tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11075507551631153032024-03-17T23:42:20.559-06:00Education MattersSolutions that don’t break the bank, reinvent the wheel or marginalize our teachers are within our grasp. We could have rigorous classes, safe and disciplined schools and treat teachers like professionals, and we could do so tomorrow if we wanted. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8446125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-24824438545885048752024-02-23T14:02:00.001-07:002024-02-23T14:02:47.125-07:00Dr. Kriznar explains why birthday parties and so much more are now on the chopping block. <p> I am kind of grosseed out at her explanation so I am not going to comment now, but I wanted anyone interested to see it.</p><p>This is her responce after I wrote a letter expressing my outrage at the recent policy changes.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.15pt; margin: 0px 0px 12pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Frequently Asked Questions:</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.15pt; margin: 0px 0px 12pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1rem;">Question</b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;">: When do we require permission slips for events and activities?</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.15pt; margin: 0px 0px 12pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Answer</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">: Participation in ALL school-sponsored events and activities will require, at minimum, the district approved permission slip signed by the parent/guardian before students can participate. This includes, but is not limited to, field trips, athletics, extended day, tutoring, book fairs, classroom parties, etc. Until additional guidance is received from the State, the district interprets school-sponsored events and activities broadly. Required instruction or required curriculum activities, generally, should not require permission slips. If you have any questions, please contact Policy and Compliance. Each event or activity will require a permission slip. However, an event or activity with multiple dates can be included on one permission slip if all required details are the same and all scheduled dates are included.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.15pt; margin: 0px 0px 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ex: Monthly classroom pizza parties held as a behavior incentive can be included on the same permission slip, if all future dates are included.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.15pt; margin: 0px 0px 12pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Question</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">: May schools use other permission slips for events, activities, or programs?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.15pt; margin: 0px 0px 12pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Answer</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">: The district approved permission slip is required. However, schools may attach supplemental documents to the district approved permission slips. This may include, but is not limited to, additional details, consent forms, etc. Note: Some events or activities may require additional parental consent. (Ex: Extended day, district athletics, etc.)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.15pt; margin: 0px 0px 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1rem;">Question</b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;">: Can students participate if they do not have a permission slip for the event or activity?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.15pt; margin: 0px 0px 12pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Answer</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">: The student will not be able to participate until a permission slip is signed by the parent/guardian. There are no exceptions to this requirement, which is mandated by State Board of Education Rule 6A-10.089, F.A.C.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.15pt; margin: 0px 0px 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;">We thank you again for the opportunity to respond to your concerns. Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.</span></p><p> </p><p> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-25905562985426263132024-02-18T14:44:00.000-07:002024-02-18T14:44:11.531-07:00 First, DCPS gets rid of books, and now they are getting rid of, wait for it, birthday parties.<p>Read that again and let it digest for a second. The same
rules and laws that made DCPS in its infinite wisdom (sic) get rid of classroom
libraries and books, are now having the district put the kybosh on birthday parties
and so much more.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I know what some of you are thinking, but the state, Chris,
the state. Yes, the state sucks, yes, the state is trying to harm public
education and DeSantis can have all the press conferences he wants but we know
the truth. My reply to you is why doesn’t the district fight back, like this
and so many other things, why don’t they at least say, we don’t agree with it,
we don’t like it, but the state is making us do it. We can’t even get that, which tells me their silence is complicity. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWoOW0ft8JlUTMl-3Xe94F1P6WzgdAQyjY68_QaWK6nnTLYgAlhgqc3p1cRDzFLkM0-jZoNv5AIn6YtGLSK517e_FUOgW1rDaeC1D_ZA8-5cO7e3Zhwp1tizggNF31pt30mfpANoKzf4ptFIQorN1mU0OBaHX1lCnRalEkdar_5ZJa94dU_PDIro3r2kM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="790" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWoOW0ft8JlUTMl-3Xe94F1P6WzgdAQyjY68_QaWK6nnTLYgAlhgqc3p1cRDzFLkM0-jZoNv5AIn6YtGLSK517e_FUOgW1rDaeC1D_ZA8-5cO7e3Zhwp1tizggNF31pt30mfpANoKzf4ptFIQorN1mU0OBaHX1lCnRalEkdar_5ZJa94dU_PDIro3r2kM=w640-h432" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now, when I heard birthday parties, in-school concerts, and the spelling bee, etc. etc. etc. made the list of prohibited activities, I asked thinking, maybe it's like a game of telephone where what the school board tells the administration changes slightly from what they tell the principal and then what they tell teachers. Surely, birthday parties, holiday dances, and concerts
are exempt from an extra layer of bureaucracy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes and no.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I can have a birthday party, but I must get permission slips
from my student's parents and guardians. This unequivocally means birthday
parties are going to come to an end. Some teachers will be thinking ugh,
another thing to do, I don’t have the bandwidth or energy to deal with it. Then
what's going to happen to little Suzie and Johnny, whose parents forgot to sign
the permission slips or just forgot to bring them back? Emails and phone calls,
something teachers used to be able to do, aren’t acceptable anymore. Sorry, kids, you have to go to that class without cupcakes for thirty minutes while we
rock it out for a few minutes in between test prep. Yet another reason why some
teachers won’t bother.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If the district doesn’t think this is too far, then nothing
will ever be too far. If the district can’t raise its hand and say, hey, maybe birthday
parties should be okay, then nothing will ever be okay.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">First, they came for veteran teachers, and I was silent.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Next, they came for LGBTQ students, and I was silent as
well.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then they came for books, which were ripped off shelves, and I was still silent.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now they have come for birthday parties.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What will they come for next?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The state sucks, but so do school boards that silently go
along. <o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-65628852648644614472024-01-27T06:56:00.005-07:002024-01-27T06:56:40.455-07:00 Parents were used as props to justify the schedule change<p> Parents were used as props to justify the schedule change</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I hope parents understand that they were used as props in
the schedule change. I hope they understand that the district doesn’t care
about helping with childcare problems and please don’t take my word for it,
take there.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is what the district said in their specious and self-serving
press release.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">From the DCPS press release<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #212529; font-family: "Lato",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The change was based on
recommendations from the district’s calendar committee, which is comprised of
stakeholder groups such as parents, teachers, the teacher union,
administrators, district leaders, and community partners. Some of the concerns
included the challenges some parents experienced with getting childcare. There
were also concerns about low attendance on those early release days and the
limited time for instruction. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.teamduval.org/2024/01/16/input-from-parents-staff-lead-to-new-schedule-for-last-week-of-school/">https://www.teamduval.org/2024/01/16/input-from-parents-staff-lead-to-new-schedule-for-last-week-of-school/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">First notice, anything about testing?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Neither do I, and in fact, I have talked to several people
on the calendar committee, and they say testing was never brought up, though helping
parents was. Now juxtapose above with what the district told principals. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;">Principals,</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;">The 2022/2023 attendance data
shows a dramatic decrease in student attendance for the last week of
school. As you are aware the state testing windows go through the last
day of school, and several schools received a school grade of an “I” for less than
95% of students participating in the assigned assessments. Due to the
decline in student attendance, and the state testing schedules the Calendar
Committee was asked to solicit input regarding the half days implemented during
the last week of the 2022/2023 school year.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now, to be fair, they did mention parent concerns in the second paragraph, but it's obvious that testing kids was their most important reason for the change. This is backed up by the fact they didn’t get rid of any of the
other half days. Nope, they just eliminated the ones that were a boon to
teachers. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Parents, there are solutions to the half-day childcare
problem. One could be using subs to bridge the gap between the end of the half-day
and the extended day, but did the district consider them? Note they just pitted
teachers against parents, using parents as nothing more than props. Think about that, friends; if the district doesn’t care about teachers or parents, then just who do they care about? <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWXomHUH8_JfjPAaQhaRDK7eRcJ6rH89Hgac_u4jz1wMZwad2TUf1pF03ogFOj11FRUPgFKfeHgTKKDSvYvqR3TnzA5g1RxOEoq6wy9XVJr2qZ-e0F0rqt8vB1Z-EfVEOM4uqywoZg7__9pSKy5sxozX_Dsrd4_nxcGJJ1Gyn9n17nuKaZSxX4oGST8FE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1439" data-original-width="2560" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWXomHUH8_JfjPAaQhaRDK7eRcJ6rH89Hgac_u4jz1wMZwad2TUf1pF03ogFOj11FRUPgFKfeHgTKKDSvYvqR3TnzA5g1RxOEoq6wy9XVJr2qZ-e0F0rqt8vB1Z-EfVEOM4uqywoZg7__9pSKy5sxozX_Dsrd4_nxcGJJ1Gyn9n17nuKaZSxX4oGST8FE=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-77469815117189685222024-01-27T04:55:00.002-07:002024-01-27T04:56:36.983-07:00My letter to Superintendent Kriznar about the schedule change<p>So I got a form letter from the super. What you thought when they respond they really care about what you say? Oh, your childlike sense of optimism is adorable. I doubt she wrote it at all. Where she tried to justify throwing staff under the bus for specious reasons. So I told her about how wrong she was. Her letter to me is below, though if you want your own copy, send her a note saying you disapprove of the schedule change. Because then you, too, can have your own personal copy.</p><p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Hello, and thank you for getting back
to me. I am going to be blunt, and I know sometimes that people think blunt can
be rude or disrespectful, and that is not my internet.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The district may have saved some
parents from being parents, i.e., providing childcare, but your reasons for
doing so are specious at best, and the cost too high. This is compounded by the
fact the district will not have come close to solving what the district really
and seemingly only cares about, and that is testing more kids. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The district took a sledgehammer to a
problem that needed a scalpel, and in the process, the district made things
worse.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The district did not solve parents'
childcare problems, and Wright's letters to principals show it was never much
of a concern. If the district cared about it, they would eliminate monthly half
days, but the district did not, instead just eliminating those days that are a
boon for teachers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Nor will you solve the testing
problems, and it's laughable to think those last four days will capture enough
students to make a difference. If some admins think we might, it's time to get
better admins.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">No, all the district did was say that
schools are daycares, teachers are babysitters, and the district doesn't care
about making things easier for teachers or what teachers think. All of
that is insulting.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Superintendent Kriznar, I wonder
if there were any serious solutions considered? Did the district consider
partnering with our sub-service for that last week? Currently, subs don't work
half days and are told to leave. Why not have them work full days that last
week to bridge the gap between the end of half days and after-school programs?
Or better yet, end all after-school programs the Friday before Labor Day. Once
again, if the district truly cared about childcare, then it would get rid of
the half days too, and that the district didn't speak volumes. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">As for testing, and once again, there
is no way that last week is going to post schools over the top. A better option
would be to work with our local legislatures to get them to change the 95%
rule. I understand that is more of a long-term solution, and who knows what the
rules will be from year to year, but there may be short-term solutions too. If
a student misses a test, test them the next day they return and again maybe
partner with our sub service to make a class of sub/proctors. Yes, I am just spitballing,
but there has to be a solution that works instead of throwing teachers under
the bus to employ a solution that has no chance of working. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We will never be the district we can
be as long as the administration feels it can marginalize and disrespect staff.
Never.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Chris Guerrieri</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 17.15pt; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Mr. Guerrieri,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 17.15pt; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I appreciate you taking time to share your thoughts with the board members and me. Feedback from community members, teachers, parents, and our students is important.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 17.15pt; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">As you mentioned, there is a District Calendar Committee which is made up of Duval Teacher United (DTU) members, PTA representatives, teachers, principals, district representatives, and postsecondary partners. Committee members are expected to share the thoughts of their representative groups. After all feedback is received, the committee works collectively to make a recommendation for the calendar. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The committee acknowledged many concerns from parents, teachers, and principals with the half-day schedule. There were also members of the committee in favor of keeping the half days. While the committee did not come to a full consensus on a recommendation to restore the last week to full days, it was clear that student attendance was negatively impacted, and the half days created barriers for many families. After reviewing the feedback and attendance data, the Calendar Committee made a recommendation to change the last week of school to full days. I supported this recommendation.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I expect every day of school to impact student achievement in some way. Many grade levels have both state testing and district end of course exams through the last week. These assessments have significant impacts on student grades, student promotion, state accountability outcomes, and teacher evaluations. We need to provide students with as much instructional time as possible leading up to these assessments, which continue through the last week of school. In addition to these important assessments, the last week of school allows different opportunities for classes which have completed required assessments. I am aware of teachers who use the time after testing to connect the year’s content with creative projects, real-world application, and student interests. The last week of school can certainly impact student outcomes and create opportunities for life-long lessons.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In addition, the extra minutes we have in the schedule allow us some flexibility when we have to make decisions about make-up days when school is cancelled for inclement weather. For instance, this year we missed 4 days and only had to make up 1 of those days. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 17.15pt; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The recommendation was approved by the board at the January board meeting and communicated via website and social media, which is the same process used anytime a calendar is updated. However, moving forward I will commit to doing better with communicating directly to principals to allow for better communication with teachers ahead of social media posts and website updates.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Historically, high schools have had an early dismissal schedule for the last week of school due to commencement ceremonies, and all schools have had an early dismissal on the last day of school. This practice will remain in place for the 2023/2024 school year. The exact dismissal times for high schools for the last week, and all schools for the last day of schools will be shared once the logistics are finalized.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_-8735271292657278735paragraph" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="m_-8735271292657278735normaltextrun"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Kind regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Dr. Dana Kriznar</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjC8TzgcXnmO3ODG7XWs20-h4W2FrwM5w7oMYLFZuwxKjG77_OnH0krCinELupGhZ8-_WxfoZSFmVpkeJaboE31iySAB1wWHubSd7zzSia0Xm7vDS1GMkl5okADHgXDGA1chVpeEi0QG-_0IWd01cQye3--0LgLVxm2MLXF8Bo2l4QvWTKhd5x6NVT43Zg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="569" data-original-width="750" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjC8TzgcXnmO3ODG7XWs20-h4W2FrwM5w7oMYLFZuwxKjG77_OnH0krCinELupGhZ8-_WxfoZSFmVpkeJaboE31iySAB1wWHubSd7zzSia0Xm7vDS1GMkl5okADHgXDGA1chVpeEi0QG-_0IWd01cQye3--0LgLVxm2MLXF8Bo2l4QvWTKhd5x6NVT43Zg" width="316" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /><br /></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-29555667461259038782024-01-24T16:42:00.000-07:002024-01-24T16:42:41.700-07:00DCPS doesn't care about parents child care or teachers workload, they took away half days, to increase testing<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> DCPS took away four half days at the end of the year, and they gave a lot of specious reasons, including parents needing child care and the need for more instruction. It turns out it was testing that they really cared about, and don't take my word for it; take the word of the memo they sent to the district principals. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhClU-DALP9bSKYAOKTEgbZ_rAv400S2N0lcZjKjDbKpMdBtz4s5q3Bu7Ex2ON1K43jWy81_1RUyte0SaMKZoHjSDXIFL4Ygna-NXvtt3-bZMUplGg2rLZeA2RowarGO5U7z_JMfE5-JPNf7x6YwSNB4LBsJehK2WJCVvuHGohcufsG3CI7qJntaZlUS_0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="1396" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhClU-DALP9bSKYAOKTEgbZ_rAv400S2N0lcZjKjDbKpMdBtz4s5q3Bu7Ex2ON1K43jWy81_1RUyte0SaMKZoHjSDXIFL4Ygna-NXvtt3-bZMUplGg2rLZeA2RowarGO5U7z_JMfE5-JPNf7x6YwSNB4LBsJehK2WJCVvuHGohcufsG3CI7qJntaZlUS_0=w640-h210" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">They don't even mention parents needing child care until the second paragraph, and they imply in the first that it wasn't parents who asked for the change.<br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Parents were little more than a prop to justify their manifestly disrespectful decisions, and teachers didn't even make it to that level. Nope, as usual, the driving force was testing, testing, and more testing because that's what, and perhaps all, the district really cares about.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So to give you some context, schools are supposed to test 95% of their students, but for whatever reasons, one being kids just refuse to take them, some kids miss the first go around. So it looks like students can make up tests until the last week, and giving them a few more hours in which to do so, was the paramount reason they ended those half days, which is manifestly short-sighted. How many more kids do they think they are going to capture, and was it worth throwing the staff under the best to get those handfuls? The answer is not many and sadly and apparently yes.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">Finally this letter is just one more example that you can't take anything the district says seriously, you don't just need a grain of salt, you need an entire salt shaker.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-18599001315763447212024-01-21T12:34:00.003-07:002024-01-21T12:34:30.807-07:00My letter to the school board about the calendar change<p> Hello</p><div>I was wondering if the administration and school board knew how disrespectful they were to staff and even parents when they changed the last four days of the school year from half days to full days with scant input and then released the news through Facebook. This has gone over like a lead balloon with staff, and I know because, unlike the district, I spoke with teachers.</div><div><br /></div><div>Making a big change without allowing staff input tells staff you don't appreciate or respect them. I read the district's self-serving announcement, which said it included teachers. That's laughable because there are only five teachers out of 45 members on the calendar committee. How does that include teachers, especially since I know, at the very least, the middle school representative voiced concerns? The bottom line is teachers were ignored, which goes straight back to not appreciating or respecting them.</div><div><br /></div><div>I understand that some parents, especially in elementary school, were concerned about child care, and where I am sympathetic, schools are not daycares, and parents need to be parents. Also, if those last four days are a concern, parents will be in for a huge wake-up over the next ten weeks when there is no school. If those last four days are a concern, are you getting rid of early release days? Or is it just days when teachers can get the voluminous amount of paperwork done that needs to be cut? A way to fix this problem instead of blowing up the calendar was to start now by reminding parents and then canceling extended day programs that last week. </div><div><br /></div><div>Let's talk about that last week. That last week will not in any way lead to increased test scores. There won't be much meaningful instruction; discipline will be poor, attendance may improve marginally, and that mountain of paperwork teachers must do at the end of the year will have to be pushed back The longest week of the year just got exponentially longer. </div><div><br /></div><div>We will never be the district we can be as long as the administration and school board treat staff like they are easily replaceable cogs whose feelings and thoughts don't matter. Never and why you would make such a huge change so late in the year without consulting those who are directly affected is beyond me. I want you all to do better. </div><div><br /></div><div>I would urge you to reconsider your decision at least until you get staff input. That is the respectful thing to do. That is what leadership looks like.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhreLSEdN7tzsq28I7xxHT2uSbYv8LYJ_NA6VFvFdZfvP0Aik_iNQbAHsrlnUqfXd3C_t_Dhc43mz7_s0yLWwCRCYofKgzxnr9Rd-39_K9TewGtvbcDNWf6DzxHWNlkS-gxTcuDJAzpHqehzhQj9wUWQwe6aY6Z5S27R2ycMhjzP96umkA-iuQPzqsngVQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhreLSEdN7tzsq28I7xxHT2uSbYv8LYJ_NA6VFvFdZfvP0Aik_iNQbAHsrlnUqfXd3C_t_Dhc43mz7_s0yLWwCRCYofKgzxnr9Rd-39_K9TewGtvbcDNWf6DzxHWNlkS-gxTcuDJAzpHqehzhQj9wUWQwe6aY6Z5S27R2ycMhjzP96umkA-iuQPzqsngVQ=w512-h640" width="512" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-58902274530745213322024-01-21T06:19:00.002-07:002024-01-21T06:19:37.161-07:00DTU finally ways in on the district stripping teachers of the end of the year half days<p> Where is the union now that DCPS has stripped away four end-of-the-year half-days and replaced them with nothing?</p><div class="Ar Au Ao" id=":1wf"><div aria-controls=":1yp" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Message Body" aria-multiline="true" aria-owns=":1yp" class="Am aiL Al editable LW-avf tS-tW tS-tY" g_editable="true" hidefocus="true" id=":1wb" role="textbox" spellcheck="false" style="direction: ltr; min-height: 386px;" tabindex="1"><div>I think most people understand my issues, that staff wasn't consulted, and whether people like them or not, staff was given something that was then taken away with nothing in return. I bet some staff hates those four half days; I am not a fan of the ones during the year. I can acknowledge that, but at the end of the day, if teachers and staff are partners, they should have been consulted.</div><div><br /></div><div>So where is the union, aren't they supposed to fight for staff to ensure they get what they deserve? The answer to both questions is yes, and they have finally shown up to the party and sent out a survey.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgX6RY7Wfud9YQasix5dpqhGu8jaqXlu5O9hnFZO7ZC4O-v5teybziD8_D5PNsd8X_ASDFPtDzRFODfkYEg21tdgj5tQ0OiH-BIjJAV-bxsmePqAh2IZw-e77CIAxUjMtRXU4SEEyzxBVrkKP8EP0_GT6fTN9VPEkMAFV00lKaNdcDIcsuuJw3HNkI7ArA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1885" data-original-width="1170" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgX6RY7Wfud9YQasix5dpqhGu8jaqXlu5O9hnFZO7ZC4O-v5teybziD8_D5PNsd8X_ASDFPtDzRFODfkYEg21tdgj5tQ0OiH-BIjJAV-bxsmePqAh2IZw-e77CIAxUjMtRXU4SEEyzxBVrkKP8EP0_GT6fTN9VPEkMAFV00lKaNdcDIcsuuJw3HNkI7ArA=w397-h640" width="397" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div>I plan to answer yes and no, but everyone needs to participate and get everyone else to participate as well. Teachers not only need to have a voice but use it as well. </div><div><br /></div><div>So DTU, thanks for finally showing up, but lets try and be a little more timely next time.</div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-43274288520651317022024-01-20T04:48:00.001-07:002024-01-20T04:48:24.892-07:00DCPS sticks it to staff... again<p> Duval County just changed its end-of-the-year calendar with despite what they claim, barely any input from staff. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhx1EXQeMRHKRoAqNzox6MQ7mrHquGsHwRqAJYvIVHBrlHkE6_zkx23JgYo4tGh0evxZfb_Wv1A29L_x4plTYzNoA3CNi7_UnDQsGDEG4S-Qz7qysM4SoOQfIBIGXZOVTR_g4vmympwV5wtrTN1O3w5YXgaYocwIHWce0eBaI0J6gfjSMMjZ9g6gVWmtzc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhx1EXQeMRHKRoAqNzox6MQ7mrHquGsHwRqAJYvIVHBrlHkE6_zkx23JgYo4tGh0evxZfb_Wv1A29L_x4plTYzNoA3CNi7_UnDQsGDEG4S-Qz7qysM4SoOQfIBIGXZOVTR_g4vmympwV5wtrTN1O3w5YXgaYocwIHWce0eBaI0J6gfjSMMjZ9g6gVWmtzc=w512-h640" width="512" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;">The last four days of the year were scheduled to be half days, and now they, including the last day of the year, will be full days. To justify it, they put out a ridiculously self-serving memo.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMxxaODv0156da9KM7hwfhtOg0nGqRxU8CrGsBjg672n6_9mjJRy30M8_cABlxhSiCp0dJcEo8lGUDWuKfmwKe2alMFTGmN0XDvrB7XF7-5OpQv2v8rzrcsBRSJXSnOUlxh_Z8heUR4MAyNnuo5aYsVf7IW0cHnP1Ua4jFKk2BP0CrNCHCjWmiKmwK9XQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="507" data-original-width="983" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMxxaODv0156da9KM7hwfhtOg0nGqRxU8CrGsBjg672n6_9mjJRy30M8_cABlxhSiCp0dJcEo8lGUDWuKfmwKe2alMFTGmN0XDvrB7XF7-5OpQv2v8rzrcsBRSJXSnOUlxh_Z8heUR4MAyNnuo5aYsVf7IW0cHnP1Ua4jFKk2BP0CrNCHCjWmiKmwK9XQ=w640-h330" width="640" /></a></div><br />After reviewing feedback? Get out of town, after being ramrodded through by Corey Wright and a few parents, the district decided to make the change. Feedback, fellow teachers, how much feedback did you give? Or did you just hear about it through Facebook because that seems to be more likely? <p></p><p>As for the calendar committee, most of them don't work in the classroom, roughly just 5 out of the 45 members, and nobody is worried about losing instruction that last week, when testing is finished, and EVERYONE wants summer to begin.</p><p>I am sympathetic to parents who need to find childcare, I am, but if this week is going to be a problem, they are in for a big surprise the following ten weeks. I also firmly believe parents have to be parents, and any shortcomings they might have shouldn't fall on teachers' shoulders. Teachers aren't here to fix all of society's problems. They are here to teach. </p><p>You know DCPS has routinely, over the years, told staff they don't care what they think. That staff, you are just cogs, and we will replace you. Your feelings, heck, your expertise, don't matter, and because of this, I don't believe DCPS will ever reach its potential. Never, it's impossible to do, but does the Ivory Tower care? Nope, and see this latest example as more proof. </p><p> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-46550264757090660572023-05-21T12:02:00.003-06:002023-05-24T08:24:22.733-06:00 Let’s talk about Dana Kriznar<div class="Ar Au Ao" id=":1z7"><div aria-controls=":21w" aria-label="Message Body" aria-multiline="true" aria-owns=":21w" class="Am Al editable LW-avf tS-tW tS-tY" g_editable="true" hidefocus="true" id=":1z3" role="textbox" spellcheck="false" style="direction: ltr; min-height: 405px;" tabindex="1"><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">There is a good chance she will be DCPS’s interim super come June 2<sup>nd</sup>, for at least six months, and because the superintendent job will be so unattractive, maybe longer, much longer.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chairman Coker, who obviously wields immense power, gave her the nod in a recent Jax Today article. This could be a good thing, they must have worked together when Coker was an admin in the district, or it could be a bad thing as Coker worked with her when she was an admin in the district.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://jaxtoday.org/2023/05/16/duval-schools-needs-a-short-term-superintendent-by-june-6/">https://jaxtoday.org/2023/05/16/duval-schools-needs-a-short-term-superintendent-by-june-6/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is what has become pretty apparent unless you know Kriznar, you don’t really know Kriznar. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have heard her name and think I even met her once about a decade ago after I wrote a piece about reading. Believe it or not, I used to be able to write about real issues instead of made-up culture war BS but that, to be honest, may or may not have happened.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So, the first thing I did was put her name into the search line of the blog. I have covered DCPS admin shenanigans, gaffs, and poor behavior many times, and nothing came up, and I thought that was probably a good thing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Most of my stories come from people working in the district. When I write about an admin or principal, it has always been because multiple people have come to me, usually pleading with me to say something, and at least since 2007, no such group had come to me about Kriznar.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So next, I googled her, and two pieces of note came up.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">First, this is not the first time she was up for the intern super role. She was also up for it after Vitti left.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.jaxpef.org/news-articles/duval-county-school-board-votes-on-interim-candidates-for-superintendent">https://www.jaxpef.org/news-articles/duval-county-school-board-votes-on-interim-candidates-for-superintendent</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In another article, Vitti recommended a half dozen people, including Kriznar as possible replacements, one was Iranetta Wright, so I can’t say how serious of a list that was. Ultimately the board at the time went with Dr. Patricia Willis, who I thought was a great choice.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then after the state got rid of A.P. African American History, I found this article in the Devil’s Advocate where Kriznar tepidly pushed back against the state.</span></p><p class="gmail-productparagraphproduct-paragraphgmmh00-0-1687" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“In the Department of Education, from the framework, they said that it was in violation of the new legislation that they had about indoctrination,” said Deputy Superintendent Dana Kriznar.</span></p><p class="gmail-productparagraphproduct-paragraphgmmh00-0-1687" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="gmail-productparagraphproduct-paragraphgmmh00-0-1687" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: inherit; margin: 0in; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to Kriznar, a member of the AAHTF, Florida may reconsider the AP class if the curriculum is amended.</span></p><p class="gmail-productparagraphproduct-paragraphgmmh00-0-1687" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="gmail-productparagraphproduct-paragraphgmmh00-0-1687" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: inherit; margin: 0in; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We were very excited when we heard they were starting a pilot and asked to be part of [it], and we at least know of one school that got into the pilot for the upcoming year,” said Kriznar. “We were very disappointed when we learned we would not be able to implement that curriculum.”</span></p><p class="gmail-productparagraphproduct-paragraphgmmh00-0-1687" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="gmail-productparagraphproduct-paragraphgmmh00-0-1687" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: inherit; margin: 0in; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Additionally, Kriznar supervised Duval County’s African American History Summer Writing Initiative in 2022, where students in Duval County created lesson plans for teaching African American history. With the help of a publisher, the organization’s source books facilitated the program’s course while following standards provided by the state.</span></p><p class="gmail-productparagraphproduct-paragraphgmmh00-0-1687" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="gmail-productparagraphproduct-paragraphgmmh00-0-1687" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: inherit; margin: 0in; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“The program was very insightful into local history and information that is often overlooked,” said senior class officer Priya Patel, who participated in the program last summer. “All of these events and people had significant contributions to Jacksonville, specifically through their support for activism towards the Civil Rights Movement.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://issuu.com/devils_advocate/docs/devil_s_advocate_volume_39_number_3_february_2023/s/20186890">https://issuu.com/devils_advocate/docs/devil_s_advocate_volume_39_number_3_february_2023/s/20186890</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It might not be much, but her saying, “we were very disappointed,” is a lot more than I ever heard Greene say about a lot of terrible things.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So after all that, I asked around, and where I only got a few responses, most, not all, but most were positive.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So what’s my takeaway, I honestly don’t know. She worked for two supers I didn’t think were very good, but for the most part, she has a good reputation with teachers and subordinates. She hasn’t been outspoken on much, and I guess that’s up to you if that’s a good thing or not. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If anybody knows something I missed, I would love it if you would share.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some random shots, she has been in education for 37 years, is on the board of Junior Achievement, does have a Twitter account, though it’s dusty, which is probably another good thing, and here is a video of her reading the Pidgeon Wants a Puppy. <a href="https://vimeo.com/403706476">https://vimeo.com/403706476</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvQCYkOB7sARB93Th5DWETF3ly8749zHBbh1RUGN9pDSSWvK0GTnXv8DyfaRy3ZMrLbSD0Dya3Jdj9BJVcY6ZiSXqNcf6ZPNLuNEGw3wQqwmeI-OmV4L8zuJ8Kbz5J59TpnWLfTJRRXBV44ee8JP6uosZgoiOO_QC6i3kiBEzs7ugHddfk_YebBG02" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="777" data-original-width="653" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvQCYkOB7sARB93Th5DWETF3ly8749zHBbh1RUGN9pDSSWvK0GTnXv8DyfaRy3ZMrLbSD0Dya3Jdj9BJVcY6ZiSXqNcf6ZPNLuNEGw3wQqwmeI-OmV4L8zuJ8Kbz5J59TpnWLfTJRRXBV44ee8JP6uosZgoiOO_QC6i3kiBEzs7ugHddfk_YebBG02" width="202" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><p></p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-74523751139156590412023-05-07T10:43:00.000-06:002023-05-07T10:43:21.131-06:00DCPS has had a rough year. Probably a lot rougher than you remember <p> It’s been quite the year for Duval County Public Schools
culminating with Greene’s firing/force out/retirement, whatever you personally want
to call it. Some people are on the fence about her leaving so I thought a
retrospect of just the last year would put people’s minds at ease with her
leaving.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So, since people’s memories are short, I put May 7<sup>th,</sup>
2022, and May 7<sup>th,</sup> 2023 in the Google search bar and this is what
came up.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">May 15<sup>th</sup>, a teacher known for racist and homophobic
comments gets their personal protest.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/activists-protest-school-teacher/77-62e50cf2-2500-46e0-8fe4-7ccab93bbdae">https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/activists-protest-school-teacher/77-62e50cf2-2500-46e0-8fe4-7ccab93bbdae</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What does somebody have to do to get sent to Bull’s Bay, oh
yeah, stand up for LGBTQ and students of color. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">May 17<sup>th</sup> anti-bullying videos go down and cuts to
the LGBTQ support guide are discussed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://jaxtoday.org/2022/05/17/what-duval-schools-is-cutting-from-its-lgbtq-support-guide/">https://jaxtoday.org/2022/05/17/what-duval-schools-is-cutting-from-its-lgbtq-support-guide/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DCPS assault in the LGBTQ community picks up steam.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">June 10<sup>th</sup>, DCPS pulls down the LGBTQ support guide.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/education/2022/06/10/new-duval-schools-guide-may-prompt-lgbtq-youth-erasure-critics-say/7460885001/">https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/education/2022/06/10/new-duval-schools-guide-may-prompt-lgbtq-youth-erasure-critics-say/7460885001/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The march to eradicate LGBTQ from our schools is in full
effect. This was a choice DCPS made, the state did not make them do so. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">July 11<sup>th</sup>, DCPS calls for outing LGBTQ students.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/07/12/duval-school-board-votes-in-favor-of-student-support-service-policy/">https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/07/12/duval-school-board-votes-in-favor-of-student-support-service-policy/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sigh <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">July 13<sup>th</sup>, half of the city’s failing schools are
charter schools.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/columns/mark-woods/2022/07/13/duval-jacksonville-charter-schools-account-nearly-half-florida-failing-grades/10016462002/">https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/columns/mark-woods/2022/07/13/duval-jacksonville-charter-schools-account-nearly-half-florida-failing-grades/10016462002/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Where not directly on Greene’s shoulders, every one of them
had to be approved by the SB after being recommended by the super and she
approved some bad ones. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">June 15<sup>th</sup>, Greene gets a pretty hefty raise.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/duval-county-school-board-approves-221132986.html">https://news.yahoo.com/duval-county-school-board-approves-221132986.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A bigger percentage than any teacher ever got before that’s for
sure.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">June 30<sup>th</sup>, states civics training draws concerns.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/duval-county-public-schools-teachers-speak-out-against-states-civics-training-courses/H4Q2DARFURH3ZJ2AB2KZ37OS7A/">https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/duval-county-public-schools-teachers-speak-out-against-states-civics-training-courses/H4Q2DARFURH3ZJ2AB2KZ37OS7A/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">From everyone but district leadership that.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">July 27<sup>th</sup>, 450 teacher openings, 3 weeks before
school begins.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/education/teacher-vacancies-reported-in-duval-county/77-f1ad317a-d51e-470e-ba74-6cb39be15830">https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/education/teacher-vacancies-reported-in-duval-county/77-f1ad317a-d51e-470e-ba74-6cb39be15830</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Who wants to bet it is worse now?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">August 10<sup>th</sup>, subs get a big raise.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/substitutes-being-offered-165-day-work-positions-critical-needs-schools-duval-county/GWNTU6CTMRBR7KG2Z6QQB7MTAE/">https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/substitutes-being-offered-165-day-work-positions-critical-needs-schools-duval-county/GWNTU6CTMRBR7KG2Z6QQB7MTAE/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Apparently just hoping the problem would solve itself wasn’t
working.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">August 11<sup>th</sup> a teacher accused of striking a student
was exonerated.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/crime/charges-dropped-against-darnell-cookman-english-teacher/77-1e2f097e-2e82-4c1a-b3b2-8fc32cdad7e9">https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/crime/charges-dropped-against-darnell-cookman-english-teacher/77-1e2f097e-2e82-4c1a-b3b2-8fc32cdad7e9</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It’s not for nothing but this former teacher of the year
never returned to a DCPS classroom. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">August 15<sup>th</sup> a week school has begun we are down
to just 400 teacher openings.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/08/15/teacher-shortage-nearly-400-teacher-vacancies-in-duval-county-as-school-begins-monday/">https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/08/15/teacher-shortage-nearly-400-teacher-vacancies-in-duval-county-as-school-begins-monday/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Again, any bets that it’s not worse now?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">August 15th, Bus chaos grips the district and will for
months, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/students-home-late-see-delays-duval-county-school-buses/KUOKT2YQ4NBCDJHMAF4XA5TZVU/">https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/students-home-late-see-delays-duval-county-school-buses/KUOKT2YQ4NBCDJHMAF4XA5TZVU/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and by months, I mean all year.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">August 16<sup>th</sup>, safe space stickers scraped off walls.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/education/equality-florida-lgbt-student-safety-duval-county-jacksonville/77-1261ed5a-c9ed-4d60-8691-d43c761b0692">https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/education/equality-florida-lgbt-student-safety-duval-county-jacksonville/77-1261ed5a-c9ed-4d60-8691-d43c761b0692</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You know, because who wants kids to feel safe.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">August 24<sup>th</sup>, the uber-important mileage increases
passes</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/08/24/duval-county-property-tax-increase-to-fund-teacher-raises-passes-heres-whats-next/">https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/08/24/duval-county-property-tax-increase-to-fund-teacher-raises-passes-heres-whats-next/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is soooo important DCPS announce they won’t do anything till
next year.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">August 25<sup>th</sup>, DCPS spends hundreds of thousands of
dollars on books and lets them rot,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://bookriot.com/duval-county-public-schools-book-removal/">https://bookriot.com/duval-county-public-schools-book-removal/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If only we knew then what we know now.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">August 28<sup>th</sup>, the scathing grand jury report comes
back into the public consciousness, and it will promptly disappear until the Moms
for Liberty crew sense an opening to get rid of Greene 8 months later. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/08/22/dcps-responds-to-scathing-report-on-districts-police-department/">https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/08/22/dcps-responds-to-scathing-report-on-districts-police-department/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This report technically covers what happened over a period
of years, but I thought it was worth a mention.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">September 7th, safety officer arrested for a sex crime.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/crime/duval-county-school-safety-officer-arrested/77-02851d8d-50ce-4e49-8eaf-8ce785d62baf">https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/crime/duval-county-school-safety-officer-arrested/77-02851d8d-50ce-4e49-8eaf-8ce785d62baf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This makes me so sad but now we have had a teacher, bus
driver, custodian and a safety officer all arrested in one year.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">November 11<sup>th</sup> Greene receives a walk on water
evaluation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/11/11/duval-county-schools-superintendent-dr-diana-greene-receive-evaluation-from-school-board/">https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/11/11/duval-county-schools-superintendent-dr-diana-greene-receive-evaluation-from-school-board/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That sure didn’t age well<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">November 30<sup>th</sup>, DCPS ends 20-year relationship
with JASMYN<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://news.wjct.org/first-coast/2022-11-30/duval-schools-terminates-20-year-contract-with-lgbtq-support-organization">https://news.wjct.org/first-coast/2022-11-30/duval-schools-terminates-20-year-contract-with-lgbtq-support-organization</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This was a choice that Greene and the district make.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">November 15<sup>th</sup>, A janitor accused of sexual
battery on a child<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/duval-county-public-schools-employee-charged-with-sexual-battery-child/3WST7ZWEMNG5ZF2EFOMZ2QZEXY/">https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/duval-county-public-schools-employee-charged-with-sexual-battery-child/3WST7ZWEMNG5ZF2EFOMZ2QZEXY/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sometimes the worse headlines get lost or forgotten.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">December 6<sup>th</sup> Sex ed returns to DCPS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/education/lgbtq-advocacy-group-calls-for-support-ahead-of-dcps-vote/77-a3fbf4d1-c2df-4e1f-ab05-c677a89821ae">https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/education/lgbtq-advocacy-group-calls-for-support-ahead-of-dcps-vote/77-a3fbf4d1-c2df-4e1f-ab05-c677a89821ae</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We had taken the first semester off because nobody in the
district has a calendar apparently.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">December 22<sup>nd</sup>, book banning starts.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://jaxtoday.org/2022/12/22/duval-schools-to-keep-73-diverse-inclusive-books-out-of-classrooms/">https://jaxtoday.org/2022/12/22/duval-schools-to-keep-73-diverse-inclusive-books-out-of-classrooms/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It will hit warp speed in a few weeks.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">January 9<sup>th</sup>, DCPS cancels the play Indecent.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/01/09/pulitzer-winning-playwright-criticizes-duval-county-school-for-canceling-student-production/">https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/01/09/pulitzer-winning-playwright-criticizes-duval-county-school-for-canceling-student-production/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DCPS’s march to eradicate anything LGBTQ related.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">February 1<sup>st</sup>, Duval’s barren bookshelves go
viral. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/education/duval-county-public-schools-parent-still-without-answers-days-after-taking-viral-video-of-empty-school-bookshelves/77-a680289c-a5d5-4a1b-b4ff-5747f5ec9100">https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/education/duval-county-public-schools-parent-still-without-answers-days-after-taking-viral-video-of-empty-school-bookshelves/77-a680289c-a5d5-4a1b-b4ff-5747f5ec9100</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The district will spend the next few weeks coming up with
one explanation after another.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I purposely did not put-up many links to all the book scandals, problems
and changes in narratives. I think it has been covered and I also wanted to
have a semblance of a weekend.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>February 11<sup>th</sup>, DCPS cancels youth risky behavior
survey,</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/education/2023/02/10/florida-education-commissioner-manny-diaz-blasts-duval-for-youth-survey/69894045007/">https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/education/2023/02/10/florida-education-commissioner-manny-diaz-blasts-duval-for-youth-survey/69894045007/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You know, because if the district knew what was happening it
might have to do something.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">February 14<sup>th</sup>, an audit says the district was
complying with reporting arrests.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/02/14/audit-finds-dcps-complying-with-states-school-based-crime-reporting-following-scathing-report/">https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/02/14/audit-finds-dcps-complying-with-states-school-based-crime-reporting-following-scathing-report/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Um this didn’t age well, and can the district get its money
back (we are going to need it for all the lawsuits)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">March 2<sup>nd</sup>, DCPS sends out incorrect emails.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/03/02/details-released-for-dcps-committee-to-review-library-instructional-materials/">https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/03/02/details-released-for-dcps-committee-to-review-library-instructional-materials/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Says correct information is coming soon.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">March 10<sup>th</sup>, our directory of books is reassigned.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/03/10/supervisor-of-duval-schools-library-media-review-process-resigns-from-role/">https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/03/10/supervisor-of-duval-schools-library-media-review-process-resigns-from-role/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I don’t know if her views on slavery or the LGTBQ community played
a role in that.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">March 15<sup>th</sup>, custodians awarded back pay.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.afscme.org/blog/florida-school-custodians-awarded-back-pay-benefits-after-afscme-intervenes">https://www.afscme.org/blog/florida-school-custodians-awarded-back-pay-benefits-after-afscme-intervenes</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You know because DCPS cares about its employees so much it
hired a company who had unfair business practices.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">March 31<sup>st</sup> second teacher pulled form D.A.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/03/31/2nd-douglas-anderson-teacher-pulled-from-classroom-amid-investigation/">https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/03/31/2nd-douglas-anderson-teacher-pulled-from-classroom-amid-investigation/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2<sup>nd</sup> of which eventually be 4 more. I want to give
these teachers the benefit of the doubt, but it is still pretty troubling. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">April 5th, DCPS is in the middle of a lack of media
specialist crisis, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><sup> </sup><a href="https://jaxtoday.org/2023/04/05/duval-schools-face-20-vacancy-in-media-specialists-the-only-staff-who-can-approve-books/">https://jaxtoday.org/2023/04/05/duval-schools-face-20-vacancy-in-media-specialists-the-only-staff-who-can-approve-books/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This wasn’t created by Greene, but she did nothing to
improve the situation and initiated the book crisis knowing how many we had. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">April 6<sup>th</sup>, another premature email was sent out.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/04/07/dcps-districts-school-choice-lottery-results-prematurely-published/">https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/04/07/dcps-districts-school-choice-lottery-results-prematurely-published/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Emails can be tough.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">April 6<sup>th</sup>, a bus driver was accused of sexual abuse.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/04/06/duval-county-school-bus-driver-brother-accused-of-sexual-abuse/">https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/04/06/duval-county-school-bus-driver-brother-accused-of-sexual-abuse/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">sigh<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">April 13<sup>th</sup>, its time for DCPS to lawyer up over
D.A.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://news.wjct.org/first-coast/2023-04-13/duval-schools-douglas-anderson-lawsuits">https://news.wjct.org/first-coast/2023-04-13/duval-schools-douglas-anderson-lawsuits</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They better get one over books too, JagsfanBryan, the one
who put up the video of the empty bookshelves may soon own the SB building. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">April 19<sup>th</sup> DCPS reverses trans bathroom policy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://news.wjct.org/first-coast/2023-04-19/duval-schools-trans-restroom-policy">https://news.wjct.org/first-coast/2023-04-19/duval-schools-trans-restroom-policy</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Not because we had to but because DCPS is just fine with
LGBTQ no longer having a safe space in our schools.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>April 19th, the state accuses DCPS of not reporting crimes</o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><a href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/04/19/state-alleges-dcps-failed-to-report-douglas-anderson-sexual-harassment-incident/">https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/04/19/state-alleges-dcps-failed-to-report-douglas-anderson-sexual-harassment-incident/</a> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>Probably because they didn't.</o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>April 26th, the director of professional standards is reassighned,</o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/04/26/duval-schools-reassigns-professional-standards-supervisor-amid-misconduct-reporting-probe/">https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/04/26/duval-schools-reassigns-professional-standards-supervisor-amid-misconduct-reporting-probe/</a><br /></div><br />You know because only teachers lose their hobs.<br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">May 2<sup>nd</sup>, emails revealed there was zero call to
fire sub who took empty library videos. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/05/04/emails-reveal-principal-wanted-to-keep-middle-school-substitute-teacher-fired-over-videos-showing-empty-book-shelves/">https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/05/04/emails-reveal-principal-wanted-to-keep-middle-school-substitute-teacher-fired-over-videos-showing-empty-book-shelves/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Why was he fired again, oh to appease DeSantis and take the
heat off Greene.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">That brings us to the district and the suer parting ways last
week. Hopefully how badly it was handled is fresh enough in people’s minds.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There were lots of things that I didn’t include. Lawsuits
about this or that, technology breakdowns, code yellows at schools, relatively
routine and minor things. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then some of these are obviously bigger than others and some
people might think I wasted my time even mentioning, but when taken in total, I
find it amazing that Greene wasn’t escorted out carrying a banker’s box. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then there were some victories, we have a Lego land stem laboratory,
and arguably the graduation rates/school grades and the passing of the mileage
rate, though those last two come with some hefty caveats that I may explain in future
posts. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then once again, all above is from just one rotation around
the sun. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLlRyjDMWq3j0pPtnxAJ2-7aOrgvxP5hJjzmJOfoCo2lRwwFC320uQ0ua_xwXUxr2YN2SbD0sMCy2qLxmsrZW6ATbNI64wjkrXAgG7xfnF7JJhgdgVkPzQxmijIWXZfWEdu9PrtEodVCcjSFUnFqzOV123hxRdECok3KCKKQx70YYZ5jIarvHUPSGt" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLlRyjDMWq3j0pPtnxAJ2-7aOrgvxP5hJjzmJOfoCo2lRwwFC320uQ0ua_xwXUxr2YN2SbD0sMCy2qLxmsrZW6ATbNI64wjkrXAgG7xfnF7JJhgdgVkPzQxmijIWXZfWEdu9PrtEodVCcjSFUnFqzOV123hxRdECok3KCKKQx70YYZ5jIarvHUPSGt" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-83295816262696323992023-05-06T16:15:00.001-06:002023-05-06T16:15:28.308-06:00DCPS's ever changing and shameful narrative about books. (draft)<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> So this is what Greene said about books removed from mandarin Middle,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">From First Coast News,</span></p><p><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We did have a small number of principals interpret directions and guidance more intensely out of an abundance of caution. We have provided additional guidance to those leaders and they have appropriately adjusted their message to teachers. In their defense, the state training also stressed the accountability of the school principal with respect to the books and materials made available to students.</span></em></p><p><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/education/duval-county-schools-superintendent-responds-to-viral-video-of-empty-bookshelves-at-middle-school-misinformation/77-c3531f24-9bfa-41eb-994a-8af799d6cb9e">https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/education/duval-county-schools-superintendent-responds-to-viral-video-of-empty-bookshelves-at-middle-school-misinformation/77-c3531f24-9bfa-41eb-994a-8af799d6cb9e</a><br /></span></em></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hmm, a small number of principals, you know, those way too cautious principals. That is from February 17th. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">That was a few days after the district told below to ABC News,</span></p><p class="Ekqk yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"As required by state law, we are in the process of having certified media specialists review all classroom library books," said Tracy Pierce, chief of marketing and public relations at Duval County Public Schools. "There are approximately 1.6 million titles in our classroom and media center libraries that need to be reviewed by a certified media specialist."</span></p><p class="Ekqk yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/thousands-books-including-black-hispanic-historical-titles-review/story?id=97082518">https://abcnews.go.com/US/thousands-books-including-black-hispanic-historical-titles-review/story?id=97082518</a><br /></span></p><p class="Ekqk yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That's a heck of a lot different than a few overly cautious principals, </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is what was reported on the 7th,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">From Jax Today,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">It’s been two weeks since the district directed teachers to temporarily </span><a href="https://news.wjct.org/first-coast/2023-01-27/duval-teachers-classroom-libraries-rejected" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">cover or store classroom library books</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, as 52 certified media specialists review classroom and school library books across the district’s nearly 200 schools – a massive undertaking that’s left some classrooms nearly bookless in the interim.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://jaxtoday.org/2023/02/07/most-florida-school-districts-arent-requiring-teachers-to-hide-schoolbooks-duval-is/">https://jaxtoday.org/2023/02/07/most-florida-school-districts-arent-requiring-teachers-to-hide-schoolbooks-duval-is/</a><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">So which is it? Does the district have a small number of over-cautious principals, or did it direct teachers to remove classroom libraries?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">I think we know what happened; the first article was nothing but district spin, and another word for soon is lying. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">You might be thinking, Chris, we know all this, but you may not know what follows, and that's an email from the principal of Mandarin Middle, telling ESS that the school did not want to let Jagsfanbrian, the substitute responsible for the video showing empty bookshelves that they did not want to let him go and just wanted him to know the district book removal policy. Oh, the email is from January 31st (he put the video up several days before), two and a half weeks before the overly cautious principal spin.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi22g5dANrvoIM4sxA4van_NsDd_okepDbWtoZcGlnJ_Dcy5u4Hjze-ls7ShW1RrE3HKh-118qasYhY4R_BJ6ebywVdorx1ehiIlebSyvBapiMgO_BeJbr7wwmmZiB4fglzS6fJ0mb8N4h_OKYHRP6GLokThsLJ-pHhGCM1zHQ9jEO4carQLECjP69L" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="713" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi22g5dANrvoIM4sxA4van_NsDd_okepDbWtoZcGlnJ_Dcy5u4Hjze-ls7ShW1RrE3HKh-118qasYhY4R_BJ6ebywVdorx1ehiIlebSyvBapiMgO_BeJbr7wwmmZiB4fglzS6fJ0mb8N4h_OKYHRP6GLokThsLJ-pHhGCM1zHQ9jEO4carQLECjP69L=w640-h334" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />The principal admits right there they had removed books based on the district policy. There is no ambiguity. Now DCPS might say they were just one of the overcautious principals, except the district went on to say the entire thing was made up. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is what Tracy Pierce, district director of communications, told me 2/20</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoaO4zi87TYDAmV784dqsw6jshX_hF-EPXovGYI7ejjzwhHphw4rdWKAuh9f8rVxNPAUbSd7-OmGJ8Vp3cvI-tEu8Z_0WqCtA0Qu-yBs2okz8MBNXYbPwqM9otSCBxw_2uSiQIWBy5JNuLWv1VU8cjrdj71zvx8vmuuHkySp2koIisIV36ioQYSwG4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" data-original-height="219" data-original-width="1486" height="94" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoaO4zi87TYDAmV784dqsw6jshX_hF-EPXovGYI7ejjzwhHphw4rdWKAuh9f8rVxNPAUbSd7-OmGJ8Vp3cvI-tEu8Z_0WqCtA0Qu-yBs2okz8MBNXYbPwqM9otSCBxw_2uSiQIWBy5JNuLWv1VU8cjrdj71zvx8vmuuHkySp2koIisIV36ioQYSwG4=w640-h94" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Doesn't this directly contradict what the principal told the rep from ESS? She was like we are doing the best we can to comply, and he's like, it's all made up, while the district went from it was just complying with the law to nothing to see here but a few over-cautious principals.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Look, the state sucks, what they are doing is bad for education, but that shouldn't excuse the district from just following orders or their ever-changing narrative about what happened. I think the district was put in a hole, decided to keep digging, and then as things snowballed out of control, tried to lie their way out of it. I have presented the facts; you be the judge. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-45492356559542972982023-05-06T05:12:00.001-06:002023-05-06T05:12:53.271-06:00 The DCPS press conference was bonkers, revealing and nobody in the media asked THE question<div class="Ar Au Ao" id=":8u6"><div aria-controls=":937" aria-label="Message Body" aria-multiline="true" aria-owns=":937" class="Am Al editable LW-avf tS-tW tS-tY" g_editable="true" hidefocus="true" id=":8ua" role="textbox" spellcheck="false" style="direction: ltr; min-height: 405px;" tabindex="1"><p><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">It started with Hershey saying when Greene told me (about the retirement) a couple of weeks ago, I had tears in my eyes. Um, a couple of weeks ago, how come nobody to Willie because that cat was blindsided, and if this was in the works for a couple of weeks, why the emergency meeting? Why throw the city into a tizzy and not do things correctly?</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.12px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Carney went next and he said she did not think she would be in this position six months into her term. Oh sweetie, neither did we, neither did we.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.12px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Warren Jones was up next, and he put Greene into the superintendent Hall of Fame, though this guy has been asleep at the wheel since the school name chnages.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.12px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Willie, still stewing, he didn’t get an invite to the retirement party took the podium and didn’t hold anything back. She isn’t retiring; he started she is being forced out. I disagree; I think she saw the handwriting on the wall and got while the getting was good.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.12px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Pearson was next, and you could tell she wasn’t "smelling what the Willie was cooking." You should watch the video just for Pearson staring at the speakers; she said more when she wasn’t talking than when she was and she talked for a while. I also want to point out that she didn’t get up there an ad lib like the others; no she was prepared, so prepared I bet her speech was written days if not weeks ago.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.12px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Joyce didn’t speak.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.12px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">When Coker, who started the meeting, returned to the podium, somebody asked her a question, which I couldn’t hear, but when Coker spoke, she didn’t talk about Greene retiring; she talked about how she felt the district was ready for a change, which is a lot different from how things had been sold, which was Greene was just ready to go, up to that point and it had all been about her decision to retire.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.12px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I think the next question was will Greene’s departure be a distraction to testing and schools. The answer is no; it won’t impact schools at all. Coker then talked about the Greene retirement process, which has been going on for several weeks. Why it was kept a secret is anybody’s guess.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.12px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">There was another question, and then the press conference wrapped up without the most important question being asked: will Carney publicly confirm or deny she was at the insurrection? I think we all get that her non-answers to the question confirm she was but it is still important it's on the record so people can know what kind of person they have representing children, and that’s an insurrectionist who fought against our nation.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.12px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The media continues to abdicate their responsibility every time they have the chance to ask that question and they don’t, and it doesn’t matter that she was elected.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.12px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">It is an affront to all that is decent and an embarrassment that April Carney is allowed to be there, and I don’t want people to forget that for a second.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.12px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">If you would like to watch the press conference, click the link.</span></p></div></div><p style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.12px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.firstcoastnews.com/video/news/local/shes-not-retiring-early-shes-being-forced-out-duval-county-superintendent-to-retire-amid-controversy/77-3db72fa6-f712-4d25-9035-51727142a42d&source=gmail&ust=1683420413414000&usg=AOvVaw1TODGHIfoAUXlTbMmQ4vjd" href="https://www.firstcoastnews.com/video/news/local/shes-not-retiring-early-shes-being-forced-out-duval-county-superintendent-to-retire-amid-controversy/77-3db72fa6-f712-4d25-9035-51727142a42d" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.firstcoastnews.<wbr></wbr>com/video/news/local/shes-not-<wbr></wbr>retiring-early-shes-being-<wbr></wbr>forced-out-duval-county-<wbr></wbr>superintendent-to-retire-amid-<wbr></wbr>controversy/77-3db72fa6-f712-<wbr></wbr>4d25-9035-51727142a42d</a></p><p style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.12px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.12px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5oT9qWD3-kn8JrYRfo0SG8P_OtJ61CU4nz79eEa8zvUQABLLyC62-ozqdBCMt5JSpMqudiOUsFOBYX6hWSmRQPTlc1yfZ_pbkwF50r6WJxOt7DIRWhTUA-fO6Hgr-uNk-p6L3NS9tieiabbxPRaztuHhgfkIDdpdhKkRJ3Eu0E8IOHuJbf7gjtl55" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="880" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5oT9qWD3-kn8JrYRfo0SG8P_OtJ61CU4nz79eEa8zvUQABLLyC62-ozqdBCMt5JSpMqudiOUsFOBYX6hWSmRQPTlc1yfZ_pbkwF50r6WJxOt7DIRWhTUA-fO6Hgr-uNk-p6L3NS9tieiabbxPRaztuHhgfkIDdpdhKkRJ3Eu0E8IOHuJbf7gjtl55" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-88684344455884097652023-05-05T04:04:00.000-06:002023-05-05T04:04:05.467-06:00 Coker and Pearson have a DeSantis and Decency problem<div class="Ar Au Ao" id=":5eq"><div aria-controls=":5hf" aria-label="Message Body" aria-multiline="true" aria-owns=":5hf" class="Am Al editable LW-avf tS-tW tS-tY" g_editable="true" hidefocus="true" id=":5em" role="textbox" spellcheck="false" style="direction: ltr; min-height: 405px;" tabindex="1"><p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">This past Tuesday, Coker and Pearson voted for DCPS’s new bathroom policy. They did not have to, which makes me wonder why.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">They are down with further attacking marginalized children and they support the stats anti-LGBTQ agenda. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Or since they are DeSantis’s hit list, they are trying to curry favor with him and the rest of the extremists. I would almost rather it be the former because the latter means using the words selfish and coward to describe them would be appropriate. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">If it is the latter, what do they think is going to happen, DeSantis and Moms for Liberty are suddenly going to say, well, they have been as cruel and ignorant as we want; let’s support them instead. Greene was on team DeSantis for years and they couldn’t wait to get rid of her.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">If it’s the latter, Coker and Pearson don’t get the extremists don’t care how much fealty you give, how high you jump went told to do so, or how far you bend the knee. They don’t and they should know that, especially Pearson.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">In 2020, the GOP told everyone to vote for Pearson and they spent thousands of dollars supporting her too and since Pearson was elected, she has done everything they asked except have a toothless and optional mask policy. Ban books, check, attack LGBTQ children, check, throw veteran teachers under the bus, check. She did it all and still, she made their hit list.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Coker and Pearson if you read this, what part of they don’t care what you do, they are coming for you anyway, are you not understanding?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I have mentioned it before, and I will mention it again. I think these two ladies have a tremendous opportunity to pivot to supporting public ed, rath than blindly doing whatever the governor proposes. I think they can educate people about how destructive his policies are, and I think they will be rewarded for it. That or they can continue to do what they are doing now and that’s alienate public ed supporters and do nothing to endear themselves to the fascists.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">They had a great opportunity Tuesday night and they passed; they once again told the LGBTQ community their place in DCPS was getting smaller and smaller. Who knows, maybe that’s the message they wanted to send. They should know, however, that public ed supporters heard them loud and clear, and where DeSantis supporters may have heard them too, at the end of the day, they won’t care. </p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiJ31KohHb3WULBT3fGe2kGNJFTd0fzcIgOTUeFfxWJt7HdlJlmB2KS7m0zIEV4Yuq6IrjOYf234J88khuuSI4v4YQUlGhj_XN3pOSKxFDGAOfcumGSIZLL0NQD8z6iKXyiT3QheDu68IMsPv5-6HBfY0WLLPzLjg6YMTlGcZvyl89wpXeUpkcHJ7N" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="442" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiJ31KohHb3WULBT3fGe2kGNJFTd0fzcIgOTUeFfxWJt7HdlJlmB2KS7m0zIEV4Yuq6IrjOYf234J88khuuSI4v4YQUlGhj_XN3pOSKxFDGAOfcumGSIZLL0NQD8z6iKXyiT3QheDu68IMsPv5-6HBfY0WLLPzLjg6YMTlGcZvyl89wpXeUpkcHJ7N=w400-h264" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-43608763810245850902023-05-04T18:05:00.001-06:002023-05-04T18:05:09.778-06:00 Let’s talk about the school board’s role in firing the superintendent. (draft)<p> <b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Let’s talk about the school board’s role in firing the superintendent.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Kelly Coker, what an unnecessary meeting. Greene should have announced she was retiring, which would have saved a lot of tears over the last week, and then Coker should have scheduled a normal meeting. Scheduling a last-minute meeting under a dubious pretense isn’t how things should be done. She needs to get used to doing things the right way, which would be a refreshing change from how things are usually done. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">I also hope this is a wake-up call for her. There have been no profiles of courage on the board, and the governor has already targeted her for removal. If I were her, I would side with public ed every time, and even if forced to carry out the state’s disastrous policies, I would educate the people on how disastrous they are. If you must go, it’s better to support teachers and students than fascists.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Cindi Pearson, like Coker, has been targeted for replacement which is wild because the GOP was behind her and spent money on her in the last go around. How this uber-Christian conservative mom is not good enough for them is a mystery, especially since, like the rest of the board here, she has had zero pushback to the state. She has an opportunity to step up, and I think she will be rewarded for it. Be silent, and she alienates public ed supporters while the Moms for Fascism could care less and will still fight against her.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Warren Jones, talk about being asleep at the wheel. He hasn’t done anything since changing the school names, and yesterday he said that Greene was being forced out because she wouldn’t follow the governor’s agenda. Um, Warren, that’s all she and you have been doing for the last two years; both of you have been on team DeSantis. Warren, you are the bad guy here, well, one of them anyways.<u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Darryl Willie, he was outraged the super was being forced out, except she wasn’t. She doesn’t have a job starting 6/2 because she hasn’t been good at her job for quite some time; I mean, unless her job is carrying is marginalizing LGBTQ children, throwing veteran teachers under the bus, and banning books, all things Willie shrugged his shoulders about. The truth is Greene and he weren’t as close as he thought, and she didn’t feel the need to loop him in, but that’s a personal, not education, issue.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Lori Hershey, I don’t know what happened to her. This is not the Hershey from 6 or even 4 years ago because then she was a reliable supporter of public ed. She really changed when she entertained the idea of running for the state house, and probably because the Republicans in Mandarin are okay with cruelty and revel in ignorance. She is now a lot more Mom’s for Liberty than the education advocate that ran in 2012, was beaten by a hack, and stayed involved because, let’s face it, when most people lose a run for SB, they disappear and then came back an education advocate. Out of all the SB members, I am most disappointed in her because, at one point, she knew better.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">April Carney, on the other hand, doesn’t, and she seems more than okay with that. Can somebody answer me this, is she always yelling and is she always nasty, because every time I see her, that’s how she seems. That’s probably why she fit in so well at the insurrection. To be honest, folks, I would probably be more critical of her, but it is so $%# &^@# ridiculous seeing the insurrectionist on the SB; it's hard to take anything she says or does seriously. I am reminded of the Dean Wormer quote from animal house whenever I see her except replace fat, drunk, and stupid, with angry, ignorant, and fascist.<u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Charlotte Joyce, people may not realize it, but when she was first elected, it was with the support of teachers and unions. The GOP didn’t want to have anything to do with her. Then she turned heel, and the GOP loved her. Even the school board knows how incapable she is and just looks at who is chair and vice chair for evidence of that; Coker and Pearson are both in their second years on the board, while Joyce is in her fifth and is nowhere near the center seat. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">I would love to write Joyce, and Carney are the villains on the board, but the truth is it’s hard to tell them apart from any of the others. Sure, Pearson and Coker don’t rant and scream and seem competent, but they supported the same policies that Carney and Joyce do, and that’s what really matters.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">So, at the end of the day, Jones and Willie were upset, though the real reasons are they weren’t in Greene’s loop and don’t seem to understand they are on team DeSantis, the person they claim forced Greene out, as well. That kind of tone deafness is frightening.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Joyce, Carney, and Hershey are probably happy, though since Greene bent over backward to appease the extremists probably can’t articulate why. Grad jury, something, something, reports, something, something.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Then there is the chair and vice chair, Coker and Pearson, apparently in the loop but still not quite willing to do things the right way. I hope these ladies wake up because DeSantis is coming for them, and if they have to go, I think it’s better to go supporting students and teachers than siding with fascists because even if they weren’t, Greene just found out that to them you are useful until you are not. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUCJSzo_4dDLUhODRqozh0cPGCCqPbYu5u_4QOuSdHG_bH1QzN5dewr86wl_NkJ_HQHXLGi3snEZP79H_Im3dkwrm0g_bO0IIz1HpOIHcDvJSwE5uyJfzNEURJnAEhFiVBxFXa_B9rit72OCP3OZUOWd-BAbY8pB6CpLjWuOO-dnnbfVGYYNTi8xic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="697" data-original-width="1239" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUCJSzo_4dDLUhODRqozh0cPGCCqPbYu5u_4QOuSdHG_bH1QzN5dewr86wl_NkJ_HQHXLGi3snEZP79H_Im3dkwrm0g_bO0IIz1HpOIHcDvJSwE5uyJfzNEURJnAEhFiVBxFXa_B9rit72OCP3OZUOWd-BAbY8pB6CpLjWuOO-dnnbfVGYYNTi8xic=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-80723322260767222932023-05-04T16:02:00.002-06:002023-05-04T16:02:38.862-06:00 About that grand jury report and those fifty late reports to the state. <p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Long before Greene showed up, the district had a problem with underreporting and misreporting crimes, and where that is definitely on the district, it is on the state too. You see. The state would factor in crimes and referrals into school grades, and when school grades determine bonuses, promotions, and even continued employment, sometimes people would do squirrely things, and that’s not me justifying it; that’s me explaining it.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">So Greene’s problem isn’t that this started under her; it's she did nothing to stop it until got caught, but let’s talk about the grand jury that caught her.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">The DeSantis administration needs enemies and victims, and it isn’t above weaponizing the courts to punish its perceived enemies, but the really crazy thing is the grand jury report came out in December 2020, and nobody cared.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/education/2020/12/11/duval-schools-police-department-lambasted-grand-jury-florida-safety-report/3893537001/&source=gmail&ust=1683246278291000&usg=AOvVaw3R5K-QM-vEJqem4JVa8Mhe" href="https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/education/2020/12/11/duval-schools-police-department-lambasted-grand-jury-florida-safety-report/3893537001/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.jacksonville.com/<wbr></wbr>story/news/education/2020/12/<wbr></wbr>11/duval-schools-police-<wbr></wbr>department-lambasted-grand-<wbr></wbr>jury-florida-safety-report/<wbr></wbr>3893537001/</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Now I cared and covered it a few times, but these far-right ideologues who are pointing to it as a reason for Greene to go sure as heck didn't. Some people might say it was unsealed last August, but even that was then, it was 9 months before it was brought up again, and I am not sure what that means because there doesn’t appear to be any new information. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">I have no doubt Greene continued Duval’s long history of juking the numbers; I don’t, but let's not pretend for a second a weaponized three-plus-year-old grand jury report played any serious role in where she and the district now find themselves. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Now about those fifty unreported cases. At the school board meetings yesterday, the right made it sound like DCPS had fifty pedophiles stalking the halls of DCPS schools, and that’s just dumb. An investigation will make things clearer, but it’s my bet most if not all, were all administrative (tardies, this or that) or minor victimless crimes.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">I am not saying it’s good that they went unreported if they were supposed to be reported, they should have, but they most likely serious offenses like the Moms for Fascist members and Insurrection Barbie April Carey pretended they were; there is so little there-there, we might as well say there is none. The media monitors arrests, and if a teacher were arrested for something serious, it would have made the news.-<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">DCPS has fourteen thousand employees; fifty over three years is a tiny drop in a big bucket.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">So yes, it’s kind of a thing, but in the scale of all the other things, it’s not really.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Then I just want to say I think Greene leaving is good for the district. It is impossible to tell where she begins, and DeSantis ends because she has been a loyal foot-soldier of his. I just can’t stand the hypocrisy of the people on the right who wanted to force her out, pretending they care about the safety of students three years after the report came out and conflating the mundane into something nefarious. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgyNg5J5qgdSGgeKDuoyY9MYWF4obUlhHYJ0ApbsV77urtCnDMV2Z0uh7gVMCt-110ya5ns-R_pSPdP7y805jW34wGdMPPV5wH4j7nfLG7JD_cT58E1oxS4Oxb7algJ5dUqIBOBgTQtnKuc1l7kryaeYs4Le-Dl1LC9U41SD0uLJseAdGsxBkI9-5j" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgyNg5J5qgdSGgeKDuoyY9MYWF4obUlhHYJ0ApbsV77urtCnDMV2Z0uh7gVMCt-110ya5ns-R_pSPdP7y805jW34wGdMPPV5wH4j7nfLG7JD_cT58E1oxS4Oxb7algJ5dUqIBOBgTQtnKuc1l7kryaeYs4Le-Dl1LC9U41SD0uLJseAdGsxBkI9-5j" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-85281130775210705852023-05-04T04:03:00.002-06:002023-05-04T04:03:32.075-06:00 There are lots of questions about why Greene is out of a job; let’s try and answer them.<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I have thought Greene should go for a while. Her silence on important education issues became complicity and I believe, willing participation. I think we can do better. That, however, is not why she is gone and I find the competing narratives as to why she left incredibly disingenuous.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Her supporters claim she is being forced out because she wouldn’t follow the governor’s agenda. Warren Jones and others said as much Tuesday. UM WHAT!!!!! All she has done is follow the governor’s agenda. When the governor asked her to jump, Greene replied time and time again, how high would you like that sir.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Then her detractors said she needed to go because of a grand jury report, fifty unreported cases, and what’s happening a DA. Um, the grand jury report came out three years ago; the fifty unreported cases aren’t going to amount to anything substantive, and then there is DA. That looks like it is going to be bad when the investigation is finished in oh, about a year.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Here supporters often pointed out that what is happening at DA started before she got there, which where true, ignores that Greene has been here for 5 years, and DA has been a trouble spot for nearly all of them. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">So did any of that play a role? Yes and no, this is what I believe happened.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Greene’s disastrous book policy embarrassed the governor. It was the first chink in his armor after last year's reelection victory and since then, he has been flailing; Disney, his disastrous trip abroad, and his plummeting poll numbers show that.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">The governor was embarrassed, and as a petulant child who has never been told no, somebody had to pay but and even though she has carried his water, it was going to be her. The thing is, you can’t just replace a black woman superintendent, especially in a town where your support is already wobbly. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Then DA broke, and the grand jury, three years after its release, was thrown out meaningfully for the first time, and DA snowballed where more teachers were removed from the classroom.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">DA, however, was survivable; she ready weathered a couple DA storms in 20 and 21.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.wokv.com/news/local/douglas-anderson-students-alumni-call-change-after-testimonies-racism-sexism-goes-viral/LR3FQWC2LVFZXECM75V52YHCLQ/&source=gmail&ust=1683246278291000&usg=AOvVaw0ySoOV1CYEj7kbQo07Qqec" href="https://www.wokv.com/news/local/douglas-anderson-students-alumni-call-change-after-testimonies-racism-sexism-goes-viral/LR3FQWC2LVFZXECM75V52YHCLQ/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.wokv.com/news/<wbr></wbr>local/douglas-anderson-<wbr></wbr>students-alumni-call-change-<wbr></wbr>after-testimonies-racism-<wbr></wbr>sexism-goes-viral/<wbr></wbr>LR3FQWC2LVFZXECM75V52YHCLQ/</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/education/2021/03/03/meetings-separated-race-segregated-canceled-duval-county-douglas-anderson-school/6902116002/&source=gmail&ust=1683246278291000&usg=AOvVaw2QOGAlrSyH2Ydu0eUGNRdW" href="https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/education/2021/03/03/meetings-separated-race-segregated-canceled-duval-county-douglas-anderson-school/6902116002/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.jacksonville.com/<wbr></wbr>story/news/education/2021/03/<wbr></wbr>03/meetings-separated-race-<wbr></wbr>segregated-canceled-duval-<wbr></wbr>county-douglas-anderson-<wbr></wbr>school/6902116002/</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2020/06/19/students-alumni-call-out-racism-at-douglas-anderson-school-of-the-arts/&source=gmail&ust=1683246278291000&usg=AOvVaw2vuBgs3oNHluv-yMAQo58I" href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2020/06/19/students-alumni-call-out-racism-at-douglas-anderson-school-of-the-arts/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.news4jax.com/news/<wbr></wbr>local/2020/06/19/students-<wbr></wbr>alumni-call-out-racism-at-<wbr></wbr>douglas-anderson-school-of-<wbr></wbr>the-arts/</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">I have no doubt she believed she could survive this until the revelation that 50 cases hadn’t been reported to the state over a three-year period. Even though I don’t believe these cases are going to amount to anything, that was the sound bite her detractors, outraged by the district embarrassing the governor, needed.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Even though she had been on team DeSantis, even though she had done everything and more Mom’s for Fascism, sorry Liberty had asked, it didn’t matter because to them you are useful until you are not, and she lost her utility when the district embarrassed DeSantis over books, the handwriting was on the wall, and she knew it was just a matter of time. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">So, what to do? Retire, that’s what; take your six-figure payout, your drop money, and your 38-year retirement and hit the road.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">In the end, I don’t think it was DA, or the grand jury, or even books, though that was the impetus for her being judged out the door, no, it was some run-of-the-mill Greene administration incompetence, not sending the reports to the state that ended up closing the books on Greene.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Others will spin it as she was forced out unjustly or celebrate her departure even if the reasons they give are dubious, but I believe at the end of the day, it was Greene and Greene alone that cost her the job. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Now you might ask, if she had stayed, would she have been fined or replaced by DeSantis? Maybe, but only because she had given them the opening so soon after embarrassing the governor.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUwu8kfDKNiWlFvPkzane1qQV8y4Syf59r7LiN3-lVXaRQ_iGG7N6gOQbB3Z8o2wKRxRQL-BdDYQ4iez5eRXQP-QxDEE21xZG2TI70t9cJHoc_JwQJZjQNCIntvThPehrYyjWs15091K3H-_MCJDiXB7J-g6DYqpCGWP56A95ZWeOpPAa2jLsuMQE4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2560" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUwu8kfDKNiWlFvPkzane1qQV8y4Syf59r7LiN3-lVXaRQ_iGG7N6gOQbB3Z8o2wKRxRQL-BdDYQ4iez5eRXQP-QxDEE21xZG2TI70t9cJHoc_JwQJZjQNCIntvThPehrYyjWs15091K3H-_MCJDiXB7J-g6DYqpCGWP56A95ZWeOpPAa2jLsuMQE4" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-78591636729496475572023-05-03T18:39:00.000-06:002023-05-03T18:39:47.482-06:00 Greene gives the LGBTQ community one more stab in the back<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">So DCPS had a trans bathroom bill that allowed students to use the bathrooms they identified with. I want to say they have had this policy for about a decade, and if there have been any problems whatsoever, they haven’t made the news.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Fast forward to yesterday as transphobia has gripped the republican party, and the district was voting on changing the bill making it so students had to use the bathroom of the sex that a doctor put on their birth certificate. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Remember, up till now, there had been no problems or even complaints as far as I can tell. It has also undoubtedly been a benefit to those few trans students in the district, allowing them to feel comfortable in their own skin. Greene's words could probably go a long way in determining the outcome.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Earlier in the day, Greene announced her retirement. She is out the door. So by standing up for LGBTQ children, she didn't have much to lose.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">She now had a chance to make up for the last two years, where she and the state had attacked and marginalized the LGBTQ community. Last night was her golden opportunity to stand up and make up for what she and the state had put the LGBTQ community through. Now was her moment to show the LGBTQ community and are most vulnerable children she really does care, and what did she say in defense of them?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Nothing, not a %$# %^#$ word. She again showed that she didn’t care, which in my mind further cements what I have known for over a year, and that Greene is not a hostage in the DeSantis anti-LGBTIQ agenda; no, she is a willing participant.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">She could have stepped up, but she didn’t.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">Once again, Greene has shown us who she is. I just don’t get why more people don’t believe her.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNkvPcWRVQ0x8-Z396RoLGV6N7CMwkp0_zZgqxUONkbvjZ6iTgOmCGEo6UhTrfW0KE0CkAcDXUYzG-pRSXWMlo7TCG7DbnTx8ICrcRx4PU4WGxJvhLdCmA-byXBxHnYOQM4OlQFWIkbrnVsff8Y7fU8qyKu_t7dkA5ax_eyhv6QVjpIF62lbPbpGnV" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="612" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNkvPcWRVQ0x8-Z396RoLGV6N7CMwkp0_zZgqxUONkbvjZ6iTgOmCGEo6UhTrfW0KE0CkAcDXUYzG-pRSXWMlo7TCG7DbnTx8ICrcRx4PU4WGxJvhLdCmA-byXBxHnYOQM4OlQFWIkbrnVsff8Y7fU8qyKu_t7dkA5ax_eyhv6QVjpIF62lbPbpGnV" width="269" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><u></u> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-29156942911235260422023-05-02T17:27:00.004-06:002023-05-02T17:29:40.218-06:00On her way out the door, Greene shows us who she really cares about, and thats nobody but herself <p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Last week when people rallied behind Greene, I was confused and a little frustrated. You see, the people mobilizing for her defense were those people who knew that Greene had been bad for public education. For the last two years, they know that Greene has faithfully carried DeSantis's water. Not once did she push back and support teachers and students, and they knew that too but still, they were there.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">All their pleading, crying, and begging were moot because Greene had told the school board she was going to retire weeks before. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">From JaxToday</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Coker said the district’s handling of the Douglas Anderson situation was a factor in Greene’s retirement, three years ahead of her contracted schedule. Coker and Hershey said Green notified them in separate meetings last month that she planned to retire.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><a href="https://jaxtoday.org/2023/05/02/duval-schools-superintendent-diana-greene-will-retire-july-24/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://jaxtoday.org/2023/05/02/duval-schools-superintendent-diana-greene-will-retire-july-24/</span></a><br /></span></p><p>By letting the public know, Greene could have saved much pain and division over the last few weeks, but she didn't, and for what? So they could stroke her ego? So she could get a few more nickles in her retirement settlement.</p><p>Somebody said to me why should Greeene risk her job by standing up to DeSantis. Apparently, they were okay with Greene looking out for number one and number one only, and that's something she did all the way to the end. </p><p>I know people are nervous about what comes next, and so am I, but that being said, I believe we can do better.</p><p>To learn more, click the link above. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIaGmM7a99-A3YwdG7ihAhYTWzphcz_KGJ_eq_s5Kk2Ft9u3E9YYBMPF45mnrAZTwpI4fyJ-j2btbMUOAIS-lk6ZAAl1UJ2sNEE4sBfHm0sgM1lWq1nH74nwGPD4k-_Uaihzx-94A71ozwNq9DOQ_o6dpU796hjIxjfrKFHMAR3ZXCVCqby37bZJfZ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2560" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIaGmM7a99-A3YwdG7ihAhYTWzphcz_KGJ_eq_s5Kk2Ft9u3E9YYBMPF45mnrAZTwpI4fyJ-j2btbMUOAIS-lk6ZAAl1UJ2sNEE4sBfHm0sgM1lWq1nH74nwGPD4k-_Uaihzx-94A71ozwNq9DOQ_o6dpU796hjIxjfrKFHMAR3ZXCVCqby37bZJfZ" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-55511734195387719652023-04-30T06:53:00.005-06:002023-04-30T07:02:02.689-06:00Greene isn't responsible for anything, just ask her supporters (draft)<p> Being a super has to be incredibly difficult, and being a super in Florida has to be nearly impossible; I get it. That being said, it's a job Greene signed up for, and there should be nothing wrong with wanting her to do her job well; we should all not just want it but expect it too. Unless you are one of her supporters in the recent dust-up with the state, then she gets a pass because she's not responsible for anything. </p><p>I have talked with several people I respect and like who is solidly on Team Greene, wondering what I was missing. I did not see this level of support for somebody who has been over backward to appease the extremists, something one of them said. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaQ1QoQqY-b0lD1Au84LCx1PSa7Zt4TgdYj2gTGAMQeftKwx7f1QXOAB0QW_r0EG6RsIRnE388rDLJTK76LD0NXgpDL5pjFkdPegT407wp9VteKMu6r-7PFC2j8RMb_CGISkS7ofiljxdA56k3Y2p-wWbLEy5KA00-MtJdyndkphjMRkyfb6kHFM3M" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="141" data-original-width="617" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaQ1QoQqY-b0lD1Au84LCx1PSa7Zt4TgdYj2gTGAMQeftKwx7f1QXOAB0QW_r0EG6RsIRnE388rDLJTK76LD0NXgpDL5pjFkdPegT407wp9VteKMu6r-7PFC2j8RMb_CGISkS7ofiljxdA56k3Y2p-wWbLEy5KA00-MtJdyndkphjMRkyfb6kHFM3M=w640-h146" width="640" /></a></div><br />I expected most people to shrug their shoulders and prepare to move on. <p></p><p>After hemming and hawing, the reasons for their loyalty were universally light on substance or incorrect.</p><p>They said she has had a target on her back since COVID. Um, no, Greene did everything she could to support the DeSantis agenda. She fought against masks, and it was only a rare showing of backbone that saw DCPS initiate a mask policy that Greene quickly kneecapped. </p><p>They have said she has been forced to follow the DeSantis agenda, and yes and no.</p><p>First, this makes it sound like she is just following orders, which has never been a winner in history.</p><p>Then she is not forced to do anything; she can make choices and say no. Now there may be consequences, and one can argue those are what she has sought to avoid, but in doing so, she just passes on consequences to teachers who had their classroom libraries stripped and LGBTQ children who have been attacked and hounded. She made her being safe and comfortable her priority, and fair enough, but let's not pretend there is anything noble about it. </p><p>I also want to point out that I have never called for her breaking or resisting laws. We have an angry child in the governor's office. Instead, I have called for her to follow the laws and educate people as she does. She made the choice over and over to stay silent. She could have said, as super, I am obligated to follow these laws, but these laws hurt children and teachers, these laws are bad for public ed, and I would urge you to find candidates who support public ed, who want to help it succeed instead of tearing it down. Instead, she remained silent time and time and time and time again. </p><p>Let's talk about D.A. I have heard over and over there were other supers in charge while things were going on, and where true; Greene has been in charge since 2018. Isn't she, at the very least, partly responsible? The same goes for the Grand Jury, which reported the district covering up crimes from 2016-2020. Nothing? She gets a pass? Well, some of her supporters think she should. </p><p>Emptying classroom libraries, she was forced to, they say, which doesn't explain why 65 of the 67 school districts didn't do it.</p><p>Attacks on the LGBTQ community, she didn't have a choice? This is true except for the scraping off of safe space stickers, the gutting of the handbook, the taking down of anti-bullying videos, ending the relationship with JASMYN, and getting rid of every book with a gay character. </p><p>Nothing is her fault, and everything can be explained away.</p><p>What am I missing? Is she not in charge of or responsible for anything?</p><p>This is my bottom line, I think there are definitely politics going on; DCPS embarrassed the governor, and even though she has been in lockstep with him, somebody has to pay, and I also believe there is a racial component; if she was not a black woman, the support for firing/keeping, form both sides would be different but after all that, I don't care. If she ends up leaving partly for some bad reasons, I am more than okay with it because she has given us plenty of good ones. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-16934780829684323692023-04-29T06:18:00.001-06:002023-04-29T06:18:36.554-06:00Lets talk about Greene's two year attack on the LGBTQ community<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Florida has become increasingly hostile to the LGBTQ community, but there is Florida and Dr. Greene who has gone above and beyond. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Remember when the district gutted its LGBTQ support guide.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://jaxtoday.org/2022/05/17/what-duval-schools-is-cutting-from-its-lgbtq-support-guide/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">https://jaxtoday.org/2022/05/17/what-duval-schools-is-cutting-from-its-lgbtq-support-guide/</a> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They got rid of 29 out of 37 pages of the support guide and stripped out all the written protections for transgender students. The gist is now they will take cases on a case-by-case basis, which means 160 schools will do things in 160 different ways, which seems like a terrible way of doing things, but more insidious, teachers and staff will be required to out children who identify as LGBTQ children who for whatever reasons haven't informed their parents, to those parents. Now there can be lots of reasons a child has made that decision, but as far as I can tell, none of them are good.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The thing is, they weren't required to do so. The district chose to do so. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We have all heard the old saying, with friends like these, we don't need enemies. Superintendent Greene has repeatedly said she supports our LGBTQ students, but her actions speak a lot louder. With a friend like her, the LGBTQ community definitely doesn't need any enemies. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Over the summer, she had her district apparatchik scratch off rainbow stickers from classroom walls and doors, followed by district changing policies which now say teachers could no longer post items like safe place stickers and rainbow flags in their classrooms. Shortly thereafter, the district LGBTQ support guide was gutted, and anti-bullying videos were taken down.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How about JASMYN? </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Attacks are coming fast, and furious against Florida's LGBTQ community, and nowhere is that more evident than in Duval County Public schools, where teachers had rainbow stickers scraped off walls and all the protection that LGBTQ children had have been gutted.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Superintendent Greene has been pushing her anti-LGBTQ agenda for months now and if the past is prologue Greene's excuse blaming recent "media" for severing the district's relationship with JASMYN is nothing but an excuse, and it would have happened sooner or later, with emphasis on the sooner with April Carney now on the board. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Even if you think JASMYN messed up, doesn't a 20-year relationship and the important work they do deserve a second chance? Nope, not to Greene, who reassigns loyal admins as easily as I breathe; she again sided with the moms for liberty bigots. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> What about canceling the play Indecent?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I went to high school, we had an annual event called Mr. Ugly, a beauty pageant of sorts where high school boys dressed up as women. I wonder if this decades-old event is going to be allowed to continue or not. <u></u> </span></p><div class="Ar Au Ao" id=":1me" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div aria-controls=":1p4" aria-label="Message Body" aria-multiline="true" aria-owns=":1p4" class="Am Al editable LW-avf tS-tW tS-tY" g_editable="true" hidefocus="true" id=":1ma" role="textbox" spellcheck="false" style="direction: ltr; min-height: 405px;" tabindex="1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I ask because, inexplicably, DCPS made Douglass Anderson School for the performing arts cancel their spring play Indecent. The reason they gave was it had adult themes. <u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From the Jax Today newsletter.<u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">A high school production of “Indecent,” a play about censorship featuring a prostitute and gay Jewish characters, has been canceled due to what Duval County Public Schools describes as “inappropriate” content.</span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://news.wjct.org/first-coast/2023-01-06/high-school-play-indecent-sexual-content" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://news.wjct.org/first-<wbr></wbr>coast/2023-01-06/high-school-<wbr></wbr>play-indecent-sexual-content</a><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hmm, a story about a Jew and prostitute. Does that sound familiar to anyone? Maybe from a little book called the bible?<u></u> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5R9baQGBgFs8u0mi_y_llUhSjl1xBOeL-_DKz5WEpjsdU2tusJzDU9mX1ItEIMzdlJOfiK-Y1v6XYsnQLL41n0-sAiS_XZSa9MTPAnKfwNhNGGFR2vTQW-xEim_uL0sjCswspXET-KDj0bl1m-X__FD0Mv_iwpQOMQk0y5NdsHqdqiOHfp6R6c27m" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" data-original-height="216" data-original-width="400" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5R9baQGBgFs8u0mi_y_llUhSjl1xBOeL-_DKz5WEpjsdU2tusJzDU9mX1ItEIMzdlJOfiK-Y1v6XYsnQLL41n0-sAiS_XZSa9MTPAnKfwNhNGGFR2vTQW-xEim_uL0sjCswspXET-KDj0bl1m-X__FD0Mv_iwpQOMQk0y5NdsHqdqiOHfp6R6c27m=w400-h216" width="400" /></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">While we are at it, how about those times the district-approved charter schools run by </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">blatant homophobes. This tweet was from the former operator of Jacksonvilles 2 classical charter schools </span></p></div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That's right, my LGBTQ friends, you don't have to burn in hell; it's a choice.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When people stand up for Greene, they are giving the LGBTQ community the middle finger. Please don't tell me she has been forced to do it, like just following orders will ever be a valid excuse, because much of what happened in DCPS was a choice, but regardless, the bottom line is when you partner with bigots and homophobes, its impossible to tell you apart.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-32994201748694363972023-04-29T05:37:00.002-06:002023-04-29T05:37:46.054-06:00Teachers are the last ones who should be supporting Greene<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white;">For
those teachers still willing to give some largess to Greene, remember when DCPS
teachers were called groomers and pedophiles, and she stepped up and said that was
ridiculous, and when DeSantis teacher pay scheme cut veteran teacher salaries
and seriously disrespected them and said, that’s wrong? You don't? Neither do I.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I do
remember the grand jury report that said her administration helped cover up
hundreds of crimes, including dozens of batteries on school board employees. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How
about work expectations? Does anybody work a few hours beyond the contract because
there is too much to do? Dozens, hundreds? <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Remember, she said we had enough subs at the height of the pandemic? What the beep, was
that? She said we were fine when we were drowning.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How about classroom libraries? Has anybody had theirs taken out? That's a Duval thing if you didn't know. Only 2 of the 67 districts went that route.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Once, Greene gave us a pin, and people have confused that with her having
teachers' backs, something she has never done.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now
some people might say what about the millage increase, which is going to be a
good thing, but that wasn’t just her, that was the union and school board too,
but she definitely played a large role in it; I can't say she didn't. The thing is, we were so
desperate, it was needed so badly that the second it passed, the district
promptly said, forgetaboutit, we will do something next year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">All I
ask is you give her the same support that she has given you, which isn’t much.</span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 15pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQbs-d9tMx2TcrNYNwxbDSHXp1mOK_5uMj5ch9rRNVZCa_nCbhYjETZzm4xeAnMBXkeEyu3FBIGXS_uibHV9o31LX-ahnwoPnsLg-jUTrjQ2tTaDc-bdOH4zNFnX0k4r71bMzP6FfOfbM_56OEVtSwqe_ti6B7CokC9pqBXj_9Rk4Dkq29w1j2KEaO" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQbs-d9tMx2TcrNYNwxbDSHXp1mOK_5uMj5ch9rRNVZCa_nCbhYjETZzm4xeAnMBXkeEyu3FBIGXS_uibHV9o31LX-ahnwoPnsLg-jUTrjQ2tTaDc-bdOH4zNFnX0k4r71bMzP6FfOfbM_56OEVtSwqe_ti6B7CokC9pqBXj_9Rk4Dkq29w1j2KEaO" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-48866266101547864322023-02-25T05:53:00.000-07:002023-02-25T05:53:17.491-07:00Teachers, Superintendent Greene does not have your back.<p> One of the most laughable things Greene said when defending the district's incompetent handling of books was they were doing it to protect teachers. Greene has never had teachers' backs, and let me prove it to you.</p><p>Masks, when returning from the pandemic, she fought against using them time and time again. It was only a rare bit of backbone by the school board that made even our tepid mask policy happen.</p><p>Pay, when the governor announced his scheme to increase starting pay, he did so by cutting two admittedly flawed programs, but programs that put money into veteran teachers' pockets, meaning many veterans took pay cuts. Then the new system ensured that tenth-year teachers and first-year teachers would have practically the same salary.</p><p>Now you might be saying what about the milage rate increase and that is a good thing, but in reality, where it may be two steps forward, it is also one step back. The district sold to the public that the need was so important, it had to be done now, but after it passed, the district said, okay, see you next year. </p><p>Then way back when the district was selling the referendum, I initially didn't want to support it because you couldn't spend that money on salaries, which along with infrastructure was also a pretty major problem. Millage money you can spend on anything, sales tax money you can't.</p><p>I could also make the argument the millage increase was self-serving as DCPS is hemorrhaging teachers and her leadership hasn't been drawing replacements in, so throwing money at the problem is probably the only solution she could come up with.</p><p>A representative from the district told me we were spending 500k a month on emergency maintenance, and once the referendum passed, that money could go to other things like teacher salaries, in an effort to get me to support it, which I did partly based on that conversation and then, nothing happened, for the next two years. It was nothing but lip service. Now don't get me wrong, the referendum was and is uber important, but taking care of the staff, at least in my mind, is more so.</p><p>Pediohiles and groomers, for a year now, teachers have been called groomers by a segment of the public, sorry influential segment of the public, and Greene has, as far as I can tell, never said a word. She has never gone; that's stupid; our teachers are great, and to accuse them of something like this is just plain wrong. What an easy lift for Greene but one she couldn't bother to do.</p><p>The governor last spring also said teachers were trying to get students to switch genders, and again rather than Greene talk about how ridiculous that is and stand up for teachers, she just shrugged her shoulders. Leadership matters, and we have had zilch from her. </p><p>Finally, there is Amy Donofrio and Brian Covey, two teachers who were sacrificed by Greene for standing up for their students. Both of them should still have their jobs, and firing them is probably going to cost the district north of a half million.</p><p>Greene doesn't have teachers' backs; we are nothing but easily replaceable cogs to her; well, make that formerly easily replaceable. </p><p>How couldn't we be doing better?</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNvYL-RTv0miQSHpcfgjtltxrQWlnmeh96dZYAgDFEFx-uoRfAum6bTjJcYgrYvFqGRISE3YcIzbB_UsFvve7xT6padTjrr7R1Yk2kwFPlksxEHYIms1D5AbPs4eSxJiERXoR4Ar1Lqy_GCY3IGEZlvBS5PUx6fKhntdYUCdBp39NTmBkG3TVqN_9b" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="400" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNvYL-RTv0miQSHpcfgjtltxrQWlnmeh96dZYAgDFEFx-uoRfAum6bTjJcYgrYvFqGRISE3YcIzbB_UsFvve7xT6padTjrr7R1Yk2kwFPlksxEHYIms1D5AbPs4eSxJiERXoR4Ar1Lqy_GCY3IGEZlvBS5PUx6fKhntdYUCdBp39NTmBkG3TVqN_9b=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-71946044939580255912023-02-22T14:49:00.000-07:002023-02-22T14:49:28.409-07:00School board members Coker and Pearson make DeSantis's enemies list <p> In Florida republican politics, you are useful until you aren't, and Coker and Pearson just lost their utility.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcA324Xi7oS_1W3lA_2rWEytxh9PD9qEFWTzDpRU-8xaT-xdM4Br_qTWRcO5wEZD-6soirL4TYquYOePYDa_kSMUQNejzMsJ-bvYX_hxOnDJxQndqZRz0uJDMctY5Tip8X9yynHBDv0QJgwNtJVJBkzw0hQfNGQzQPmLbGcsq8ppNajhuyPVC5irOT" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="730" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcA324Xi7oS_1W3lA_2rWEytxh9PD9qEFWTzDpRU-8xaT-xdM4Br_qTWRcO5wEZD-6soirL4TYquYOePYDa_kSMUQNejzMsJ-bvYX_hxOnDJxQndqZRz0uJDMctY5Tip8X9yynHBDv0QJgwNtJVJBkzw0hQfNGQzQPmLbGcsq8ppNajhuyPVC5irOT=w400-h279" width="400" /></a></div><br />I don't know if Coker is a republican or not, but I have my suspicions. Pearson, on the other hand was endorsed by the Republican Party in 2020, and they spent thousands of dollars on her campaign. She is pretty far to the right and uber-religious, and the space between her and the DeSantis agenda has been nonexistent, and yet she is on the list to be replaced. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhACA_r_TqoDhU7Xrsgc79DSj9Id7UHL9z49MmwbGwyzfJ3gryPyyyECqYXeN_SDh7qaJZ5KdXFnyIcH1x4HEVbKmWKoXmK8DbZrDHuxyYNqMCl471EFaoL8zduN7-Hcf_THXTcMF2TzMhcuHo3I3JZVuC4D9FGNAlKX5Ne2HIVBKnOoh0B3CTDibMh" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="682" data-original-width="562" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhACA_r_TqoDhU7Xrsgc79DSj9Id7UHL9z49MmwbGwyzfJ3gryPyyyECqYXeN_SDh7qaJZ5KdXFnyIcH1x4HEVbKmWKoXmK8DbZrDHuxyYNqMCl471EFaoL8zduN7-Hcf_THXTcMF2TzMhcuHo3I3JZVuC4D9FGNAlKX5Ne2HIVBKnOoh0B3CTDibMh=w528-h640" width="528" /></a></div><br />So yeah, that happened, but maybe it's not all that bad. maybe it will be a wake-up call for the ladies. Maybe the knowledge that they aren't in the club and the powers that be want them kicked to the curb will empower them, after two long years of silence, to do what is right and stand up for students, teachers, and schools. Maybe right? Maybe?<p></p><p>A boy can dream. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-89099746789633341782023-02-20T09:38:00.002-07:002023-02-20T09:40:42.750-07:00Will the media hold DCPS accountable for their "false book naratives."<p>I sent below to numerous members of the local media in the hopes they will let the public know about the district's shenaignas. </p><p>DCPS firing Brian Covey the day after DeSantis called his video a fake narrative is bad, but then DCPS lied about it, making it much worse. </p><div>DCPS's spokesperson Tracy Pierce said there were lots of books in the library for students, but that's not true, and you should ask the school's media specialist if they had one that is. Like many district middle and high school libraries, it has been closed since the Vitti era.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="image.png" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" data-image-whitelisted="" height="97" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=c616020231&attid=0.5&permmsgid=msg-a:r6793420717335215588&th=1866c368b8a5604b&view=fimg&fur=ip&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ-20PlYjp9Lu31hE27ZysWEMCOn4aLXIRVWXm-kKs5lY8xxGDi0b8HmOF8ZFvZ9Iy9kjV_z6FFdTS7Y9hAWRnMWYCqC6v60XvGzGQOqJXskUTwhSxFtscSK9eI&disp=emb&realattid=ii_lec2hvs14" width="510" /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>When I tweeted about the library being closed for almost a decade, here are some responses I received.</div><div><br /></div><div><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">That picture is TRUE. I've posted this before - after my oldest 2 kids left Elem school, they never went to a school library to check out a book again. Sandalwood's library has had no books for more than 5 yrs; Mandarin HS emptied their library in 2019.</span><br /></div><div><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Exactly. There may be a member of UOPD allowing the library door to be unlocked, but no one is updating the collections or checking out books to students. You won't find empty shelves in my school's library; it got a makeover over the summer and the shelves were removed!</span> </div><div><br /></div><div> <span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">My middle schooler (at a magnet) only goes to the media center to get his laptop at the beginning of the year.</span><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">True indeed. Two sons through DCPS. One Stanton grad, one DA. Although both were voracious readers, neither checked out a book past elementary at Chet's Creek. Never heard them ever mention being in a media center either.</span> </div><div><br /></div><div>I think why we have so few libraries and why they aren't used would be a good story, but this is about the district lying.</div><div><br /></div><div>I spoke to several teachers at Mandarin Middle, and this is what they told me about the library that DCPS and Tracy Pierce said was fully functional.</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="image.png" class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" data-image-whitelisted="" height="135" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=c616020231&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-a:r6793420717335215588&th=1866c368b8a5604b&view=fimg&fur=ip&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ9vu7GDBrxLNRrP49fohMhyZ3SHnFS2AG3gLZvveWhgt7TTvpdaGRfj0bHa9PLTd5gpbXwDP0yPmN0KA1S0Gjx3i-3UoeSyHONrnPCASxb0NzRZEyhqT6OI0mI&disp=emb&realattid=ii_lec24z2k0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;" tabindex="0" width="510" /><br /></div><div><img alt="image.png" class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" data-image-whitelisted="" height="174" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=c616020231&attid=0.2&permmsgid=msg-a:r6793420717335215588&th=1866c368b8a5604b&view=fimg&fur=ip&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ_su99YRn-GF00YEE7a8IGvCpeR0V7RS8IGnq0Y8yw3XyoxBKbQxlY_cLqDDOeKBu-Lh6TeYiub3Fz708IiIuAM_qEPYHfoTs4uskfg9hWl7m1WqqNl-GaLYEw&disp=emb&realattid=ii_lec25ip31" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;" tabindex="0" width="510" /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="image.png" class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" data-image-whitelisted="" height="148" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=c616020231&attid=0.3&permmsgid=msg-a:r6793420717335215588&th=1866c368b8a5604b&view=fimg&fur=ip&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ9SWSlgKKtifRALStbjLjl9AWWLrBNv00KZkOwKtBqlXtnjCYq8PVj-yGlzvLdOARr3m8dv5IRhIKU1_iLUVHhXSl7NQK-XaJcaDXy7ECUWr-FpMIK814ukXzY&disp=emb&realattid=ii_lec2a6r32" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;" tabindex="0" width="510" /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="image.png" class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" data-image-whitelisted="" height="117" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=c616020231&attid=0.4&permmsgid=msg-a:r6793420717335215588&th=1866c368b8a5604b&view=fimg&fur=ip&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ97vNQ2M_Frf1wSMBhLpTsk7GPTtFCQN2PT9HKekHkCkDlxIE_4tDQi_yGuFlii6bP6thjtGsq3BGOfDJw6-NDjcsTz2jKId_HXCOFTvbC-M0KS_F_F5SUwr84&disp=emb&realattid=ii_lec2c4bi3" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;" tabindex="0" width="510" /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> The district is lying when they said the library was functional, and they were lying when they said Covey was putting out a false narrative. I don't think it's right, and I hope you hold them accountable. Then like when the district fired Donofrio, I imagine a lawsuit is coming.</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally, Covey wasn't just a sub, he was a permanent sub in a classroom with a vacancy, and the district fired those student's teacher, and now those kids will be without a teacher again, and for what? To appease DeSantis and cover up for their own ineptitude is what. </div><span style="color: #888888;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /></span><div><span style="color: #888888;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbXViiK4_hMmfhqFk9Kq2uZQV7rZMz0VEdDF0Zc4qx-w5Ye2m0bq2Pb2QpHtzoO7gjP7TgZ4hc9xusbdEcrRqaqz4BpLbVoW8d9FuyTX7fqOvMvQZyT_og8HL4CIvfAyoTjbJwfxj2VmcLxzLwFKo04I7FNIKeixIBZEhvv3G9Ccq5w16UCtBh-XT9" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="400" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbXViiK4_hMmfhqFk9Kq2uZQV7rZMz0VEdDF0Zc4qx-w5Ye2m0bq2Pb2QpHtzoO7gjP7TgZ4hc9xusbdEcrRqaqz4BpLbVoW8d9FuyTX7fqOvMvQZyT_og8HL4CIvfAyoTjbJwfxj2VmcLxzLwFKo04I7FNIKeixIBZEhvv3G9Ccq5w16UCtBh-XT9=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-694614771683660722023-02-18T05:50:00.001-07:002023-02-18T05:50:28.292-07:00Greene's constant submission to DeSantis is sickening<div><p> When DeSantis says jump, Greene always asks, how high. When DeSantis hits the district, Greene always asks, can we have another. Her slavish fidelity to the man dismantling public education is quite frankly gross, and this week it cost a teacher their job, as Greene sided with DeSantis over the truth.</p><p>So on Wednesday DeSants engaged in some first-rate gaslighting as he talked about a viral video showing an empty library in DCPS. </p></div><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/lYutUclegT0" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lYutUclegT0/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div>DeSantis doesn't mention that books are being removed not just for porn but also if they might make some fragile white parent feel uncomfortable. I.E., any book about a person of color's struggle. </div><div><p>That's bad; what happened next was worse; the person who put the video up, and I am going to refer to him by his Twitter name JagsfanBrian was fired. The media has been referring to him as a sub, but he was more than that; he was a permanent sub in a classroom with a vacancy. He was those kids' teachers who will now go without. </p><p>The district just said, %@$# those kids, AGAIN! First, because they didn't find them a teacher, and now because they took the one person away who had shown up. And that's what is so infuriating about all of this; nobody cares what all of this is doing to children, not DeSantis and certainly not Greene and DCPS.</p><p>Why was he let go? They gave some bull sh*t reason, but the real reason is Greene's slavish fidelity to our fascist-in-chief, and shame on her. SHAME ON HER!</p><p><br /></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0