Actually, we don't have to pay more to attract teachers. Four years ago, when pay was considerably less, we had 13 applicants for every open position in Faifax county schools. I'm willing to bet that today we have closer to 16 applicants for every job. How many other new college graduates make $42,000 a year with 11 weeks off in the summer, a week at Christmas, a week in the spring, personal
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Throw Gerry Connelly out of office and elect someone, Baise, who will enforce the laws!
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Why is Langley high school always held safe from redistricting? Students can never be moved out (although they can be moved IN to Langley) so they are taken from the Loudoun county line all the way inside the beltway to attend Langley. Why is that? Anyone know? What makes them immune from redistricting? And why is South County getting a middle school? It's not needed according to enrollme
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>>>FY 2007 budget is a $102.3 million increase to cover basic school system needs and price increases, including rising fuel and health care costs;<<< What are 'basic school system needs'? How many more teachers were hired for the ESOL students between 2004 and 2008? Not many. Certainly not thousands of new teachers. We still have 27,000 employees and only 8,000 of those
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What has Connelly ever done for anyone in this county? Nothing. I'm voting for Baise. Connelly's a creep.
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Is it only me who can't quite understand why our schools' operating budget in 2004 was $1.4 Billon, and now it's $2.1 Billion, with NO increase in students? http://www.fcps.edu/fs/budget/documents/approved/2004/programs.pdf#xml=http://www.fcps.edu/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/webinator/search/xml.txt?query=budget+fy+2004&pr=public&prox=sentence&rorder=750&rprox=750&rdfreq=500&rwfre
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Does anyone else think it's odd that the school system has increased funding by 600 million dollars over the last 4 years and there has been no increase in students? Seems bizarre to me.
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Elizabeth, it is you who sound like a bigot, prejudice against people who have more money than you have. You might want to compare the schools we're discussing here: https://p1pe.doe.virginia.gov/reportcard/ Compare South Lakes to the schools that are being forced to go, Madison, Oakton, and Herndon. Yes, there is more violence at South Lakes, more drugs, more teacher assaults, lower scores
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Yes, since none of these schools are over crowded, and some will be under enrolled within 4 years, why redistrict anyone? Leave them where they are. If there is a problem at South Lakes, then FCPS needs to fix it. They need to make South Lakes a school that attracts students. But they shouldn't fix their problem by forcing students out of their high schools and into South Lakes.
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