Retired ages ago. Got myself educated. Taught undergrad humanities, philosophy for another decade. Now teach short courses of all sorts @OLLI_UNF.
Mar 16, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
@julieinjax@ahartley98 The FL Leg probably will pass a dramatic expansion of the education voucher program this year. I looked at a Middle School science text published by an extremely conservative group whose materials are used by a large % of these private schools.
This science textbook or ones delivering a similar message is used by one in five private schools in Duval County. Schools using your tax dollars to teach religious dogma disguised as science. What does this biology textbook teach?
Mar 13, 2021 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
@SenAudrey2eet@FundEducNow The FL Leg will almost surely pass a bill dramatically expanding educational vouchers. Materials used in at least one in every five Duval private schools currently accepting FTC vouchers wildly distort U.S. history and what science does. #vouchershurt
I looked through a Middle School history and science text published by an extremely conservative, religious publisher. Here are some of the distortions I found in the history text. Science text analysis soon. #vouchershurt
Jul 1, 2019 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
IDEA Public Schools, a charter school network, has announced their interest in opening schools in Jacksonville. Mayor Curry has tweeted his enthusiasm about this impending event. IDEA is very popular among politicians. /1
One reason for their popularity is their success in enrolling their graduates in college. The current rate is 100%. Seems extraordinary. Consulting a student handbooks from Texas IDEA schools the reader sees that to get a diploma the student *MUST* be accepted by a college. /2
Jun 12, 2019 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
In a series of pics of private schools accepting ed vouchers. Pro-ed voucher pols like to stage ed voucher events outside well-funded, maintained school facilities. But many just set up where their budget allows. Often not a very large budget. Here are a few. /THREAD
One of these units is a private school offering an education equal to any traditional public school, satisfying the state constitutional requirement of providing a "high quality" education. Still at least one vacant unit as of earlier this year.
Jun 9, 2019 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
More in a series of Florida ed voucher school pics. Taken from FLDOE directory. According to FL legislators, these schools are at least equal to a traditional public school and fulfill the state constitutional requirement of a "high quality" education. <THREAD>
Some schools using your tax dollars are housed in converted warehouse/industrial spaces, often with no playground other than a paved parking lot.
Mar 11, 2019 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
1/ @WeedonAmy suggests dishonesty to ask traditional public schools (TPS) to compete while simultaneously taking away resources necessary to compete. @OOPinellas responds that such dishonesty par for the course for school choice promoters. Let me add a little background...
2/ The idea of school choice (SC) began as a progressive notion. The argument was that large institutions (such as the public school system) have trouble meeting the needs of every individual participant (such as students).
