Comments on: DeSantis Seeks to Boost Money in Scholarship Program

By: Pretty Petty

Pretty Petty — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 21:05:14 +0000

In reply to Mimi.

That’s just it….People don’t recognize what’s happening all over the country. There’s a move to end public school all together. It’s a huge huge expenditure and a monster to reform in its current state. It’s just easier to do away with the whole idea of brick and mortar public schools and move to a virtual model where education is still provided for free, it just won’t be provided in the expensive way it’s done now. At first I was against the change, but our schools are just plain ineffective. No reason to keep spending billions of tax dollars on a model that isn’t working. I think maybe a combo of virtual plus social skills days??? and boarding schools for those who need more. It’s time to try something new.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:36:00 +0000

Rocky Hanna’s claim of sovereign immunity that he is taking up now that is being sued by almost everyone that was on his hit-list is laughable. Rocky Hanna cares more about self-preservation and cronyism than he does providing services to our neediest students. The entire Hanna leadership team and current school board members should all be replaced with people who care more about students and teachers then they do their own self-preservation. The school board either has read the hancocks report or should when Rocky Hanna admits he made the whole thing up. So the school board holds meetings every two weeks they look the superintendent squarely in the eye and refused to hold him accountable for costing the district close to a million dollars on a fabricated set of information that Rocky Hanna parlayed into winning an election.

By: Mimi

Mimi — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 20:38:06 +0000

For children with IEPs – over 6000 in Leon County – the school district gets additional federal grant money that flows through the state for each child to help educate that child. By taking that money on the children’s behalf, Rocky and his team agree to follow the rules and use the federal dollars to help the kids. But they don’t – ESE is so raft with incompetency, bigotry and unethical practices that the money is squandered and doesn’t go to the children who need it or even the schools they attend. This is just another example of the public school system digging its own grave and giving ammunition to school choice advocates, although I think the new governor did what is talked about in this article because he cares about children. Wish that Rocky and the Leon County School District would follow the governor’s example and start caring about all kids.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 13:12:55 +0000

I hope someone looks into the abominably poor services provided by Leon County Public Schools under the direction of Rocky Hanna, Alan Cox and Gregory for students with special needs. The school district continues to be sued for a lack of services and a lack of therapy that they provide. It is an antiquated system that shows that Rocky Hanna does not care about students with special needs. Leon County Schools has an unequal system of student services, if you are poor or have special needs you are going to schools and services that provide the bare minimum, sometimes less than minimum. Hanna spends close to a million dollars on salaries for Assistant Superintendents but very few dollars on services for at risk youth. Rocky Hanna an enabler of over paid micromanagers. When Rocky Hanna ran for office said “I wanted all schools to look equal” …Hanna it’s about what goes on in the classroom not the bricks that people look at as they drive by.