The new teacher merit pay proposal won’t have any positive effect. Teacher pay is not the problem nor is it the solution. Have you ever worked for a boss whose motivational style was nothing but threats of firing you if you don’t produce? And who, at the same time, doesn’t properly fund the project, assigns [...]

I know it’s my own fault that I missed my library book’s due date by one day. Still, it seems insanely inefficient that, because of Seminole County’s zero balance policy, I need to physically go to the library and hand my twenty cents to the librarian before I can renew the book. Surely, the [...]