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If there's one party which is responsible for the dismal state of the US education system, it's the Democrats plain & simple.
Firing an incompetent schoolteacher is extremely time-consuming and prohibitively expensive, and especially in liberal hellholes such as California and all the rest of them.
Firing an incompetent schoolteacher is extremely time-consuming and prohibitively expensive, and especially in liberal states such as California and all the rest of them.
Perhaps this is true. But given that blue states such as california have much better education systems than red states... it's evident that what crap those states are doing is much worse than keeping incompetent schoolteachers.
And this is not such a big problem in all blue states. NJ has weakened teacher unions and is able to maintain top quality teachers while getting rid of incompetent ones.
I've clicked through from #20-#11. FIVE of the 10 "states" (one is DC) I've seen voted for Romney in 2012. There are two others that went for Obama in 2012 but are still widely considered purple states.
No need to click through any more. OP is a liar.
Of course he lies, he is a Democrat. Still, the 2 most innovative states are Washington (state people, not city or district) and Cali, and both are left leaning and it does seem like most creative people are left leaning. I would like to see objective analysis why. I also think many creative people are Libertarian thinkers.
At what point will people here come to the realization that there's no such thing as a red or blue state, no such thing as a Republican or Democrat state?
Even the most left or right leaning states have hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions of people who lean the other way. There are MILLIONS of blue voters in Texas, There are MILLIONS of red voters in California.
I don't think that is what this means. If you look at the states with the highest amount of innovation, they are also the most educated states. The idea that education fuels innovation is understandable. The most educated states also happen to be blue states for the most part.
Isn't the Governor of NJ a Republican?
4 of the top 5 most educated counties in NJ vote Republican. By educated, I mean those with a Bachelor's Degree or more.
ALL of the bottom 5 least educated counties in NJ vote Democrat.
This thread made me think about the following. I always wondered how Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont could even exist in our corporate controlled federal government. Perhaps the reason is Vermont has the smartest people in the country.
He keeps VT a haven for the wealthy while the natives struggle and property tax terminates land owned in the family for generations. Wait until HUD is finished with Westchester county and hears about VT.
There are no bathrooms in VT for visitors.
To fish the Conneticut river that borders VT you need a NH fishing license to stand in VT and fish the river....lot of strange 'innovations' in VT.
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