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I am offended because my therapist says I don’t have any daddy issues.
Anyhoo as you can see they left the same comment twice, once as anonymous and once as wave rider and yes Shine is waverider.
He’s a blogger? gulp!
https://www.blogger.com/profile/14794966639149286479
You should know I think posting negative comments anonymously is an act of cowardice. I think if you have something to say you shouldn’t be able to hide behind your keyboard. Shine apparently thinks different.
I also think Shine is a bully. I get it he doesn’t like what I write and if i was him too, I wouldn’t like it but if he doesn’t want me pointing out the things he does, then he should do different things. He’s a public figure and should suck it up rather than trying to intimidate me.
District 2 you made a poor choice when you elected Shine, he has done a terrible job. I pray you get it right this go around. Step one should be to avoid anyone who took his endorsement.
First you should all know that Public education and teachers in Florida have had fewer enemies as big and powerful as Corcoran. He has attacked and underfunded education at ever possible opportunity but it gets even worse.
One of the reasons he is such a big fan of charter schools is because his wife benefits directly from them.
From the Tampa Times;
On step 16 I am scheduled to make 47,800 during the 18-19 school year
https://dcps.duvalschools.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?
A teacher in 2005 on step 16 was scheduled to make 40,833.
https://www.nctq.org/dmsView/15
Now lets put both amounts into the inflation calculator
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Hmm, it says I should be making 52,685 dollars
Hmm my regular calculator says I should be making 4,885 dollars more. Why do I have the feeling what with losing the step in 2010 and the salaries getting smaller and smaller, I am out tens of thousands of dollars and why do I feel like I am not the only one?
You know I don’t blame DTU, I think they have done as good as job as possible with economic issues. You can’t squeeze blood out of a rock and I think they have gotten all they can out of DCPS.
I am not mad at DCPS either because Tallahassee has criminally and chronically underfunded education and even if you give them a pass for the great recession, which ended oh about six years ago, they have made scant effort to make up the shortfall. It’s Tallahassee that has my ire.
These are facts, when you factor in cost of living, Florida’s teachers are the worst paid in the nation.
Florida routinely lacks at or near the bottom in investing in education.
When you factors in inflation, Florida spends about a thousand less per pupil than it did ten years ago.
I am personally out tens of thousands of dollars and if you are a veteran teacher so are you.
Veteran teacher how much money are you out and are you going to let the same people in Tallahassee continue to #$%^ you over?
To read more, click the link: https://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/local-education/lost-decade-how-palm-beach-county-public-schools-cut-pay-for-veteran-teachers/nvhG6M1t6dOnJ9kSrneGxO/
On the heels of Tallahassee’s attacks on teacher unions…
On the heels of hundreds of teachers being fired because they couldn’t pass part of a test that Tallahassee purposely made much more difficult…
On the heels of Tallahassee pushing amendment 8, a poison pill amendment which would obliterate local control of schools…
Tallahassee now has districts bracing for last minute teacher cuts at the states neediest schools.
Duval teachers United sent the following message to its members and you can bet if it is happening in Jacksonville it is happening all throughout the state.
Arlington Middle
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George Washington Carver Elem
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Gregory Drive
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Hyde Park Elem
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**Lake Forest Elem
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Long Branch Elem
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**Northwestern Middle
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Ramona Elem
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Rutledge Pearson Elem
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Susie Tolbert Elem
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Carter G. Woodson Elem
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Biltmore Elem
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Cedar Hills Elem
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Highlands Elem
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Highlands Middle
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Jean Ribault Middle
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Martin Luther King Elem
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Rufus Payne Elem
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St. Clair Evans Elem
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Stonewall Jackson Elem
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Brentwood Elem
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Tell me there isn’t a war on public schools and the teaching profession.
During his last reporting period, he took in 6,500. Of that 1,325 came from individuals, and the rest from businesses, furthermore more than 5,000 came from outside his district.
The reporting period before had him rake in 10,040. Of that over 8,000 came from out of the district including a 1000 bucks from school voucher king and Tampa resident John Kirtley.
It was a little over 16,700 the reporting period before that, and almost 10 grand came from out of the district and most of what didn’t came from a few big businesses.
His first reporting period he brought in 24,000. Four thousand of it came from Gary Chartrand playing fast and lose with campaign finance laws. What he did may not be illegal but you can bet people like you and me couldn’t get away with it. Oh and of that 24 grand, 17 grand came from out of the district and there were only 33 contributors. Not exactly a grass roots campaign.
This was my unofficial tally as I let any address that I didn’t recognize go, so the truth is it may actually be worse than above.
Chauncey may be the worst candidate I have seen in a decade. Two years of Teach for America experience and enough hubris to fill a swimming pool. If he wasn’t bought and paid for by Gary Chartrand and his friends and he had any sense of decency Chauncey would drop out and allow the more experienced and capable candidates have a battle of ideas.
District 6 you have had a real warrior in Couch, please don’t replace her with a guy who may have very rich friends but who has little else.
To check out Chauncey’s finances for yourself, click the link: https://www.voterfocus.com/CampaignFinance/candidate_pr.php?op=cv&e=21&c=Duval&ca=840&rellevel=4&committee=N
Just a reminder, Teach for America takes mostly non education majors, puts them through a six week teacher boot camp and then int our must challenged schools where they are supposed to serve two years, creating an ever revolving door. The program is also expensive as hell. Heck if I worked for them I wouldn’t want people to know either.
These campaign sites are supposed to put positive spins on things, but here he has no spin at all. He doesn’t mention TFA, he doesn’t mention where he works at all, calling it his current role, and if you are thinking about voting for him, you have t find this troubling.
I also think he vastly oversells what he actually does, but that’s what campaign web pages do.
Friends, when you pull back the fancy dance moves, you find Willie is a candidate with few ideas who is willing to mislead people and we can do better.
District 4 you have a bunch of good candidates, with relevant experience and track records and close ties to the community too, Willie is not one.
Check it out, it’s truly befuddling, https://www.darrylforduval.com/about-darryl