Archive for the 'Florida Education' Category

Is your kid’s teacher a meth dealer… or worse?

So this is too cool for Florida parents: Teacher background check Not only can you do a specific search for a specific teacher, you can also do an open search for all licensed teachers with criminal charges against them, by state or by district. Which is good to know because if you’re like my wife [...]

Garbage in, garbage out

Florida ranks 45th in the US in high school graduation rates Principal buys crack on camera Ok, makes sense to me… If you enjoyed this post, then make sure you subscribe to my RSS Feed.

From the files of too-stupid-to-know-better

Forgive them – they too young and dumb to realize that once you add a “fee”, it defies the laws of physics that state that something that goes up must come down. Fees never come down, and volunteering to pay them damns the students that follow to pay escalations caused by an ever-increasing portfolio of [...]

Florida middle-schoolers are world record holders

I just want to know – was this on the FCAT? I’m just saying… Guinness confirms Florida pupils broke reading record The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – It’s official, 186,054 Florida middle school pupils are world record readers. Guinness World Records confirmed Tuesday that they set a new record for “Most People Reading Aloud Simultaneously [...]