I remember when we purchased our first house years ago my signature at the start of the closing and at the end of closing weren't very similar.
Issues in Education
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Ron DeSantis: Florida students deserve high-quality education, and great teachers deserve recognition and competitive pay.
But time and again partisan school unions have shown that they do not act in the best interests of the teachers they purport to represent, let alone the best interests of students.
Today, I was proud to sign legislation to hold unions accountable and to reward the educators who go above and beyond to inspire students across Florida.
DeSantis is a liar.
He talks about competitive pay and recognition while Florida sits at or close to last in average teacher pay. If he actually cared about paying teachers competitively, that would not be true year after year.
Now he is has signed legislation that weakens or eliminates teacher unions. That strips teachers of one of the only ways they can push for better pay, reasonable workloads, planning time, and basic working conditions.
That is not accountability. It is removing the only real counterweight.
And notice who is not being targeted. Police and firefighter unions remain untouched. Those professions have very different political and demographic profiles than teaching. That is not principle. That is selective.
He consistently misrepresents teachers and paints them as the problem while making it harder for them to advocate for themselves.
If he cared about teachers, you would see it in average pay and working conditions. You do not.
Erika Donalds, wife of Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds, believes schools can use AI instead of hiring teaching assistants:
“We’ve always wanted teachers to have a teaching assistant in every classroom. This gives them 12 teaching assistants or more.”
Are conservatives in favor of less tech in the classroom or not?
My oldest daughter taught for a year in Florida... Pay was horrible. Conditions horrible. Benefits were poor. I told her to just stay on my insurance plan until she hits 26.
The school library was closed and locked the entire year because the district had to have a certified inspection to make sure there were no LGBT books or other books that were not acceptable. The district had no money to hire anyone, nor was there anyone certified to do it. This was last year, and apparently the library was still locked this whole year...
She also also had to sign a loyalty pledge to Ron DeSantis. Seriously, she sent me a text of the screen and the verbiage was "I promise to only say nice things about Ron and do whatever he says." It was very much on the "I love you Dear Leader" side of things...
Slightly off topic, but I'm of the same mind as FDR in that public sector unions of any kind should not exist.
Public sector unions collectively bargain with people that they then give money to so that they can get reelected. It's a corrupt system that in the end takes tax dollars from private citizens and uses them to attempt to get politicians to give the union what they want.
I'm supportive of private sector unions. I think the UAW should be able to collectively bargain with Ford or GM. They should do whatever is legally allowed to get the highest wages they can for the people the union represents. It's Ford's or GM's money not my tax dollars being funneled around. Whatever agreement the two sides comes to is a private contract between two consenting parties.
I don't disagree about teacher pay. I'm for paying them more, but the easiest way to at least partially do that is to cut all the nonsense at the district level. There are so many jobs at central offices that don't need to exist. It's taking up millions of dollars in even small districts in Florida when you figure in salary, retirement, and benefits. That is all being done on the local district level. It's the same thing that has happened at the college level. The administrative bloat is real and it's sucking up major resources that should be going directly into the classrooms, and it's bringing no value to the students.
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Mississippi has made enormous strides in education since 2013. I looked up what they are doing and this is what I found. Can anyone on here in education put some layman language to it so us non education people can understand?
If a student can read and comprehend what they are reading then all other subjects become accessible. Really all learning becomes accessible. If I can read well I can understand history, science, math, literature, and all other social sciences. If a school is going to focus on one skill reading is the one,
Not in education but I understand most of this. This is all a quick hit. There is a lot more detail that can go into all of this.
- Literacy-Based Promotion Act - Basically they are testing kids and making sure they can read and aren't just pushing them through to 4th grade if they can't read.
- Science of reading focus - "Science of reading" is basically everything we know about how people learn to read and how to teach it. Scarborough's rope is a simple illustration that can give you an idea of what it all entails. But we know A LOT about how to teach reading, enough to get almost everyone to read at a 4th grade level. Past that is more iffy but we can get almost everyone to that level with what we know. A lot goes into the science of reading so that's a much longer topic.
- Teacher Development - they actually trained teachers on the science of reading and how to teach reading/what to look for in kids that may need early intervention. Many districts have just invested in new curriculum without actually teaching the teachers.
- Having testing and teachers trained in catching kids that need early intervention is huge. We know a lot about different types of intervention and who need which interventions. Early intervention is hugely important as with most things, falling behind early can snowball.
- Accountability - idk what Mississippi did here specifically but this also makes sense. I'm sure they tested to see what schools/teachers showed improvement. Probably a big help.
Overall, it seems to me Mississippi did what every state with poor reading scores should be doing for early literacy. I'm not sure how much high performing states can learn from this because they are often already doing these things. But low performing states, especially poorer ones should take notice. Idk what their scores are for older students but early literacy is the obvious first step and where we have the most data/knowledge.
Certainly agree for early childhood education. I think it may be more complicated past that though. Background knowledge is really important for being able to read at higher levels. There is a lot of backing for the idea that we need "knowledge rich" curriculums.
Basically, you need to know how to decode and read words, but you also need strong vocabulary and background knowledge to comprehend what you are reading.
U.S. Department of Education Opens Title IX Investigation into Los Angeles Unified School District
The Los Angeles Unified School District appears to be protecting sexual predators at the expense of its students. Today, in response, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened a directed investigation into the District.
So at one point Alabama was a national leader for the Alabama Reading Initiative. Whatever happened to that program?
My assessment with my own personal interactions with elementary school teachers with regard to early intervention assessments and support is outright fabricated. They will go on and on about how they love your child and how they are supporting them. But once you sign their paperwork and leave the parking lot, they do not care. The level of teacher apathy in public and private schools in Alabama is at an all-time high.
Honestly, I dont know where you turn to nowadays to ensure your children are getting a good education...
My assessment with my own personal interactions with elementary school teachers with regard to early intervention assessments and support is outright fabricated. They will go on and on about how they love your child and how they are supporting them. But once you sign their paperwork and leave the parking lot, they do not care. The level of teacher apathy in public and private schools in Alabama is at an all-time high.
Honestly, I dont know where you turn to nowadays to ensure your children are getting a good education...
It's gotten so bad, they are almost as apathetic as most parents out there............
My daughter is a second year 5th grade teacher over in a suburb of Charlotte. There is a reason that most teachers don't give a plugged nickel after a few years...
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