At the last Leon County School Board meeting, a parent cited the low school grade of Astoria Park Elementary as an indication of a “low performing” school. She was upset that she could not school choice out of the school she was zoned for.
LCS Board member Rosanne Wood took the opportunity to express her views on school grades. The video of her comments are at the end of this report. A summary of the comments are provided below.
School Board Member Rosanne Wood’s comments on school grades made at the February 24th LCSB meeting.
A lot of this fear… is the misunderstanding that our community and our parents have about school grades…
People see that the school grade is a C and they suddenly think it’s an inferior school.
School grades are a measure of who walked in the door and what skills they had when they walked in the door in general …
…and schools can bump them up a little bit and they try and they do but it is not the reflection of what goes on in that school the kind of teaching that goes on, the work sometimes it’s twice as hard….”
If you talk to actual parents in those schools they’ll say they love their school and they are branded you know in a very unfair way by school grades…
Sometimes schools because of the school grade get this negative rap and I so object to it because it was such a misrepresentation of whats happening in our schools.
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Tiger, I went to the site on the candidate for school board. It really tells me nothing! I want to know what a candidate thinks about the fiscal mess the schools are in, the immoral teaching of sex education and gender. The rewriting of history and the bias teaching or lack of the teaching of our Constitution. The site provides nothing, basically I’m a good guy with a family and was raised here. Must be a liberal democrat, it’s al about them.
Rosanne
Care to COMMENT on the newly released salaries of your Assistant Superintendents and how about Scott Hansen making $106,000 after hiding Rocky from paying child support and not reporting him to child welfare authorities as required. Leon Schools pays teachers the 46th lowest salaries but the friends of Rocky are paid $100,000 salaries. Unreal, sad but true.
Rocky actually added another Assistant Superintendent recently, now there are 5 of them Gayle, Gregory, Cox, Rodgers and McAllister- plus he hired his buddy Hansen – but no one seems to know what he does.
She was so freaking disrespectful the moment she opened her mouth. To say that Astoria Park is the worst school is so disrespectful to the community oh I’m sorry her community, employees and students. How are these schools supposed to make any progress if you are always trying to change schools. Move where you want to enroll your kids. When she mentioned School Choice was hard to reach unfortunately she isn’t the only parent contacting that office.
…and schools can bump them up a little bit and they try and they do but it is not the reflection of what goes on in that school the kind of teaching that goes on, the work sometimes it’s twice as hard….” ………………………….WTH are you talking about………………?
Rosanne Woods you are an embarrassing uneducated ego driven non caring school board member. Your hostility toward providing equal opportunities for all students is clear. Anyone that votes for you agrees with these doomsday second class education views. As bad as your views are they are amplified by the disgusting language spewing from Rocky Hanna and Alva Striplin.
Rocky how and why did you hide from child support for 10 years? Rosanne next time you want to explain your views how about asking Rocky Hanna publicly at a board meeting how does a man walk away from parental obligations for 10 years? Next time you want to comment publicly explain why you approved 3 Assistant Superintendents without posting any jobs and paying them over $100, 000 each to stroke your ego while teachers make the 46th lowest salaries in Florida.
Rosanne Woods should resign. Your racist comments of low expectations is an illustration of your disdain and hatred of students of poverty and families that live with poverty. Your elite status comes through your comments leaving this community with a clear definition of your economic racism.
As a taxpayer in Leon County I ask for your resignation. As a parent I hope that your misguided discriminatory beliefs do not permeate the school system that I rely upon to provide a positive future for my child.
Rosanne Woods you are an economic racist. Please resign.
Economic racist? More like Educational Terrorist and Ivory Tower Thug wagging her finger at us as if we don’t pay her salary from our own pockets. Shame, such shame, have you no shame? Cobi Mathis’ blood cries out from the earth.
Our community should stand together to renounce Rosanne Woods, Rocky Hanna and Alva Striplin for the comments that define them and their approach to education as a soft bigotry of low expectations.
Instead of stating what they have not done that has caused these school achievement gaps that produce discrimination, as if their direction of causality pointed in only one direction. Through this logic, fundamental and underlying systemic inequities are overlooked by a focus that is limited to the outcomes of those inequities.
The comments of Rosanne Wood, Alva Striplin and Rocky Hanna should sicken every member of our community. These people have demonstrated they have put in place economic and racial policies that are intended to harm our most vulnerable students and families.
Rosanne Wood your comments and editorial about school grades clearly illustrate your disdain for students at risk and the staff that have dedicated their lives to them.
Your dismissive attitude is a clear defining moment in our history that school board members lack the courage, vision and tenacity to ensure that schools exceed expectations. On display for the entire community is your culture of bigotry through comments of low expectations. Please remove yourself from the school board and seek therapy.
Between insulting parents, your defined culture of low expectations, some of the lowest teacher salaries in Florida while paying your Assistant Superintendents over $100,000 each, the school board and Rocky Hanna have demonstrated to our community the ineptitude of leadership that is rampant in Leon County Schools.
This comment sums up the ineptitude that permeates the school board and Rocky Hanna “Sometimes schools because of the school grade get this negative rap and I so object to it because it was such a misrepresentation of whats happening in our schools.” Question for Rosanne Woods, Rocky Hanna and his hand picked non interviewed $100,000 per year Assistant Superintendents…when schools with the highest poverty have less than 30% of students scoring Level 3 in reading and math you are saying it is a misrepresentation? Maybe it is the truth and you have failed to put in place the needed support to students, schools and families.
By the way who really cares about what Rosanne Wood thinks? I care more about the educational gap that has been caused by an inept school board combined with an unethical discriminatory Superintendent and his henchmen known as Assistant Superintendents.
Rosanne Woods your arrogance and disdain for students with high needs is made clear by your absurd comments.
Rocky Hanna along with the school board and his Assistant Superintendents all need to placed in high needs schools and asked to teach. None of them would last a week. $100,000 for ego driven Assistant Superintendents who play to the inflated egos of non caring board members and an unethical discriminatory Superintendent – Rocky Hanna.
I think Rosanne Woods should read the reviews from the parents of students that went to that school, I would also like to add that teachers improve students more than what Woods would suggest. And just for clarification, the parents at the meeting the other night did go to Astoria with the children to visit.
I couldnt believe what I was hearing from board members…elected members speaking that way…shameful and hateful!
Well said Rosanne
What was well said Ms. mm? Was it well said by Rosanne that if you are poor or special needs you have no hope and we are not responsible for teaching you at high levels? Rosanne Wood, the more you talk the parents see who you are, a person that has very low expectations of schools, students and parents. Thanks Rosanne for showing the community who you really are, a person that has low expectations and an excuse maker.
Never happen. Rocky is supported by way too many people that get it. He is not supported by the ignorant.
Oh Vern. That isn’t what she said at all. Comprehension is hard for you huh?
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Well I think Rocky’s and Alva’s public disrespect of that foster mom will cost them the election.
Regardless of whatever spin local Rocky lovers or Rocky haters try to paint over the situation.
The public disrespect of the foster mom will cost Rocky and Alva their fiefdom.
Even if you think the foster mom is nuts or should spend big bucks and move to a good school district none of that matters.
Public disrespect of any foster mom comes with dire consequences for Rocky and the LCS Mob.
Never happen. Rocky is supported by way too many people that get it. He is not supported by the ignorant.
So how do we measure what the school taught them? We assume they were ignorant when they arrived… That woman is an idiot, and she thinks all of us are idiots too!
The idiot is you that can’t grasp the concept of school grades and how they work.
Oh the ironing. A school-board member dismissing the idea of grading. These people are sick.
You are so far off base with that thinking.
Rosanne Wood is a misguided ill-informed elitist by stating “School grades are a measure of who walked in the door and what skills they had when they walked in the door in general ” how dare you? Why have schools? Why have hope? Rosanne Woods comments are equal to suggesting IQ is fixed. I note she has no research to support her position. Rosanne Wood you should resign.
If schools grades are as you state “School grades are a measure of who walked in the door and what skills they had when they walked in the door in general ” then why do you pay Assistant Superintendents Cox, Rodgers and Gregory over $100,000 each and teachers only $37,000? The reason you do so is because you want district staff that cater to you to do as you say. Imagine if you and Rocky Hanna paid teachers what they are worth rather than your political groupies.
Schools and teachers change the lives and life opportunities of students and families. Your political Assistant Superintendents serve your ego not the teachers or students.
Every student and family that has a dream of a better life understand the position of Rosanne Woods dooms your future. You object to school grades because you are unable and unwilling to put resources in schools that need them.
You are so far off base with that thinking.
I think Board Member Woods comments have some merit. School grades are misleading. Not all kids come from a good home, have the same IQ or motivated to learn. Neighborhood schools must be given the opportunity and resources to meet the needs of students that walk through their doors. We should do away with school grades. I fear the public school system model may be on its way out. The future of education is in need of immediate attention or more kids are going to face an unknown future. It has to start with parents, government and churches.
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