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When it comes to the Escambia Co. School system, the news is not just mostly bad, but devastating. Between crooked politicians, incompetent Principals, the single worst superintendent in the country and teaching to the FCAT and then lying about it, there's just not much good news. Except for the stunning job that is going on Hallmark Elementary School.
Why Does Pensacola Believe That Only Poor Black People Should Live in a Stinky Neighborhod?
For decades the Escambia County Utilities Authority has stunk up downtown Pensacola. But since only poor people lived nearby it was okay. Now that millions are being spent to renovate the area, suddenly the funds have been found to move the treatment plant.Why WEAR-TV 3 In Pensacola is the Worst Local TV Station in the Country
Pensacola, Fl. area viewers are used to tuning into neighboring Mobile, AL television stations in order to get useful news concerning their own community. But when those in charge of covering the weather in Pensacola were not even capable of tracking the very same tornado that was heading for their own station at one point, forcing area residents to turn to Mobile's WKRG 5 in order to get a street by street breakdown of the path, well, that was the last straw.
Warning to Would-Be Teachers: Stay Away from Escambia Co., Florida, the Worst School District for Teachers in America
If you are a teacher looking for the perfect school district, stay away from Escambia Co., Florida. From the Superintendent down, this is one school district designed to screw you.
The Brownsville area of Pensacola has been going to pot since the late 70s. Drugs, gangs, hookers. It has needed a big ol' influx of tax dollars for decades. And then, coincidentally surely, just when the city starts tearing down poor housing in the downtown and building a baseball stadium no will never go to, the money arrives to turn this eyesore into something that totally to be ashamed of.
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Read live, as it is happening coverage of that fateful day.
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Irony is difficult for some to get, as you'll understand if you read this humorous "love letter" to all things Pensacola: bad radio stations, drivers who never learned about this thing called a turn signal, and the devastation of the city's sole attraction, the beaches.
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Pensacola Voters: Do NOT Allow Jim Paul to Be Re-elected as Escambia Co. School Superintendent
Jim Paul, the current Superintendent of the Escambia Co. School District, recently announced he would run for re-election. As if Escambia County students and parents haven’t had enough to deal with from hurricanes, budget cuts, school closings based entirely on construction contracts, and the imposition of idiotic standardized tests that result in schools that make the best scores not being able to raise their overall school grade because of the twisted mechanisms of the FCAT.
Jim Paul is thoroughly unfit to be elected dog catcher—dog poop picker-upper—much less the Superintendent of Escambia County School District. Is he a criminal? I don’t know. Does he take bribes? Well, I certainly can’t prove it. What can I prove? I can prove that Jim Paul is a Superintendent who works in absentia.
What does that mean? That means that Jim Paul, in his position as Superintendent of the Escambia County School District, appoints cronies to exceptionally well paid positions and lets them do the work. Jim Paul doesn’t have the slightest knowledge of what is going on in his own school district. I worked as a teacher in the Escambia Co. School District and was twice named to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. Twice. Despite the fact that I worked less than one full school year. Here we have a school Superintendent with a teacher so respected by his students that one of them nominates that teacher to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers a year after that student was taught. So does Jim Paul go out of his way to keep such a valuable commodity within his school system?
No. What Jim Paul does is go golfing or on junkets or whatever it is he does when he is supposed to be ensuring that Escambia County’s students get what the best they can. What he doesn’t do is investigate a baseless accusation made by a student against the teacher; an accusation so without warrant that 200 students sign a petition to get the teacher reinstated. An accusation so unwarranted that literally dozens of students come forward to reject and disprove the core of the accusation. Jim Paul had a teacher so beloved by his students that without prompting they had planned on having an organized walkout to draw support for the teacher and against the student who had made the accusation.
I was that teacher. I called Superintendent Jim Paul on at least a dozen occasions to inquire about my status and give a written testimony. My calls were NEVER returned. Not once. Nor were my e-mail inquiries.
To the voters of the Escambia County School District: Voting Jim Paul back into office is like voting a brick wall into the job. Jim Paul doesn’t care about your students or you. In fact, it is almost impossible to tell what Jim Paul cares about, other than making life as inconvenient for you as possible.
