Former CRHS Teacher honored by MLB and featured on Fox News
Former Navy Captain Dick Tangeman relied on the resilience he learned playing baseball with Hall of Fame Yankees skipper Joe Torre.
Former Crystal River High School mathematics teacher, retired U.S. Navy Captain and former P.O.W. Richard Tangeman, who is better known to many of us as “Coach T”, was featured on Fox News. Tangeman spoke at length to his childhood classmate from Brooklyn, Hall of Fame New York Yankees Manager Joe Torre as MLB honored Tangeman.
Tangeman taught high school Calculus and College Algebra and Trigonometry and also coached four different sports to District and Regional Championships. He was also named Crystal River High School Teacher of the Year in 1998. In 2002 he retired but has continued on as a volunteer coach and tutor. (click here to read more about Capt. Tangeman)
Girls State Delegates share at school board meeting
I had the honor of having the opening exercises for the month of July for the Citrus County School Board. I invited the Citrus County lady delegates from the 72nd Session of the Florida Girls State which took place in June. This highly competitive opportunity and Citrus County was represented by some outstanding ladies including the two presenters Mekenna Lenoir (CRHS) and Peyton Burdette (LHS).
Each of the ladies drafted a proposed legislative bill. Miss Lenoir’s bill was, “an act relating to health; requiring the acquisition and stocking of epinephrine auto-injectors by school clinics or student services departments”. Miss Lenoir’s bill would allow for the carrying of epinephrine auto-injectors by students with prescriptions; providing an effective date. Miss Burdette’s bill was, “an act relating to the requiring of two vocational credits in high school”. Miss Burdette explained that her proposed bill would help prepare high school students for post-secondary life by requiring two vocational credits pertaining to classes in “Life-Readiness” in order to graduate in the state of Florida.
Florida Girls State is a hands-on week-long educational workshop, focusing on Americanism and the political process, sponsored by the Florida American Legion Auxiliary. The goal of the program is to help students to better understand democratic ideals and the part we as individuals play in carrying out these ideals. This program, which has been accredited as a college program to teach high school junior girls about government, politics, and Americanism.
These selected high school juniors are selected to become citizens of and participate in creating a mythical state of Seminole. This mythical state is divided into 12 cities and 6 counties and the citizens, assigned to either the Nationalist or Federalist Party, experience the two-party system, much like our Government. Their rigorous schedule includes participating in political campaigns, debates, and crafting bills. As the government begins to take shape, these young women come to understand their roles in a democratic society.
Let us thank the American Legion & Women’s Auxiliary for sponsoring this program. In addition, thank you to the Citrus County Sheriff Office, Deputy Pollard and Deputy Creal for their special escort.
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I just spoke with the Citrus County Elections office and they confirmed that I have been re-elected unopposed to Citrus County School Board District 1.
Thank you for the opportunity to continue to serve our great community and to advocate and support our students, families, staff, and our schools. I am humbled and honored to be a representative for the Citrus County School Board.
Please continue to keep me in your prayers. Also, please continue to reach out to me with your concerns and to share with me your students’ personal success stories.
God Bless our Citrus County school system!
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Gates Foundation end’s flawed experiment on Teacher Evaluation
Educators and parents have been telling the Gate Foundation and legislators this before, during and after the Gate Foundation spent $575 Million on a flawed “experiment” on Teacher Evaluation that the gate foundation now says that “the data” shows that teacher-effectiveness program shows no gains for student learning. Edu Weekly states, “By the end of the 2014-15 school year, the study found, student outcomes were not significantly better than outcomes in similar school sites that did not participate in the initiative.”
Sadly, education and teacher’s have been wrongfully demonized teachers by this approach. It has left states like Florida with a damaging teacher shortage which will take decades to improve.
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