'Queen Reid': Embattled Virginia schools
boss demands personal bodyguard on top
of lavish salary, perks
Fox News,
by
Asra Q. Nomani
Original Article
Posted By: Harlowe,
8/3/2025 10:47:38 AM
Three years after leaving a sleepy Seattle suburb to run the school district in Fairfax County, Va., outside the nation’s capital, Michelle Reid earns more money than the U.S. president and gets a car allowance. Now she wants a taxpayer-funded personal bodyguard. [Snip] The new job would earn between $84,552 to $143,880,...far more than the starting salary of about $58,000 that a new teacher gets... [Snip] Last November, the all-Democratic school board voted unanimously to renew Reid’s four-year contract and increased her annual salary to $424,146 from $380,000,... In contrast, the U.S. president earns $400,000 annually.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 8/3/2025 11:03:58 AM (No. 1986039)
Needs a bodyguard?
Must be doing something that will really make people angry
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 8/3/2025 11:06:07 AM (No. 1986041)
Hell of a gig, selling Communism to kids while raking in nearly half a million per year. Rotten person, still pushing DEI crap and probably stealing money, too....if they look.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 8/3/2025 11:06:44 AM (No. 1986042)
As an FCPS parent, I will say that Reid isn't as outwardly repugnant as her predecessor, Scott Brabrand was, but she may well be slimier, operating behind the scenes like your typical DMV swamp critter. My son has one more year left in the post-high school vocational program he's enrolled in, then I am done with FCPS.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/3/2025 11:16:56 AM (No. 1986050)
She looks like a lesbian. What or whom does she fear?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
volksford 8/3/2025 11:55:21 AM (No. 1986064)
The D C swamp has conquered northern Virginia
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She has a face resembling Rosie O'Donnell's.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Birddog 8/3/2025 12:23:20 PM (No. 1986075)
Hand her a $200, used pistol, and a 3 month membership to a gun club..."Empower her as a strong independent woman"
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 8/3/2025 12:27:33 PM (No. 1986076)
What has she done to deserve a huge raise? Improved test scores? Looks like lots of scandals and cover-ups is what she is best at. Seems the Bondi probably has some low hanging fruit with this one.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
seamusm 8/3/2025 12:29:33 PM (No. 1986077)
Wow! To be overpaid for a sinecure AND to get to poison the minds of children! Isn't this a great country?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jfodoch 8/3/2025 12:31:38 PM (No. 1986080)
I just read the article and I'm breathless -- how in the hell can this situation exist ???
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Newtsche 8/3/2025 12:46:01 PM (No. 1986085)
Reid may know what side her bread is buttered on but she prefers donuts.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 8/3/2025 1:10:20 PM (No. 1986089)
One look at this useless, entitled bottom-feeder tells you everything that’s wrong with the education system.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 8/3/2025 1:22:50 PM (No. 1986091)
The Deep State Deep Swamp creatures exist "outside the nation’s capital"
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Daisymay 8/3/2025 1:34:08 PM (No. 1986094)
I guess I'm the Only One who is refusing to read articles that demand we pay! That said, I think the voters in VA should throw her Sassy Rear out and hire someone who isn't so expensive! Just sayin...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Harlowe 8/3/2025 1:52:22 PM (No. 1986101)
#14~ The article at Fox does not require payment.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Venturer 8/3/2025 1:53:55 PM (No. 1986102)
Hiring anyone from Washington State was their first mistake.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/3/2025 2:07:32 PM (No. 1986106)
Re #14, that "sign in" popup has an X to remove it.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Scribelus 8/3/2025 6:46:18 PM (No. 1986178)
American “Education” is a lucrative and highly successful racket. John Dewey would be oh-so proud!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 8/4/2025 1:00:46 AM (No. 1986259)
Good one, #6. Maybe she IS Rosie O'Donnell in drag. Someone check with Ireland. Maybe they deported her! LOL
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/4/2025 4:51:58 AM (No. 1986274)
This is wrong in many ways but Fairfax County was lost long ago.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
anniebc 8/4/2025 6:30:14 AM (No. 1986297)
Most of the money spent/allocated for education goes to administration fat cats living high while failing school staff, teachers, and students. Superintendents, CAOs, and others use their positions in education as stepping stones to lucrative private sector jobs; the failures become consultants who steal ideas from employees, repackage them as their own, and make lots of loot. I always say you never hear a private sector business state how they want to run their businesses like the education bureaucracy or any government entity is run. Conversely, you never hear how education or any government entity attempts to run itself like a business.The difference matters.
A lot of the jobs in education are make work for lazy people who do nothing to promote education with their degrees and doctorates. Education doctorates are some of the least respected, but they are allowed to make money inside and outside education. Imagine the foolishness of parents having to supply classroom materials for their children when excess amounts are spent on admin staff. And, don't get me started on the curriculum and technology rackets in education.
The big money for education goes to leftists and leftist causes coming straight out of your state departments of education and school districts. They commit evil against the taxpayers and then want the taxpayers to pay for their security so they suffer no consequences for their evil. What a freaking world the left has given us! A darn shame. Red states need to put an end to this corruption. We can't just depend on PDT to do everything.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Harlowe 8/4/2025 10:48:33 AM (No. 1986412)
#21~ “Most of the money spent/allocated for education goes to administration fat cats living high while failing school staff, teachers, and students.” / In the early 1980s, the local school district in a Midwestern state was allocating 80 cents per taxpayer dollar to administration and 20 cents to students. Forty years later, it seems same old same old. Until the electorate exercises due diligence to effect change, nothing will change.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Harlowe 8/4/2025 11:37:14 AM (No. 1986452)
PS #22~ A female educator in that Midwestern state who became a school principal walked away with a million dollar retirement package.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
franco 8/4/2025 1:27:02 PM (No. 1986510)
What amazes me about "public education" is how much nonsense the rank-and-file teachers (almost universally either NEA or AFT members) are willing to put up with from their so-called superiors. The classroom teachers are being paid peanuts while the do-nothing "administrators" get paid lavishly to do.... nothing. They don't even effectively advocate for the needs of the classroom teachers. No other heavily unionized profession in this country puts up with this crap. The Teamsters would probably arrange for very bad "coincidences" for someone like Reid rather than putting up with her.
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In addition to the salary increase, Ms. Reid was given a $12,000 annual car allowance.