Category: Mission

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How we Treat our Precious Children…

Posted on by Janis Sexton

First posted Sept. 24  2023…

This is, once again, a critical Florida election year.

The way we treat our children directly impacts what they believe about themselves…

Ariadne Brill
Positive Parenting Connection

How very true… These are most challenging of times… Directly impacting how our precious children deal with their lives…They are not insulated…

With such a divisive government, the critical funding of essential programs with the necessary teachers required to provide children with an education to keep up, is lacking…

Schools being controlled by authoritarianism…Gun reform is extremely necessary to keep our precious children safe…

They are so filled with anxiety about going to school… Thus causing, many of our precious children dealing with mental health issues…

We are have opportunities and are extremely fortunate to have a president who cares… However Congress’ gridlocked is causing the chaos…

We must do better for our precious children…We have opportunities coming, and we must do much better!!!

#FloridaTeacher🍎

#VoteBidenHarris24

#TakeBackFl

💙🌊🇺🇲🍎📚

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Americans Are Turning Against School Vouchers…

Posted on by Janis Sexton

By
Jennifer C. Berkshire

Hope for our precious children’s future: a Strong, Successful Public Education…

Americans across the partisan divide seem increasingly fed up with school voucher schemes, which funnel public funds to unaccountable private entities. Even Betsy DeVos’s lobbying group is getting nervous about the voucher backlash…

That’s how many Arizonans support that state’s Wild West voucher scheme. If the figure seems surprising given the ardency of the sales pitch for “education freedom,” its source should send your eyebrows skyward. This bleak view of Arizona public opinion about the state’s $1-billion-plus Education Savings Account (ESA) program comes not from voucher haters but from their superfans: the American Federation for Children (AFC), the deep-pocketed and highly influential school-choice lobbying firm started by “Betsy DeVos”…

To understand why AFC is decidedly downcast even as vouchers are on the move, we need to make a trip to the Grand Canyon State, where last month, the state Supreme Court deprived voters of the opportunity to weigh in on whether the famously fraud-ridden voucher program should be more tightly regulated. The backstory is complicated — riddled with backstabbing, late-night shenanigans, and dueling ballot questions — which is why we’re speeding ahead to the aftermath. While Arizona’s pro-voucher forces popped the champagne corks over the death of the ESA reform effort, DeVos’s crew sounded a far more cautionary note to the effect of: “This program is deeply unpopular, and unless we crack down on fraud and implement some standards to convince the public that it’s actually working, vouchers in Arizona are doomed.”

We must vote JollyGraham26…

Vote for Our Precious Children’s Future …

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1D9DKG1Euw/

https://jacobin.com/2026/09/school-choice-vouchers-public-opposition?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUU15ljbGNrBRTXdnBkb2YFZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEekzQkzpMBXVit8a_OiBPOBd4Oy2qTBdzrJTCLowjd8cMSVH8fqYfYar-CmqY_aem_rLpfcP6BwYvJXtZjmjtAJA

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Ruby Bridges …Civil Rights Movement…Black History…

Posted on by Janis Sexton

#FloridaTeacher♥️🍎

Ruby Bridges was born today…
Sept 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi…
At just 6yrs old, became a historic icon of the Civil Rights Movement…

Nov 14, 1960, became the first African American child to integrate a white public. elementary school in the South…

#Blackhistory                 #OurPreciousChildren

“Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!”

Ruby Bridges
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Happy National Read a Book Day!

Posted on by Janis Sexton

#FloridaTeacher ♥️🍎 #TeacherLove                          

Happy National Read a Book Day! September 6, 2026

National Read a Book Day is celebrated every year on September 6th to encourage people to relax and enjoy a good book….

“Drop Everything and Read” Focus on making reading fun, personal, and accessible to all children…

Posted in Mission, Reflections, Thoughts About Children

Dear America…We Can Do This…For Our Precious Children

Posted on by Janis Sexton

Thoughts About ChildrenDear America…We Can Do This…For Our Precious ChildrenFirst Posted on September 18, 2024… This post, from last year before the election, gave us hope as a possibility… Despite this opportunity, and perhaps because of the divisive political climate, we did not heed the message… Now, we must take charge to open the hearts […]

Dear America…We Can Do This…For Our Precious Children
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Florida Election… Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Posted on by Janis Sexton

FloridaTeacher♥️🍎   #VoteJollyGraham26   

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Opportunity awaits… SeptemberAwakeningHope…  Our Precious Children’s Future…

#VoteJollyGraham26

We must vote this election on Tuesday, November 3…for our precious children’s future…

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EDUCATION ALERT… School Year…2026-27

Posted on by Janis Sexton

SHAMEFUL: The Trump administration is planning to gut Head Start, a program offering free preschool to over half a million children.

The administration plans to remove quality standards and require more paperwork for hardworking families who need support the most.

This comes after many Head Start programs had to temporarily close over the past year due to the Trump administration’s funding cuts.

Donald Trump is taking away education from young children.

Trump administration weighs proposal to gut Head Start preschool standards, leaving states to set the rules | PBS News https://share.google/4V8tOQ1kp2PjtOEFO

Unconscionable…I was so fortunate to begin my teaching career in 1972… Head Start and Federal Programs began 1965…Thanks to President Lyndon Baines Johnson…We had such hope…

I did have the Blessed opportunity to lead a Headstart Parenting group in 1974…Parent involvement essential…Together we can educate our precious children…

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August ’26 SchoolYear…  New Beginnings …

Posted on by Janis Sexton

#FloridaTeacher♥️🍎        #TeacherLove                                       #ProtectOurKids

      

My Teaching Memories…                        My last school year teaching  beginning August, 2014….                                             Retiring, June 2015


Teaching has been my guiding spirit…My Inspiration….

These complex and challenging times, I now spend my time advocating for our Precious Children…On social media platforms…

And even as I go about my life in my community, I just love engaging with the young people of today …Having such Hope and a Voice…

This new school year…2026-27
AugustBeginningsofHope
#VoteJollyGraham 🙏💙🇺🇸🕊🌎

Retiring June 2015…🙏♥️🍎

Hope for Our Precious Children’s Future🙏♥️🍎🇺🇸

  #JollyGraham2026    🙏💙🇺🇸      
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Save Standard Time…

Posted on by Janis Sexton

janisexton.com💜
#FloridaTeacher ❤️🍎  #TeacherLove                                          #ProtectOurKids


Daylight Savings Time does give us more daylight…
However, our precious children waiting for school buses and arriving at school in the dark is dangerous!!!
Speaking from experience…

When I was teaching…Each day, I would arrive at school around 6:15 in the dark, and parents who needed to leave early for work would drop off their children in the darkness too. Fortunately, we were able to keep our cafeteria open…Our Cafeteria Ladies were already preparing breakfast…

Permanent DST would cause the sunrise to be past 8am more than 3 months in most states and past 9am in 18 states. It cost children’s lives when last tried! Ditch the switch with permanent Standard Time instead.

https://x.com/i/status/2077177319148359959

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America’s Dream, 4th of July…2025

Posted on by Janis Sexton

July 4 2026…America’s 250th year….

Hope for Our Precious Children’s Future…🙏🏻❤️🇺🇲🍎📚

First Posted on July 5, 2025…

#FloridaTeacher🍎♥️                         #TeacherLove                              #ProtectOurKids

Our precious children…
Christmas in July ✨ 🌲 ✨
SummerPeaceandLove…

4th of July…
Congress sending Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ to his desk after dramatic all-night House vote…🙏🏽💔🇺🇲

There is nothing as rewarding as making someone realise that they are worthwhile in this World,
That their presence makes a difference…

#AmericaDream
#4thOfJuly
✨️🙏🏾❤️🇺🇲

July’sWish…
This 4th of July…
Time for our reflection…

Our Independence Day Commemorates the passage of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776…

AMERICA WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED FROM THE OUTSIDE IF WE FALTER AND LOSE OUR FREEDOMS IT WILL BE BECAUSE WE DESTROYED OURSELVES

Abraham Lincoln

Former President Barack Obama warned about a “weak commitment” to democracy by President Donald Trump’s administration and the U.S. “drifting” into autocracy during a speech in Connecticut, according to media reports.bit.ly

https://x.com/USATODAY/status/1935368113341485346?t=nLSvT19gq08VmS94-_gC4w&s=09