Our children should not be used as political pawns.
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Anonymous
2 years ago
Please either stop all of your hateful, false rhetoric or just go!
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Anonymous
3 years ago
Do not fire Dr. Asplen. The highest standards of education must be upheld and must not be tarnished by politically-motivated feelings. Thank you.
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Bennie Woodard
3 years ago
Our family has lived in Florida since the 1850s! Thanks to a Wonderful Public Education system, our family has thrived. We have no use for those carpet baggers who want to rob our state tax dollars and run when their "schools" go belly up and they leave the state...with our tax $$$!
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Ivan Groom
3 years ago
Our kids excelled in Sarasota public schools.
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Henry Saltzman
3 years ago
Stay strong and keep fighting. Your kids are too important to let the know-nothings take over.
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Robin Williams
3 years ago
This is 2023 not 1954 politics do not belong in our schools
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Elizabeth King
3 years ago
Please stop putting a partisan agenda before the needs of our children and educators!
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Robert Tayler
3 years ago
I hope we are not too late.
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Cathy Larner-Beckett
3 years ago
The wrong person was fired!
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rodney woods
3 years ago
We have to take a stand against this politically motivated attempt to undermine the integrity of our educational system.
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Iffat Razzaque
3 years ago
As a conservative, I only support public schools once they drop reverse racism and silly equity programs. There is no such thing as racism and white people need to be respected by immigrants
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Michele LeSure
3 years ago
We must keep public education a right for all Americans.
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Carol Miller
3 years ago
The school board as it stands is a political stunt power grab by far right extremists intent on destroying curriculum and civil rights of students and staff. Shane on them.
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Jeanne Marlowe
3 years ago
Please stop the politics in our schools!
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Joel Sassa
3 years ago
As a life long Republican I find the actions of the four new members inappropriate and disingenuous
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Anonymous
3 years ago
She needs to go and also Enos.
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PHILIP HUMPHREYS
3 years ago
Termination of Superintendent Asplen is in total disregard of the welfare of public school students and their families and a needless expenditure of valuable public school funds.
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Patricia Sahm
3 years ago
The Sarasota School Board is destroying education in our county. Thankfully I do not have children in these schools. SRQ use to be #2 in Fl. Soon under the political leadership of this corrupt School Board it will be #50 behind Mississippi.
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Laraine Bortner
3 years ago
I’m disgusted by the political games being played by the new school board members at tax payer expense. Shame on them!
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Gary Leatherman
3 years ago
Don’t offer a backup compromise to involve the community in the selection of a new superintendent. The board takes its orders from DeSantis, not from the people of Sarasota, and he already knows who he wants to run this district. Someone as qualified as his Surgeon General, no doubt.
Please either stop all of your hateful, false rhetoric or just go!
Do not fire Dr. Asplen. The highest standards of education must be upheld and must not be tarnished by politically-motivated feelings. Thank you.
Our family has lived in Florida since the 1850s! Thanks to a Wonderful Public Education system, our family has thrived. We have no use for those carpet baggers who want to rob our state tax dollars and run when their "schools" go belly up and they leave the state...with our tax $$$!
Our kids excelled in Sarasota public schools.
Stay strong and keep fighting. Your kids are too important to let the know-nothings take over.
This is 2023 not 1954 politics do not belong in our schools
Please stop putting a partisan agenda before the needs of our children and educators!
I hope we are not too late.
The wrong person was fired!
We have to take a stand against this politically motivated attempt to undermine the integrity of our educational system.
As a conservative, I only support public schools once they drop reverse racism and silly equity programs. There is no such thing as racism and white people need to be respected by immigrants
We must keep public education a right for all Americans.
The school board as it stands is a political stunt power grab by far right extremists intent on destroying curriculum and civil rights of students and staff. Shane on them.
Please stop the politics in our schools!
As a life long Republican I find the actions of the four new members inappropriate and disingenuous
She needs to go and also Enos.
Termination of Superintendent Asplen is in total disregard of the welfare of public school students and their families and a needless expenditure of valuable public school funds.
The Sarasota School Board is destroying education in our county. Thankfully I do not have children in these schools. SRQ use to be #2 in Fl. Soon under the political leadership of this corrupt School Board it will be #50 behind Mississippi.
I’m disgusted by the political games being played by the new school board members at tax payer expense. Shame on them!
Don’t offer a backup compromise to involve the community in the selection of a new superintendent. The board takes its orders from DeSantis, not from the people of Sarasota, and he already knows who he wants to run this district. Someone as qualified as his Surgeon General, no doubt.