Florida Senate Bill 6
Public Comments (1,463)
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Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Delray Beach, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Boynton Beach, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Boynton Beach, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Delray Beach, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Lake Worth, FL signed.
Apr 6th, 2010Someone from Boca Raton, FL signed.
Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Boca Raton, FL signed.
Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Boca Raton, FL signed.
Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Lake Worth, FL writes:
As a teacher of students with special needs- both academically and emotionally, I am at a loss of words about this unfunded mandate being pushed by Florida Legislature, which will apparently be signed, into law by Gov. Crist. Unlike Tennessee and Delaware, which one "Race to the Top" grants due to the fact that stakeholders came together to come to an agreement that both sides thought was fair; this is being thrown down the throats of school district and teachers alike. The worst this thing about this is that the legislature is betting that this action on their part will lead to getting the grant during the second go around. I hope Florida losses out again. This second rate state does not deserve it because of the irreparable damage caused by the Republican leadership in Tallahassee. Education used to be an enjoyable and rewarding profession, albeit not with a lot of pay. This action by the leadership of Tallahassee has taken away the enjoyment and the rewards are nowhere to be found. This law is farce and an attack on public education in Florida. The only people that will benefit are Jeb and Neil Bush, who business dealings in education have provided the onus for this poorly crafted law. The losers are apparent: parents, educators and, of course, children. Unlike Tennessee and Delaware, which one "Race to the Top" grants due to the fact that stakeholders came together to come to an agreement that both sides thought was fair; this is being thrown down the throats of school district and teachers alike. The worst this thing about this is that the legislature is betting that this action on their part will lead to getting the grant during the second go around. I hope Florida losses out again. This second rate state does not deserve it because of the irreputible damage caused by the Republican leadership in Tallahassee.Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Archer, FL writes:
The bill is totally crazy. You guys try dealing with inner city kids or special ed kids for $30K a year. It takes dedication and regular raises. Prices keep going up and teachers have to provide some of their own class room supplies because of state budget crunches. Cut your own saleries.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 5th, 2010Someone from Fort Lauderdale, FL writes:
As a parent and educator this bill is totally insulting and not a good indication of a good educator. Try spending a week in a classroom then you would really have an idea of what educators deal with on a daily basis. Put in a bill that we should have combat pay, higher salaries and better retirement benefits! It is disgusting how educators are treated.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 5th, 2010Someone from Boynton Beach, FL writes:
The banks in this country needed help and new regulations. The government gave them TARP money and allowed them to borrow money at zero percent interest to help them get back on their feet. Education needed reform. So the government is going to attack teacher's salaries, retirements, and professional ability to teach. As a teacher in Florida all I do is diagnostic testing, teach to a test, give the test, and then retest. I now hate to teach and the students hate school. Thanks for your support. Why don't you go back to helping the banks? At least they appreciate it with their big bonuses. My bonus for teaching the most challenging students is loss of sleep and job security. I'm glad I teach the most neediest students in my school that way I can get paid less and maybe even fired for working with kids who are mostly in foster homes or broken families. Maybe I'll get a more honorable job at Citibank or AIG. I know you'll help them.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 5th, 2010Someone from Pompano Beach, FL signed.
Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Saint Cloud, FL writes:
Just another slap in the face from a state that doesn't value the hard work and effort Florida teachers put in EVERY day! This is why I am going back to school to earn another degree in a profession that respects it's employees. Thanks for the final push!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 5th, 2010Someone from Miami, FL signed.
Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Boca Raton, FL signed.
Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Riverside, RI writes:
The Central Falls school system in Rhode Island should be an object lesson in this.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 5th, 2010Someone from Fort Lauderdale, FL signed.
Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Miami, FL signed.
Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Fort Lauderdale, FL signed.
Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Altamonte Springs, FL signed.
Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Miami, FL signed.
Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Pompano Beach, FL writes:
This is a sad day when education hurts their teachers to simply qualify for monies that have been borrowed from overseas. This is not a bonus, this is selling out.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 5th, 2010Someone from Delray Beach, FL signed.
Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Hialeah, FL writes:
This bill reminds me when I was in Cuba and we were under the pressure to teach for promotion. In my personal opinion and 33 years of experience, students are only learning to guess at filling in bubbles on a test that really does not measure their knowledge. Students are not motivated because we are not teaching; instead we are teaching them how to perform in a ?test?. Are you sure that this test is the one that will save their lives in a competitive world in their future or are we frustrating them instead? Have you ever thought how we learned? Let? think in retrospect; teachers were more creative and inspiring even though we have always been underpaid, they were not punished as we are today to teach for a ?test?. They inspired us to be teachers, to become engineers, doctors, nurses, etc. We can also make the difference in our students if some ?individuals? do not think in their individual pocket transforming education in a huge business market. It is insane, in my personal opinion to consider the quality of a teacher for the students? score. Who, sitting up there, wants to make an educational revolution in three days? Now we want our students to think critically, after years and years of teaching them how to bubble and make an ?educate guess.? Therefore, we are going to be punished because we haven?t? done things properly according to someone? ideas or pocket. We teachers who are not even safe in our public schools due to the high per cent of violence and are underpaid and are the ones that form the future architect, doctor, engineer, computer programmer, teacher and the new generation in general. I have seen with great disappointment that millions dollars can fly to everywhere in our nation, but nothing goes to our teachers, those who really are in our classes making the truth difference and not the ones that are sitting behind a desk earning $$$$....BIG MONEY just thinking the way to impose us a penalty for something insane. Any athlete, artist, doctor, engineer, lawyer make more money than a teacher on the final step of this career, and we are the athlete who run with our students in the process of learning; we are the real artist in our classes being creative and motivating them; we are the doctors who first notice what their needs are in the language and even in their lives and recommend them great dosage of LOVE; we are the engineers who help them built their own future life; The lawyers who teach them how to behave and act, how to defend themselves and claim for their own rights, and help them to decipher their life? law puzzle.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 5th, 2010Someone from Hialeah, FL signed.
Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Hialeah, FL signed.
Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Jacksonville, FL signed.
Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Hialeah, FL signed.
Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Miami, FL signed.
Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Hialeah, FL signed.
Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Clermont, FL writes:
Education has become more about TEST PREP than Real World Prep. This bill will only make it worse. Students will be experts at filling in bubbles but will have no real knowledge or experience to help them compete and succeed in society. Teachers will stop being creative and inspiring, and instead will become script reading robots. I am a teacher and I refuse to become a robot. I am a mother and I refuse to enroll my children in a public school system that must follow these ridiculous guidelines. I am a voter and I refuse to re-elect someone who is in support of this bill. Congress needs to get out of their cushy chairs, experience a week in a classroom with brilliant, creative teachers, yet diverse, non-motivated students so they can understand that there is not a one-size-fits-all solution in education.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 5th, 2010Someone from Fort Lauderdale, FL signed.
Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Miami, FL signed.
Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Miami, FL signed.
Apr 5th, 2010Someone from Cape Coral, FL writes:
This bill will enhance competition between to teachers to teach only at the best and top-performing schools where students make gains. What about the urban or low-socioeconomical schools? What about those kids - don't they count.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 5th, 2010Someone from Miami Beach, FL signed.
Apr 4th, 2010Someone from Hollywood, FL writes:
To consider a child's learning by one test (FCAT) alone is not educationally sound. To consider a teacher's quality by the students' scores alone is insane.We have turned to "teaching to the test" instead of actually teacing. Many may say otherwise but the truth is we only consider those things to teach that are going to appear on the test.We (teachers) are psychologists, nurses, therapists, mothers, fathers, big sisters, big brothers, and also teachers. To say that a child is not learning because the teacher did not teach...well then come and be me for just one day...then dare repeat it.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 4th, 2010Someone from New York, NY writes:
I want quality teaching for my kids and relying on test exams is a terrible idea as well as not motivating teachers to continue getting more degrees to become better teachers for our kids.REPORT COMMENTS
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