DeSantis Is Destroying Florida Students

Ron DeSantis is doing everything in his power to destroy schools.

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What are Florida students supposed to do when they have to compete against students from other states? DeSantis is crippling the education system for years to come. Uh, lot of Florida questions today and, and actually, I put the list together. I know that's not even it. Um, so here's the thing, and I've talked about this in a recent video. Florida test scores are, are dropping, they're dropping like flies. They're dropping so bad. DeSantis actually changed the way we do testing here in the state of Florida instead of having, uh, not quarterly, but every three months or so. The way it worked prior to this year, every three months, you would have an assessment test for, for pretty much all grades over third grade, and it would test the knowledge you had gained in the last three months. He changed that because the test scores were getting so bad.

So now instead it's the exact same test three times a year, and we're only gonna count the test scores at the end of the year. So basically, you have all year to take this same test until you have to take it at the end when you should be smarter than you were at the beginning of the school year. And then of course, your grades are gonna look better, the scores are gonna be better. We're gonna look like we're doing something when in reality we're not. The state of Florida has the worst knowledge retention drop off between ages, uh, uh, excuse me, grades four and eight. By eighth grade, our students here in the state of Florida have retained less knowledge and no less than anywhere else in the country. We are making our children dumber because of these Republican policies that are exactly designed to do that. That's what 30 plus years of Republican rule in this state will get you. And it is going to have consequences. It will have repercussions for our children. They're doing worse because of it. And you know, we're, we're stuck with it. Unless we could each go out and hire private tutors, which obviously we can't, this is what we get.

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