Comments on: Battle Over Florida Education System Ready For Ruling

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 00:30:40 +0000

(Voilà)

REGARDING:
” “The state has failed to make adequate provision by not allowing significant numbers of students to obtain a high-quality education,” Jodi Siegel, an attorney for Citizens for Strong Schools, said Friday during her closing argument. “This is not an insignificant matter. There’s over 1 million students that cannot read at grade level. There are half-a-million free-and-reduced lunch students who cannot read at grade level.” ”

“Not allowing…students” means not that they failed, but that they purposely hindered. They will have a hard time proving that. Interesting that they point out where the points of failure seem especially tied to the children of people who have failed.

They know perfectly well that parents have the children in their most formative years, with 80% of brain development taking place in the first 3 years. Logically, the only way to assure success would be to take all the children from their parents and let our flawless government raise them from birth, anything else is bound to fail.

Problem is: that would also fail. Based on previous attempts, governments can’t properly raise children. Anything based on improved education will be on top of current heroic efforts and will only reach part of the remaining 20% at best.

Realizing this, it looks like they are just wanting more money. Nothing inherently wrong with higher pay, just with dishonesty.

David for possible goals
and honesty

By: Nod

Nod — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 01:37:00 +0000

First you must have students that are willing to learn and that starts at home. It seems most parents do not care and want to blame it all on the system. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink. The desire to learn must be there and I do not believe that it is. America is being dumbed down.

By: MB

MB — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 20:19:37 +0000

Who would actually want to go into teaching with the way teachers are treated by the current Governor and legislature?

They value the greasing of their own pockets and relatives in the charter school industry.

By: The DOER

The DOER — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 14:44:25 +0000

I cannot speak for the the lower grades in public education, but I can speak for the higher grades. As a public Florida high school educator, I see exactly what is happening. We should not blame teachers for this situation. We all know that parents have as much of a responsibility educating their children as the teachers do; however, Florida is changing its standards because there are fewer and fewer qualified teachers to choose from. In the past, high school teachers had specified degrees in their fields. Now, that is not the case. Now a high school teacher can have a degree in hotel management and just go and get “certified” in a particular field. Then guess what? Walaa! That person is now your kid’s teacher.

The public education field needs to be revamped big time. What is the solution, however, when there are fewer and fewer qualified people to choose from? Oh, I know. Let’s make the stakes higher and get the best and the brightest WITH SPECIALIZED DEGREES IN THEIR FIELDS to want to teach our children. That means we need to make the jobs more attractive. Otherwise, we will loose these to big corporations.

By: Niknak50

Niknak50 — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 12:09:55 +0000

Hmm. Over a million students that can’t read at grade level. I’ve got a $100.00 that says every last one of them can text though.