Governor to raise teachers salary from 26th to 2nd. How about FHP Troopers?

[Unregistered]

Yep, burn. The elite talk crap until someone calls them out with hard facts; then, crickets. On a serious note, I hope whomever is posting their dominate status is not really the LEO protecting my community. If they are, the state police (FHP) might have to step in once again to compensate for the real police.

“State police”!? Your joking right!? Lol! When has FHP “stepped in”?

[Unregistered]

“State police”!? Your joking right!? Lol! When has FHP “stepped in”?

We stepped in the minute you started spelling "Your joking"

My God, might as well have someone else write the sentence for you.

[Unregistered]

“How about state troopers” How about you get a real job in law enforcement.

[Unregistered]

“How about state troopers” How about you get a real job in law enforcement.

Florida Highway Patrol should not be law enforcement. They should be civilians working crashes and other agencys seem to make it work with civiliand. They are managed very poorly by lazy leaders.

Disband the Florida Highway Patrol save the state some money. Give the teachers a bigger raise.

[Unregistered]

Teachers salaries are determined by locally elected school boards who then tax county residents to pay for teachers salaries and the school infrastructure. The governor does not have the authority to raise the salaries of county-teachers salaries, but the governor does have the authority to raise the salaries of state workers (such as FHP troopers). It will be interesting to see how all this plays out.

Don’t know where you got your misinformation buddy. The Governor recommends an increase for teachers by placing it in his budget request. Each school board gets a specific additional funding amount that can only be used for teacher salaries. A use it for teacher salaries or lose it for each school district. The Legislature can then agree or disagree to put it in the budget. The Governor also earmarks money for school districts to pay for buildings, etc. Try looking at the Budget before you provide false information.

[Unregistered]

Florida Highway Patrol should not be law enforcement. They should be civilians working crashes and other agencys seem to make it work with civiliand. They are managed very poorly by lazy leaders.

Disband the Florida Highway Patrol save the state some money. Give the teachers a bigger raise.

I totally agree, due to the lack of teachers in Florida, you couldn't go to school to learn English. OMG

[Unregistered]

I totally agree, due to the lack of teachers in Florida, you couldn't go to school to learn English. OMG

Ok, grammar police. Add that to your working accidents job. Wait a minute, a civilian can due that job also.

Disband

[Unregistered]

a major question considering past efforts to raise teacher salaries by then-Gov. Rick Scott were stymied at the local level. State law dictates that any change in teacher pay must go through school boards, allowing for teachers’ unions to be able to bargain over the outcome.

[Unregistered]

a major question considering past efforts to raise teacher salaries by then-Gov. Rick Scott were stymied at the local level. State law dictates that any change in teacher pay must go through school boards, allowing for teachers’ unions to be able to bargain over the outcome.

Bingo, you are 100% correct! The Florida governor's request to raise teacher-pay is good, but he does not have the statutory authority to do so -- unless he wants to use the State budget to do so (which he will not do).

[Unregistered]

To the original post believing FHP is a State Police Agency and will “take over when needed.” I’m going to take a guess you relocated to FL from a State that has State Police. FHP is Highway Patrol meaning; They only work incidents, calls for service, on roadways. FHP has limited resources: no forensics, and no detectives, etc. Heck when I worked in retail during college, we had an offduty trooper who worked during the nights. We needed someone trespassed and he explained they didn’t do that. They did not have a way to issue trespass warnings. We had to call the SO to respond and issue the trespass. Their primary function is TRAFFIC. That is why you only see them on traffic crashes.

Try calling *FHP and see what happens. As soon as the recording starts it says: if this is an emergency hang up and dial 911. The county SO always handles domestics, shootings, murder, any high profile crimes that occur in FHP jurisdiction. Local SO get slammed with their jurisdiction then deal with FHP jurisdiction due to lack of knowledge, experience, and limited troopers. Some counties have 1 trooper for 4 counties. FHP has 1,946 trooper positions for the entire state. Many counties have more police and deputies than the entire trooper positions for the State. They can’t even handle their crashes let alone take over a county.

Most troopers complain as they can’t get out. When they apply elsewhere, they get denied. FHP hires anything they can to get bodies on the road. Stories I’ve heard, rookies get on the road and no one can understand their “English” as its very limited. A recruit gave birth in the academy bathroom while in Tallahassee as no one knew she was pregnant. They had an active gang member in the academy and had no idea till he was on the road in training.

FHP is great to work traffic crashes when they come. So before you rant and rave call for law enforcement and see who comes to your rescue cause it won’t be FHP.

Give the teachers the raise, FHP makes what they deserve.