Comments on: School Board Term Limits Ready For House Floor

By: Marion

Marion — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 01:46:05 +0000

LCS is based on politics and what gets the board and superintendent re-elected. It is time to get rid of incompetent principals, assistant principals, district administrators and staff so schools may be led by competent and caring people who are ethical and knowledgeable. This community was mislead into voting for the superintendent believing change was going to take place. Not only is he a typical politician, he is also unethical and runs everything based on what works for him. Time for him and the board to go.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:27:40 +0000

I have had the opportunity to work in several school districts in the state – two superintendents were elected and two superintendents were appointed. Hands down the districts with appointed superintendents were able to concentrate on the needs of the district as they did not have to fulfill promises of the campaign and/or prepare for the upcoming campaign. I am a former employee of the Leon County School District and was constantly surprised at the incompetency and the extent the district will go to ignore it. There are so many dedicated teachers and employees throughout the district never recognized due to the constant negative impact of those in higher and well paying positions. It is time Leon County does the right thing and vote to appoint a qualified superintendent.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:39:16 +0000

Then put term limits in place for Leon County. My assertion was that one size does not fit all and the state legislature does not need to mandate term limits for all when it WILL hurt our smaller, more rural counties. Did I not make myself clear in my comment? When you have a legislature that has been calling for local control of education and does exactly the opposite, you should ask yourself why. If you want term local term limits, get it done locally. Other counties have.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:28:15 +0000

In reply to Catherine.

Catherine
This is an attempt at cleaning up the mess that a school system has become when it is governed by multi-term individuals that refuse to act. Come on, putting all students in Advanced Placement courses to game tbe accountabity system when 20% read on grade level. Leon County is the poster child for ineptitude nepotism. It is a school system that has huge pay inequities, a system that rewards vengeance and nepotism. When teachers make less than $40,000 per year and associate superintendents make $100,000.

We have associate superintendents who do not teach students make over $100,000 and we return crony retired administrators to high paid jobs the legislature must intervene.

Please refute any of the comments above. This is why we need term limits.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:14:15 +0000

This is yet another example of the Florida Legislature removing local control without considering the “unintended consequences.” Small districts have a difficult time find and retaining quality school board members. Some districts have already implemented term limits on the local level. If that is what the district wants, then let them implement it. In addition to this, the Constitution Revision Commission is attempting to make school board positions a non-paid position and also make the Superintendent an appointed position. This is an orchestrated attempt to privatize education and eliminate public schools.

By: James

James — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 19:55:00 +0000

Maybe the school board can explain the demotion of a principal who improved her school grade from a D to a C while the principle of Godby High School who put all of the students and advanced u.s. history to avoid them taking the state test gets a promotion! Sounds like nepotism and vengeance from superintendent Hannah at its best with NO oversight from the school board.

Sometimes it takes divine intervention from the legislature to clean up a school system that is fraught with nepotism, vengeance and unethical hiring practices and gaming of the school accountability. So while 20% of the students at Godby High School are proficient readers the school is a C and the principal gets a promotion. When we have a superintendent that dated teachers he evaluated and hid from child support obligations for 10 years I would expect nothing less.

The Florida Department of Education required that Jefferson County go into a charter operated system because of lack of financial oversight. It’s time for Leon County Schools to become a charter school system with direct oversight from the Department of Education until such time as all of the unethical behaviors nepotism and vengeance is cleared out.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 13:46:25 +0000

The MeToo movement skipped Tallahassee. We have an affidavit that clearly details inappropriate sexual conduct by Mr. Hanna yet we have silence from the school board.

We have school administrators who run business and check Facebook throughout the day on our tax dollars. Silence from the school board

Can the school board explain why administrators have district paid cell phones but my child’s teacher has no classroom supplies?

Can the school board explain why they allow retired educators to come back after they completed DROP (Wright, Olk, Owens, Hightower, Bell) ?

Can the school board explain why my tax dollars are paying 50% of the salary of the head of the Leon Classroom Association who is no longer a classroom teacher?

Can the school board explain any of this?

By: alex

alex — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 23:36:37 +0000

In reply to mimi. One is still single. The other dated while single and married a vendor.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 22:31:25 +0000

In reply to mimi. Did they marry those top staff members?

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 19:58:50 +0000

Dear Leon School board
Concerning Mr Hanna:
Making false statements (18 U.S.C. § 1001) is the common name for the United States federal crime laid out in Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which generally prohibits knowingly and willfully making false or fraudulent statements, or concealing information, in “any matter within the jurisdiction” of the federal government of the United States.

This statute is used in many contexts. Most commonly, prosecutors use this statute to reach cover-up crimes such as perjury, false declarations, and obstruction of justice and government fraud cases.