It also drives families with kids out of Florida to more sane educational operating environments.
Florida already has the worst teacher shortage in the nation: https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/01/22/our-child...
Florida already has the worst teacher shortage in the nation: https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/01/22/our-child...
I’m not sure I follow.
M*A*S*H would be condemned as anti-veteran today.
I'm not sure I follow.
Government regulations rarely make any logical sense
PhDs -- yes. They're expected to teach or TA.
Most of my mentoring and tutoring experience came from new hires at work.
The lowest scores on the ASVAB are for things like cooks or truck drivers, or things like fuel filtration specialists aka gas station attendants in cammo.
None are qualified to teach Calc I but some might not be qualified to teach much of anything.
This is completely insane. How can this be even remotely constitutional? Please tell me at least the current Florida legislature is deeply unpopular because of their commitment to censorship and opposition to education.
Having a library of books is an easy way to encourage literacy, probably even the best way. It is not the only way.
Far more important to the development of literacy in children is the presence of books in the home. There are decades of statistics on the impact of just having a stack of books in the same home as the child.
All of this is also failing to touch on the problem that drew this overreaction. To be sure it is a huge over-extension of what the government ought to do. But the thing it was a reaction to... That never had anything to do with literacy, and everything to do with ideology. When one uses literacy as the shield, and depends on the perpetual good graces of people one has spent years demonizing on ideological grounds, one should expect damage to the very thing everyone thought was sacrosanct.
Of course, but that's not something schools have control over. Unless they can give a child a book on loan to take home. And that requires books in the school. And because different children have different interests and different reading issues, a wide selection of books is better than a narrow one.
> That never had anything to do with literacy, and everything to do with ideology.
Do you mean that the ban is about ideology, sacrificing children's access to reading in order to indoctrinate them into a state-approved ideology?
> When one uses literacy as the shield, and depends on the perpetual good graces of people one has spent years demonizing on ideological grounds, one should expect damage to the very thing everyone thought was sacrosanct.
They clearly don't think it's sacrosanct if they're sacrificing it this eagerly to hurt the people they want to demonize. I guess we're talking about gay people here? They want to demonize gay people, and want to restrict the book supply in order to indoctrinate children with that?
This isn't new. Florida teacher shortage has existed for a long time. It's because Florida doesn't pay their teachers. This isn't likely to change anytime soon because Republicans have had a stranglehold on Florida since 1999, and they are notoriously anti-education.
Is it anti-education, pro-poverty, or both?
They really got you vibing on that us v them toxicity don't they.
The data[0] doesn't support that claim.
[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/welfare-rec...
Of course you can live on welfare alone. Many do, and in fact it can become a full time job just to stay on welfare, especially when it becomes multi-generational.
Source: a partner who worked in the welfare offices and dealt with such people (of all races).
This isn't my experience. Many who came into asking were even on minimum-wage jobs, just trying to survive.
Source: I worked in welfare offices and dealt with many people.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_terr...
Florida would have a booming economy if the governor's office and state administration was entirely staffed with armadillos. Florida's economy and low taxes are fueled by tourism, and since tourism is unlikely to go anywhere, neither is the booming economy, which has boomed through every administration, Republican or Democrat, since the end of WWII. There is nothing the fascist Santos administration could possibly do to either hurt or help Florida's economy, no matter how deeply he indulges his narcissism.
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-elections/exit-polls
EDIT: Since I can't reply the the threads below me, "education" can't just be had in the classroom. In fact as an experienced developer almost all of my education was outside the classroom. I suspect this is the case for most fields.
EDIT 2: Higher skilled "educated" people like surgeons, urologists, anesthesiologists, oncologists and orthodontists vote Republican[3]
Which has been true since the dawn of value exchange. That's part of why the outcry against "inequality" citing differences in income between a 20-year veteran of some career versus a new entrant in the market are so tough to swallow.
Wait twenty years... they'll be the same... Unless we change the rules to take it all away from everyone.
What you're describing is vocational training. Education typically includes forced ventures outside of one's own narrow worldview. That's why Republicans hate education. They want cogs with saleable vocational skills who won't question the narrow worldview that is preferred on the right.
https://flgov.com/2020/06/24/governor-ron-desantis-signs-his...
And is about to raise them more but with some possible union restrictions attached:
https://www.wfla.com/news/desantis-call-for-more-teacher-pay...
[1]https://www.fldoe.org/finance/fl-edu-finance-program-fefp/ft...
[2] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_203.20.a...