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Post by laklak » Sat Jul 16, 2022 6:55 pm

Miami. Sea level can't rise quick enough.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Sat Jul 16, 2022 7:35 pm


Hermit wrote:Florida man does road rage.
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Post by Sean Hayden » Fri Jul 29, 2022 11:46 am

With about three weeks left until students start the new school year, Florida is taking a new approach to address its current teacher shortage: It’s turning to veterans and their spouses to head to the classroom and teach.

The Florida Education Association reports more than 9,000 vacancies: 4,300 teaching jobs and 5,200 non-teaching, essential jobs. At the same time, the state is trying to expand workforce opportunities for veterans and their spouses.

The Florida Department of Education announced that military veterans and their spouses could receive five-year vouchers to allow them to teach in the classroom without a teacher’s degree. The move is tied to $8.6 million the state announced would be used to expand career and workforce training opportunities for military veterans and their spouses.

Carmen Ward, president of the Alachua County Education Association and a member of the Florida Education Association, is one of many school leaders who think this move is a way to “devalue the teaching profession.”

“We are always fighting to lift our profession up — we have a lot of veterans that work currently in our schools; however, they have four-year degrees. Because it is an academic position, it requires that the person who is teaching the subject matter have academic experience with that subject matter,” Ward said.
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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Jul 29, 2022 10:39 pm

Un-trained teachers. Yeah, that's a good idea..
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Post by Svartalf » Fri Jul 29, 2022 10:44 pm

What could ever go wrong?
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Post by laklak » Sat Jul 30, 2022 8:26 pm

Hell, I tol that teacher lady I don't need no Al Gebbera to drink beer and drive a boat.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Oct 03, 2022 10:11 pm

As Florida continues grappling with the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Ian, the state’s death roll mounts and stories of tragedy and delay emerge.

Over 81 people are confirmed dead and that toll is expected to rise. Rescue crews working brutal shifts – sometimes 20 hours long – are still combing through the wreckage, and flooding continues in many parts of the state...

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Post by macdoc » Mon Oct 03, 2022 10:44 pm

Friends in-laws bought in Fort Myers two months ago ... :banghead: Wiped to the platform.
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Tue Oct 04, 2022 2:13 pm

Friends-laws?
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Post by L'Emmerdeur » Mon Oct 24, 2022 9:02 pm

When you're obscenely wealthy, the let you do it. The enormous recently built mansion you just bought isn't up to your grandiose vision? Just tear it down and built something that will suit you. :coffee:

'A Billionaire Is Demolishing a Perfectly Good $110M Mansion. Locals Aren’t Happy.'
Even in Palm Beach, the billionaires’ hideaway in southeast Florida, 1071 North Ocean Blvd. stands out as a monument to excess. At more than 35,000 square feet, the mansion was designed to feature 16 bathrooms, a gym, barber shop, theater, and library. Last year, the property reportedly sold to an entity tied to William Lauder, a billionaire heir to the Estée Lauder makeup fortune, for an astonishing $110 million. But the palatial estate is apparently not up to his family’s standards. On Wednesday, the town approved a plan to tear down the home—built just six years ago—to the dirt.

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The original owners, lawyers turned charter school consultants Danielle and Vahan Gureghian, narrowly won approval to build their “dream home” in 2011, the outlet said. They never actually lived in it, instead putting the property on the market for more than $80 million in 2015, before construction was completed. The Gureghians sold it to another party in 2019 for $40.9 million.

Now that Lauder seems to have assumed ownership, there is anxious speculation within the community about whether he might build an even larger colossus on the site, since he reportedly also owns an adjacent empty lot.

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Post by Tero » Tue Oct 25, 2022 12:24 pm

Floridians seem to want DeSantis even though he is not going to do 4 years. He will have to quit to run for president seriously. The Democrat is the old governor running again. Why can't the democrats get a serious candidate.
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Post by L'Emmerdeur » Fri Nov 04, 2022 7:01 am

Has it been mentioned lately that DeSantis is a lying sack of shit who supports whitewashing history with blatant falshoods? Nah, it's just those nasty, nasty fact-checkers being their usual horrible selves.

Pants on Fire: 'It's not true that "the United States was built on stolen land."'
As Florida's governor, Republican Ron DeSantis has repeatedly stated his conviction that leaders need to fight attempts to "indoctrinate students" in classrooms.

In the only gubernatorial debate before the Nov. 8 election, Gov. DeSantis contrasted his record on education with that of Democratic challenger Charlie Crist and Crist's running mate Karla Hernández-Mats.

"You have people that are teaching — and actually his running mate has said this in the past — that teaching the United States was built on stolen land," DeSantis said Oct. 24. "That is inappropriate for our schools; it's not true."

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We reached out to historians of Native and non-Native descent. All of them said it is well documented that the U.S. acquired Native American land through dubious treaties and, at times, forcefully confiscated ancestral territories to bolster the country's expansion.

"As a general statement, yes, the United States stole land from Native Americans," said Philip Deloria, a Native American history professor at Harvard University.

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Post by laklak » Fri Nov 04, 2022 7:51 am

We bought it fair and square from the Spaniards in 1819, so the most we're guilty of is receiving stolen goods.

Of course there's that unpleasantness with Old Hickory and the three Seminole wars, but no point in dwelling on the past. To make up for it we gave them all the Hard Rock casinos.
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Re: Meanwhile, in Florida...

Post by L'Emmerdeur » Thu Nov 17, 2022 10:27 pm

Goddam Obama-appointed judges. They should all be thrown off the bench. This one is impeding protection of the sensibilities of fine white patriots in Florida universities. Maybe when the younger Florida man is in the White House (chosen by God, you know) something will be done.

'"Positively dystopian": Florida judge blocks DeSantis' anti-woke law for colleges'
A federal judge on Thursday halted a key piece of the “Stop-WOKE” Act touted by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, blocking state officials from enforcing what he called a “positively dystopian” policy restricting how lessons on race and gender can be taught in colleges and universities.

The 138-page order from Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker is being heralded as a major win for campus free speech by the groups who challenged the state — but the decision is likely to be appealed by the DeSantis administration and university leaders.

The temporary injunction granted by Walker over the anti-woke law has significant implications for policies in Florida, including a pending university tenure review rule that requires professors to abide by it.

“’It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen,’ and the powers in charge of Florida’s public university system have declared the State has unfettered authority to muzzle its professors in the name of ‘freedom,’” Walker wrote, citing George Orwell’s novel “1984.” Walker was appointed to the federal bench by former President Barack Obama.

Florida’s Republican-led Legislature approved the “anti-woke” legislation, FL HB 7 (22R), or the Individual Freedom Act, earlier this year. The law, directly inspired by DeSantis, expands Florida’s anti-discrimination laws to prohibit schools and companies from leveling guilt or blame to students and employees based on race or sex, takes aim at lessons over issues like “white privilege” by creating new protections for students and workers, including that a person should not be instructed to “feel guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress” due to their race, color, sex or national origin.

In his ruling Thursday, Walker determined those policies violate First Amendment free speech protections along with due-process rights in the 14th Amendment on college campuses.

“The law officially bans professors from expressing disfavored viewpoints in university classrooms while permitting unfettered expression of the opposite viewpoints,” wrote Walker. “Defendants argue that, under this Act, professors enjoy ‘academic freedom’ so long as they express only those viewpoints of which the State approves. This is positively dystopian.”

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