Florida Senate Bill 6
Public Comments (1,463)
-
Apr 7th, 2010Someone from Fort Lauderdale, FL signed.
Apr 7th, 2010Someone from Lake Worth, FL writes:
As a 36 year veteran teacher, I find this offensive. After all, we are educating the future citizens of Florida. As a teacher who has received excellelnt performance reviews, and teach in a low socioeconomic school, my students show great achievement over the year, however not to the standards of a one time test. Teachers and students will be affected in an adverse manner with this bill.Apr 7th, 2010Someone from Miami, FL signed.
Apr 7th, 2010Someone from Miami, FL signed.
Apr 7th, 2010Someone from Hialeah, FL signed.
Apr 7th, 2010Someone from Hialeah, FL signed.
Apr 7th, 2010Someone from Hialeah, FL signed.
Apr 7th, 2010Someone from Hialeah, FL signed.
Apr 7th, 2010Someone from Delray Beach, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Fort Lauderdale, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Pompano Beach, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Tampa, FL writes:
Maybe when someone becomes a world-renown history professor he or she sends $2,500 to their civics teacher. Perhaps when someone becomes State Senator they look back to recall their most influential teacher and they send them $1,000 with their personal credit card rather than the party's credit card. Actually, I think US should create a domestic style Peace Corps where the scientists and the researchers, the mathematicians and the poets go back and spend a semester giving back, mentoring teachers and being role models for students. I saw Pfizer do it in Connecticut but I only think it was for a day.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelApr 6th, 2010Someone from Jacksonville, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Jacksonville, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Palm Harbor, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Delray Beach, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Miami, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Miami, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Miami, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Miami, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Miami, FL writes:
I voted, campaigned for and cried tears of joy when you were elected. I am a good teacher who will be suffering an almost immediate pay loss. I teach in Alternative Education. When I succeed with a student, she is returned to regular school. End of year tests will only assure that I can never be judged by success. I have finally been able to buy my first home at the age of fifty. I bought a foreclosure. I became part of the recovery. I will lose my home and become part of a new wave of foreclosures in Florida based on this bill's effects. Students in Florida are being taught that doing the right thing all your life is worthless, and that higher education is also worthless (they are outlawing payment for teachers who have a Master's or PhD.) Your Race to the Top set this in motion. What will you do to fix the problem you made? (For that matter, why did we work so hard to get a democrat in the White House just to get another republican DoE?)REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelApr 6th, 2010Someone from Homestead, FL writes:
You must intervene on this Republican hijacking of Public Education.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelApr 6th, 2010Someone from Deltona, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Hialeah, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Miami, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Hollywood, FL writes:
Unfortunately this is partly the result of your ?Race to the Top Grant? although I don?t believe that you intended it to become the monster that the Florida Legislation is turning it into. Perhaps we should be rethinking what an education is, because it is certainly not taking a test. Test scores have to be de-emphasized. Our schools are turning into test factories and teachers are being punished for working conditions which are out of their control. No one in the right mind will become a teacher with this mentality of blaming teachers for the world?s ills. Please stand with us and change directions on the race to the top grants.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelApr 6th, 2010Someone from Gainesville, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Boca Raton, FL writes:
SB6 is a disgrace! I too have dedicated my life to teaching and making a difference in children's lives. I feel dishonored and disrespected. I pity this nation's future - losing the gifted, caring, self-sacrificing teachers who are its backbone! And you WILL lose us.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelApr 6th, 2010Someone from Boynton Beach, FL writes:
I teach students with disablities. For years I have seen my students struggle with the FCAT. It does not measure the progress they had made throughout the year because they are still below grade level with their reading skills. FCAT is created for the average student, but my students are anything but average. All year we differentiate instruction for them to become successful, only for them to take the FCAT (which is NOT differentiated) and fail. We are confusing our students and ruining their self-esteem. All year I tell them how proud I am of them, and that all goes out the window when they see that they got a 1! How is it fair that my salary be based on this?? I would have a greater chance at receiving a bigger paycheck if I taught 'average' students without disabilities. Nice message this bill is sending! What happened to NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND!!!REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelApr 6th, 2010Someone from Boynton Beach, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Miami, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Boynton Beach, FL writes:
This is an idiotic bill. I am a Republican and think this is plain stupid politics.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelApr 6th, 2010Someone from Key Biscayne, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Miami, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Miami, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Miami, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Miami, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Miami, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Miami, FL writes:
I am a high school student and I think it is unfair to pushish teachers due to an individual's tests scores. It will add more pressure to the educational system, drive more children to drop out of the public school system, overwhelm children, and memorize needed information (like the FCAT) instead of learn and analyze at thier own pace. Many students are nervous when it comes to exams, have a bad day, learn at thier own level:Honors,Regular,or ESOL, or some simply don't pay attention in the classroom. Teachers should not be punished for a student's performance when the material has been taught. Teachers should evaluate students in thier own classrooms according to the material covered by the teacher in her/his own classroom and not general standarized exams. Student's will not benefit from these exams where they are constantly pressured and teachers are being blamed. Passing students and paying teachers due to standarized exams is unfair not just to the teachers but to the students, parents, and school administration. I strongly feel this is an unwise government choice!REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, Cancel
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.