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
Opportunity awaits… SeptemberAwakeningHope… Our Precious Children’s Future…
We must vote this election on Tuesday, November 3…for our precious children’s future…
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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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
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Hope for Our Precious Children’s Future🙏♥️🍎🇺🇸
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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.
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Early… Mail in Voted… Saturday July 11!!
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July 4 2026…America’s 250th year….
First Posted on July 5, 2025…
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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
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July’sWish…
This 4th of July…
Time for our reflection…
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
By: Forrest Saunders
Posted 4:02 PM, May 05, 2026 and last updated 6:30 PM, May 05, 2026
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A fight over Florida’s public school funding is now headed to court…
The Florida Education Association, several families and public school advocates filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing the state of failing to meet its constitutional duty to provide a uniform, safe and high-quality system of free public schools. The challenge argues Florida is sending billions of taxpayer dollars to voucher and charter programs that are not held to the same standards as traditional public schools.
“When you see that we’re ranked 50th [for average teacher pay] for the third year in a row, you know exactly what the priorities of the state are — and it’s not our public education,” said Scott Mazer, president of the Leon Classroom Teachers Association.
Kim Andrews Ward, a Leon County behavior specialist, said the funding concerns are showing up in classrooms and in staffing.
“We can’t provide,” Ward said. “Teachers are leaving. Teachers, support staff — everybody’s leaving this career.”
FEA President Andrew Spar called the lawsuit a “last resort,” saying parents and educators want the courts to force a more consistent set of rules for any school receiving public money.
“We want the courts to direct the Legislature to enact provisions that ensure that no matter where a student is getting an education, there is transparency, fairness and a uniform, basic set of standards,” Spar said.
The legal complaint names Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas, the Florida Department of Education and the State Board of Education among the defendants. It asks a Leon County circuit judge to declare the state’s scholarship and charter school systems unconstitutional as currently administered and to block public funding from flowing to schools that do not meet constitutional standards for uniformity and safety.
State education leaders are pushing back. In an online statement responding to the lawsuit, Kamoutsas defended Florida’s universal school choice policies, saying, “Thanks to @GovRonDeSantis, every Florida family has access to universal school choice, empowering them to select the learning environment that best fits their child’s individual needs.” He added, “We stand unapologetically convicted on the principle of always putting students first!”
Gov. Ron DeSantis also defended his education record Friday while signing new legislation aimed at public-sector unions and teacher pay. He argued Florida has put historic money into teacher salary increases, but said some unions have slowed the process through negotiations.
“What some of these school unions were doing, even though the money is available July 1, when the fiscal year starts, they were withholding that in negotiations,”
The new law also raises requirements for some public-sector unions to stay certified — a move opponents have denounced as union-busting. But Kamoutsas described the bills Friday as reforms that “are empowering educators,”“supporting families” and “ensuring that every student in this state has access to high-quality education.”
The new union laws take effect in July. The lawsuit is just beginning, and the broader school funding fight will continue when lawmakers return to the Capitol on May 12 for a budget special session. They are expected to vote on a final spending plan sometime after Memorial Day.
Retired now for 11 years….Back then we felt the changes…I realized that my thirty-eight-year teaching career allowed me to envision what our precious children deserved…I will continue advocating….
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Memories…
A child can teach an adult three things:
To be happy for no reason
To always be curious
To fight tirelessly for something…
❤️- Paulo Coelho
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#TeacherAppreciationWeek
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Mother’s Day…
Teacher Appreciation…
The journey…
Our precious children…
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#MothersDay
#TeacherAppreciationWeek
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Ever since Donald Trump was elected, it’s easy to feel like our most precious children aren’t always our top priority… However, remember that their future depends on us… Let’s do everything we can to safeguard our beautiful world for them and generations to come…
Our precious children…
#EarthDay2023
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Janis Sexton...Teacher...Advocate 