Comments on: Education Boss Selects New Test To Replace FCAT Next Year

By: Preda

Preda — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 19:33:40 +0000

What would happen to the public schools if all the parents who’s children are having such a hard time pulled them out for 9 weeks to home school. People complain but really we as parents need to try it. People are protesting for everything else we need to do it. It is legal and it might help our children in many ways. Home schooling is really easy now days with the internet. If noone else will help our children why are we supporting the public schools. Could you imagine the news. Look what happened when people boycotted the buses years ago. We could make a change but we are not as put together as they was in the past…..

By: melodies4us

melodies4us — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 04:06:55 +0000

Everyone is always commenting that the children aren’t learning in school any more. Why don’ we just go back to the curriculum from 40 years ago. It worked. Everyone knew reading, writing, and arithmetic by second grade as apposed to such a large percentage graduating without having learned these important skills. I can remember being really interested in history, and science, and enjoyable class discussions. We weren’t rushed to get to page 200. Teachers had flexibility to remain on page 24 until he or she felt like the class really gets it. And we had 6 classes, a recess, and a appetizing amount of time to relax at lunch and have an enjoyable conversation with classmates.

By: Only changed the name

Only changed the name — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 12:16:32 +0000

If you look at Utah standards it looks the same as common core just changed the name to Florida standards. What a JOKE! We test these kids to the point where they don’t want to go to school as early as elementary school. It. Is time for Florida to return to the days where one test on one day of the year does not determine if you pass or fail. Wake up Florida.

By: Robert S.

Robert S. — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 03:10:57 +0000

And somewhere in the background is lurking a former governor of Florida (along with his crowd of friends) who has much interest in pushing non-public education and wants to get all kids into charter and alternative schooling situations funded by the taxpayers. Some in this group may have a financial incentive to press for non-public schools. Just sayin’….

By: Predra

Predra — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:40:14 +0000

And how many children will be held back because of fcat this year ! Not right. These children are being let down again. Is it to late to take the children out and home school so they can be promoted without FCAT.

By: Elijah Bell

Elijah Bell — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:45:34 +0000

The above action is more proof that the wrong players are running the education system in Florida. The first thing that has to happen is to elect legislators that have the fate of the children first and their re-election second. We do have some good legislators in the NWF region but they carry very little weight statewide. Our local school boards must fight harder to bring back more local control. How long has it been published in any local source a piece on how a local {3 county} school board member really feels about all the testing?

By: The DOER

The DOER — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:58:13 +0000

Come on, Florida. Wake up. Let’s do a little research on American Institutes for Research. Their Board of Directors look like poster children for social justice advertisement. The Board Chair is a professor of social psychology at the Univ. of Michigan, Patricia Gurin, who has spent her life spreading that the poor person is poor because the rich person is rich. The Vice-Chair, Lawrence D. Bobo has openly penned during the Zimmerman and Martin situation that America is racist to its core, and these are just the top two members of the Board of Directors!
Florida has gone insane with testing. We are doing nothing but changing the name of Common Core to Florida Standards, just to appease the anti-common core crowd. As a teacher in Escambia County, I applaud Malcolm Thomas in his efforts to try to stay at the top of the game, but enough is enough. Students at the high school level are dropping out in droves, primarily because they cannot pass these liberal-based social-agenda curriculum tests, which have nothing to do with their ability to succeed in skills-based jobs. We need to go back to a dual-curriculum situation: one for those who are college material (Evidence of such in their earlier grades and determination), and the skills-based curriculum, such as mechanics, drafting, electrical, culinary. We can offer so much more than we do, but because students must pass these so-called tests, they cannot even take electives such as above. No wonder the virtual school is growing by leaps and bounds!

By: Barbara Luker

Barbara Luker — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:17:19 +0000

Why is it being field tested in Utah? Why not Florida? Wouldn’t it make sense to field test it on the students who are actually going to take it? Do we ever do anything in education that makes complete sense? Why not just use PARCC? These are the same people who developed or help develop that test. I like the “pig” guy. He makes sense to me.