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lark

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7. Rick Scott destroyed our educational system on purpose and the pay is insulting.

Reply to OrlandoDem2 (Original post)

Thu Nov 18, 2021, 08:43 AM

Nov 2021

Substitute teachers make $10/hr. in FL, with no benefits. Teachers are required to take classes & advance their degree, but under Scott pay for that was eliminated. Teachers have been quitting in droves ever since, it's not just this year only the pandemic & Death Sentence greatly increased the rate of attrition. My daughter has a double BS with a teaching credential and taught English in Brazil, but she will not be a teacher in this state, no way. So glad she made that decision before the pandemic.

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Central Florida teachers resigning in droves due to pay and lousy working conditions [View all] OrlandoDem2 Nov 2021 OP

They've been strangling the schools to death down there for a few decades, I think. The public GPV Nov 2021 #1

They want to do to the public school system Phoenix61 Nov 2021 #2

Exactly. And once privatized, white schools will educate and minority schools will not. Lonestarblue Nov 2021 #8

Its not only that, an ignorant citizen is a very controllable citizen who will believe anything. Escurumbele Nov 2021 #9

Death Sentence wants to rule over a kingdom of elderly after driving families away? Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2021 #3

...we are in FL...my wife just retired this year after 40 years of teaching... Sancho Nov 2021 #4

So the plan is working. twodogsbarking Nov 2021 #5

Repukes hate teacher unions. The Jungle 1 Nov 2021 #6

Rick Scott destroyed our educational system on purpose and the pay is insulting. lark Nov 2021 #7

Best wishes to you, OrlandoDem2 and we hope things improve for you. KY_EnviroGuy Nov 2021 #10

Orange County Classroom Teachers Association speaks on the situation OrlandoDem2 Nov 2021 #11