The state superintendent of Florida tweeted some happy talk, but there was a grammatical error. It’s easy to make a typo when tweeting or blogging; I have done it many times myself, so I don’t criticize those who make innocent mistakes.
However, Pam Stewart’s tweet opened the floodgates:
“Stewart: I wake up with one goal- making sure every single students is able to receive a high quality education for future success. 8:30 AM – 21 May 2015” Read the responses:
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
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Hi, I have a friend who is moving to Florida and has a middle school aged son . What to tell her about schools there with all of these shenanigans with testing and charters involved in scandals? Anyone have advice for someone moving to Navarre area?
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Tweak Not, Lest You Be Tweakèd …
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Twixt the tweet and the twerk
Is many a jerk.
The NJ Commish delivers himself of doubling down on whatevers.
Now the FLState Supt.
Is there a place, like central casting, where they get all these folks?
😏
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I twit a tweet
A tweet I twit
Upon a twitted tweet
I twipped
Say that 5 times fast
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that, that, that, that, that!!
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Somehow, I knew you’d probably be the one to say that.
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Potatoe
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Why the State Superintendent Should Not Tweet.
Three comments sounds about right.
It are alright to make a grammatical error,
I did once my self.
Keep it up Pam.
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Keep what up? Destroying our children’s love for learning? Decimating the teaching profession? The only thing she seems to be keeping up is appearances.
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Have to admit, I was hoping for something more salacious. Like Quayle’s “bondage between a mother and her child”. Or the travel agent who inadvertently advertised an “erotic” vacation.
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Or anything from Joe Biden.
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Or Braniff’s (that’s a defunct airline for you youngsters-I flew on it from Miami to Lima & back in ’73):
“vuela en cuero” campaign.
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You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
-dubya
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Pam Stewart was on a local radio station in Pensacola, and her final statement was about getting funding for education so “we can stay on the right trajectory.” This has been the ABSOLUTE worst year in Florida education in at least the last 2 decades. Everything about Florida education screams “WRONG TRAJECTORY!”
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Its the right trajectory when you’re going to hell in a hand basket. Lots of luck FL, you’re in good company as Cuomo has NY on a similar “trajectory”.
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Stewart’s trajectory is taking FL to Chili- a free-market dream.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/chile-s-student-uprising#/story
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Chile no chili
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Pam needs to take her broom on a trajectory to the moon.
Thank you for sharing this, Diane. If our tweets weren’t so true, they’d be pretty funny. As bad as it has been before, this has been the absolute worst testing season. And it’s not even over yet. Our kids have been testing since March 2. Teacher morale is at an all-time low.
The waste of resources – money, manpower and time – has been obscene.
If there is anything good to come of this year, it is that parents are waking up and teachers are using their voices to effect real change (Susan Bowles is a hero). They are becoming involved and engaged, and most importantly, INFORMED and active. Finally.
Hopefully, this bodes well for the upcoming election year.
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“I Tweak with Tat Tweet at My Wits”
I tweak with tat tweet at my wits
I tweak with tat tweet at my wits
Itwitwimywitz x 5
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I am queen of typos as I peck on my ipad or iphone. But this is ironic!
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The typo is one thing, but the vacuousness of what is said is even worse. “A high quality education for future success” means what exactly? And how do we get there for every student? Standardized testing? People like this don’t really care about the students. This is all BS.
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I agree. There is no “there” there with people like Stewart. Just Jabbertalk
Wonderland is real and inhabited by school “reformers.”
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Agree – her words reveal she is one of them – another reformer in a position of power disrupting the lives of children in the name of ‘a high quality education for future success’ – Florida – a shining example of what should not be done in education.
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The correct title is Commissioner of the Department of Education (not state superintendent).
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58 states
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