Leadership conference is underway in Florida! @MVMAJORS
AWESOME/ HOW WE ARE PAYING FOR HER TRIP
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Melinda Bloomquist,
if you8 love it so much why don't you pay with it with your OWN MONEY NOT 0URS

Jostens sells class rings, yearbooks, and photos. This leadership conference is a complete scam. They present themselves as a learning company when what they are doing is getting access to the kids to put pressure on them to buy class rings and so on.

tax payerB Wrote:
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> Melinda Bloomquist,
> if you8 love it so much why don't you pay with it
> with your OWN MONEY NOT 0URS


Maybe Josten's paid her way if she is the winner. Let's hope so, since we are broke.

Free vacations using taxpayers money.
Meanwhile trailers behind every school and no renovations for schools falling apart.

Florida in July doesn't sound like a great vacation.

Did she help improve sol scores?

Flip Flippen and The Flippen Group need to give FCPS the money that Nardos King wasted by hiring them to consult to MVHS. It clearly did no good, and Nardos is clearly dumb enough to be scammed by Flippen and his hype department.

This is a Jostens yearbook event. It is not funded in any way by FCPS.

Who paid for Melinda Bloomquist to travel to Florida?

Is that acceptable and proper, she works for FCPS, Josten's is a vendor to FCPS, could it be a conflict of interest?

Another example of sloppy FCPS management. Nardos King should be fired, Karen Garza should have her contract terminated for cause.

Yearbook advisers either pay their own way to such events or they are funded by the publisher. County funds are not used. Ask Jostens if you want to know more.

Researched.Not a yearbook event! This conference has to do with motivation. Thus not sure about the funding. Has nothing to do directly with yearbook.

Where in Florida? I don't see any mention of Florida.

At any rate, I attended yearbook seminars back in the day and they were day long events in resort areas w/o much down time.

I think something is wrong about this. What does Jostens know about leadership, they make rings and yearbooks. This is beginning to sound like Boosterthon. What is this so-called conference all about?

Given Nardos King's awful track record, this needs an investigation or something.

Jostens has a Renaissance program for educational motivation that is offered to their customers. That conference was at Kimisee FL the last few days and Jostens Yearbook university is there now. At a Gaylord resort. You can look it up online.

http://www.clocate.com/conference/2015-Jostens-Renaissance-National-Conference/45747/

Good times.

http://www.cvent.com/events/jostens-renaissance-national-conference/event-summary-ee9156583aff4a1ca2817b321e46952a.aspx

Par-TAY!!!!!!!!

More per diem fraud?????????????

Remember, they are broke. Destitute. Really hurting. They will have to cancel football, band, your child's advanced academics, quit doing the yearbook, quit cleaning the schools, etc. So they can pay for this.

http://www.cruisingteachers.com/

http://www.teachersvacation.com/

they even give you an onboard drink credit....would not last long

oh yea leaders go to florida

i'm a leader too asswipe - and it IS my turn don't think i don't know it

Meanwhile Garza has notified the the Board the sky is falling for 2016 so they better be prepared to start raising real estate taxes again.And the stacks of free and reduced applications are piling up on the front office desks.

Dig deeper taxpayers Wrote:
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> Meanwhile Garza has notified the the Board the sky
> is falling for 2016 so they better be prepared to
> start raising real estate taxes again.And the
> stacks of free and reduced applications are piling
> up on the front office desks.


The Board of Supervisors knows that increasing taxes in the face of wasteful spending by FCPS is NOT the thing to do. First class travel, $10,000 a day consultants, lavish dinners, transgender bathrooms, do-nothing administrators and instructional coaches are NOT what taxpayers want to support right now, in light of falling test scores.

This teacher was hosted by Jostens because she won an award. Zero money was paid out by FCPS. The FCPS teachers and students who were in attendance at this conference either paid their own way or fundraised to go.

relax Wrote:
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> This teacher was hosted by Jostens because she won
> an award. Zero money was paid out by FCPS. The
> FCPS teachers and students who were in attendance
> at this conference either paid their own way or
> fundraised to go.


What's earned in Fairfax should stay in Fairfax.

What the hell is Jostens? A company that sells stuff in schools to kids?

Who decides on Jostens exclusive right to sell to a captive audience?

Does Jostens have any competitors?

Do these junkets to Florida influence decisions to award Jostens business?

Any contractor who do s business with the fees knows the rules: oftentimes you can't even buy them a sandwich. And yet we have companies that prey on kids getting away with this.

Fairfax Bob Wrote:
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> Free vacations using taxpayers money.
> Meanwhile trailers behind every school and no
> renovations for schools falling apart.

True, but...how about those TURF FIELDS, huh?!?!?

What the hell is Jostens? A company that sells stuff in schools to kids?
They sell rings, cap & gowns, yearbooks, and all that other graduation crap. They also have programming that assists schools with school culture, positive environment, etc.


Who decides on Jostens exclusive right to sell to a captive audience?
Ultimately the principal at each school decides which vendor to use. Schools sign annual contracts for each of those products. But depending on how the principal makes decisions, teachers or other people at the school have influence (the yearbook advisor for which yearbook company to use.) Mt Vernon has used Jostens for rings for a long time. They switched caps and gowns to Jostens from Balfour about two years ago. They have used Herff Jones for their yearbooks for five years (before they were with Walsworth). Most of the decisions are based on pricing, products, and the customer service from the sales reps. Most of the pricing is very similar in order for the companies to stay competitive, so a lot of the time it comes down to how the rep works in the schools.

Does Jostens have any competitors?
Dozens, but their big three competitors are Herff Jones, Walsworth, and Balfour. All three are used throughout FCPS. Jostens only has a monopoly on one school in the county: West Potomac.

Do these junkets to Florida influence decisions to award Jostens business?
Absolutely. Nothing's for free, but it's not like the four teachers who won jostens educator of the year award had to sign contracts in order to get their award. Renaissance is a jostens program that is technically "free," but its services are tiered, meaning the more jostens stuff you offer at your school, the more access your get to the renaissance material. The only school at the top tier in the couny is west potomac.

Any contractor who do s business with the fees knows the rules: oftentimes you can't even buy them a sandwich. And yet we have companies that prey on kids getting away with this.
Jostens job is of course to make money. They're a business. But the original accusation was that FCPS was using taxpayer dollars to pay for these lavish trips for teachers, which is not true.

Furthermore jostens is not getting paid from the school or district with fees (taxpayer dollars allocated to the school). Jostens' (or any vendor like them) contracts with the school only to be allowed to sell their products. The only money that goes to them is when a student buys a product from them.

yearbook programs, for example, do not receive any money from the activites offices to produce a yearbook. the only money a yearbook program receives to pay their bill to jostens or walsworth or whoever comes directly from ad sales and yearbook sales. If a school orders too many yearbooks but doesnt sell them all, the vendor is usually left holding the bag, but it balances out because schools like Chantilly sell 1500 yearbooks every year.

School and senior pictures work exactly the same, except FCPS has an exclusive contract with Lifetouch. FCPS doesn't pay lifetouch, but lifetouch gets to come in, take pictures of the kids, and sell them photo packages.

you want these companies out of your schools? Stop buying their class pictures and rings and yearbooks.

How many meals would have to be sold to pay for this event?

The bigger question would be over how many meals it would take to find some trumped up charge on which you blabbering sorry ass could be slammed into the FADC. Go fuck yourself, you worthless ignorant troll-shit.

dXL7k Wrote:
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> The bigger question would be over how many meals
> it would take to find some trumped up charge on
> which you blabbering sorry ass could be slammed
> into the FADC. Go fuck yourself, you worthless
> ignorant troll-shit.

"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
-George Orwell

“Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.”
-Robert A. Heinlein

It comes as no surprise that Pat Hynes has done the best she can do attack a restaurant because it has spoken out against the meals tax.