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Florida students deserve high-quality education, and great teachers deserve recognition and competitive pay.
X ^ | 05/01/2026 | Ron DeSantis

Posted on 05/02/2026 1:04:48 AM PDT by SmokingJoe

Florida students deserve high-quality education, and great teachers deserve recognition and competitive pay.

But time and again partisan school unions have shown that they do not act in the best interests of the teachers they purport to represent, let alone the best interests of students.

Today, I was proud to sign legislation to hold unions accountable and to reward the educators who go above and beyond to inspire students across Florida.


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Is Ron DeSantis the best governor in America?

Yup.

1 posted on 05/02/2026 1:04:48 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

Trump weighs cabinet appointment for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

https://nypost.com/2026/05/01/us-news/trump-weighs-cabinet-appointment-for-florida-gov-ron-desantis/


2 posted on 05/02/2026 1:10:16 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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Starting at $50,000 a year??? Plus benefits and retirement ni doubt. How much does that work out to per pupil? As vomosref to private schools. Do parents who homeschool get the correlating amount or do they still pay taxes to educate other people's children while still paying out of pocket for their own?

Commence flaming.

3 posted on 05/02/2026 1:22:58 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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What about the sh*tty teachers? What do they start out at?


4 posted on 05/02/2026 1:25:04 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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For working nine months out of the year, teachers are paid very, very good.


5 posted on 05/02/2026 2:47:40 AM PDT by roving
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Add to this all woke teachers be fired.


6 posted on 05/02/2026 4:29:11 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: roving

“ For working nine months out of the year, teachers are paid very, very good.”

Good teachers actually put in 12 months of work during a school year. They don’t just show up when the first bell rings and leave when the last bell rings.


7 posted on 05/02/2026 4:36:23 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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Teacher Unions are the WORST. The students are at the very bottom. It’s all about maximizing their time off and pushing costs off to parents. They want as much county school tax money going to the teachers while working the least.

The most pay for the least work is their mission statement.

And they believe in punishing the best students with 75lb ‘book bags’ they have to haul 100s of yards 2x a day because lockers cost too expensive and pull carts would be ‘elitist’. No wheeled devices allowed.

Most are hard core fascists, lesbians and literal witches. They all support baby killing. That’s who’s teaching America’s children.

GET RID OF THEM!


8 posted on 05/02/2026 4:43:16 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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"legislation to hold unions accountable."Yeah, I wonder what that looks like.(?)

I haven't seen any unions lately that have the American worker in mind when they do their stuff...

9 posted on 05/02/2026 4:48:58 AM PDT by unread (One of the largest cities in America has fallen to the communist... Think about that...)
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To: SmokingJoe

No cabinet position. He’ll just have to quit before ‘28 starts up.


10 posted on 05/02/2026 5:40:43 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: roving

I teach in rural Missouri. We are all very RED, very good teachers working with families and siblings. It’s an awesome job, much better than working in an urban setting with the feral beasts. I will add, at 36 years experience I make 56K, is that fair enough for you.


11 posted on 05/02/2026 5:46:12 AM PDT by krug
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“Good teachers actually put in 12 months of work during a school year. They don’t just show up when the first bell rings and leave when the last bell rings.”

Where are these teachers at?
All I see are Trump hating, lazy teachers who keep screaming about killing Trump, who have reduced academic levels of students in math and science in high schools to lowest levels ever.


12 posted on 05/02/2026 6:17:24 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Texas Eagle

Florida gives stipends to homeschoolers I believe.


13 posted on 05/02/2026 7:09:05 AM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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