Are schools in FL terrible? Would you send your kids?

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Some elementary schools here use Sunshine Math as supplemental teaching for kids. My kid's school used it as part of the math club which was run by PTA as a fundraiser.
Sunshine Math is a creation of the government of Florida.

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Moved my 14yo to FL from MCPS two years ago. Plenty of IB programs and AP classes options, incredible liberal arts and very competitive sports programs. 10 minutes drive to one of the prettiest Gulf Coast beaches. Mild winters and very tolerable summers.
Yes, locals are less educated in general, but also more inclusive and less judgmental than what DMV population has become in the past 10 years.

There are pros and cons like with any decision you make.

I have no regrets.

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Anonymous wrote:Moved my 14yo to FL from MCPS two years ago. Plenty of IB programs and AP classes options, incredible liberal arts and very competitive sports programs. 10 minutes drive to one of the prettiest Gulf Coast beaches. Mild winters and very tolerable summers.
Yes, locals are less educated in general, but also more inclusive and less judgmental than what DMV population has become in the past 10 years.

There are pros and cons like with any decision you make.

I have no regrets.

Same experience here

[Anonymous]

I don not consider summers in FL "tolerable". I was there in the summer. OMG. The bugs and humidity. Yea, it's bad in DC area, too, but I did feel it's worse in FL.

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Anonymous wrote:We have a second home in northwest Florida on the ocean. I have 3 kids, 15, 12, and 6. A huge part of me wants to have a simple and quiet lifestyle without all the hassles of everyday living in this area. When we got the house it was supposed to be for trips in the summer and retirement one day. However, I am contemplating on moving there permanently more and more in the next few years.

My main concern is the schools and the politics of course. With all that crazy Desantis is doing there it seems like a no brainer that I wouldn’t want my kids attending school there. Put me in my place DCUM, am I insane for even thinking this? Am I only going to raise mini - Desantis’?

Niceville, FL has excellent schools and excellent affordable private or parochial schools. We wish we never had to leave. Or kids got into magnet middles schools here right away.

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Anonymous wrote:Hell no
DeSantis is literally crashing the public schools and colleges

I'm sorry you are ok moving to a state that just removed AP African American studies?

And he's ok killing off his population. What the hell do you think will happen when another pandemic hits? Because it will idiot.

Right now moving to Florida is dumb. But hey you want your daughters as second class citizens sure... Go on and move it's going to cost you a ton,, from INS, to school choice yeah fantastic decision.

Do you know a single thing about this issue beyond what you just typed?

[Anonymous]

Desantis is the best governor.

[Anonymous]

It's nice to be in school and during recess the kids can wrestle alligators.

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Anonymous wrote:Moved my 14yo to FL from MCPS two years ago. Plenty of IB programs and AP classes options, incredible liberal arts and very competitive sports programs. 10 minutes drive to one of the prettiest Gulf Coast beaches. Mild winters and very tolerable summers.
Yes, locals are less educated in general, but also more inclusive and less judgmental than what DMV population has become in the past 10 years.

There are pros and cons like with any decision you make.

I have no regrets.

We probably live pretty near each other and I love it here too. I've been here two years and hope to never leave. I visit DC area but not during the winter. I'll take FL summers any day over a winter up there.

Some think people in FL are less than DMV population in many ways, but I think some of the posters on FL threads on DCUM are the most narrow minded morons I've encountered recently.

I have no regrets either.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moved my 14yo to FL from MCPS two years ago. Plenty of IB programs and AP classes options, incredible liberal arts and very competitive sports programs. 10 minutes drive to one of the prettiest Gulf Coast beaches. Mild winters and very tolerable summers.
Yes, locals are less educated in general, but also more inclusive and less judgmental than what DMV population has become in the past 10 years.

There are pros and cons like with any decision you make.

I have no regrets.

Same experience here

Third here.
I am glad I am raising kids outside the liberal “bubble” and closer to real life. That is an education in itself. I have decided that not all education needs to be in the classroom- it is also about what I show them about life outside of school, the conversations I have with them at home, the people i exposé them to and the vacations we take to places that show them how life is different elsewhere. In Florida I am able to afford to give them a lot more than I would when I lived in Alexandria. And anyway on here I hear Fairfax schools have had a lot to complain about the last few years anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moved my 14yo to FL from MCPS two years ago. Plenty of IB programs and AP classes options, incredible liberal arts and very competitive sports programs. 10 minutes drive to one of the prettiest Gulf Coast beaches. Mild winters and very tolerable summers.
Yes, locals are less educated in general, but also more inclusive and less judgmental than what DMV population has become in the past 10 years.

There are pros and cons like with any decision you make.

I have no regrets.

We probably live pretty near each other and I love it here too. I've been here two years and hope to never leave. I visit DC area but not during the winter. I'll take FL summers any day over a winter up there.

Some think people in FL are less than DMV population in many ways, but I think some of the posters on FL threads on DCUM are the most narrow minded morons I've encountered recently.



I have no regrets either.

I agree about the morons on florida posts. So much hypocrisy and people unaware of how ignorant they are.

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Except for the initial 6-8 week covid shutdown Florida kept our schools open throughout covid.

Florida does not have the extreme turnover of teachers that you all seem to have in the DCUM area. It is not uncommon for Education Majors/Graduates to move out of Florida to get a teaching job in the Carolinas or elsewhere as we don't have a lot of teaching jobs that open up.

I've worked with teachers, coaches and Athletic Directors that teach and coach from high schools throughout the State of Florida. Our teaches and coaches are good quality people and very devoted to their jobs. We have a lot of diversity amongst our teaching staff in Florida.

Teaching is a respected occupation in Florida. I don't get
the feeling that teachers are respected in urban DCUM regions.

The biggest thing Florida has going for it is Bright Futures.
We've had Bright Futures for years and it means college is paid for for most high school students.

[Anonymous]

Teachers risk a felony in Florida if they have the wrong book in one of their in class library shelves. Some elementary teachers and schools are removing in class libraries to protect teachers. Way to go Florida!!

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Not for nothing, but I just checked a full list of AP tests available to take and AA History isn't on it, Is this a super new course? It seems pretty niche for an AP course to begin with. Couldn't (and shouldn't) this coursework just be folded into AP US History? It's not like high school kids are demonstrating exposure and excellence related to AA History to the point where they should earn college credit, right? It isn't calculus or chemistry where you gradually prove you deserve to be in AP.

As for "Don't Say Gay," how many students in grades K-3 are learning about sexual orientation and gender identity anyway? While I agree that the bill a is solution in search of a problem, I don's disagree that this is a topic better left (and already left) to later grades. I have a 1st grader, and if I found out they were taking time away from reading instruction to detail the different types of romantic relationships one could enter, Id be pissed.

Also, FL was sane and way ahead of the curve on the uselessness of masking.

So, I'd say FL schools are doing A-OK!

[Anonymous]

It’s a pilot course offered a few places. It has not been granted AP status yet and frankly if it’s all controversial OpEds it won’t be.