Comments on: Future Of Class Size Amendment 8 Campaign In Question

By: interested reader

interested reader — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:24:55 +0000

PLEASE vote NO on amendment 8. Teachers have all the students they can handle by themselves. No aides, very few parents and few volunteers are in these classrooms. I don’t pretend to know the answer to this problem but I think a very good place to start is in administration. Overhead has always been a problem in Esc. Cty. Fewer people doing more and better work would help a lot.

By: Angi♫

Angi♫ — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:36:27 +0000

I strongly agree that smaller amounts of students in classrooms are much better, giving the teachers and students more one on one time to learn; rather than having a larger amount of students in each classroom and the students not getting the proper education being taught to them, because of the teachers not having enough time to help them more…

By: huh

huh — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:36:57 +0000

If they make classes bigger they will downsize teachers to cut costs , thats not good for education

By: BarrineauParkDad

BarrineauParkDad — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:55:43 +0000

Vote NO on ALL Amendments.

We elect representatives to go to Tallahassee and legislate on our behalf. They don’t have the backbone to do the job they were elected to do, so they put everything they can on an amendment. Then when it don’t work as advertised, they can say “I didn’t vote for that, thats not how I would have done it”. If they do pass and turn out to be flawed, the only way to fix it is to go back to the ballot again or hope the court does their job and strikes it down. If our legislators would do their job and pass a law, the flaws when and if they appear are easily dealt with,by those who created them, our representatives.

Constitutional amendments are burdensome and a CHICKEN POOP method of legislation. If you ask for and get my vote, you dang well better be prepared to do the job.

By: anydaynow

anydaynow — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:30:36 +0000

I will continue to support the will of the people of the state of Florida, the parents of students who fought for functionally populated classrooms and the teachers who have been tasked with teaching the children of this state.

We need another citizen’s initiative, one that would cut the pay and benefits of school officials and legislators who can’t or don’t want to work within the boundaries of the law and respect the teachers and students needs. Those officials need to just move on. Let ‘em become fishermen.

By: NHS parent

NHS parent — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:07:27 +0000

How does one go about writing legislation that says you can take a class size average for a school, so you can have, for example, some classes that are below the cap and some just over the cap within the same school? What kind of time frame are we looking at?

By: Parent with Children

Parent with Children — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:09:50 +0000

Actually, the class size amendment that was passed by a majority of the people in 2002 does have some merit because if it wasn’t for the classroom size mandate which holds school districts accountable, there’s no telling how large some classroom populations would be.

I agree that there has to be room for exceptions like in the case of one extra student or even two that need to be added to a class, especially in a small school where there’s no where else to put a classroom. Also, it doesn’t make good economical sense to have two classes – one of 9 and the other with 10 because the cap is set at 18, does it?

Vote YES, on 8.