Virginia school superintendent, earning more than the president, wants taxpayer-funded bodyguard
Michelle Reid, Fairfax County Public Schools division superintendent, recently received approval to renew her contract. The renewal also comes with a salary increase from $380,000 to $424,146. This new salary results in Reid’s making more money than Donald Trump’s salary as president. This job also comes with a $12,000 annual car allowance. But wait! There’s more! Reid now wants a taxpayer funded personal bodyguard. The position is called “Executive Protection Agent” and comes with a salary range from $84,552 to $143,880.
From Fox News:
The new job would earn between $84,552 to $143,880, according to the FCPS pay scale for a “Unified Scale-Schedule B/Grade 006” job, paying far more than the starting salary of about $58,000 that a new teacher gets in the school district.
“The Executive Protection Agent is responsible for ensuring the personal safety, security and operational continuity of the division superintendent across school campuses, public events, official travel, and private residences,” the job description reads.
The new position comes at a time when public school officials, like Reid, are facing heightened accountability in the post-COVID era over curriculum, contracts, budgets and “diversity, equity and inclusion” policies. In 2021, the Biden administration targeted parents for charges of alleged “domestic terrorism” for raising concerns at school board meetings, but new email records have revealed the allegations were overblown and politicized.
Since taking over on July 1, 2022, Reid has come under fire for allegedly covering up scandals over improprieties in football recruiting, the withholding of National Merit awards from students and, most recently, defying Department of Education orders regarding Title IX protections for girls in sports and schools. The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights just announced that Fairfax County Public Schools and four other northern Virginia school districts, including Loudoun County Public Schools, violated TItle IX protections by discriminating against students on the basis of sex.
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, more than the salary of New York City’s education chancellor. Board members also gave her a $12,000 annual car allowance. In contrast, the U.S. president earns $400,000 annually.
Additional Reading:
Nomani, A. Q. (2025, August 3). ‘Queen Reid’: Embattled Virginia schools boss demands personal bodyguard on top of lavish salary, perks. Fox News. Link.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", Democrats
How ’bout no?
How ’bout she purchase her own firearm, take some courses
and protect her own damn ass.
Oh, and struggle thru the permit nightmare I am sure she
will have no trouble passing.
I wasn’t gonna give her free advice.
Based of her pic, it appears to be a LARGE ass that needs protection
Yup!, No!, and that’s my final answer, Alex.
DEI hires always want more…
As a product of Fairfax County schools I feel as though she may be overpaid. NYC has over 800k students and Fairfax has less than 200k.
But $84k – $148k expro pay to babysit the super is easy money, considering the threat is near zero. If I were to come off the bench and migrate back up there… ha, who am I kidding, fuq that place.
So what is with her new found love of security given that a superintendent has never actually been assaulted in the course of their duties in the US?
Just recently there was an assistant Super and principal who were assaulted by a parent in North Carolina, possibly because she was antagonized by the principal, who was later suspended for two weeks.
https://www.kktv.com/2025/06/02/mom-allegedly-attacks-principal-superintendent-after-being-called-school-daughter-fighting/
Last year a super did get pushed by an annoyed parent, who was charged with disorderly conduct.
https://www.wmtv15news.com/2024/06/06/baraboo-police-report-shines-light-why-parent-says-he-pushed-superintendent-during-graduation/
Here is the thing though, teachers and principals deal with this bullshit every single day. Ms. Reid isn’t special.
Who does Ms. Reid think she is, the mayor of a small town in Michigan.
Or Dolton IL?
Yeah…no.
Armed security is no protection against a 308. Or even a 5.56. But a lot cheaper than $400+K for a woke supervisor.
Just sayin’.
Not sure what you are trying to say.
Armed security is a barrier to assault, that is why we have body guards. It is a theory that so long as an assassin is willing to trade their life for the target there is no defense that will be 100% effective, but it is just a theory.
If you are saying that someone should shoot the super because she is overpaid, then I guess you and I are parting ways, because even sarcastic calls for violence are still calls for violence, in this case unmerited.
I think it got populer after the United Health care CEO was killed and it boils down to if one doesn’t like the way things are going their way, just kill the person….
Not calling for it. Don’t like it. Don’t want it. When that sort of thing starts happening on a regular basis, no one will be safe. No one.
Just thinking out loud around the edges.
The possibility is always there, if someone is desperate enough. And “a” bodyguard won’t be enough to stop a desperate person. One would need an entire intel and security system, which gets prohibitively expensive, more than the $400+K that this school supervisor is (going to) be paid.
Who’s surprised? Dems know how the squeeze money out of those government jobs. Its the only job sector that grows, that and jobs filled by illegal aliens, when the Dems are in power. Bloated salaried from top heavy bureaucrats and administrators is why the public schools in this country are failing. Teacher unions give money to Dem politicians to get elected, and those same politicians “negotiate” with the unions for raises, benefits, and work rules that reward non-teaching positions. Rinse and repeat.
Basically the bodyguard will be a patronage job, probably to someone with the same last name. Surely, just a coincidence.
Are you saying there’s nepotism involved in democrat hiring practices? Say it ain’t so!
Hey, “it’s all about who you know” like… Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, etc.
The budget will accept her resignation. The salary is The Salary. Accept the offer or look else for employment.
It’s not corruption when Democrats do it! /sarc
Why hasn’t Fairfax County detailed 3 or 4 police officers, and given an allowance to buy a few Second Chance body armor for herself and up armour the vehicle they gave her?
Everything else they’ve done to accommodate her are moronic. Why not go full-on dipshit stupid?
Probably because they are short 200 officers or almost 12%. It doesn’t help they pushed maximum hiring of female officers. Two out of three academy hires are gone within three years. For women it is more like 2.4/3.
Diversity, sister, diversity.
Yep, pushing people into things based only upon race, sex or who they like to get freaky with tends to result in a higher quit rate for some reason.
She should also ask for a paid trumpeter to announced her entrance to meetings so everybody can rise to greet her!!!
With a hearty, “Ave Caesar, we bow to your greatness” to accompany the trumpet.
“You can please some of the people most of the time, most of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.”
Hmmm…. Might be kind of hard to play “On the Road to Fairfax County”; which is the official county song to the trumpet. Please note that I was visitor #588 in the last ten years to the YouTube link, so it is very much in demand. Try not to provoke a DNS response by everyone clicking at once.
http://youtu.be/yAkQ2Gs1nHk?
Ah, here is the link to the band that wrote and recorded it originally. They have had thousands of visitors in the last eight years. Best played on low volume unless you can no longer hear high notes.
https://youtu.be/GawyW1BqmEI?
Having read the lyrics I realize how apt this song is. It definitely wasn’t by accident.
https://genius.com/The-roches-on-the-road-to-fairfax-county-lyrics
I was visitor 590. Setting the world on fire at this pace.
Somewhere in the US right now, there’s a superintendent reading this, wondering how much his or her trumpeter is going to cost.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=McaiADeflto&pp=ygUUbW9udHkgcHl0aG9uIHRydW1wZXQ%3D
She can toot her own horn from her pooter too, just like shown in video. It’s good to see others get the little thought cloud above their heads and say, ” I know what will be appropriate or funny here”.
My thought cloud is generally inappropriate. My inner 12 year old cannot always be restrained.
Lots of 12 year olds here, and occasionally 1 with no sense of humor. Or sense for that matter.
But, but, but there will always be more tax money to spend, just ask any D-rat, especially one who is a DEI token!