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Its interesting how liberals love to make fun of southern states, particularly alabama, mississippi, and louisiana, but they never address the fact that those states have a much higher percentage of black people than the rest of the country. If you removed all the poor black people, these states would likely all shoot up in the rankings for education, health, crime, etc.

IMO the new GATOR bill has potential to really move the needle for overall education in the state. It would help the specific areas where the public schools are not competitive but there is enough of a population to support decent private schools already. It would help boost the state's overall scores because there are so many districts that fit that description. And it would do this without really threatening the better public school districts - since those parents would not bother switching to a private school unless it was a truly excellent alternative.

I'm watching GATOR with cautious optimism. The problem with the GATOR bill is that it will NEVER be implemented properly and any future governor that the teacher unions own will just nuke it. Landry left it entirely to BESE, who will just cave to whatever the governor wants at the time. If GATOR ever actually does expand to all kids regardless of income, the next Democrat to take office will just reapply income restrictions or add new race restrictions on it for the sole purpose of protecting the network of failed public schools.

You can see the irrational hatred for the intent of the bill on this board. Teacher unions and Democrats hate the GATOR bill because of what it seeks to achieve. These people are always against school choice and undermine any effort to throw away the failed status quo. They are using words like "vouchers" (another thing they undermined intentionally) or suddenly become fiscal conservatives when it's time for people who pay taxes to see the benefits of those taxes. Ignore people like that.

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Posted by tadman

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Posted on 4/29/25 at 10:23 am to GumboPot

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So much for that white liberal blue state superiority complex.

I've lived in a lot of states and this shite gets real old. People still make plenty of jokes about the south and kissing cousins. Let me tell you, there is trash in every state and upstanding folks in every state. Anybody voting for AOC can kiss my arse before they lecture me about "the south is backwards".

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