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FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: dubious sources? ()
Date: July 21, 2016 11:41AM

Eric Jensen is a former English teacher who has online degrees in organizational development and human development. He claims expertise in many fields, including music, poverty, and neuroscience.

Here's a review one of his books:

http://www.illinoisloop.org/twbim.html

As can be seen, his sources are less than impressive.

FCPS pays this guy $9,000 a day on a SOLE SOURCE contract.

That, my friends, is one of the places the meals tax money would go-to consultants such as Eric Jensen. Has he improved the schools? Is he worth $9,000 a day? If you answered "yes" then you might want to vote for the tax.

Otherwise, it stands to reason that you would vote against it.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: You are an idiot ()
Date: July 21, 2016 11:42AM

You are an idiot.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: you must be rich ()
Date: July 21, 2016 11:44AM

You are an idiot Wrote:
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> You are an idiot.

Fine, I'll be an idiot if you pay Jensen's fees. Have him come over to your house and play his emotional keyboard or whatever. This kind of charlatanry and waste has no place in a school system that claims to be broke.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: You are an idiot ()
Date: July 21, 2016 12:46PM

you must be rich Wrote:
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> You are an idiot Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > You are an idiot.
>
> Fine, I'll be an idiot if you pay Jensen's fees.
> Have him come over to your house and play his
> emotional keyboard or whatever. This kind of
> charlatanry and waste has no place in a school
> system that claims to be broke.

How many goddamn times are you going to post about this?

You know absolutely nothing about the services that this Jensen guy is providing to FCPS. All you know is how much FCPS is paying, which makes you irrationally angry.

Ignorance + Irrational Anger = Idiocy.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: just saying ()
Date: July 21, 2016 12:55PM

Your right. We don't know the scope of work that justify's $9000 a day. So is there somebody who can enlighten us taxpayers footing that bill? Thats over 2.5 million a year. For the sake of transparency in government, it would be nice to know.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: You are an idiot ()
Date: July 21, 2016 01:25PM

just saying Wrote:
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> Your right. We don't know the scope of work that
> justify's $9000 a day. So is there somebody who
> can enlighten us taxpayers footing that bill?
> Thats over 2.5 million a year. For the sake of
> transparency in government, it would be nice to
> know.

Have you thought to ask someone who is in a position to know? Perhaps someone at FCPS?

Have you considered filing a FOIA request (I don't know if FOIA applies to FCPS, but you can find out)?

Seriously, there are many, many more productive avenues you could take to learn more about this Jensen guy & his '$9,000/hr.' than posting about it ad nauseam on FFU.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: I'm curious... ()
Date: July 21, 2016 01:36PM

When was the last time Eric Jensen was paid by FCPS? Can you provide a source or link? This would verify 2 things...1. That he really is paid $9K a day, and 2. That get is still being regularly paid by FCPS.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: You are an idiot ()
Date: July 21, 2016 01:57PM

I'm curious... Wrote:
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> When was the last time Eric Jensen was paid by
> FCPS?

How would I know? Ask FCPS.

> Can you provide a source or link?

Nope. I have no affiliation with FCPS.

> This would verify 2 things...1. That he really
> is paid $9K a day, and 2. That get is still being
> regularly paid by FCPS.

Again, ask FCPS.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: 7y6t5r4e ()
Date: July 21, 2016 02:10PM

"Have you considered filing a FOIA request (I don't know if FOIA applies to FCPS, but you can find out)?"

FOIA applies to FCPS. Sometimes they don't think it does, but it does.

http://www.fcps.edu/usingsite/foia/making-a-request.shtml

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: You are an idiot ()
Date: July 21, 2016 03:01PM

7y6t5r4e Wrote:
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> "Have you considered filing a FOIA request (I
> don't know if FOIA applies to FCPS, but you can
> find out)?"
>
> FOIA applies to FCPS. Sometimes they don't think
> it does, but it does.
>
> http://www.fcps.edu/usingsite/foia/making-a-reques
> t.shtml

So there you go, OP. Give FOIA a shot.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: I was there/Jensen docs attached ()
Date: July 21, 2016 03:28PM

I am a music teacher at FCPS. This site is mentioned on one of the pro-meals tax sites, and has also been discussed internally at FCPS.

I had the misfortune of attending one of Eric Jensen's so-called poverty workshops.

In it, he advanced his theory of the "emotional keyboard" which states, in brief, that more emotions are better than fewer emotions. He extended this to music, and claimed that more notes were better than fewer notes.

I challenged him on this. I asked if he thought that the 12 note chromatic scale (C-C#/Db-D-D#/Eb-E-F-F#/Gb-G-G#-A-A#/Bb-B-C) is somehow superior to the 8 note diatonic scale (C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C) and the five note penatonic scale (C-D-E-G-A-C).

I asked him if he thought that a serial composition (where each of the 12 notes in the chromatic scale) is somehow superior to a diatonic composition (based on the 8 note scale) or a pentatonic composition. I advised him that the pentatonic scale is based on acoustic principles, and is found in the musics of most of the world's cultures.

Jensen seemed flummoxed by this. He could not name a single serial composition, and was utterly unfamiliar with the nature-and ubiquity-of the pentatonic scale.

His arguments about "more is better" just did not hold water.

As a result, I started looking into Jensen. Since I know that FCPS does not like dissent, I had a friend do some FOIA requests. I have attached some of the documents.

You'll see the response from the FCPS FOIA office. Jensen got $17,000 for a 2 day training and $26,000 for a three day training. This is probably where the $9,000/day figure comes from. He does not do this year round, but he does come to Fairfax regularly.

Then there are the sole source justifications. The first one, dated July 22, 2011 (Jensen has been "with us" for a while, and, as you can see, his current contract runs through August 2016) makes valid statements about the need for such training, but falls rather flat (sorry for the musical pun) when it comes to justifying Jensen, especially since most of his "research" seems to consist of material from non-scholarly sources and his own theories, such as the emotional keyboard.

The second one states that competition for certain types of training is not practical. It goes on to extol Jensen's expertise in poverty. As is well documented, Jensen has a bachelor's degree in English, a master's degree in organizational development and a Ph.D. in human development. The two graduate degrees were awarded by the Fielding Graduate Institute of California. While accredited, the school is not without controversy.

It seems to me that someone with an extensive background in the study of poverty would have conducted fieldwork in an impoverished environment. If you examine Fielding's website, it is not clear that either degree would include such fieldwork. Intrigued by this, I had the same friend who did the FOIA contact Jensen and ask about his qualifications in this area. The friend, who is from the UK, asked Jensen what he thought about Paul Harrison's Inside the Inner City, a seminal work on poverty based on fieldwork in London. Jensen had never heard of it, and was, in fact, not interested in learning about it or Harrison's work.

The same friend asked Jensen about his neuroscience credentials. Jensen mentioned his Ph.D. degree. Once again, a visit to the Fielding website is instructive. There is no neuroscience coursework in the human development curriculum. Since Fielding is a nonresidential school, it is not clear how they could provide laboratory instruction in the field.

From my perspective as a musician and music teacher, Jensen has no idea what he is talking about. His music/poverty theory seems fundamentally flawed. I question the relevance of his credentials to his supposed areas of expertise. I also question the uniqueness of his qualifications, as well as the amount that he is paid.

I found his training to be worse than useless. Yes, I know poverty is an issue in education, but I knew that before his training. I failed to see how any of his platitudes could be used in a classroom context. I questioned how emphasizing the chromatic scale could be beneficial, especially when many common songs (e.g., Old Maconald Had A Farm, Auld Lang Syne) and popular songs (e.g., Stairway to Heaven) use the pentatonic scale.

No, I did not forget, here are the documents (sorry they are so light but that's how they came):
Attachments:
jensen_01.jpg
jensen_02.jpg
jensen_03.jpg

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: You are an idiot ()
Date: July 21, 2016 03:48PM

Well, OP, there you go.

Poster 'I was there' did the leg work for you.

The FCPS contract w/Jensen is legit. He taught and was paid for two courses (one of which 'I was there' did not enjoy, but that is neither here nor there) and earned $43,000, plus expenses. Certainly not cheap, but what is these days?

I hope this we helpful.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: just saying ()
Date: July 21, 2016 04:09PM

Thanks for the useful information and clarifying the issue. It's always just so easy for the education system to pull the sacred cow card and just ask for more money. Is sad that we've come to the point that $43000 is just peanuts and can be dismissed with the wave of a hand. To most of us, it's still a lot of money and needs to be accounted for. Finding people close to situations who can illuminate questions of interest is what I like about this site. Can't get that through government channels easily.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: MewJd ()
Date: July 21, 2016 04:09PM

Sounds like Scientology applied to music theory.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: You are an idiot ()
Date: July 21, 2016 04:14PM

just saying Wrote:
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> Is sad that we've come to the point that $43000 is
> just peanuts and can be dismissed with the wave of
> a hand.

Whoa, hold your horses!

$43K is still real money, no one said it's peanuts.

FCPS followed its policies in sourcing Jensen, explaining why his services were sole-sourced.

Everything was done by the book, there were no shenanigans.

I'm not sure what your beef is.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: where's the beef? ()
Date: July 21, 2016 04:29PM

I think the beef is that FCPS does not have high standards for hiring consultants.

The guy's justification is weak, he has a degree in an apparently unrelated field from a nondescript school and his experience seems to be that of a motivational speaker.

$43,000 is a lot of money for a motivational speaker.

It is also not clear what benefit FCPS got out of hiring him.

I don't understand the musical ins and outs but the fact he was "flummoxed" by the music teacher's question concerns me as well. If you are an expert in a subject you ought to be able to answer questions.

I'd take a bit more convincing on this one, absent that, I'd add this to the list of reasons to oppose the meals tax. Let them do without this guy for a while, see if the world ends or everyone starts singing Justin Bieber songs.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: <okay> ()
Date: July 21, 2016 04:31PM

You are an idiot Wrote:
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> Well, OP, there you go.
>
> Poster 'I was there' did the leg work for you.
>
> The FCPS contract w/Jensen is legit. He taught and
> was paid for two courses (one of which 'I was
> there' did not enjoy, but that is neither here nor
> there) and earned $43,000, plus expenses.
> Certainly not cheap, but what is these days?

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: well I'm not OK ()
Date: July 21, 2016 04:42PM

These are the federal sole source regulations:

https://www.acquisition.gov/far/html/Subpart%206_3.html

Based on what's been presented here, Jensen's contract would not get approved.

I'd like to hear from someone "in the know" what is so great about this guy.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: I got your sole source... ()
Date: July 21, 2016 04:57PM

Eric Jensen publishes his books through ASCD. They have a whole list of authors and consultants.

I'm sure any of them would be happy to take $43,000 to talk about neuroscience, poverty, music, and the price of tea in China.

Here's the ASCD featured author. What does Jensen offer that he does not? This is not to say that FCPS should hire this guy, but it sure does raise questions about their sole source contracting procedure.
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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: unless I am misreading it ()
Date: July 21, 2016 07:23PM

It looks like Jensen got $26,000 for three days. That's $8666 a day, getting close to the $9,000/day figure.

The problem, though, is that if there even 10 such consultants kicking around FCPS, that's $260,000-a lot of money to just about anyone. It starts to add up very quickly.

I'd like to know what we're getting for our money besides a debate about music.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: please explain to me ()
Date: July 22, 2016 10:32AM

The woods are full of these self proclaimed educational experts. Why did FCPS feel competition was impossible?

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: vnuum ()
Date: July 22, 2016 11:03AM

There is only ONE supplier of these particular materials. Others who tried to present them would all be guilty of copyright infringement. Meanwhile, school systems everywhere and forever have used "tax dollars" to present such outside specialists in topics of interest. There is nothing to see here. Those who protest ad absurdum over these lectures are mindless and ridiculous assholes who think they have the right to decide what presenters are worthwhile in schools rather than FCPS. To those jerks, I say, fuck off, you pretentious sorry-ass losers.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: points of order? ()
Date: July 22, 2016 11:21AM

1) Does Eric Jensen somehow own the copyright to the musical scale?

2) By his own admission, his books draw on many sources.

3) I have to think that if FCPS stil had 2 functioning brain cells they would want to look at multiple suppliers for consulting. If nothing else, they might want to think from time to time about what results they get from the consultant they are hiring. Also cost is an ieeue.

4) Sorry to say, FCPS spends my money so I reserve the right to be a mindless and ridiculous asshole. If FCPS has another source of money, let them hire Pee Wee Herman for all I care. But, when it is my money being spent, I have to insist on some amount of prudence of accountability.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: training eval ()
Date: July 22, 2016 11:32AM

That money could have paid for an additional instructional aide in a school and had some actual value.

One of the workshops was just for administrators, I think--I didn't read it very carefully. I would think that all the administrators--and teachers, too, for that matter--are quite capable of reading a book that achieves the same results. I think it said that 250 attended one of the workshops.

As a teacher--and it has been awhile--I never took any training that did not end with an evaluation form. I'd love to see the evaluations from these workshops.

What a waste. And, people, believe me, this is only one examples of waste.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: CbtUj ()
Date: July 22, 2016 11:42AM

Brain-based learning. The pseudoscience of the 2000's.

Would FCPS really benefit from poverty based teaching method? It's not clear Fairfax county experiences significant amounts of poverty. Oddly, the schools that would benefit the most from a "poverty-based education" program, would be less able to afford the courses. Solution: Have the federal government subsidize this education. I imagine Eric Jensen has someone in mind to administrate the program. Ask him about it.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: sole source blues ()
Date: July 22, 2016 12:42PM

hey FCPS

How about this guy?

http://paulgorski.efoliomn.com/Education

1) He has a relevant degree from a brick and mortar school

2) He is local

3) He has at least as many publications as Jensen

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: Stay on point folks ()
Date: July 22, 2016 12:53PM

well I'm not OK Wrote:
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> These are the federal sole source regulations:
>
> https://www.acquisition.gov/far/html/Subpart%206_3
> .html

FCPS is not a federal agency, so...

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: what's the point? ()
Date: July 22, 2016 12:58PM

Maybe FCPS needs to get a clue about its sole source handling. Maybe the more rigorous federal agency regulations could result in some savings for FCPS. Just sayin'

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: Fairfaxite ()
Date: July 22, 2016 01:00PM

I am amazed by the small-mindedness and myopia of the posters on this topic.

If you mokes ran FCPS, the results would be frightening.

Thankfully, for all of us, that is not the case.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: yes, you are right ()
Date: July 22, 2016 01:09PM

Fairfaxite Wrote:
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> I am amazed by the small-mindedness and myopia of
> the posters on this topic.
>
> If you mokes ran FCPS, the results would be
> frightening.
>
> Thankfully, for all of us, that is not the case.

If the rabid pro-FCPS contingent were put in charge, they would probably hire Elizabeth Warren and Ward Churchill to do a rain dance in front of Gatehouse. They would hire Rachel Dolezal to give a seminar on Africa, and then they'd bring in someone from the Church of Scientology to tell the kids about the great war hero and scientist, L. Ron Hubbard.

$500,000, plus travel and expenses ought to do it. They could sell books and DVDs. The Scientologists could also sign people up for a course in geology, featuring discussions of how Hawaii was subjected to nuclear bombardment before it even existed.

All sole source contracts of course-per FCPS regulations.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: vnuum ()
Date: July 22, 2016 01:21PM

points of order? Wrote:
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> 1) Does Eric Jensen somehow own the copyright to
> the musical scale?

No, asshole, he owns the copyrights to the course materials he uses. How hopelessly ignorant are you anyway?

> 2) By his own admission, his books draw on many sources.

Copyrighted works are often derived from other sources. That's why we have footnotes and stuff. Are you this incredibly stupid in real life?

> 3) I have to think that if FCPS stil had 2 functioning
> brain cells they would want to look at multiple suppliers
> for consulting.

Yeah, I hear this Flip Flippen guy is really good, but in actuality, idiots like you hate ALL these speaker-people. Unless perhaps they are state-hating populist morons approved by some board of TEA Party asshats.

> If nothing else, they might want to think > from time to time
> about what results they get from the consultant they are hiring.
> Also cost is an ieeue.

It's all from one pot, moron. There is no incremental cost to choosing this guy over that gal. Do you just not have any idea at all as to how these programs work? Results are meanwhile self-evident -- students are exposed to credible materials that they would not have been exposed to otherwise. That's what the word "enrichment" is all about.

> 4) Sorry to say, FCPS spends my money so I reserve
> the right to be a mindless and ridiculous asshole.

Holy fuck! They do NOT spend any of YOUR MONEY, you incredibly ignorant dumbfuck. Your tax dollars are no longer yours once you pay those taxes. You have no special right or interest at all when it comes to how those funds are ultimately spent. You are simply out of the picture -- just some low-grade ass-munch squid-shit shooting his damned fool mouth off about things he knows nothing at all about. What a fucking waste!

> If FCPS has another source of money, let them hire
> Pee Wee Herman for all I care. But, when it is my
> money being spent, I have to insist on some amount
> of prudence of accountability.

Go fuck yourself, dumbass. That would be better than continuing to embarass yourself like this,

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: vnuum ()
Date: July 22, 2016 01:29PM

training eval Wrote:
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> What a waste. And, people, believe me, this is only one
examples of waste.

YOU for instance would be a better example of WASTE. Continuing training and development are part and parcel of every profession. It's how incumbents stay abreast of things. No matter what you dismal dumbfucks think or claim, significant funds are always going to be spent on professional development. That's just the way the real world that you morons know so very little about actually operates.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: let's assume ()
Date: July 22, 2016 01:52PM

Suppose there are three poverty/music consultants out there. Let's assume all are equal. One asks for $9,000 a day and has to be flown in from Hawaii. The second wants $5,000 a day but needs to have a/v equipment provided at a cost of $1500. The third wants $4000 a day and brings her own stuff and provides 100 copies of her most recent book "See Sharp Or You Will Be Flat" with additional copies available at only $10 each.

Which one do you hire?

Traditional procurement wisdom says the cheap one.

Now, let's say you want to either remove or relax the assumption that all three are of equal value. To do this, you need some kind of measure of value. Absent this measure, you cannot proceed.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: JavonTron ()
Date: July 22, 2016 02:04PM

Eric Jensen does not deserve anywhere near that amount of money.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: What Happens When You Assume ()
Date: July 22, 2016 02:06PM

let's assume Wrote:
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> Suppose there are three poverty/music consultants
> out there. Let's assume all are equal. One asks
> for $9,000 a day and has to be flown in from
> Hawaii. The second wants $5,000 a day but needs to
> have a/v equipment provided at a cost of $1500.
> The third wants $4000 a day and brings her own
> stuff and provides 100 copies of her most recent
> book "See Sharp Or You Will Be Flat" with
> additional copies available at only $10 each.
>
> Which one do you hire?

Huh, I didn't know FFU require a math quiz...

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: DoReMiFaSo shut the fuck up! ()
Date: July 22, 2016 02:09PM

You are still just a worthless fucking asshole. Get lost, you pathetic dumbfuck. FCPS invites speakers based on factors that are far, far, far beyond your insect-level powers of comprehension. Just go fuck yourself.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: you're on, clownboy ()
Date: July 22, 2016 02:11PM

DoReMiFaSo shut the fuck up! Wrote:
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> You are still just a worthless fucking asshole.
> Get lost, you pathetic dumbfuck. FCPS invites
> speakers based on factors that are far, far, far
> beyond your insect-level powers of comprehension.
> Just go fuck yourself.


List the factors. Then, explain how Eric Jensen fares with respect to each one.

Until then, go back to fantasizing about Miley Cyrus.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: DoReMiFaSo shut the fuck up! ()
Date: July 22, 2016 02:54PM

you're on, clownboy Wrote:
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> List the factors. Then, explain how Eric Jensen
> fares with respect to each one.

Told you they were all over your puny little head. What a thoroughly useless little douchebag.

> Until then, go back to fantasizing about Miley Cyrus.

Minus ten point for even mentioning Miley Cyrus, you hopeless dumbfuck. Like every significant school system anywhere in the country, FCPS invites a range of speakers to address students on topics of interest.

You meanwhile have exactly nothing of merit to offer here at all. You are just a tired old carping assfuck who can't go along with the program because your capacities are below stupid-shit grade from the get-go. I repeat: Go fuck yourself, you clueless dumbass. Go away and let the actual adults handle these matters on your behalf.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: Tears of a Clownboy ()
Date: July 22, 2016 04:06PM

DoReMiFaSo shut the fuck up! Wrote:
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> you're on, clownboy Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > List the factors. Then, explain how Eric Jensen
> > fares with respect to each one.
>
> Told you they were all over your puny little head.
> What a thoroughly useless little douchebag.
>
> > Until then, go back to fantasizing about Miley
> Cyrus.
>
> Minus ten point for even mentioning Miley Cyrus,
> you hopeless dumbfuck. Like every significant
> school system anywhere in the country, FCPS
> invites a range of speakers to address students on
> topics of interest.
>
> You meanwhile have exactly nothing of merit to
> offer here at all. You are just a tired old
> carping assfuck who can't go along with the
> program because your capacities are below
> stupid-shit grade from the get-go. I repeat: Go
> fuck yourself, you clueless dumbass. Go away and
> let the actual adults handle these matters on your
> behalf.

Try me. If I don't understand, I guess you win. But if you refuse to produce these standards, you definitely lose. Someone understands them.

As they say, standardz or GTFO.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: Translation: ()
Date: July 22, 2016 04:08PM

DoReMiFaSo shut the fuck up! Wrote:
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>
> I got nuthin.
>

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: just saying ()
Date: July 22, 2016 09:54PM

I put my last kid through private school. Opinion and results wise, I feel that he got twice the education my other public school educated kids got for half the price. Not one fight or dangerous incident in 9 years. I just don't understand what this "contractor" did that benefited the students to the tune of $43,000. Being the idiot that you want to label me as, perhaps you could enlighten me. Meanwhile, I'll count the money spent on a private school in addition to supporting the public schools through my property taxes( $36,000 over 13 years) a good investment for my son as well as society that will benefit from gaining a properly educated individual. He now has a masters degree from university of Virginia with honors. And yes, we paid for that too.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: Eric "Hustle" Jensen ()
Date: July 23, 2016 02:46PM

If Jensen manages to sign up about 10 of the nation's hundreds of school districts a year, he's doing very well for next to no work and clearly no accountability of pressure to produce results. Nice work if you can get it.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: So tell me again? ()
Date: July 23, 2016 05:42PM

Regardless whether you think Jensen is a expensive fraud or a effective instructor, why are we still talking about him? According to the FOIA'd documents, this went down more than 4 years ago....different school board, superintendent, etc...

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: please read more closely ()
Date: July 23, 2016 06:00PM

Jensen is still under contract with FCPS, through August 2016, and it appears his contract will be renewed.

The other issue is that FCPS has very lax standards. The JOFOC for Jensen claims his education and experience allowed the sole source procurement. There must be lots of motivational speakers with online degrees out there.

Something is not right about this. It is 99% certain Jensen is not the only one of these guys getting money from FCPS. What do they care, when they want more money, they go and cry to Sharon Bulova for it. Now they want a meals tax so they can hire even more of these people. Anyone who thinks meals tax money is actually "for the schools" or "for the kids" is in for a very rude awakening.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: stand and deliver? ()
Date: July 24, 2016 11:41PM

Is anyone at FCPS willing to stand up and defend Eric Jensen, his fees, his qualifications, and his results?

Just wondering.

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: vote no on the meals tax ()
Date: July 28, 2016 08:22PM

BUMP (in the interest of free speech)

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Re: FCPS pays Eric Jensen $9,000 a day!
Posted by: Debunking Eric Jensen ()
Date: July 29, 2016 05:23PM

The pentatonic scale is intuitive, based on acoustic principles and found throughout the world. That can't be said of the western chromatic scale.

This video by Bobby McFerrin debunks Eric Jensen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6tB2KiZuk

Is anyone from FCPS going to defend Jensen?

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