Broward County Public Schools — Attraction in Fort Lauderdale

I have been a student of this system and currently so have my children. I would say every district has it's good and bad points, but there has been a decline in standards in Broward ESPECIALLY in the Urban areas. But the blame is not all on the school board. Each school's administration and the parent involvement also set the standards.

There seems to be a shortage of teachers who really have teaching as a passion, and an a abundance of teachers who are just there for a paycheck until they get the real job they desire. There is lack of parent involvement in the urban schools (east of 441), and this will discourage teachers from putting forth quality efforts a lot of the time. I have discovered 2 of my children 's teachers who who used YouTube to teach their classes. One was a commissioner in Miami who was working that job in the classroom while the children were self teaching via Khan videos. I had to switch my daughter because of this.

There also seems to be a misappropriation of funds in the urban schools due to lack of oversight. PTAs lack ethics in the reporting of funds raised and at the high school level all the clubs or boosters don't seem to care about keeping proper financial record keeping. One principal doesn't not allow PTAs at her school because parent theft. All fundraising is done through the teachers and students. At the high school level it gets worse. The money asked for by parents is not always recorded by bookkeeping.

At the elementary level, teachers are able to put gift cards on the student school list, but there is no accounting for the use of those gift cards. They should require parents to give the cards to bookkeeping so it can be recorded, and teachers provide receipts to show that teachers are spending money on actual school supplies and not on themselves. The only exception should be when the gift cards are teacher gifts.

Then you have the fraud and theft at the district level over the years with disgruntled employees cashing retirement checks of dead employees and the other scandals that were reported in the news. Then the magnetic schools sometimes have to split the funding they get for 1 program to cover other areas of need. There should really be a better auditing system and accountability structure in place and enforced, especially since there is complaining about parent involvement and lack of funds.

A large percentage of students who graduate are not college prepared. They have to take prerequisite courses to learn what they didn't learn through the school system. The only way this doesn't happen is when parents are involved with their children's learning and supplement the areas that are not taught or addressed. There seems to be a lot of political involvement in these students education by the state. PALM BEACH COUNTY seems to be able to work around that.

There are a lot of opportunities in Broward county, but you have to be an involved parent to gain access or else you will get BS'd the majority of the time. You can't just drop your kids off and expect the schools to look out. They have quotas and legislation to keep up with. They are trying to save their jobs, not make sure your child is learning comprehensively. If you want the best for your child, go where the network and programs are and get involved. Hold admin and PTAs accountable by asking for...

PLEASE PLEASE listen people. There is so much stuff that happens in these schools that go unheard of. There are videos on YouTube social media everywhere. Parents ask questions if you child tell you they are being bullying it’s true. The only thing the school does when your child is being bullied is give you a scholarship to send them to another school, so it can happen again. My child goes to Indian Ridge Middle school which suppose to be a great school it’s not. My child has been bullied at this school since he was there. I reach out to the principal, assistant principal they did nothing. If you call district on them then they treat your child nasty, because they are upset. What do you do if they not doing their job. Three boys hold my son down, and choked him punch him in the stomach. I had to take him to the doctor because he was choked so bad. I reached out to district they do not do anything about they ask if I want my son to go to another school. The 7th grade assistant principal Ms. Jacob Reid be careful with her she is not right. All the statements from the incident she must be trashed them. I tried to do an incident report with office Evan’s she told me in the meeting that she will do a report, and reach out to the parents. Also that it was a battery charge, but put something totally different in the police report. She did not want the school in trouble I guess. There is no supervision in the locker room. They told you at these schools in broward tell an adult if someone hit you. It’s a waste of time. We need more security in these schools, also for them to take some type of training throughout the year to protect our children before it be another ...

Me as a student who has been fighting for my JROTC program to go to a out of state field trip for 4 months only to be denied the day before at night is so disappointing and disheartening what type of blue collared people would do that to people who desperately tried for months and got all the paper work and got every document day by day why type of people are you guys? It really is disgusting you guys think you are above everyone and even though we are young adults you should remember that we need to have experiences BCPS is probably the worst district I’ve been in. To include our JROTC color guard presented the colors for the BCPS district meeting and we have done all and anything for BCPS so unrelenting really how selfish really you spend money on all other programs and lay down rules on so many topics that have zero value but when people want to go have a learning field trip you start to roll around and suck on your thumbs like babies. I hope BCPS learns to grow up and learn that the reason BCPS has such a low application rate is because it is the worst and why it has such a low graduation rate is because they chose to deny extracurriculars and outside of school functions and it’s really creates this mindset that us as students don’t have a voice and for that you all deserve to...