Issues in Education

[AWRTR]

My daughters mentioned not long ago that my signature was missing some letters. I just said that, yeah, that happened after a few tens of thousands of times of signing your name...

I remember when we purchased our first house years ago my signature at the start of the closing and at the end of closing weren't very similar.

 

[crimsonaudio]

I can see it. Mine is pretty close to that. My last name does start with a 'K'.

FIFY

 

[Huckleberry]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2050325386303824349

Ron DeSantis: Florida students deserve high-quality education, and great teachers deserve recognition and competitive pay.

But time and again partisan school unions have shown that they do not act in the best interests of the teachers they purport to represent, let alone the best interests of students.

Today, I was proud to sign legislation to hold unions accountable and to reward the educators who go above and beyond to inspire students across Florida.






DeSantis is a liar.

He talks about competitive pay and recognition while Florida sits at or close to last in average teacher pay. If he actually cared about paying teachers competitively, that would not be true year after year.

Now he is has signed legislation that weakens or eliminates teacher unions. That strips teachers of one of the only ways they can push for better pay, reasonable workloads, planning time, and basic working conditions.

That is not accountability. It is removing the only real counterweight.

And notice who is not being targeted. Police and firefighter unions remain untouched. Those professions have very different political and demographic profiles than teaching. That is not principle. That is selective.

He consistently misrepresents teachers and paints them as the problem while making it harder for them to advocate for themselves.

If he cared about teachers, you would see it in average pay and working conditions. You do not.

 

[Huckleberry]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2050340979052281878

Erika Donalds, wife of Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds, believes schools can use AI instead of hiring teaching assistants:

“We’ve always wanted teachers to have a teaching assistant in every classroom. This gives them 12 teaching assistants or more.”







Are conservatives in favor of less tech in the classroom or not?

 

[arthurdawg]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2050325386303824349

Ron DeSantis: Florida students deserve high-quality education, and great teachers deserve recognition and competitive pay.

But time and again partisan school unions have shown that they do not act in the best interests of the teachers they purport to represent, let alone the best interests of students.

Today, I was proud to sign legislation to hold unions accountable and to reward the educators who go above and beyond to inspire students across Florida.






DeSantis is a liar.

He talks about competitive pay and recognition while Florida sits at or close to last in average teacher pay. If he actually cared about paying teachers competitively, that would not be true year after year.

Now he is has signed legislation that weakens or eliminates teacher unions. That strips teachers of one of the only ways they can push for better pay, reasonable workloads, planning time, and basic working conditions.

That is not accountability. It is removing the only real counterweight.

And notice who is not being targeted. Police and firefighter unions remain untouched. Those professions have very different political and demographic profiles than teaching. That is not principle. That is selective.

He consistently misrepresents teachers and paints them as the problem while making it harder for them to advocate for themselves.

If he cared about teachers, you would see it in average pay and working conditions. You do not.

My oldest daughter taught for a year in Florida... Pay was horrible. Conditions horrible. Benefits were poor. I told her to just stay on my insurance plan until she hits 26.

The school library was closed and locked the entire year because the district had to have a certified inspection to make sure there were no LGBT books or other books that were not acceptable. The district had no money to hire anyone, nor was there anyone certified to do it. This was last year, and apparently the library was still locked this whole year...

She also also had to sign a loyalty pledge to Ron DeSantis. Seriously, she sent me a text of the screen and the verbiage was "I promise to only say nice things about Ron and do whatever he says." It was very much on the "I love you Dear Leader" side of things...

 

[AWRTR]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2050325386303824349

Ron DeSantis: Florida students deserve high-quality education, and great teachers deserve recognition and competitive pay.

But time and again partisan school unions have shown that they do not act in the best interests of the teachers they purport to represent, let alone the best interests of students.

Today, I was proud to sign legislation to hold unions accountable and to reward the educators who go above and beyond to inspire students across Florida.






DeSantis is a liar.

He talks about competitive pay and recognition while Florida sits at or close to last in average teacher pay. If he actually cared about paying teachers competitively, that would not be true year after year.

Now he is has signed legislation that weakens or eliminates teacher unions. That strips teachers of one of the only ways they can push for better pay, reasonable workloads, planning time, and basic working conditions.

That is not accountability. It is removing the only real counterweight.

And notice who is not being targeted. Police and firefighter unions remain untouched. Those professions have very different political and demographic profiles than teaching. That is not principle. That is selective.

He consistently misrepresents teachers and paints them as the problem while making it harder for them to advocate for themselves.

If he cared about teachers, you would see it in average pay and working conditions. You do not.

Slightly off topic, but I'm of the same mind as FDR in that public sector unions of any kind should not exist.

“Organizations of Government employees have a logical place in Government affairs. The desire of Government employees for fair and adequate pay... is basically no different from that of employees in private industry. Organization on their part to present their views on such matters is both natural and logical, but meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the Government.”

“All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress.”

“Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees... a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government... Such action... is unthinkable and intolerable.” FDR

Public sector unions collectively bargain with people that they then give money to so that they can get reelected. It's a corrupt system that in the end takes tax dollars from private citizens and uses them to attempt to get politicians to give the union what they want.

I'm supportive of private sector unions. I think the UAW should be able to collectively bargain with Ford or GM. They should do whatever is legally allowed to get the highest wages they can for the people the union represents. It's Ford's or GM's money not my tax dollars being funneled around. Whatever agreement the two sides comes to is a private contract between two consenting parties.

I don't disagree about teacher pay. I'm for paying them more, but the easiest way to at least partially do that is to cut all the nonsense at the district level. There are so many jobs at central offices that don't need to exist. It's taking up millions of dollars in even small districts in Florida when you figure in salary, retirement, and benefits. That is all being done on the local district level. It's the same thing that has happened at the college level. The administrative bloat is real and it's sucking up major resources that should be going directly into the classrooms, and it's bringing no value to the students.