone who cared actually attended those nominating meetings, that might do something too.
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 11:52     Subject: Useless positions crated by Reid/Brabrand
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Then stop her, sweetheart!


How exactly? It's an unelected position.

The school board positions might as well be unelected as well given the voting behaviors of Fairfax county residents over the last 10 years, and they wholly support these moves.


I always see a lot of old people voting. They are voting Democrat, and they have no idea what is going on with FCPS. We need to talk to the old people and empty nesters in our neighborhoods and tell them what's going on.
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 11:41     Subject: Useless positions crated by Reid/Brabrand
FCPS is way too big as a school district. It should be broken into 3-5 small districts.
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 11:10     Subject: Useless positions crated by Reid/Brabrand
Anonymous wrote:Classic election year trolling. You guys are so predictable and so obvious.


Every year is an election year in Virginia because we don’t hold Governor/Local races in concurrent years with federal elections. By your line of reasoning It’s impossible to discuss anything without getting a partisan attack from you, eh?

Regardless, you going to bring up the ad Honimein, right?
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 11:04     Subject: Re:Useless positions crated by Reid/Brabrand
Anonymous wrote:It does seem that with all the assistants that School Board members have, that we could get more than "form" responses.


I've realized that it depends on who you email. I've gotten individual responses from Dr. Anderson, Mr. Moon, and previously Meghan McLauglin. I get form responses from most of the at-large and Rachna.
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 10:28     Subject: Useless positions crated by Reid/Brabrand
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Then stop her, sweetheart!


How exactly? It's an unelected position.

The school board positions might as well be unelected as well given the voting behaviors of Fairfax county residents over the last 10 years, and they wholly support these moves.


At this point, you can only vote with your feet.