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 VOTE - School Board 18 August 2010
| Why I voted for Joe Neunder and Kathy James for Sarasota County School Board
There are two parents who are fiscal conservatives running for the Sarasota
County School Board. That is why I voted for Joe Neunder in District 1 and
Kathy James in District 5.
All the other candidates represent the status quo.
The status quo includes:
1. Fiscal Irresponsibility - Spending on ever increasing salaries and benefits
using non-recurring dollars for recurring expenses. Add to that the recent vote
to use reserves to give raises.
2. Social Irresponsibility - A failed school system that is not being held
accountable for over 50% of our public school students reading below grade
level. Add to that over 50% are below grade level in science and nearly 30%
below grade level in mathematics.
3. Moral Irresponsibility - Bypassing voters using Certificates of
Participation to fund school construction. This process allows the school board
to in debt our children and grandchildren without asking you and me first.
4. Academic Irresponsibility - The decision by the school board to keep an
academically inaccurate and biased textbook on its approved list goes beyond
the pale. Any textbook that favors socialism, Eastern/Middle Eastern Cultures
and Islam needs to be removed from the district approved list.
5. No Accountability - Teachers must be held accountable for student
performance just as you and I are held accountable for our performance in the
world of work. Only in our public schools do we find this anomaly. Why is this
so? - because it is written into the union contract.
6. Taxation Without Representation - The school board raised our property taxes
by 6% while our county is in a deep recession. They did not even ask us, as
they said they would.
If you are tired of the status quo and pouring your hard earned tax dollars
into a failed public school system that is harming our kids, then I encourage
you to vote for Joe Neunder and
Kathy
James.
By Rich Swier
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FCAT Scores 7 July 2010
| The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) results for 2010 were just
released. According to the Sarasota County FCAT score data for 10th
graders:
•61% are below grade level in reading
•62% are below grade level in science (this is for 11th graders)
•27% are below grade level in mathematics
If you read the local media you get a different picture. Headlines say
the district mean scores are better than the state average and in some grades
the mean scores improved. True enough but that is not the whole picture and
does a disservice to our students. I suggest we focus on those students who
fall below level 3 on the FCAT as the true measure of the district's success or
failure. When this many students cannot achieve at the minimum level of
performance in core subjects then the district is in deep trouble.
As Florida TaxWatch points out these 10th graders will never catch up. They are
doomed for life and will never achieve their full potential. Harsh words, yes,
but true.
FL DOE
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