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The Broward School District is grossly bloated, had falling enrollment due to lowered immigration, has schools that are underutilized and could be consolidated, and the staffing (not teachers and support press) has long been considered equally bloated and over paid. And again, the counties are directed to prioritize police:schools etc first from the taxes collected and then cut their damn spending! Why is this so hard to understand that the status quo of today’s spending cannot go on

Florida’s property tax reform will destroy public schools.

@ShadowofEzra No one will take the vaccine unless they are stupid enough not to demand full disclosure of the huge trials that have been conducted on all demographics.

Fox News confirms Pfizer already has a vaccine ready to prevent infections from tick bites, which is considered "safe and effective." The vaccine is expected to be released in the next few months, and they believe they will get "a lot of use out of it." Pfizer frequently purchases commercial advertising space on Fox News.

Every one of these examples of how schools and police are to be cut ignore the very premise of the move to cut property taxes: the taxes collected from all other sources should FIRST go to fund schools/police/etc. in conjunction with fiscal responsibility that cuts the special agendas and slush funds spent by these politicians

Just got the Property Appraiser's analysis. The upcoming property tax proposal would cut the MSTU that funds the Alachua County Sheriff's Office by roughly 35%. That's a 35% hit to the tax base that pays for local law enforcement. That’s defunding the police:

@HollyBullardFL Now how do you think the governments of this districts could make up the difference? Could they possibly read the proposal and apply tax dollars to schools, police, fire/first responders FIRST, and then to their special agenda items?

“The $250k homestead exemption would cost school districts $5 billion annually, according to .. the nonpartisan (FPI).FPI also said in many fiscally constrained rural counties, due to the lower assessed value of properties,a $250k homestead exemption is close to full elimination”

@ActionNewsJax A scary place due to lost revenues. How about addressing cutting spending that has been proven to be exorbitant

‘We’re in a pretty scary spot’: Local leaders get glance at impacts of Governor’s property tax plan #Echobox=1780215193" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">actionnewsjax.com/news/local/wer…

@stormrobinson @jbellontheriver As I said… you are just sooo smart. And ignored the context of my post responding to your printing analysis to ridicule responding to emails. I can only conclude this is a clickbait account seeking monetization. Good luck.

@jbellontheriver @learnb4speaking Most salaried professionals are in the office 9+ hours a day, 250+ days a year and don’t get paid overtime for meetings, email, and work travel that often happens outside their 9-hour workday.

A janitor cleans the classroom every night so there can’t be too much involved in “setting up the room.” Let’s say it takes two minutes to turn on the lights, open the blinds, and erase the white board. That leaves 58 minutes left to print papers and “mentally prepare for the day.” The average Xerox printer prints 45-65 pages per minute. Let’s be conservative and assume the school printer is on the low end and only prints 45 pages per minute. Let’s also assume it takes 2 minutes to open the files on a computer and push print. We’re left with 56 minutes in the hour which is enough time to print a maximum of 2,520 pages. Over the 180 working days in the academic year, that sums to 453,600 sheets of paper, or about 907 reams. On average, a mature tree yields about 16.67 reams of paper. That means this one teacher is consuming up to 54.4 trees per school year depending on how much time he allocates to “mentally preparing for the day” and whether or not that mental prep can be done concurrently with his printing tasks. The more likely scenario, he spends a combined total of 10 minutes “setting up the room” and printing papers and the remaining 50 minutes “mentally preparing for the day” and thinks he should get paid overtime for it. I disagree.

Such a disingenuous post. I live in Miami and am well advised as to the excessive spending on special agenda items that pandering politicians support in their bid for constant reelection. Our police, schools, first responders etc. should be the first funded and the rest can suck lemons as we have the money.. just not the budget.. they would allow for property taxes to be eliminated.

Property tax cuts sound great — until your city can’t fund schools or police | Opinion miamiherald.com/opinion/editor…

To be honest, my kids did half day kindergarten and were reading. Perhaps it’s the daycare focus of all day kindergarten rather than solid phonetic instruction? Example: my daughter could read at a first grade level, identify all of the buildings and architects of the Chicago skyline, tell the difference between a Monet and a Manet and find them in the museum, tell you the names of the planets and characteristics in order, draw a cell, and multiply/divide up to 10 doing mad minutes of math. Art and music were part of their classes. This was a public school, one had the morning session (home for lunch) one had afternoon. They had no tests or quizzes or homework. Probably should mention this was 25 years ago. And no we didn’t use prek3 or 4.

This is why I requested that my boys remain one extra year in "all day kindergarten". They weren't reading on-level, but that was "okay" to move to first grade. 🤔 Nope. I told them I would sign the necessary paperwork. We moved from PA to TN, bc they were behind with "half-day kindergarten". Guess what? It did help them!

@Fla_Pol @FloridaPolicy @DrewDixon30 Rather the point. Now cut spending

.@FloridaPolicy warns proposed homestead exemption changes will cost billions Reporting by @DrewDixon30 #FlaPol floridapolitics.com/archives/79924…

And this doubling has given them even larger slush finds to pander to special interest groups while looking towards reelection. First start by divesting commissioners of their discretionary annual funds, lower the threshold for mayor funds allowed to be bestowed (always under the guise of “today WE gave xyz this amount), and require a complete audit of where/how these recipient have spent the $$ and what kickback/payback each received. Was a theater named after them—social media boosts etc

Accurate.

@FLVoiceNews @ByronDonalds Donalds and his wife are not educators and their plan is hardly novel.

Trump-endorsed @ByronDonalds unveiled a new education proposal that would give every Florida student a personalized academic and career roadmap starting no later than sixth grade Donalds’ plan would support multiple pathways to success, including college, trade school, military service, apprenticeships, and entrepreneurship flvoicenews.com/byron-donalds-…

I don’t whine. I know the difference I make. I took exception to the only nite you made being printing and then negated the actual reason I go in early. As for emails to teachers… of an issue arises, I call parents between classes and during lunch. Sending me an email at 11 pm because your 18 year old senior didn’t turn in an assignment and then another at 9 am because I didn’t respond? 🙄🤔

A White female doctor in Georgia was strangled, se*ually assaulted, then had her THROAT SLIT by a Black man with 40+ PREVIOUS CHARGES. ZERO coverage from: -NYT -CNN -WaPo -MSNBC -NPR -Reuters -Axios -ABC -PBS EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. COVERED. GEORGE. FLOYD. DO YOU GET IT YET?!!!

@RonDeSantis I would pay no tax if fully implemented. Please!

Calculator allows you to determine property tax savings. saveourhomesfl.com

This is absurd and insulting. Left wing, cancel culture fools have turned patriotism into partisanship, threatening and intimidating these performers, most of whom aren’t brave enough to stand their ground. Celebrating America isn’t partisan. washingtonpost.com/style/2026/05/…

@stormrobinson @jbellontheriver Oooohhhh. You are so smart!

@jbellontheriver @learnb4speaking Emails?? Sorry, I didn’t realize how rough you have it. I take it all back. Email is something no professional should ever be burdened with.

Last time I went to that Center, it was an armpit and so skewed by a decidedly skewed agenda that I have no interest in spending time or money there. With that being said, I am against funding it one dime and believe it should be offloaded to a private business to relieve the taxpayers of any responsibility for it. Putting it under the control of Congress is a farce and it will continue to be mired down in bipartisan indecisive failed action

POTUS is breaking his back trying to refurbish, upgrade, and rebuild the nation's capital, and nothing but obstacles, including from rogue judges like this one.  I am glad he decided to respond by handing the responsibility for fixing up the badly deteriorating Trump-Kennedy Center to Congress.  If it's to be only the Kennedy Center, then it's on them. aol.com/articles/feder…

@anymanfitness Must be nice to be a PE teacher.

I was a teacher for 12 years, and I hate this sort of rhetoric. A teacher's day is done by 3 pm. They never work a night or weekend unless they want to. Only 180 work days per year, they're off 1/2 the time. It's paid appropriately, but no teachers want to hear that.

Governor Ron DeSantis left Harvard Law at the age of 25 to serve in the United States Navy as a commissioned JAG officer. Jay Collins (@JayCollinsFL) enlisted in the US Army at the age 17, and served for 23 years. He was a Special Forces Medic (Green Beret) and retired with the rank of First Sergeant. Paul Renner (@Paul_Renner) enlisted in the US Navy at 22 and served for 20 years across active duty and Navy reserves. He served two wartime deployments, one in Operation Desert Storm and one in Operation Enduring Freedom. Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) was first arrested at the age of 18 for selling drugs at Florida A&M and charged with possession of Marijuana. His second arrest was at the age of 20, a felony (bribery/fraud), when he was caught cashing fake checks. Governor Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) has some big boots to fill once he terms out but I can tell you, one of the choices are not good. Who has your vote? 🇺🇸