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Posted on 11/01/09

On 11/01/09, Heard through the grapevine! wrote:
> So, would anyone like to comment on Loudoun's new
> elementary report cards? I teach in another county, but I
> get the latest from my nephew. He said that they seem to be
> more work and more involved than the last ones.
>
> I would really like to know how Loudoun does it with the
> funding. We're in an economic recession, yet they can spend
> a lot of money on a new report card system, sending
> principals to Chicago, and a new cafeteria at central
> admin. There was talk of admin also getting pay raises
> while teachers had a freeze, and some almost got "RIFd."
> Sounds like mixed up priorities...glad I'm in another
> county.

Wow the Urban Legends continue on this chat board! Maybe,
just maybe you should get a few facts before you post
something that is blatantly untrue.

The new report cards were instituted because the old report
card application was 5 years beyond its life span and needed
to be replaced. Had it not been replaced teachers would have
had to go back to writing their report cards by hand. The
change was planned over a period of two years.

In regard to the other Urban Legends, No administrator got a
pay raise unless they were promoted to higher administrative
position. Their salaries were frozen just like everyone
else. And who exactly are the “100 administrators” who went
to Chicago this summer on a charter train no less? As for
the mythical administrator cafeteria you speak of, that is
nothing more then a small kitchen in which food services, yes
the same food services that produces school lunches, prepares
sandwiches, soup and salads in which they charge market value.
This enables people to work at their desk. The whole
operation is self funded and doesn’t cost the taxpayer a
penny.

As you seem to one who plays hard and fast with the facts, I
too am glad you are in another county.

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