#wftv

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WFTV Bulletin Board February 12, 1986

#bulletin board #wftv #1986 #80s

[insanityclause]

Maybe this is the event she’s talking about

https://www.wftv.org.uk/events-1/event-opportunity-loki-in-person-screening-and-q-a

Ah, that's probably it! Thank you for the link. This coming Monday!

Unfortunately, I can't provide further information beside what's on the thumbnail, as I don't have a membership.

I wonder if Sophia will be there as well?

#loki screening #wftv uk

[elephantaday]

Day 162 of posting pictures of elephants.

#baby #baby animal #cute animals #cuteness #elephant #adorable #image of the day #not my image #wildlife #cuteness overload #elephants #nature #baby elephant #source: WFTV

[borntodiemp3]

#kanye west #sigma male #girl help #lana del ray aesthetic #sad gurl #effy stonem #bruises #lol #who was wftv reporter angela jacobs and what was her cause of death?

[dzinahk]

🎥 WFTV members were invited to a special screening of #LokiS2 The Finale on 18 Dec at Ham Yard Hotel #London followed by a Q&A with #TomHiddleston #SophiadiMartino #KeHuyQuan #Marvel #Disneyplus #remix 📲 @kdlavs_

#tom hiddleston #lokiseason2 #marvel #disneyplus #sophia di martino #ke huy quan

[tomorrowusa]

To take back the country from climate-denying, abortion-forbidding, homophobic religious fanatics, we need to quit ignoring state governments. State legislatures in particular deserve far more of our attention. It's such attention which has helped flip legislative chambers in the past couple of years in states like Virginia, Michigan, and Minnesota.

In Florida this week a Democrat flipped a seat in a special election for the state House of Representatives. Although the Florida legislature still has a gerrymandered GOP supermajority in both chambers, the Republican defeat comes a day after the poor showing by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the Iowa caucuses.

Florida Democrats kicked off the new year with a major victory as businessman and Navy veteran Tom Keen flipped a Republican-held seat in the state House―a development that represents Gov. Ron DeSantis' second electoral humiliation in the span of 24 hours. Keen defeated his Republican rival, Osceola County School Board member Erika Booth, 51-49 in Tuesday's special election for the 35th House District, a constituency in the Orlando suburbs that Joe Biden carried 52-47. The Democrat will succeed Republican Fred Hawkins, whom Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed in June to serve as president of South Florida State College despite lacking any background in higher education. Republicans will hold an 84-36 supermajority in the state House as well as a similarly lopsided edge in the state Senate, so Keen's victory won't jeopardize the party's iron grip on state government. But Sunshine State Democrats are hoping that this win, which comes less than a year after the party flipped control of the mayor's office in Jacksonville, will give them another chance to convince Biden's reelection campaign and other deep-pocketed organizations that this longtime swing state is still winnable.   Former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, who stumped for Keen over the weekend, is making the same argument as she tries to persuade national Democrats that her campaign against Republican Sen. Rick Scott is worth investing in. She's linked the two races in arguing that Floridians "can’t afford to pay their bills" thanks to "the failed policies" that began while Scott was governor.

WFTV offers this bit of analysis about Democrat Tom Keen's victory.

Digging into the numbers shows Keen overperformed with non-party affiliated voters, winning roughly 65% of the NPA vote, enough to overcome a raw vote lead in the race where Republicans cast some 900 more votes in the contest. Keen also overperformed in Orange County, where he beat Booth by 1,859 votes.

If you're thinking about getting a little more active in politics, becoming a volunteer for a local Democratic candidate for state legislature is an excellent place to begin.

Check to see who currently represents you in the legislature.

Find Your Legislators Look your legislators up by address or use your current location.

If you are represented by Republicans, contact your county or state Democratic Party and ask them who to get in touch with. You might also try contacting the DLCC.

Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee - Elect State Dems

If we need to take back the country one legislative seat at a time then we'd better get started right now.

#state legislatures #state governments #florida #florida house of representatives #florida legislature #special election florida house district 35 #tom keen #erika booth #ron desantis #volunteer to help democratic candidates #election 2024]

[ausetkmt]

https://t.co/Aw6AMY3eW5?s=09

Florida school ‘segregated’ Black students for talk on test scores, parents say

Black students at a Florida elementary school were singled out and pulled from class for an assembly about how it was a “problem” that they had performed poorly on their standardized tests, school district officials said Wednesday. The incident drew outrage from parents and prompted an investigation by the school district.

Only Black fourth- and fifth-grade students at Bunnell Elementary School in Flagler County, Fla., were taken out of class on Friday for the assembly on how to improve their grades — even students who had passing grades. Students were selected to attend based on their race, Flagler Schools spokesman Jason Wheeler told The Washington Post on Wednesday.

Black teachers showed the students a typo-laden PowerPoint presentation titled, “AA Presentation,” which noted how Black students had underperformed on standardized tests for the past three years. On the slide titled “The Problem,” the school district identified Black students as “AA,” or African Americans, in its assessment of their low overall scores, according to the presentation obtained by The Post.

The incident has drawn backlash from parents who were not alerted about an event that had “segregated” their 9- and 10-year-olds. Some say their children were told in the assembly that they could end up dead or in jail if they did not do well on their upcoming tests.

“It told my child that she was not good enough,” Jacinda Arrington told WOFL, a Fox affiliate in Orlando. “The color of your skin means that you are not good enough, when, in fact, she’s one of the smartest kids in her class.”

Another parent, Alexis Smith, told WFTV, an ABC affiliate in Orlando, that her son was panicking after the assembly. She said he asked her, “So I’m going to die, I’m going to get shot, I’m going to go to jail if I don’t do right?”

The school district is investigating how Black students were the only group that attended an event aimed at encouraging improvement in test scores. As an incentive, the students were promised meals from McDonald’s, Flagler interim superintendent LaShakia Moore said in a statement Tuesday.

“While the desire to help this particular subgroup of students is to be commended, how this was done does not meet the expectations we desire among Flagler Schools,” said Moore, who is Black.

Moore added that after speaking with Donelle Evensen, Bunnell Elementary’s new principal, “it is clear there was no malice intended in planning this student outreach.” But, she said, “sometimes, when you try to think ‘outside the box,’ you forget why the box is there.”

On Wednesday, Moore posted a video apologizing to parents.

Evensen did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday morning. County School Board Chair Cheryl Massaro told The Post that while the event wasn’t intended to hurt the Black students or their parents, the School Board did not know about the plans for an assembly and would have advised against having only Black students in attendance.

“We know it was wrong, and it shouldn’t have happened. It wasn’t a great idea,” Massaro said. “It’s sad that it was segregated by race because that’s not fair. But that’s what happened.”

Wheeler said that no information has been given about what exactly was said in the assembly, specifically the claims from parents that students could end up dead or imprisoned if they didn’t perform better.

The event and the backlash to it come as Florida has dramatically changed its standards on how race and history are taught in the classroom.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, and his administration have faced strong criticism over a new policy that requires teachers to instruct middle-school students that enslaved people “developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” DeSantis’s administration has also blocked a high school Advanced Placement course on African American studies from being taught and pushed through the “Stop Woke Act” to limit discussions on race in schools and by corporations.

Wheeler told The Post that what happened at the elementary school had “nothing to do with education initiatives from Tallahassee.”

The elementary school is in Bunnell, Fla., about 75 miles north of Orlando. About 19 percent of the public school’s students are Black, and roughly 70 percent of the total enrollment are classified as economically disadvantaged, according to U.S. News & World Report. Evensen was named Bunnell’s principal last month after four years as an assistant principal at the school.

It’s unclear how many Black students were pulled from their classes for the presentation on Friday.

The state grades students on standardized tests between Levels 1 and 5, with 5 being the best score. As part of the presentation, the school said that 32 percent of its Black students scored at Level 3 or above for math and language arts. The school noted that 41 percent should be at Level 3 or above, according to state testing guidelines.

One slide said that Black students could improve their scores if they “commit to earning at least a Level 3 or higher on all standardized assessments” and “concentrate on passing all curriculum based assessments with at least a 75 percent or higher.” High-performing Black students were also called up by teachers and presented as examples to their peers who needed improvement, parents told WESH, an NBC affiliate in Daytona Beach.

Those students who show improvement, and win individual assessment matchups, “will have a meal from McDonald’s,” the school said in its presentation.

An in-school suspension supervisor also attended the assembly with two Black teachers, according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

Massaro, the School Board chair, said the assembly should have included all of the students who scored below Level 3.

“If we had done this and there was information about it to the parents, then it would have been a cross-section of everyone,” she told The Post. “There are White and Asian students who also don’t score well.”

Moore emphasized Tuesday that the school wants its parents and guardians to “actively participate in their children’s educational successes,” saying it was wrong not to alert families about plans for an assembly targeting Black students.

“Without informing them of this assembly or of the plans to raise these scores, our parents were not properly engaged,” she said in a statement. “… [F]rom this point forward, all of our schools will engage our parents, no matter what group or subgroup their children may be in, in our continued efforts to raise achievement among all students.”

But some parents are still upset, noting that the assembly targeting their Black children should have never happened in the first place.

“No other child needs to ever experience being singled out, being targeted, being discriminated against because of their color,” Francine Howard, whose daughter was in the assembly, told First Coast News.

“It’s 2023, and they segregated our babies,” Arrington said.

#Florida school ‘segregated’ Black students for talk on test scores #parents say #florida #Black History Matters #Black Students #Youtube

[realjaysumlin]

The Ocoee Massacre: A Documentary Film | WFTV

The ugly, the bad and the evil. The continuing harmful effects of colorism and scientific racism. We can't ignore the serious harms of Christianity against Black Indigenous People globally.

#black love #black positivity #black africans #black history #Youtube

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Gloria Oladipo

Published: Aug 26, 2023

A Florida elementary school has prompted outrage for singling out its Black students to attend a special assembly identifying them, as a group, as a “problem” because of standardized test performances.

Black fourth- and fifth-grade students at Bunnell elementary school in Flagler county, central Florida, were pulled from class last Friday and mandated to attend the presentation on improving test scores, the Washington Post reported.

Students were chosen to attend the presentation based on race, Jason Wheeler, the communications coordinator for Flagler school district, confirmed to the Guardian.

The nine- and 10-year-old students were shown a powerpoint entitled “AA presentation”, referring to African American, according to a copy of the presentation shared with the Guardian.

A slide labeled “The Problem” claimed that “AA”, referring to Black students, have underperformed on standardized tests for the past three years.

A subsequent slide added that students will be placed in a competition with each other to improve their test scores and could receive a meal from McDonald’s as a prize, according to the presentation.

Several parents were outraged about the assembly and noted how their children were segregated for the presentation, even if they had passed their tests.

“They segregated our kids, [in] 2023,” Jacinda Arrington, a parent, told WFTV 9, the local ABC affiliate based in Orlando.

“To me, it told my child that she’s not good enough. The color of your skin means that you’re not good enough when, in fact, she’s one of the smartest kids in her class,” Arrington said to Fox 35 Orlando.

“This was solely based off of color,” Nichole Consolazio, the parent of a fifth-grade student, said to Daytona News Journal.

Parents also said their children were reportedly told that if they did not do well in school they would end up dead or in jail.

Wheeler told the Guardian he could not confirm what was specifically said to students, but confirmed that the presentation was only given to Black students.

Wheeler added that the assembly was currently under investigation by the school district.

Flagler’s interim superintendent, LaShakia Moore, who is Black, expressed regret at a press conference two days ago.

“This should not have happened, but it did,” Moore said, offering an apology to students, their families and the community.

“We make no excuses,” Moore added.

Some families have discussed transferring students out of Bunnell, Moore said during a press conference on the incident.

Moore announced a community forum on Tuesday about the incident.

Donelle Evensen, the school’s principal, sent out an apology to parents earlier in the week, for not sharing plans of the assembly ahead of time, WFTV 9 reported.

“I want to assure you, there was no malice intended in planning this assembly,” Evensen wrote in the letter obtained by WFTV9.

“However, we failed to inform you, our parents and guardians of these plans. We realize we went against our long-held belief that this must be a team effort, with you being a key member of that team.”

Evensen had been placed on paid administrative leave, Moore confirmed at a press conference.

Evensen could not be reached by the Guardian for comment.

This latest issue comes as Florida has rejected the teaching of Black history in schools, and other topics deemed “indoctrination” by Florida’s rightwing governor and 2024 candidate for the Republican nomination for president, Ron DeSantis.

Last month, the state’s board of education approved a slew of new standards for how public schools can teach Black history.

One standard mandates that students will be taught that some Black people gained “personal benefit” from slavery – as it taught them useful skills.

Such standards have been criticized by Florida educators and the vice-president, Kamala Harris.

DeSantis also rejected a new advance placement course for African American studies in January.

The governor said the course violated state law and “lacks educational value”.

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By: Dominic Yeatman

Published: Aug 24, 2023

• Only black students - whatever their test scores - were hauled into the special assembly at Bunnell Elementary School • Superintendent tells principal 'sometimes, when you think “outside the box”, you forget why the box is there' 

A new school principal has outraged parents at a Florida elementary after she attempted to improve grades by ordering only her black students into a special assembly where they were warned they risk jail.

The fourth and fifth-grade students at Bunnell Elementary School were pulled together, irrespective of their test scores, and told that black students were underperforming.

‘It became racial for me when they included and boxed all of the black children together no matter if they were below average, average or above average,’ the mother of one high-performing student said.

Parents said their children were warned those with lower grades have a higher chance of going to jail, getting shot or getting killed.

But they were offered the chance to win 'a meal from McDonalds' if they improved their scores.

‘Now when my daughter has to go take a test, that’s in the back of her mind,’ parent Jacinda Arrington told WOFL.

‘They segregated our kids in 2023, they segregated our nine-year-olds.’

The school in Flagler county has 227 black and 696 whites among its 1,168 students and was allocated an overall C grade by the Florida Department of Education last year.

Principal Donelle Evensen only stepped into the role at the end of July but she has already been hauled into the office of school district interim superintendent LaShakia Moore.

‘I’ve had the opportunity to sit down with Bunnell Elementary Principal Donelle Evensen following an assembly of 4th and 5th-grade students,’ Ms Moore wrote in a statement.

‘We have been able to talk about what led to this assembly and steps that were or were not taken before or after it.

‘In speaking with Mrs. Evensen, it is clear there was no malice intended in planning this student outreach.

'However, sometimes, when you try to think “outside the box”, you forget why the box is there.’

The state has been at the center of an education debate since Governor Ron DeSantis pushed through his ‘Stop Woke Act’ to limit discussion of race, and approved a curriculum claiming that slavery equipped slaves with skills they found useful.

County School Board Chair Cheryl Massaro said the latest row had nothing to do with the Republican presidential contender, but was the school’s mistake.

‘It wasn’t a great idea,’ she told the Washington Post.

‘It’s sad that it was segregated by race because that’s not fair, but that’s what happened.’

Parents said their children remained upset after attending Friday’s assembly.

‘So I’m going to die, I’m going to get shot, I’m going to go to jail if I don’t do right, so now he’s panicking,’ said Alexis Smith.

‘They’re still innocent, they still play with action figures, so now we have to overparent because of something that happened at their safe space at their school?’

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Even if this isn't directly associated with either traditional, regressive racism or neo-racist, "progressive" "anti-racism," this is the inevitable result of the re-emergence and legitimization of collectivism.

#Free Black Thought #segregation #neoracism #racism #individualism #religion is a mental illness

[beardedmrbean]

Spectrum News 13 identified the slain reporter Thursday as Dylan Lyons. Photographer Jesse Walden was also wounded.

The two were in an unmarked news vehicle on Wednesday afternoon covering the first homicide when a man approached and shot them, Orange County Sheriff John Mina said during a news conference. The man then went to a nearby home where he fatally shot T’yonna Major and critically wounded the child's mother. Officials have not yet released the name of the girl's mother.

The sheriff said police have detained Keith Melvin Moses, 19, who they believe is responsible for all of the shootings.

Mina said police didn't immediately know the motive for the shootings. He said Moses was acquainted with Nathacha Augustin, 38, who was the first victim, but did not appear to have a connection with any of the others. He said it was not clear if Moses knew that two of the people shot were journalists and noted their vehicle didn't look like a typical news van or have the station's logo on it.

It was not immediately known whether Moses has a lawyer who can speak on his behalf.

“I want to acknowledge what a horrible day this has been for our community and our media partners,” Mina told a room full of reporters. “No one in our community — not a mother, not a 9-year-old and certainly not news professionals — should become the victim of gun violence in our community.”

The sheriff was meeting with community leaders on Thursday morning, and was expected to provide more details about the case after that meeting.

On Wednesday morning, deputies responded to the Pine Hills area, just northwest of Orlando, after reports that a woman in her 20s was shot.

Lyons and Walden were shot hours later while covering that shooting, followed by the mother and daughter, according to police and witnesses. WFTV crews, who were also reporting on the morning shooting, tried to give medical aid to the Spectrum 13 journalists.

Mina said Moses has already been charged with first-degree murder for the initial victim, and charges are expected soon for the other four victims. Moses’ criminal history includes gun charges, as well as aggravated battery, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary and grand theft offenses, the sheriff said.

“Our hearts go out to the family of the journalist killed today and the crew member injured in Orange County, Florida, as well as the whole Spectrum News team,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Twitter.

“Please, please, say a prayer tonight for our co-worker who is in critical condition. And while you’re at it, please say a prayer for every victim of gun violence in this country,” Spectrum 13 journalist Celeste Springer said during her live on-air report Wednesday evening.

In a story published early Thursday, the station identified Lyons and Walden.

“(Lyons) took his job very seriously. He loved his career. He loved what he did,” said Spectrum Sports 360 reporter and friend, Josh Miller. “He loved the community, telling the stories of people, reporting on the news, and he was just passionate about what he did.”

Lyons was born and raised in Philadelphia, and graduated from the University of Central Florida, the station said. Before joining Spectrum News, he worked for a station in Gainesville.

Rachel Lyons, the reporter’s older sister, is raising money for his funeral in a GoFundMe account. She wrote that Lyons would have turned 25 in March. He is also survived by his parents and fiancée.

Worldwide, 40 journalists were reported killed last year, plus another two this year before Wednesday, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Only one of those was in the United States.

Jeff German, who covered politics and corruption for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, was found dead outside his home in September after being stabbed multiple times. Former Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, who had been a frequent subject of German’s reporting, has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge.

In 2015, Virginia reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were shot and killed during their live TV broadcast for CBS affiliate WDBJ7. The suspect, a former reporter for the TV station, died by suicide during the law enforcement search for him.

#nunyas news

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The WFTV-UK Q&A is now posted on the Disney+ FYC site

It's a fantastic panel!!

But it's really securely embedded, and I can't even screen record it, so you'll have to visit the link.

#tom hiddleston #sophia di martino #ke huy quan #if anyone is able to extract it let me know!

[kp777]

Congressman Maxwell Frost set to host gun violence prevention town hall – WFTV

#maxwell frost #gun safety #gun laws #town hall #florida

[merelygifted]

FBI takes possession of art exhibit from Orlando Museum of Art – WFTV

The Orlando Museum of Art told Channel 9 that it “complied with a request from the FBI for access to the Heroes and Monsters exhibit.”

Controversy has swirled over the authenticity of the work.

READ: Orlando Museum of Art director defends authenticity of Basquiat paintings

A picture of the back of the painting titled “Crown Face II,” which was done on a FedEx cardboard box, was the focus of an article in the New York Times questioning the authenticity of the art at the museum, saying this type of box was used six years after the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat died.  ...

#Jean Michel Basquiat #Art Authentication #Orlando Museum of Art #Museums #Museum Exhibitions #Art Exhibitions #WHOA

[dzinahk]

🎥 WFTV members were invited to a special screening of #LokiS2 The Finale on 18 Dec 2023 at Ham Yard Hotel #London followed by a Q&A with #TomHiddleston #SophiadiMartino #KeHuyQuan #Marvel #Disneyplus

#tom hiddleston #loki #lokiseason2

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According to representatives of the county’s teacher association, teachers and staff members will be disallowed from wearing rainbow articles of clothing, including lanyards distributed by the district last year. Elementary-level teachers reported being discouraged from putting pictures of their same-sex spouse on their desk or talking about them to students.

“Safe Space” stickers aimed at LGBTQ students may have to be removed from doors, teachers will have to report to parents if a student “comes out” to them and they must use pronouns assigned at birth, regardless of what the parents allow, the CTA reported.

Some of the measures appeared to be far outside what the law actually forbids, as it focuses primarily on mental health monitoring and classroom curriculums.

“It will be alarming if our district chooses to interpret this law in the most extreme way,” CTA President-Elect Clinton McCracken said. “We want them to protect student privacy. We want them to make sure that they’re creating and helping to create safe classrooms. We believe our school board supports that.”

A representative for OCPS confirmed the existence of the seminar, which they said took place in three separate sessions at Apopka High School and was part of annual training. However, they said the guidance provided to the administrators was not a planned part of the seminar, which a copy of the presentation obtained by WFTV showed.

“During the presentation, administrators posed hypothetical scenarios based upon the new statutes and verbal answers were provided based on the limited guidance from the Florida Department of Education,” the spokesman wrote. “Once further guidance is received from the Florida Department of Education, the district will provide formal guidance to administrators and staff.”

In a separate conversation, an OCPS official said the district needed to err on the side of caution until state officials provided more clarity. The strict interpretations, they said, were necessary to protect both students and teachers. The latter could have their teaching licenses revoked if they run afoul of the law, the official said.

[loansampm]

‘Accountability is needed:’ Student loan borrowers call for end to federal MOHELA contract - WFTV Orlando

http://dlvr.it/T7TD0C