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Mississippi has pretty bad schools... South Carolina's rural/highly urbanized areas have bad schools. Although they do have two schools that rank in the top 20 schools in the nation.
But just because the school is low, that doesn't mean anything.
Are you looking at schools based on national testing scores or state testing scores? Most compare by state testing, since national testing is not generally issued. State testing varies quite dramatically, as do state standards.
yeah, you must be right because when I hear Mississippi, I think bad schools!
I would think places in the Southwest because of their problems with illegal immigrants overcrowding lots of schools, gangbanging, not speaking english, and not enough funding since many of the students parents do not pay taxes.
AZ is VERY bad! Though some schools in Phx are ok.
Nova, I hope that is not true. I know in Dekalb, Illinois, parents influence is extemetly great, the reason for this is parents will turn in droves to appose anything they do not want to see as policy, and it works. In places where parents pretty much let the educators have their way with their kids you can bank on them establishing polices that are not always in the best interest of the kids, like less PE, and less ART, and more teaching to the tests, etc.
Texas has been slipping on many fronts in recent years, as NCLB has required the schools to become test-crazy. That federal law has probably had a similare effect in most other states, too.
Nova, I hope that is not true. I know in Dekalb, Illinois, parents influence is extemetly great, the reason for this is parents will turn in droves to appose anything they do not want to see as policy, and it works. In places where parents pretty much let the educators have their way with their kids you can bank on them establishing polices that are not always in the best interest of the kids, like less PE, and less ART, and more teaching to the tests, etc.
Well, I do think that parents can have influence however with all of the crap going on now with NCLB there are many people who are stuck with having to do and support things that they do not believe in and I think some parents are feeling like there is nothing they can do to fight those battles.
Some Missouri schools are really good. Ronald Reagan went to visit the elementary school I went to because it was the nation's top award winning public school at that time. That's funny though because I have heard that Missourians have a rep for being not the brightest bulbs, yet we have good schools. I love the middle school and high schools that my daughters attend, and even the southern rural school they went to before wasn't half bad, though I admit I homeschooled them for a big portion of that time.
Missouri MAP tests are apparently some of the hardest in the country.
So we're switching to end-of-course exams next year.
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