re: I don’t get it- How is Louisiana failing this bad?

Reading this thread I’ve seen several examples of “I didn’t realize how bad it was until I left.”

That’s it in a nutshell. You live around idiots and trash and crime your entire life you don’t know any better.

Then you go somewhere that’s functional and realize life shouldn’t be that way.

Schools SHOULD be good. Roads SHOULD be driveable. It is NOT normal for low wage workers to not speak intelligible English.

I always chuckle about people talking about Mexicans and Spanish speakers in Texas. Most immigrants here speak better English than those inner New Orleans.