Comments on: Florida State Rep. Jason Shoaf Calls for Removal of Middle School Principal

By: Yea

Yea — Thu, 12 May 2022 17:28:52 +0000

Patrick Christopher Evans, Florida raised but such little understanding of the south and our people. Before you assume any more racist actions you might want to look up the 2020 Census Demographic Data Map Viewer and check out race break down by zip code. I think you will find that the south is vastly more integrated than the north. Northern zip codes are much more segregated than southern ones, yet we are the racists?

By: Erwin Jackson

Erwin Jackson — Tue, 10 May 2022 10:40:15 +0000

Hembree needs to be remove from her job and the same with the school board chairman that supported her actions. All parents, citizens need to actively participate in running our local government!

By: A Skeptic

A Skeptic — Mon, 09 May 2022 15:44:17 +0000

You have to go back to before Bill Montford’s time for me to not know the superintendent outside of the office. Bill was a typical Democrat in that he never saw a tax hike he didn’t like Jackie Pons was well known around town primary due to his skill hitting a softball. Somehow that skill made him qualified to be the superintendent. Rocky is just power hungry. I kinda supported him over Jackie, but looking back that was a mistake. Jackie did some questionable things while in office, but I think he was trying to work around the system to get things done.

That’s nearly 25 years of leadership in our schools that have left us where we are. We need new blood in that office.

By: Deep Six

Deep Six — Mon, 09 May 2022 00:44:36 +0000

If that woman got anywhere near my child she would have a problem. The entire school board needs to go. They are an odious group of imbeciles as evidenced by their nonstop drama.

Less than half the students at Cobb can read at a satisfactory level!

Fire that stupid woman now!

By: Hope

Hope — Sun, 08 May 2022 11:41:32 +0000

…Please add the school board member who is doxing; faces no consequences or removal as of yet… They are out of control…

By: Barb

Barb — Sun, 08 May 2022 02:52:46 +0000

When I was 14 years old, a school administrator falsely accused me of wrongdoing. My mother came to my rescue.

Parents are not going to butt out. School personnel that want parents to get out of the way, are up to no good.

By: Barry Rose

Barry Rose — Sat, 07 May 2022 21:23:00 +0000

Thank God I no longer have children or grandchildren in Leon County schools. In my opinion, Rocky Hanna is a disaster as a school superintendent.

By: Snidely Whiplash

Snidely Whiplash — Sat, 07 May 2022 13:54:05 +0000

@ Civilized even though he was not your biological that man was a hell of a Dad for sticking up for you in the face of the adversity he walked into on that dark day in your 14 year old life. Thank the old Vet if he’s still with us. Go to his grave and honor him with a prayer of he has passed. Thank you for what you wrote. My dad stood up for me in a simmilar situation with the school at the same age you were.

By: Civilized/Ambition*Dominance

Civilized/Ambition*Dominance — Sat, 07 May 2022 12:26:25 +0000

When I was 14 years old, there was an arson at Leon high School. I didn’t even know it happened before the school’s sheriff put me in a car and took me to the sheriff’s office by the Thomasville Whataburger. I was just a kid and nervous as hell. I had no idea what they brought me there for. When we arrived they took me straight into an interrogation room and proceeded to tell me that they knew I started that fire. I was kind of in shock and willing to do anything at the time the proof that I didn’t do that. Which of course was their game plan and so I agreed to take a polygraph test not realizing how it worked or even why they are asking me these weird questions unrelated to the event. It was exactly as you’ve seen in the Humphrey Bogart movies or that era to be more specific. A gray room, a lamp in my face and two guys and gray suits with guilty stairs and silence. They eventually got to the direct questions and I said no I did not, “just a yes or no”was repeated to me quite frequently. That’s something else I didn’t understand, but to make this very long story a little bit shorter the end result was that the polygraph test indicated that I was trying to deceive them and with all the other information they had, which of course was supposed to be in that file folder his finger was on, they were certain that I did in fact start that fire and followed that up with the standard harshest penalty fear mongering and admitting the accusation leniency as a much better alternative. I kept telling him I didn’t do it and that’s when they threatened to call my father, sorry parents I think it’s what they said, and eventually they did reach my father as my mother wasn’t actually the primary contact. My father is very strict, did two or three tours in nam, took me for crew cuts instead of trims, wasn’t a timeout kind of guy and he was my stepfather so we didn’t have that baby connection, and after hearing about his family Life years later, didn’t have a clue how to raise children. That’s a pretty long story in itself, so just call it that and move on after my father arrived, the deputies greeted him with sirs and the social distance of a Ally in this campaign. They called my father in another office so I wasn’t aware of the conversation and it initially looked like I was completely effed no matter what I said here. But this isn’t how it was the proceed at all. My 6 ft 6, 275 lb, 6% body fat stepfather (from the tour de France bicycle ride everyday from wakulla county to the State offices and back again before we moved to Tallahassee) was beat red and seriously pissed off. The good news is he wasn’t looking at me. The officers quickly realized their mistake when that social distance turned into mere inches face to face. My father didn’t yell he bellowed and when he started bellowing who’s in charge here and poking the man in front of him with his baseball glove-sized hands, trust me this didn’t feel good at all, I was greatly relieved that hollow bone sound echoing in the room wasn’t coming from me. On the flip side, the now shaking sheriff was not relieved at all. The point of the story is this. Teachers, principles, affiliated law enforcement officers providing for that school and pretty much everyone else in that system cannot be trusted with making the right decisions for your children since they are simply there to keep order and admonish the children if they get out of line. The system had no problem whatsoever taking a 14-year-old kid to a sheriff’s office, drilling him like he had multiple felonies and phrasing things in ways to convince that kid’s parents that their child needed to be put juvenile detention to await the court date. They actually caught the kid that did it sometime later, or at least that’s what a friend of mine said, but these one-on-one meetings without parental consent may seem like a simple discussion in the office about spitting paper balls and other students, but I can tell you firsthand that there is a much larger range of what this allows them to do. These are grown men and women with ideologies and prejudices of their own. The most common to me seem to be the kids are just troublemakers and aren’t worth the time to listen to, and even if they did listen to your kid, it’s probably a lie anyway so let’s just punish him just a case. You should already have a problem with a teachers free reign agenda and if you don’t then you’re probably like my parents who let anyone and everyone teach their kid for you. There’s a name(s) for it, your kids out of school substitute parents “the internet”will tell you that they are all synonymous with s*****, worthless, deadbeat and actually there’s quite a long list. A few years ago, back in the Jeb Bush days, the judicial system was handing out years for joints and blow, even if it was just an experimental thing in college and barely covered your pinky nail. Luckily he was a s***** parent too and his daughter got caught up in the system, so the drug charge sentencing rules were instantly reduced. Hang tight folks, self-centered is the norm for politicians, so it won’t be long before a politician’s kid ends up in a gray room with two gray suits a lamp and a polygraph test.

By: Hope

Hope — Fri, 06 May 2022 17:50:18 +0000

Good for him! And please include the elementary school teacher Ms. Unicorn!