Comments on: Florida’s Graduation Rate Increases To 88%; Escambia County At 80.5%

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 05:48:11 +0000

Congrats are in order. My question is this, How is a graduation rate determined? Is that number determined by a student entering 1st grade then progresses through 12th? How exactly is that number determined? Thanks to anyone with factual experience and knowledge of the calculation.

By: stop shouting

stop shouting — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:03:34 +0000

@RW, please stop shouting at people with your capslock on. Every teacher that has left this county in the last fifteen YEARS will tell you that one of the reasons was the horribly low pay. Right next door in Santa Rosa county(or Baldwin County) teachers make more by several thousand bucks. They insulted many standing teachers in Escambia County last year by upping starting teachers pay by several thousand dollars, while no “significant” increase was given to the experienced teachers that will have to mentor the beginners to just get them function at a minimum level. And before you go blaming Keith Leonard for this, it was going on before he took over and the school board just looks the other way. The admin and school board continue to be the biggest threat to the teachers who have stuck it out, hoping for better. If you add to it the lack of parental involvement is a huge setback as well. Parents think that teachers are the only ones responsible for educating their kids. The kids fail in class because it’s more important to post a tictoc video than learn. Parents don’t enforce any rules on the kids, so when they get to school they are in a free-for-all and nobody will/can stop them without fear of retribution. Want to improve things? I challenge you to come to a school and attempt to teach for a few weeks. When you get done, come back and give us a full report on what you saw. Please?

By: D. Flowers

D. Flowers — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:20:06 +0000

Without looking too close at what a 2024 high school diploma really represents in terms of skills and knowledge, that County graduation rate at 80.5% means that 19.5% of our graduates are likely to top out at minimum wage. But trying to be an optimist, that may be better than what a bell curve might predict.

By: RW

RW — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 12:10:00 +0000

WHAT ABOUT ESCAMBIA HIGH TOO LOW AND THE TEACHERS WANT A RAISE