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Anonymous Volusia County Public School Teacher. We say what you can’t. Kinda viral once. DMs always open. WE/US Look for the 🏴☠️
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Interesting that the DISTRICT finds the money to create a new ADMIN POSITION to lighten the load of the current Dep. Sup. of Teaching, Leading, & Learning
Do we get to influence our job description to make our job easier?
Watch this new position get filled by a “friend”🏴☠️
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Those of you working in the shelters for the next few days… Thank you for doing what most won’t do. Leaving your own home to care for the community.
Let’s make sure
@volusiaschools
and
@CountyOfVolusia
take care of you too. Our DMS are open… 🌀🏴☠️
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WHAT’S THAT SMELL!?
Remember parents that smoking medical marijuana aka skunkweed, raggyweed, or everglaze while on campus is still illegal…
YES this was an actual call to parents and others from a VCS school
Whoever did this rate yourself Distinguished for DOMAIN 4c
🙄 🏴☠️
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It’s over. We started out as frustrated teachers stuck at home watching the lunacy unfold on TV only to become part of it. We fought all the way through to the end. Rest up, you deserved it. Don’t worry we will stand watch over the summer and be here when you return. Stay tuned🏴☠️
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Teachers proposed raise $20-$47 per paycheck
Acting Super approved raise $2083 per paycheck
What’s best for teachers?
Not that. 🏴☠️
@VUEUnion
@VUEPresident
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Watch
@VUEPresident
speak to the Senate Committee in Tally advocating for
@volusiaschools
@VUEUnion
instructional class against the anti-employee bills currently being debated this
#FLlegsession
Thanks again to
@SenTomWright
for standing with employees today🏴☠️
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A teacher..... A TEACHER is now the Secretary of Education
Born into poverty to Puerto Rican parents
A teacher
A Principal
An Administrator
Connecticut’s Education Commissioner
US Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel Cardona
@VUEPresident
@VUEUnion
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@ProjectLincoln
@Moms4Liberty
Yes they are we are glad you spotlighting this hate group. 🏴☠️
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“I will join a team where people are valued”
When will
@volusiaschools
get it?
While us TEACHERS have been trying to get our voices heard 👇🏾
Teacher vacancies at 140+
APs, Principals & District Admin are quitting too
VCS can’t even RETAIN the Recruitment and Retention staff 🏴☠️
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We are being told to let
@VCSSuperFritz
do his job and get out of his way.
When teachers have asked him for the same.
Too much oversight, no leadership🏴☠️
#schoolboardmeeting
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Look at me!
I’m here in front of you now!
What are you doing to keep me here!
@volusiaschools
would rather outsource recruitment to Jamaica to find new teachers to chew through and burn out in 2 years vs value what they already have in front of them 🇯🇲🏴☠️
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🚨 HAPPENING RIGHT NOW ON THE ISB BRIDGE IN
@CityDaytona
🚨
Join
@VUEUnion
and tell these politicians we won’t be fooled!
The
@FloridaGOP
may be the “majority” now but that’s always temporary. Just ask
@Disney
🏴☠️
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This is not a profile courage. Don’t get it twisted. The stain of her actions and her complicit behavior the last 4 years will follow her forever.
#byebetsy
🏴☠️
JUST IN: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has submitted her resignation, making her the second Cabinet member to resign over President Trump's response to the riot
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Assistant Principals should figure out a way to organize and unionize.
Another 25 year + AP is leaving the profession.
Probably bc they were fed up like us.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound?
Make some noise with us APs. 🏴☠️
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The paraprofessionals that
@volusiaschools
hire at $11hr are most likely providing services to students who are working at
@McDonalds
for $12hr.
It’s time for VCS to provide a livable wage to all employees
🏴☠️
@andrewsparfea
@VUEUnion
@VUEPresident
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For those returning to work tomorrow. We already planned the day for you.
Target Goal: Open Schools
Success Will Look Like: Get ‘em off the bus. Get ‘em fed. Get ‘em back home/ on the bus
Bell Ringer: How is everyone doing?🏴☠️
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This is how a dashboard and transparency should look.
Everyone should demand this level of communication🏴☠️
@VUEPresident
Tuesday's COVID-19 Dashboard is now available for review. Please visit:
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Brought to you from the district that regularly sends out press releases and posts on social media before telling the staff what is going on🏴☠️
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Para’s and OS’s should be making at least $16/hr and be placed on the 196 day schedule at a minimum.
The district is playing a dangerous game with their lowest paid employees who sadly have better job options at gas stations or big box stores
@VUEPresident
@Anonymousparas
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🚨
@volusiaschools
you’re so busy focusing on recruitment maybe it’s time to focus on the retention part. Start listening to our new teachers. Keep us safe and provide support to them by bringing back PARs or building level mentors.
Or the revolving door will keep spinning. 🏴☠️
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“I’m a teacher my responsibility is to expose my students to knowledge not hide it from them. The answer is no.” 🏴☠️
@RonDeSantisFL
@VUEPresident
@VUEUnion
@StarTrek
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Happy
#TeacherAppreciationWeek
We see you doing the right things for your students even though others don’t. It’s a thankless career but it only takes one thank you to make all the struggles worth it. Thank you 🏴☠️
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Here we go….
@volusiaschools
is hiring teachers from Jamaica, Philippines and Guyana. The company that the district is GIFTING 2.4 million dollars to recruit, hire and import 50 teachers can’t even do a proper background check to get them on a lease! 🏴☠️
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If you haven’t voted today… what are you waiting for. Get out and vote like your life depends on it. Most likely it does. 🏴☠️
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@GovRonDeSantis
If you really wanted to put money in our paychecks give us back the 3% you’re taking for FRS! 🏴☠️
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Wonder where the change of heart came from for
@volusiaschools
to schedule another session.
We thought you wanted an ImPaSsE?!?
It’s time for the largest employer in the
@CountyOfVolusia
to start paying competitive wages, benefits and treat us like you want us here🏴☠️
We are going back to the table! Bargaining for instructional personnel is scheduled for Monday at 8:00 am. YOUR UNION is working hard to get this done! Need to join VUE? It's easy, visit, . SOLIDARITY!
@VPSTeacher
@Anonymousparas
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Deny deny deny is the VCS way… 🏴☠️
Teacher shortage isn't real? Why does math class have a sub?
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Bring on the impasse! An employer who can’t retain staff, can’t compete with wages or benefits and is admin top heavy is looking for sympathy? This surely will turn out well 🙄 🏴☠️
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This. This right here. Saying the quiet parts out loud.
If the underperforming schools were located in the more affluent zip codes
@volusiaschools
would act to change it immediately. 🏴☠️
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Ummm say what? Cue the circus music and grab your popcorn. Willing to guess it’s about the fake exemptions from chiropractors. 🏴☠️
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🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
So did
@IdaLucyWright
push the raise of the Acting Super in expectation of coming back as a paid consultant?
I think that’s called something... kickback? Payola? Grift?
@VUEUnion
@VUEPresident
@markdbarker
@bycassidy
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President Biden said Tuesday that he would use federal authority to offer coronavirus vaccinations to K-12 teachers and child care workers, with the aim of getting at least the first shot administered to all educators by the end of March.
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Good luck to the
@VUEUnion
OG’s
@andrewsparfea
and
@VUEPresident
who are in Tally today testifying in the Senate Education Committee who is about to pass anti-employee law.
@SenTomWright
is not concerned about the largest employer in Volusia. 🏴☠️
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Why is the death of another coworker not completely addressed by the Board and Superintendent?
Why does VPS staff have to hear about it on the news?
Why is communication such a struggle here?
Demand transparency from the BOARD and the Superintendent! 🏴☠️
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Looks like
@FPCHS
@FlaglerSchools
is having a problem… of the 2 flags pictured below guess which ones were confiscated and which students were suspended.
#DontSayGay
student protesters were the only ones targeted
That’s some
#GoodTrouble
@Jack_Petocz
keep it up
🏳️🌈🏴☠️
I organized the statewide
#DSGWalkout
today in response to attempts to silence and erase the LGBTQ+ community in Florida. I was indefinitely suspended from my school for organizing a peaceful rally. Read my full statement below.
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Orange, Brevard and Volusia counties have said they will not let the new law stop anyone from putting a photo of their spouse on their desk, no matter the sex, or wear LGBTQ-friendly clothing.
🏳️🌈🏴☠️
The language of the bill itself leaves room for districts to interpret some things themselves.
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Apparently the Board forgot they agreed to bring up the Acting Super salary AFTER teacher salaries were settled.
And why was this snuck into the agenda tonight AND why isn’t this tabled until NEW SB member
@anitaburnette
is installed?
One final trick for Ida?
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Bullies gonna bully
@GovRonDeSantis
🏴☠️
Ron DeSantis just yelled at students for wearing masks. This is not a leader. This is a bully. A petulant child. Shameful.
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Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do!
#MyTwitterAnniversary
2 years of fighting the fight and speaking truth to power
Couldn’t do it with out all of you! 🏴☠️
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It took 6,377,444 citizens voting 9 days ago to raise the wages of paras, SWC, and bus drivers from sub $10/hr to $15/hr over 4 years
Here in Volusia it only took 1 attorney and 5 elected officials to raise the salary of 1 employee over 50k, potentially violating the law 🏴☠️
A big raise for Superintendent Balgobin is an insult, said
@VUEPresident
: "It just goes to show Volusia has money for the things they want to have money for, but they don’t actually have money for the people who are teaching the kids."
@dbnewsjournal
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Tonight’s learning target for the Board is “Grace and Respect”
Time to show it and put your money where your mouth is.
Time for the disrespect to end.
#itiswhatitis
no more 🏴☠️
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Translation: some elected officials are being DANGEROUS with their unfounded conspiracy rhetoric. 🏴☠️
Re the antibodies comment... The CDC has stated repeatedly that vaccines are effective at preventing severe illness, hospitalizations and death. Of the COVID cases in Volusia in July, only 3.5% were "breakthrough cases" in those who were vaxxed. The other 96.5% were unvaxxed.
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What’s better than getting first hand accounts from the current employees about the climate of your organization? Watch the vid 👇
Maybe some should worry less about the hypocritical “moms” and more about their employees… you know the largest group of employees in Volusia. 🏴☠️
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Have you seen the crowds at the School Board meeting tonight?
🏴☠️
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Tell us when it will stop.
Brevard County teacher dies after contracting COVID-19 days after her mom died of virus
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🚨🚨CHECK YOUR E-MAIL🚨🚨
”It is my intention to exercise those liberties for the 2020-21 school year. Therefore, VAM scores will not be used in the calculation of summative evaluations for instructional or administrative staff.” -Superintendent Fritz
@VUEPresident
@VUEUnion
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A rare moment of saying the quiet part out loud.
@VCSBurnette
parrots the 🅱️💩 spin that a teacher shortage isn’t a
@volusiaschools
problem it’s a NaTiOnAl problem.
@volusiaschools
sure ain’t helping the matter any.
She suggests snarky we tell our friends to come work here. 🏴☠️
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Amazing news from our neighbors to the South.
Here? 🤷🏽♀️
🏴☠️
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Teachers and staff have a wonderful winter break.
2020 is in our forever past &
2021 is unwritten
Stay safe and enjoy all the holidays. 🏴☠️🎄🕎🎉🌍
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How about focusing some energy on retention too 🏴☠️
The
@volusiaschools
HR Team
@VolusiaRecruits
At Bethune Cookman University recruiting. Having conversations about employment opportunities... current and future. Filling gaps now and building the pipeline.
#VCSPride
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We tried speaking to you directly, indirectly, at meetings, emails, calls, and on social media about this hate group you support. They call us groomers and you go silent. NO MORE! Now we will ask your big dollar donors if they want to be part of a hate group. 🏴☠️
.
@Moms4LibertyVol
President openly calling teachers as groomers is bad enough. She is staple at the board meetings and a gal pal of
@VCSHaynes
Does this sit well with you? 1/3 🏴☠️
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That’s UNION ACTION 🏴☠️
UPDATE: Senator Wright stood up for us today and voiced concerns about SB256. Thank you Senator Wright for acknowledging the concerns of the people!
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Here’s the video of the vote and
@VCSColon
expressing himself of how he was treated by
@VCSSuperFritz
🏴☠️
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Sharing this from Seminole bc as usual Volusia is nothing but silence and crickets.
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This isn’t leadership
The right thing should be done by the School Board tomorrow.
@VUEUnion
@VUEPresident
#BREAKING
:
@GovRonDeSantis
office released a statement to
#CBS4
that
@EducationFL
could withhold the salaries of superintendents and school board members who implement
#maskmandates
. Full statement ➡️
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“Who in his or her right mind would come here (to work)” asks
@VCSCuthbert
speaking about a potential future superintendent candidate
Narrators voice: Echoing what teachers mumble under their breath every day for the last few years. 🏴☠️
#schoolboardmeeting
@VUEPresident
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“Watch what they do, not what they say.“
When video newsletters are spread about in everyones email inboxes by the Acting Superintendent trying to say they care about us BUT they have done nothing to let us know about another coworker dying?
What does that tell you?
Where is the extra support for our vcs staff?!? It’s a shame the superintendent can’t even send condolences!! The two staff that have passed lost their live doing a job they loved! It obviously wasn’t for the money.
#dobettervcs
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Wouldn’t it be nice if the School Board treated their own Attorney with the same 1 year contract that teachers get.
@VUEPresident
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Wait is the district really not allowing
@BeachsideElem
teachers ONE PAID DAY to move into their classrooms so they can be prepared for the first day after break?
Leadership is so obtuse do they not realize that moving schools ACTUALLY requires the act of moving!
@VUEPresident
🏴☠️
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If being named a civic asshole consistently was a real thing
@volusiaschools
would be running away with the lead.
Shady deals
Bad communication
Half baked ideas
Poor fiscal knowledge
Covid conspiracy theories
Check out
@markdbarker
’s hot take
🏴☠️
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District denies teachers a 1-2% raise & cites bc it’s a “budget impossibility”
The Acting Super gets 34% raise, and it’s touted as a “savings”
The LOA Super messages out a cry for supporting the Acting Super - “it’s a hard job”
“Watch they what they do, not what they say”
🏴☠️
After careful consideration, the Volusia County School District’s bargaining team declared impasse with the Volusia United Educators (VUE) regarding the distribution of the Teacher Salary Allocation. The district notified VUE of this decision November 17.
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“Did no one on the dais of power realize that Blundering Balgobin’s extravagant bump was far in excess of the paltry salary of most staff”
Guess which local govt agency made
@markdbarker
’s asshole list this week. 🏴☠️
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The best way to show your gratitude about a 3k raise is to join the union that fought for you to get it. 🏴☠️
#unionstrong
@VUEPresident
@VUEUnion
@andrewsparfea
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.
@prageru
+
@RealCandaceO
most def = indoctrination 🏴☠️
Keep this garbage out of
@volusiaschools
@andrewsparfea
@VUEPresident
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Shame on
@SCPSInfo
. Weak leadership being led around by their nose buckling to fascist Karens. 🏴☠️
Seminole schools offer to remove LGBTQ+ pages from high school yearbook
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“Watch what they do, not what they say” 🏴☠️
@VPSTeacher
@bycassidy
@andrewsparfea
After 6 hours, Ted Doran brings forth an agreement to pay Dr. Balgobin $195,000. Another board action that was not advertised. The board stated that personnel salaries were first. I guess they forgot. We will NOT!
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Keeping you up to date we have been told that
1. Dr. Fritz didn’t conceive a child with some random downtown deland barfly
2. Same downtown barfly said we live in America in case you forgot
3. Holocaust camps started with a virus (not true)
4. And if passed “you’ll regret it”🏴☠️
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Are we surprised
@GovRonDeSantis
is full of 💩🏴☠️
Are there examples of CRT in math textbooks? Turns out the examples the Gov put out are from the public and not necessarily from the textbooks. It’s a fake issue! The real issue is the massive teacher and staff shortage.
@FloridaEA
@AFTunion
@NEAToday
@cgauronskas
@NandiRiley
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Tell me Jamie Haynes isn’t in the pocket of the “Karen’s for Liberty”
@volusiaschools
has been completely taken over by a special interest group that does not care about your child, or your rights. Only theirs.
And we are stuck with it. They want us divided and distracted🤢🏴☠️
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This is not leadership
Cuthbert just made a motion to rescind the mask policy and switch to a parent opt-out policy. The audience gave a standing ovation and they called a 5-minute break.
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SB256 has been passed and is headed for a
@FLGOPMajority
vote. It eliminates our freedom to have union dues deducted from our paycheck & requires union membership density to be at least 60% or risk decertification
The time to join
@VUEUnion
is now🏴☠️
👇
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Please do this more ❤️
High School Ts could have their classes transform Elem 2d art into 3d realities! How cute would that be. 🏴☠️
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Pro tip: if you’re a teacher and you’re going to speak to the school board don’t openly admit you have poor classroom management
3c - Basic (Needs Improvement)
Let’s try better for next time 🏴☠️
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Hopefully someone tonight at the
@volusiaschools
Board meeting will question the school board member & deputy superintendent about their affiliation with
@Moms4Liberty
Let’s hope they didn’t use public tax payer money to attend this “summit” (where neo-Nazis attended as well) 🏴☠️
For those who can’t see the tweet that is attached above.
The
@Moms4Liberty
agenda is an existential threat to public education, and clearly they have their hooks in school members, candidates and district admin.
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For the record
@VCSSuperFritz
Stop describing us with possessive terminology.
When you say “my teachers and my staff”… We are not your property.
We are the CITIZENS teachers and staff.
You are a mere conduit between us and the public at large.
🏴☠️
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“Under the leadership of the intrepid
@VUEPresident
– have fought hard for a sliver of the pie, demanding a living wage for classroom teachers and support staff, while watching an unrestrained administration spend precious public funds like a drunken sailor”
@markdbarker
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But don’t you feel so valued with her weekly YouTube propaganda message?
Btw since the district is treating her salary adjustment like a supplement≠raise.
What does that say about teachers getting $500 vs her $50,000
Watch what they do, not what they say 🏴☠️
@VUEPresident
@VPSTeacher
I guess that I should feel honored, since I can't seem to get an audience with the acting superintendent.
@markdbarker
@bycassidy
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🎛️ 👖🔥
@vcsbalgobin
detailed how
@VUEUnion
declined to negotiate the state salary increase allocation separately from other contract issues
Have you step foot in the negotiation room at all since 2020? Didn’t think so
#pantsonfire
🏴☠️
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#ICYMI
😷use has expired on 10/15 for everyone on VCS property. Completely optional now.
Guess that means all the anti mask protestors have time to focus on advocating for an equitable education and funding in our schools. Or they just slithered back to their caves 🤷🏻♂️🏴☠️
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Have to agree with Sheriff Mike Chitwood. Having NARCAN in schools is no different of a life saving process than learning CPR or using an AED. We should all have one on us. 🏴☠️
Saddening, frustrating & infuriating to see such a young life lost to a fentanyl overdose.
17 years old, gone forever thanks to poison bought from a 17-year-old dealer.
Fentanyl is everywhere.
Parents, stay involved.
@VolusiaSchools
let's get Narcan on all campuses ASAP
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This is a really good question that should be answered. Why should a school have to rely on a donation to get their grass cut before summer school starts?
@volusiaschools
will never understand that the doing the little things actually goes a longer way…. 🏴☠️
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Tell Me What Company You Keep, and I Will Tell You What You Are
Does this group represent our values as a community?
Did anyone not see the farce of the
@Moms4Liberty
sponsored “town halls”
Here’s your biased, bullying, anti-science and QAnon endorsements
NOW YOU VOTE 🏴☠️
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If you’re late tuning in to the school board meeting you missed the pro death, you’re to blame for being sick and covid conspiracy hour with
@JamieMichele6
.
Stay tuned for her alien civilization wrap up at 8pm
🏴☠️
Haynes: If you’ve already had COVID you’re truly in better shape than anyone else, because you’ve got antibodies
Boswell: Except for the 907 individuals who have lost their lives
Haynes: I don’t want anyone to lose their lives, but the reality is people lose their lives every day
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Superintendent Carlee Simon responded late Thursday: “Given that the School Board of Alachua County does not have an unlawful face covering mandate policy, we do not have anything to report.”
That’s what leadership sounds like.
🏴☠️
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Come on now
@volusiaschools
… start communicating to the 7k employees and 64k students/families who are currently flooded and/or digging about next week. Don’t be the last district to make a decision.
LIKE EVERY OTHER TIME 🏴☠️
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