Comments on: Elected Or Appointed School Superintendent? Escambia Commission To Consider Ballot Referendum

By: Jlb

Jlb — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 22:04:55 +0000

We should NEVER give up our rights to vote….

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 23:39:08 +0000

It’s interesting that three of the five board members are ‘voluntarily’ giving up their power/authority to go to an ‘elected’ superintendent.

What are the trio getting in response? Who is paying them off and why?

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 23:35:48 +0000

How much time and money is going to be spent on this issue that instead could go into the paycheck of the teachers of the school district?

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:49:32 +0000

CONTEMPLATING:
“Noone should hold office who was not elected.”

There’s much to say in favor of that thought, but you don’t want every job filled by a general election. You don’t want a brain surgeon cutting on you if his only qualifications were popular vote. The one who establishes goals? Yes. The one who does the day to day grunt work? Probably not.

With that in mind, you ask yourself which the school superintendent is.

By: Luigi

Luigi — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:28:22 +0000

For the people, by the people . Term limits for the commissioners , and elected officials for the schools . No more political appointments in our schools . The school board also needs to be voted out after getting away with tax increase (mileage piggy bank ) with less students . We have county officials who want more power (BOC) as well as the tax collector doing taxes, licensing, and other state duties when they can not even process a vehicle title , registration and tagging in a timely manner . Commissioners, tax collector and others concentrate on your duties instead of trying to have more power without fulfilling your core duties . Political appointees out of our schools , parents and voters should decide who manages their children and tax payers should have a say by voting .

By: TEM

TEM — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:05:55 +0000

The County Commissioners do enough damage as it is, keep them out of the school system for goodness sakes, all they are trying to do is buy more votes along with other things .

By: Bonnie Exner

Bonnie Exner — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:05:25 +0000

Everytime this issue came up I voted to elect our superintendent…as a retired Civics teacher I always encouraged my students to register to vote,study the candidates that are running for office and vote accordingly..
by the way I would have voted for Mr. Keith Leonard of I had had the opportunity to do so.

By: Just listening

Just listening — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:36:08 +0000

No doubt about it. The superintendent should be elected. We tried appointments and we remember how that went. If the superintendent runs for the office, I feel he has the job at heart. Just saying.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:15:24 +0000

Will it really matter if it’s an elected position? We switched to a hired position and the Board ran off the very man they hired and then put in the guy they didn’t select. Switch back to an elected position and the candidates will likely be the same, entrenched people who haven’t solved the problems of the previous 20-30 years. To be fair to the Leadership, the voters and parents aren’t likely to aggressively take on more responsibility for the education of our children.
Much of government these days is just a big machine that gets certain parts (i.e. people) replaced from time to time; continuing the same mediocre output.
Bottom line; elected or hired, the Escambia County School District Leadership isn’t likely to change much, in the foreseeable future.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:00:16 +0000

All the school board needs is more taxpayer money ! To do less !