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“Why The Public Doesn’t Choose Public Schools”-A Poem
You lock the public out of the tracks
And wonder why the public doesn’t choose public schools.
You install metal detectors but you ignore bullying concerns
And wonder why the public doesn’t choose public schools.
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You lock the public out of the tracks
And wonder why the public doesn’t choose public schools.
You install metal detectors but you ignore bullying concerns
And wonder why the public doesn’t choose public schools.
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September 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
“Why The Public Doesn’t Choose Public Schools”-A Poem
You lock the public out of the tracks
And wonder why the public doesn’t choose public schools.
You install metal detectors but you ignore bullying concerns
And wonder why the public doesn’t choose public schools.
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You lock the public out of the tracks
And wonder why the public doesn’t choose public schools.
You install metal detectors but you ignore bullying concerns
And wonder why the public doesn’t choose public schools.
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🍎 While reviewing the teacher negotiations, our attention was captured when HR director, Brett Shively, stated that he was acting under the school board’s direct request.
🍎When the Union asked which board member, Shively stated he couldn’t say which one but that the Board came to him.
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🍎When the Union asked which board member, Shively stated he couldn’t say which one but that the Board came to him.
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August 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
🍎 While reviewing the teacher negotiations, our attention was captured when HR director, Brett Shively, stated that he was acting under the school board’s direct request.
🍎When the Union asked which board member, Shively stated he couldn’t say which one but that the Board came to him.
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🍎When the Union asked which board member, Shively stated he couldn’t say which one but that the Board came to him.
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🫶We are better together
✨community is about sitting down with our neighbors and discussing our differences.
✨It’s not always an argument, sometimes it’s just a shift in perspective and being open to other ideas.
🫶keep the conversation going
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
✨community is about sitting down with our neighbors and discussing our differences.
✨It’s not always an argument, sometimes it’s just a shift in perspective and being open to other ideas.
🫶keep the conversation going
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
'All on the same page': Lake Munson advocates 'feel heard' after county town hall
Lake Munson-area residents and advocates say they're a little more hopeful for its restoration after a town hall with Leon County government staff.
www.tallahassee.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
🫶We are better together
✨community is about sitting down with our neighbors and discussing our differences.
✨It’s not always an argument, sometimes it’s just a shift in perspective and being open to other ideas.
🫶keep the conversation going
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
✨community is about sitting down with our neighbors and discussing our differences.
✨It’s not always an argument, sometimes it’s just a shift in perspective and being open to other ideas.
🫶keep the conversation going
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
🍎We stand with our teachers union.
🍎They should continue to negotiate until they are offered appropriate pay.
🍎Unions are necessary as they fight for our rights as working neighbors.
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news.wfsu.org/wfsu-local-n...
🍎They should continue to negotiate until they are offered appropriate pay.
🍎Unions are necessary as they fight for our rights as working neighbors.
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news.wfsu.org/wfsu-local-n...
Leon County superintendent and union push back against charges by the new commissioner of education
Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas blasted Leon County educators, saying they withheld state-allocated teacher raises
news.wfsu.org
August 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
🍎We stand with our teachers union.
🍎They should continue to negotiate until they are offered appropriate pay.
🍎Unions are necessary as they fight for our rights as working neighbors.
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news.wfsu.org/wfsu-local-n...
🍎They should continue to negotiate until they are offered appropriate pay.
🍎Unions are necessary as they fight for our rights as working neighbors.
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news.wfsu.org/wfsu-local-n...
“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” —Benjamin Franklin
✨At the City Commission meeting, the commission discussed Madison street. Rob McGarrah presented us with a traffic study which was done while school was out and not during football games
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✨At the City Commission meeting, the commission discussed Madison street. Rob McGarrah presented us with a traffic study which was done while school was out and not during football games
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August 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” —Benjamin Franklin
✨At the City Commission meeting, the commission discussed Madison street. Rob McGarrah presented us with a traffic study which was done while school was out and not during football games
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✨At the City Commission meeting, the commission discussed Madison street. Rob McGarrah presented us with a traffic study which was done while school was out and not during football games
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🫖We were hit with a paywall… $333.80 and cited this will take 10 hours of work.
☕️We are asking the district for funding balance for our neighbors that benefit from IDEA (individual disability education act). This funding supports our student who need additional resources.
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☕️We are asking the district for funding balance for our neighbors that benefit from IDEA (individual disability education act). This funding supports our student who need additional resources.
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August 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
🫖We were hit with a paywall… $333.80 and cited this will take 10 hours of work.
☕️We are asking the district for funding balance for our neighbors that benefit from IDEA (individual disability education act). This funding supports our student who need additional resources.
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☕️We are asking the district for funding balance for our neighbors that benefit from IDEA (individual disability education act). This funding supports our student who need additional resources.
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✨After our elected officials spent the weekend at Amelia Island discussing housing costs pricing people out of Tallahassee, the New NorthEast apartment complex published their rent prices
✨For a 1/1 apartment the monthly rent is $1,750 per month. Marketed as another luxury living community.
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✨For a 1/1 apartment the monthly rent is $1,750 per month. Marketed as another luxury living community.
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August 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
✨After our elected officials spent the weekend at Amelia Island discussing housing costs pricing people out of Tallahassee, the New NorthEast apartment complex published their rent prices
✨For a 1/1 apartment the monthly rent is $1,750 per month. Marketed as another luxury living community.
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✨For a 1/1 apartment the monthly rent is $1,750 per month. Marketed as another luxury living community.
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✨According multiple post out of the chamber conference, residents here need to make $90,000-$120,000 to afford a house.
✨This number didn’t include rental. However, we can assume it’s just as high.
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✨This number didn’t include rental. However, we can assume it’s just as high.
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August 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
✨According multiple post out of the chamber conference, residents here need to make $90,000-$120,000 to afford a house.
✨This number didn’t include rental. However, we can assume it’s just as high.
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✨This number didn’t include rental. However, we can assume it’s just as high.
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🌴 There are over 500 individuals from 224 +\- businesses attending Amelia Island
🌴Leon County has just over 300,000 population which means that only 0.16% of Leon County and Tallahassee have a seat at the the table
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🌴Leon County has just over 300,000 population which means that only 0.16% of Leon County and Tallahassee have a seat at the the table
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August 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
🌴 There are over 500 individuals from 224 +\- businesses attending Amelia Island
🌴Leon County has just over 300,000 population which means that only 0.16% of Leon County and Tallahassee have a seat at the the table
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🌴Leon County has just over 300,000 population which means that only 0.16% of Leon County and Tallahassee have a seat at the the table
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✨We can’t control if the School district changes the bus routes to make them safer for our students.
✨But we still value safety and we believe in action.
✨So we purchased some reflective safety bands to pass out to students.
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✨But we still value safety and we believe in action.
✨So we purchased some reflective safety bands to pass out to students.
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August 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
✨We can’t control if the School district changes the bus routes to make them safer for our students.
✨But we still value safety and we believe in action.
✨So we purchased some reflective safety bands to pass out to students.
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✨But we still value safety and we believe in action.
✨So we purchased some reflective safety bands to pass out to students.
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✨Our community is questioning the new bus routes and the safety around them.
✨We also included a few of our own safety tips for parents and students.
🫶We are better and safer together
floridacapitaltea.com/buses-and-co... Buses and Confusion and Students, Oh My! - 850CapitalTea
✨We also included a few of our own safety tips for parents and students.
🫶We are better and safer together
floridacapitaltea.com/buses-and-co... Buses and Confusion and Students, Oh My! - 850CapitalTea
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August 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
✨Our community is questioning the new bus routes and the safety around them.
✨We also included a few of our own safety tips for parents and students.
🫶We are better and safer together
floridacapitaltea.com/buses-and-co... Buses and Confusion and Students, Oh My! - 850CapitalTea
✨We also included a few of our own safety tips for parents and students.
🫶We are better and safer together
floridacapitaltea.com/buses-and-co... Buses and Confusion and Students, Oh My! - 850CapitalTea
🍎Our team did the math and between January 2024 and December 2024 there has been $285,208 given in “reclassification” raises
🍎When added to the amount of reclassification raises since January 2025 that’s a total of $393,904 in raises given to executives under the guise of “reclassification”
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🍎When added to the amount of reclassification raises since January 2025 that’s a total of $393,904 in raises given to executives under the guise of “reclassification”
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August 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🍎Our team did the math and between January 2024 and December 2024 there has been $285,208 given in “reclassification” raises
🍎When added to the amount of reclassification raises since January 2025 that’s a total of $393,904 in raises given to executives under the guise of “reclassification”
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🍎When added to the amount of reclassification raises since January 2025 that’s a total of $393,904 in raises given to executives under the guise of “reclassification”
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We have to protect our public schools and it starts locally.
When staff doesn’t understand policies or how to amend them, our public schools suffer. Parents lose confidence, we lose consistency, and funds disappear
We are better together
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When staff doesn’t understand policies or how to amend them, our public schools suffer. Parents lose confidence, we lose consistency, and funds disappear
We are better together
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8kaLEDJ/
LCS district staff stated that all travel has to be board approved. Even if the travel is employee funded. We checked their policies on this. It’s states “All in-county travel and out-of-county trave...
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August 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
We have to protect our public schools and it starts locally.
When staff doesn’t understand policies or how to amend them, our public schools suffer. Parents lose confidence, we lose consistency, and funds disappear
We are better together
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8kaLEDJ/
When staff doesn’t understand policies or how to amend them, our public schools suffer. Parents lose confidence, we lose consistency, and funds disappear
We are better together
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8kaLEDJ/
We are better and stronger together.
The only way that our teachers will get paid a living wage is if we all support them and their collective bargaining.
The only way that our teachers will get paid a living wage is if we all support them and their collective bargaining.
Leon County Schools claims a $12.5M shortfall—yet increased its staffing budget by $6M. Meanwhile, 50+ jobs are being cut, and teacher raises are stalled. As usual, evidence points to bureaucracy—namely, Superintendents and district school boards acting as the bottleneck, NOT unions. 🙅🏻♀️
August 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
We are better and stronger together.
The only way that our teachers will get paid a living wage is if we all support them and their collective bargaining.
The only way that our teachers will get paid a living wage is if we all support them and their collective bargaining.
✨School district staff have been known to label raises in the form of “reclassification” ($78,696 since January of this year).
✨However, this last meeting we saw a raise given in a new form.
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✨However, this last meeting we saw a raise given in a new form.
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July 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
✨School district staff have been known to label raises in the form of “reclassification” ($78,696 since January of this year).
✨However, this last meeting we saw a raise given in a new form.
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✨However, this last meeting we saw a raise given in a new form.
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🏝️After conversations with our neighbors about the Chamber boasting their annual conference at the Ritz Carlton on Amelia Island, we looked up a few other chambers and the locations of their retreats.
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July 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
🏝️After conversations with our neighbors about the Chamber boasting their annual conference at the Ritz Carlton on Amelia Island, we looked up a few other chambers and the locations of their retreats.
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🏝️Leon county school board explains to our community why they feel it is necessary to send public school executives to an end of summer vacation using public money.
🫶Keep the conversation going. We are better together
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🏝️Leon county school board explains to our community why they feel it is necessary to send public school executives to an end of summer vacation using public money.
🫶Keep the conversation going. We are better together
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We need to surround ourselves with people that don’t require us to soend thousands of public dollars at the Ritz Carlton on Amelia island in order to have a relationship. Leon County School Board exp...
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July 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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🏝️Leon county school board explains to our community why they feel it is necessary to send public school executives to an end of summer vacation using public money.
🫶Keep the conversation going. We are better together
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6SX9k2v/
🏝️Leon county school board explains to our community why they feel it is necessary to send public school executives to an end of summer vacation using public money.
🫶Keep the conversation going. We are better together
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6SX9k2v/
✨Updated Chamber of Commerce list shows 5 LCS representatives still attending
✨Listed on the upcoming district board meeting reads as follows:
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✨Listed on the upcoming district board meeting reads as follows:
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July 28, 2025 at 12:32 AM
✨Updated Chamber of Commerce list shows 5 LCS representatives still attending
✨Listed on the upcoming district board meeting reads as follows:
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✨Listed on the upcoming district board meeting reads as follows:
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✨A new Chamber list was released on 7/25/25
✨What’s new
-organized alphabetically by organization again
-went from 12 pages down to 10
🫶Keep the conversation going, we are better together
✨What’s new
-organized alphabetically by organization again
-went from 12 pages down to 10
🫶Keep the conversation going, we are better together
July 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
✨A new Chamber list was released on 7/25/25
✨What’s new
-organized alphabetically by organization again
-went from 12 pages down to 10
🫶Keep the conversation going, we are better together
✨What’s new
-organized alphabetically by organization again
-went from 12 pages down to 10
🫶Keep the conversation going, we are better together
✨Last year they recommended all general employee recieve just over 4% raises-which included the executives.
✨So a general employee making $45,000 a year would receive a raise of about $1,800
✨Reese Goad alone received a raise of $19,995
✨So a general employee making $45,000 a year would receive a raise of about $1,800
✨Reese Goad alone received a raise of $19,995
June 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
✨Last year they recommended all general employee recieve just over 4% raises-which included the executives.
✨So a general employee making $45,000 a year would receive a raise of about $1,800
✨Reese Goad alone received a raise of $19,995
✨So a general employee making $45,000 a year would receive a raise of about $1,800
✨Reese Goad alone received a raise of $19,995
🍎Our Teacher’s Union advocated for and received parental leave provisions.
🍎We are better together and stronger together
🍎We are better together and stronger together
April 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
🍎Our Teacher’s Union advocated for and received parental leave provisions.
🍎We are better together and stronger together
🍎We are better together and stronger together
With a city manager usurping the power of our commissioners and our neighbors we see how this has plays into city planning.
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March 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
With a city manager usurping the power of our commissioners and our neighbors we see how this has plays into city planning.
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There has been $80,715 in raises for just eight people.
If Communications coordinator, is included that’s a total of $90,755.
Currently only raises that go before the board are when someone is reclassified. But the other raises do not.
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If Communications coordinator, is included that’s a total of $90,755.
Currently only raises that go before the board are when someone is reclassified. But the other raises do not.
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February 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
There has been $80,715 in raises for just eight people.
If Communications coordinator, is included that’s a total of $90,755.
Currently only raises that go before the board are when someone is reclassified. But the other raises do not.
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If Communications coordinator, is included that’s a total of $90,755.
Currently only raises that go before the board are when someone is reclassified. But the other raises do not.
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🍎Here are some more salaries for LCS executives.
🍎Johnnie Douglas Jr received $12,455 (17.9%). From our understanding he was promoted to a director position after a second position was created.
🍎Brett Shively received $9,294 ( 7.9%) raise.
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🍎Johnnie Douglas Jr received $12,455 (17.9%). From our understanding he was promoted to a director position after a second position was created.
🍎Brett Shively received $9,294 ( 7.9%) raise.
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February 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
🍎Here are some more salaries for LCS executives.
🍎Johnnie Douglas Jr received $12,455 (17.9%). From our understanding he was promoted to a director position after a second position was created.
🍎Brett Shively received $9,294 ( 7.9%) raise.
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🍎Johnnie Douglas Jr received $12,455 (17.9%). From our understanding he was promoted to a director position after a second position was created.
🍎Brett Shively received $9,294 ( 7.9%) raise.
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🍎 These three assistant superintendents all received $3,326 for a combined total of $9,978
🍎When we are told that there is no funding for teachers or bills can’t be paid, it’s important that we know all the information.
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🍎When we are told that there is no funding for teachers or bills can’t be paid, it’s important that we know all the information.
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February 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
🍎 These three assistant superintendents all received $3,326 for a combined total of $9,978
🍎When we are told that there is no funding for teachers or bills can’t be paid, it’s important that we know all the information.
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🍎When we are told that there is no funding for teachers or bills can’t be paid, it’s important that we know all the information.
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