Those states like Georgia with high minority populations of course do worse on standardized tests than state with few minorities.
You're not supposed to notice the big gray fellow in the room.
Posted on 03/17/2015 1:44:12 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
When states are ranked for their intelligence or lack of it, Georgia usually ends up in the bottom 10. What is the Peach State doing wrong? A lot. We are confronted here by a confusing swirl of lies and scandals, so let’s start with a quick summary. Georgia officials insist on using the worst theories and methods. Predictably their schools get bad results. To cover up the embarrassing results (of course, the officials would not think of adopting better methods), the schools create elaborate cheating mechanisms. This works until the truth leaks out. Scandal ensues. Cheating scandals occur throughout the country but Georgia appears to hold the prize for biggest scandal in the public schools. The New York Times recently reported on this pathetic story: “A state investigation in 2011 found that 178 principals and teachers in the [Atlanta] school district were involved in cheating on standardized tests. Dozens of former employees of the school district have either been fired or have resigned, and 21 educators have pleaded guilty to crimes like obstruction and making false statements.” That’s a lot of principals without principles. (Note that throughout this discussion, it's adult bureaucrats who are cheating, not students.) Why did school officials decide that cheating is necessary? Were they never taught how education works? Or is it even worse than that and they have embraced all the worst ideas in the hope of getting bad results? Here is an interesting clue. The Atlanta Journal and Constitution in 2011 reported: “reading climbs priority ladder.” Savor that phrase. A major liberal newspaper breathlessly announces that reading, the most important single skill, has been nothing special in the state of Georgia for many decades. Now, after a push by the new governor, reading is going to be promoted only partway to where it belongs...
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California is leading the pack.
Georgia would look just fine once they get rid of the Democrats in Atlanta.
Interesting that you only post stuff you “wrote” yourself.
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You seem to be a scumsucking blogpimp.
Got any thoughts on that?
I was in Missouri last week and everybody there kept mentioning Arkansas as having that honour.
It's not fair to judge an entire state just by the type of President they produced.
yeah. The place took a big hit when I left.
I’ve lived in both GA and CA. People in CA are far dumber.
if you only compare the test results of students of the same race from different states the picture changes entirely.
Those states like Georgia with high minority populations of course do worse on standardized tests than state with few minorities.
It honestly actually has to be California. It has a huge population of uneducated minorities, and the “educated” ones believe in everything from sleeping under a pyramid, to global warming, to every nutty medical fad that comes along. And they went twice for Obama in a big way.
Cali
Those states like Georgia with high minority populations of course do worse on standardized tests than state with few minorities.
You're not supposed to notice the big gray fellow in the room.
That will keep me laughing for a while.
Yes
Arkansas can’t be that bad. They did elect Tom Cotton as their Senator.
There is some kind of disconnect somewhere.
Carter was bad, really bad, and he’s cast the entire state in his image.
Then, along come obama, even worse than Carter, and he’s hailed as the “smartest man” in America.
Does that make Hawaii, Chicago, or Kenya the smartest places?
It is difficult to tell. When I think that the people of Georgia elected Jimmy Carter as their governor even though he spent three years at three different colleges and then four years at the US Naval Academy to earn a bachelor’s degree and he spent four years at Union College in a doctoral program without earning a master’s degree, I would suspect the people of Georgia may not be that bright. But then the people of the United States elected him president so it seems the people of Georgia have a lot of company.
Georgia was in large part settled by impoverished people from the slums of England. Unlike the Scots settlers, they were very poorly suited to pioneer life and died by the thousands. Georgia government is also recognized as the least transparent, most corrupt government in the country, although there are a few states closely following in that dept. Having lived all over the country, including Georgia, and to me Georgia was the worst in terms of public corruption. Check out the abuse of the prison and parole/probation systems and the egregious history of lynch mobs. I have met, however, many, many fine Georgia citizens who deserve better.
Minnesota elected Al Franken twice, so I think they have a legitimate claim to the stupidity crown
Stewart Smalley isn’t even half of Minnesota political dumb!
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