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Fascinating reading. Misbehaving students exact a measurable, economic cost on peers.

There is no moral difference between what Lindsay Clancy did to her children and what millions upon millions of American women have done legally and with the aid of a "doctor."

You are surrounded by unrepentant, hardened murderers every single day.

My brother got bit by a timber rattler when he was 10.

My dad was with him. Killed it, and kept it in a jar for years. Freaked me out.

And this is what they become. Raising $1 million on GoFundMe for a woman who strangled her three children.

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Mission High School in San Francisco, where 94% of students failed math and 83% failed English, had a 45% acceptance rate to UC Berkeley, three times the normal rate.

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Only 17% of Mission High’s 11th graders scored proficient or above in English, along with a shocking 6% in math on the 2025 state assessment exam, the lowest of any school in the San Francisco Unified School District

Mission High School had a 45% acceptance rate into the elite university, with 34 out of its 76 applicants gaining admission last fall, far ahead of the state average of 15%

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Is anyone else very skeptical of these reports ?

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I get it. I'm here and I work in education. I was a fiery proponent of passing this law in 2013, which was widely unpopular on both sides.

The improvement is real. The speed of the improvement was aided by the decline of other states during COVID. We felt like within 20-30 years we would see the improvement that we saw in 10. This is year 13, so the no one is in a K-12 school that has ever taught anything else.

Its phonics-based reading. Reading is the foundation for everything else. Someone in the 90s convinced states to lean on sight words to teach kids to read because it seemed like kids were learning faster. Turns out they were just memorizing the sight words, no different than looking at a picture of a cat and saying cat.

But when you force kids to put together ka- and -at, it teaches them to put together other sounds to make words.

We call it the Mississippi Miracle, but its really a return to how things were taught pre 1990.

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But the Hat is gonna beat the brains out of Finch.

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I like the hat. I don't like all the Baptist women voting for Fitch. I'm worried, but hopefully I am wrong. I do know this, the Mississippi media HATE the hat. They will be all in for Fitch, who is a Noem/Haley type. Probably not as Republican as she claims to be, which is the best the liberals can hope for. The Baptist women/Mahjong crowd/liberals is a weird coalition for a MS governor candidate, but that's what we have.

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And Louisiana is #4 right above #5 Texas! Who would have thought?! I think Louisiana tried what Mississippi did or some version of it, so it must be working. Hard to believe, though.

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Yep. Louisiana, Florida and Alabama have copied Mississippi. And believe it or not Michigan is implementing it as well.

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What are the opinions on Tate Reeves? From the outside seems like he's done a good job as governor.

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He has been quietly excellent. Education, high tech jobs, return of manufacturing, billions in investment. He'll never get the national credit he deserves and he gets the Rand Paul treatment because he looks funny.

We're poised to replace him with the female attorney general next year and it will be a disaster. The GOP bull pen is bare.

Something to watch is a billionaire business man from Hattiesburg is running for governor. We could have our own little Magnolia state Trump moment. He's gaining some momentum.

Outside of Miami, Florida State and Clemson, they have terrible football branding.At most they can have three big games a year. The SEC can have three big games in a weekend.

Think about it like this:

At the low level:
Mississippi State vs. Kentucky >>>>>> Boston College vs. Stanford, Syracuse vs. Wake Forest.

At the mid level:
Texas A&M vs. Tennessee >>>>>>> Georgia Tech vs. Maryland, Pitt vs. SMU

At the high level:
Georgia vs. Alabama >>>>>> Florida State vs. Miami, Clemson vs. Miami.