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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First the writer refers to Georgia as the dumbest state, then uses the corruption in Atlanta as proof. How dumb is that?
In fact, the communities north of the Atlanta 285 perimeter are populated by many corporations and highly educated people. They are some of the safest and wealthiest areas of the country, precisely because they are not part of The Dark Continent that is Atlanta.
Look up the median income for Johns Creek, for example. It was recently rated the third safest city its size nationally. While in Duluth GA, my son’s middle school quiz team scored in the top 5 out of over 1100 middle schools in an international quiz bowl contest. The year my daughter was one the team, it was #1 in the world. Their high school orchestra was ranked #1 nationally. The number of National Merit Scholars in these northern suburban schools each year is outstanding.
The bottom line is, it’s foolish to extrapolate the failures of the inner city Atlanta culture and other heavily minority areas to the rest of the state. Come see, and be informed.
They also elected BJ as their governor. They are one for two.
,,,, I think it’s West By God Virginia ,,, Manchin once a republican changes his affiliation to Dem. while 0bama threatens to shut down the coal industry . Figure that one out . DAH !
Atlanta IMO is the gathering place of all the nuts in the region.
Now I visit there and have friends there but the loony tunes wandering around are a sight...
I believe this started in the 60s when the hipsters migrated there to form an 'arts community'
You have to understand Atlanta. If you know what I mean. Its not GA its Atlanta. Think Martin Luther King.
Bttt
notice how they protected the DISTRICT of Columbia...
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