So if I understand the threads on this subject, everyone objects to decisions made at the top of FCPS and the people towards the bottom including the kids as well as the teachers don't mean squat. The reason this school system has done well for so long is the people in the classroom leading the instruction, not the people at the top. They, the teachers, are the ones who have had to put up with the BS both from the ignoramuses here as well as at the top of the "food chain." Year in and year out, Fairfax County ranks in the top ten in the entire country when it comes to average salaries in the six figures. So if you want excellence all the way around, you have to find ways to pay for it. Maybe cutting salaries at the top of FCPS may be the way to go. In a society that has gone awry when it comes to paying those people who "deserve it and have earned it", why not reward the classroom efforts for what they are? Everyone who posts here and elsewhere got somewhere through the efforts of some teacher and schools help make this place a desired location for families. Defunding and cutting salaries of teachers in the classroom will prove defeating for the purpose of attracting people to Fairfax County.

Teachers don't matter Wrote:
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> So if I understand the threads on this subject,
> everyone objects to decisions made at the top of
> FCPS and the people towards the bottom including
> the kids as well as the teachers don't mean squat.
> The reason this school system has done well for
> so long is the people in the classroom leading the
> instruction, not the people at the top. They, the
> teachers, are the ones who have had to put up with
> the BS both from the ignoramuses here as well as
> at the top of the "food chain." Year in and year
> out, Fairfax County ranks in the top ten in the
> entire country when it comes to average salaries
> in the six figures. So if you want excellence all
> the way around, you have to find ways to pay for
> it. Maybe cutting salaries at the top of FCPS may
> be the way to go. In a society that has gone awry
> when it comes to paying those people who "deserve
> it and have earned it", why not reward the
> classroom efforts for what they are? Everyone who
> posts here and elsewhere got somewhere through the
> efforts of some teacher and schools help make this
> place a desired location for families. Defunding
> and cutting salaries of teachers in the classroom
> will prove defeating for the purpose of attracting
> people to Fairfax County.

You were doing pretty good up to the last sentence. There has been no defunding and certainly no cutting of salaries of the teachers. There may have been a lack of cost of living increases but everybody has experienced that problem. The thread began with a need to examine the structural problems within the school system such as the retirement system and the funding of other things that the School Board seems to believe is important.

Failure to protect the schools is failure to protect the future of everyone in the County. What do you retards think makes this place go anyway?

Sorry-ass dumbshits Wrote:
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> Failure to protect the schools is failure to
> protect the future of everyone in the County.
> What do you retards think makes this place go
> anyway?

Very few people would actually claim that education is unimportant. What people are complaining about is wasteful spending. There is no reason why, for example, Dr. Garza needs to have taxpayer funded breakfasts with school board members several times a year. There is, for example, no reason, why training cannot be done by local providers (it would appear FCPS does not even bother to look locally). There is also no reason why FCPS should be paying consultants hourly rates exceeding those of Wall Street lawyers. And, significantly, NONE of these things have direct impacts on the education of the children.

Is someone from FCPS posting all the spam to hide the discussion of FCPS wasteful spending?

Fire their ass.

People are sick and tired of the FCPS Shills that want more and more tax money.

Sorry-ass dumbshits Wrote:
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> Failure to protect the schools is failure to protect the future
> of everyone in the County. What do you retards think makes this
> place go anyway?

The tax-haters have no idea. They just want to cut taxes. They don't care if the place goes to hell in a hand-basket. Penny foolish and pound foolish, all at the same time. Bunch of patently ignorant asstards.

The issue is cutting spending. It is well documented that the schools waste money on a grand scale. They hire consultants at rates higher than Wall Street lawyers, and these consultants produce few if any results. They ship people off to the Buck Insitute in California and have nothing to show for it. They have too many do nothing administrators collecting lavish salaries. The administrators and school board live like investment bankers, going to fancy restaurants and staying in lavish hotels at taxpayer expense.

If all of that-and of course more-were to go away, it might, just might, be the time to look at tax increases.