1,000 Pinellas County teachers were just pink slipped (Spring Hill: day care, school rankings)

[kyle19125]

Good Ol' Governor Ricky is really moving our economy forward!

[LightnMisty]

Originally Posted by BBI

Also would like to know the answer to the first question. 30 seconds of google searching makes me think this is par for the course for non-tenured teachers. I know there are some teachers on here who can give us some insight.

On administrative cost reduction, take a look at the budget, its online. Seems like you could pretty easily take $60MM out of it without touching instruction, without jeopardizing the system, and without any self-sacrifice by the school board (though the school board appears to make way too much...).

Speaking as a teacher who was visited in the middle of first period class yesterday and told in a thirty second conversation that I would be getting my pink slip and to not let this interrupt learning in my classroom.....THIS IS NOT PAR FOR COURSE ....IT IS UNPRECEDENTED...

At least Hillsborough County did the right thing....the people at risk there are anyone NOT TEACHING IN A CLASSROOM. It is what we are soppose to be doing--teaching, not administrating. But it is the powerless that go...the administrators aren't going to lay themselves off--at least in Pinellas County, obviously.

[crazynip]

Originally Posted by LightnMisty

Speaking as a teacher who was visited in the middle of first period class yesterday and told in a thirty second conversation that I would be getting my pink slip and to not let this interrupt learning in my classroom.....THIS IS NOT PAR FOR COURSE ....IT IS UNPRECEDENTED...

Are you serious? That is pathetic...

[Maggi07]

Originally Posted by LightnMisty

Speaking as a teacher who was visited in the middle of first period class yesterday and told in a thirty second conversation that I would be getting my pink slip and to not let this interrupt learning in my classroom.....THIS IS NOT PAR FOR COURSE ....IT IS UNPRECEDENTED...

Geesh, that's terrible. Wow.

Are these pink slips the final word? Or is there a chance of getting hired back in the fall?

[Pookie]

Rick Scott is doing a great job, and he's saving the taxpayers money.

Now, many budgetary problems would be solved if all of you people would stop voting for smaller class size. We had classrooms TWICE THE SIZE back when I was in school, and we learned plenty.

[ferret111]

Originally Posted by Pookie

Rick Scott is doing a great job, and he's saving the taxpayers money.

I tried reading this with a straight face, but I couldn't.

[newyorker24]

Originally Posted by Pookie

Rick Scott is doing a great job, and he's saving the taxpayers money.

Now, many budgetary problems would be solved if all of you people would stop voting for smaller class size. We had classrooms TWICE THE SIZE back when I was in school, and we learned plenty.

Do you have kids in public schools with 40+ students in their classes? My high school was like that and I can assure you that very little learning occurred. Increasing the class size is not going to make an already mediocre public education system any better. The people that are in support of this either don't have children or they send them to private schools so they don't care.

[Spring Hillian]

Where do you get your facts as that FL schools are "mediocre". Please post a link to any facts on that.

According to this link, FL school system is ranked 11 out of 50. That makes 39 states which scored less than FL, at least on the high school level.

America's Best High Schools: State-by-State Statistics - US News and World Report

Originally Posted by newyorker24

Do you have kids in public schools with 40+ students in their classes? My high school was like that and I can assure you that very little learning occurred. Increasing the class size is not going to make an already mediocre public education system any better. The people that are in support of this either don't have children or they send them to private schools so they don't care.

[newyorker24]

Originally Posted by Spring Hillian

Where do you get your facts as that FL schools are "mediocre". Please post a link to any facts on that.

According to this link, FL school system is ranked 11 out of 50. That makes 39 states which scored less than FL, at least on the high school level.

America's Best High Schools: State-by-State Statistics - US News and World Report

Anyone that has taken a college statistics course understands that anyone can rank the states based on their own biased criteria to yield whatever results they want. Even college rankings are unreliable because different sources come up with different lists. However, here is a real fact: FL ranks 41 for public school revenue per student (2009). You don't have children so obviously you don't want the government spending your tax dollars to improve the education here.

[Spring Hillian]

So you think U.S. News and Report came up with this bias all the states OK.

Originally Posted by newyorker24

Anyone that has taken a college statistics course understands that anyone can rank the states based on their own biased criteria to yield whatever results they want. Even college rankings are unreliable because different sources come up with different lists. However, here is a real fact: FL ranks 41 for public school revenue per student (2009). You don't have children so obviously you don't want the government spending your tax dollars to improve the education here.