now on the flip side…I have personally worked with the worst teachers in the world! Locally! They don’t deserve a pot to piss in….if I found out my own kids’ teachers were as incompetent as some of the fools running around Tallahassee claiming to be teachers, Leon County Schools would have a lawsuit on their hands. Fortunately for my kids and the district, Kate Sullivan provided excellent instruction and support all around the board. But what about OUR students at Pineview and Oakridge?? Don’t they deserve competent teachers? How about the young adults at Rickards and Godby and especially Gadsden County High?? Their teachers can barely pass the teacher certification exams. It’s time for some investigation on exactly which of these “teachers” are actually certified to teach the subject and how many attempts it took them to pass a very simple exam called the GENERAL KNOWLEDGE exam. I think readers of TR would be floored with the results.

In conclusion, dumping money into ill-advised and unearned teacher raises is not the right answer. All teachers in Florida should be held to high standards, not just those seeking bonus money. ACT and SAT scores should be checked upon hire, not after they’ve already wasted a year or more of a child’s learning opportunity. Behavior specialists should not be instructing any classes – only those certified to teach that particular subject. All Leon County teachers cannot teach MY kids and you shouldn’t let them all in front of your kids, either. Pay a decent livable salary and those who should be in the classroom (myself) might come back.

We should give bonuses to males choosing to teach at the elementary school level. Give hiring bonuses to those coming out of college. As a teacher 40 years ago, I was only one of two male teachers in an elementary school and today the numbers haven’t changed a whole lot.

The state could award bonuses, and the school district could supplement with their own funds as well.

Rocky Hanna is failure! His non interviewed political appointments of Assistant Superintendents and Elementary Director… equal the above school grades.

School board blames the test… Nobody place the responsibility where it should be at the door of Rocky Hanna and his cronies. Rocky demonstrates on a daily basis a complete lack of understanding of curriculum, instruction, and accountability.

No raises for teachers but highly paid Assistant Superintendents thrive with no accountability. Oh, but look deeper, Rocky gave raises to a chosen few.

Leon schools run by an admitted unethical educator who falsified information to state and federal authorities, gets elected, imposes a hit list, ruins the lives of those on his hit list, all this while the school board sits idle and silent. It is good to be King /Superintendent of Schools when you rule by intimidation.