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Three years after leaving a sleepy Seattle suburb, running a school district outside the U.S. capital in Fairfax County, Virginia, Michelle Reid earns more money than the U.S. president and receives a car allowance. Now, she wants a taxpayer-funded personal bodyguard.
Release in a new job No. 25212br On Brassring, the headmaster of Fairfax County Public Schools is advertising for “Executive Protection Agents,” a school district C-Suite headquarters in Gatehouse Road, Falls Church, Virginia. The deadline for applicants is August 5th.
The new job will earn $84,552 to $143,880. FCPS wage scale For the “Unified Scale of Level B/006” work, the fees paid far exceed those of the Starting salary A new teacher received about $58,000 in the school district.
The job description reads: “The Executive Protection Agent is responsible for ensuring personal safety, protection and operational continuity throughout the school campus, public events, official travel and private residences.”
Michelle Reid, headmaster of the Fairfax County Public Schools Department. (Fairfax County Public School)
The new position is a time when public school officials (such as Reed) face increased responsibilities in curriculum, contracts, budgets, and “diversity, equity and inclusion” policies. In 2021, the Biden administration raised concerns at school board meetings against parents’ allegations of alleged “family terrorism,” but new email records It has been revealed These allegations are exaggerated and politicized.
Since taking over on July 1, 2022, Reid has withheld the National Merit Award from students for allegedly hiding misconduct in football recruitment, and recently, a recent violation of the Ministry of Education’s Title IX Title Protections on Sports and School Girls. Ministry of Education Civil Rights Office Just announced That Fairfax County Public School and four other Northern Virginia school districts (including Loudon County Public Schools) violated the IX title protection by discriminating students based on gender.
In November last year, the National School Board voted unanimously renew Reid’s four-year contract and his annual salary will be from $380,000not just the salary of the New York City Prime Minister of Education. The board members also gave her $12,000 in annual car allowance. On the contrary, the US President Earn $400,000 per year.
During her tenure, Reid is known to have the leak as a leak this week, which was anonymously raised alarm bells on the new bodyguard location. The job description points out three times that the applicant must show “discretion”, on the one hand, that the applicant must show a high degree of discretion and maintain strict confidentiality in all aspects of the role. ”
The third-grade teacher teaches a class in a classroom at Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia. (@fairfaxcountypublicschools/instagram)
Experts say it is unusual to hire a personal bodyguard for school principals. Fairfax County Public Schools United States University District 12 include According to the U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Services, there are 180,714 students in 223 schools.
Meanwhile, the country’s third university district is Chicago Public Schools, twice the size of Fairfax County Public Schools, serving 322,809 students in 643 schools. Latest dataand its principal, also known as the CEO, have no personal bodyguards.
“Chicago Public Schools does not serve as personal bodyguard positions for our principal/CEO,” said Mary Ann Ferguson, a spokeswoman for the district.
Talk about new jobs has angered local parents and school district staff.
“Queen Reid asked for all the luxury items that fit her station. It’s for you, but not for me.
“They basically ask for personal bodyguards for the principal, and “not a normal or a habitual position.” – Kenneth Trump, President of National School Safety and Assurance Services
Unlike teachers, new bodyguard jobs do not require a bachelor’s degree, but rather “a combination of education and experience is equivalent to a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, security management or related fields.”
In advertising, Reid stipulates that work requires “excellent flexibility” and has “unpredictable “timeline” that is “driven by the principal’s daily activities and safety needs.”
“There must be irregular hours, including mornings, evenings, weekends, holidays, travels and extended candidate responsibilities,” the ad record said.
This work requires “understanding of protection intelligence, behavioral analysis and threat mitigation strategies”, not to mention “skills for monitoring detection, open source intelligence (OSINT) tools and incident reporting.”
Reid has other requirements to make the work a clear bodyguard detail: “Ability to stay calm and make the right decisions under pressure, especially in sensitive or high-risk situations.”
Reid seeks experience with “threat assessment and protection of intelligence, “focus on conducting investigations and execution of protection” and “complete administrative protection training.”
Steven Brasley, a media outreach expert at the regional communications office, insists that nothing is uncommon.
“As the principal of public events, Fairfax County Public Schools have been providing security for the safety and safety framework,” Brasley said.
Brasley added that the Office of Human Resources, led by William Solomon and head of security and security Brian Lambert, recently “cooperated” on the “new Executive Protection Agent Job Description.”
Brasley said the role “formally formally responsible for administrative protection (including for the personal safety of the dean in various activities), while also supporting broader responsibilities within the Office of Safety and Assurance to support the entire school department.”
The district’s official explanation did not mention the specific threat of Reed’s face.
“They are basically asking the principal’s personal bodyguard,” said Kenneth Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services, Cleveland, Ohio-based state school safety and security services. ”
“The job description is one of the shortest jobs I’ve ever seen in any school security department job,” he noted, which boils down to “one line”, looking for “administrative protection” in work, public events, travel and “private residence.”
“It doesn’t mention other responsibilities that people expect, if in fact, the work extends to other tasks. There is even no typical “typical” and other responsibilities, the job specified in the published job description, which may cover tasks beyond monitoring execution of protection.”
Brasley said the new work “is designed to enhance the work of FCPS” and “identifies, evaluates and mitigates the risk of targeted violence against students, faculty and schools.”
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The job description does not mention “students, faculty and school”.
Brasley said protection for principals is a “integrated part” of the role, but the role “has been involved in larger security and investigation plans throughout the region, such as the ongoing implementation of new emergency systems and weapons screening.”
There is also no mention of “new emergency systems or weapons screening” in the job posting.
