Jacksonville's kids have many enemies

There is the president and his secretary of education who don’t understand education. They have made it into a race with winners and losers. On one hand they say they don’t want teachers to teach to the test but on the other RTTT is all about teaching to the test.

There is the Florida legislator and governor who are only interested in privatizing education and putting our kid’s futures in the hands of organizations which have zero accountability and are more interested in making a buck than what happens to our children.

There is our school board who constantly turns a blind eye to what is happening in our schools preferring willful ignorance to action. They only serve the superintendent and his administration having long ago forsaken, the cities children, teachers, parents and stakeholders.

There is our superintendent who is only concerned with appearances and has gutted rigor, discipline and teacher morale so he can say look at us we’re a B district.

There are the teachers who know what the problems are but sit silently and endure hoping something will change afraid for their jobs. They have forgotten the adage that for evil to triumph good men must simply do nothing. I get it though, who goes first.

Finally there are the parents who despite the overwhelming evidence our education system is heading in the wrong direction vote the same people into office over and over.