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Then what do you do about people who refuse to be personally responsible for their own lives. Throw them in prison?
If people choose to shoot up in stalls and kill themselves, that is a terrible thing, but the rest of us shouldn't have to suffer with open stalls because of it.
One doesn't need to sit in a classroom for 16 or 18 years in Texas to have an excellent career in high-growth fields like manufacturing, construction, mining and trades jobs to have a nice home in a nice community.
California on the hand it's a requirement to be indoctrinated and pay for education crudentials to have much of a possibility to have even the smallest single-family home in many areas
A working couple doesn't need have lots of credentials in Texas to afford a very nice home and have an excellent quality of life.
You don't need to but it helps tremendously. If you don't finish high school, the odds are against you. You'll have a much higher percentage of being poor and having a criminal.
And guess what's the 2nd-least educated state? Red Texas.
From the OP's article:
Texas ranks No. 2 for the percentage of its residents 25 and older who have never completed ninth grade and 49th for the percentage who have graduated from high school.
No hippie state is going to be less educated and have higher overall debt than Texas for long.
Give us time. We'll get to be #1.
1) Assume I didn't read something based on what I selectively responded to
2) Selectively responded to something somebody else said
3) Immediately went to 'always' 'never' 'every' 'none' absolutes like every other liberal (see what I did there?)
4) Failed to actually answer my question
I wouldn't be surprised. Some people were nonchalant about the town of Paradise,California getting burned down. And then some people would gleefully say things like "California's one earthquake away from sinking into the ocean".
This is more or less a "Democrat bad, Republican good" thread disguised as a hatred for California thread.
No. I was born in California spend more than half my life there. I do not hate California. The education issue is more of a proximity to Mexico than anything else. Lots of people flood across the border lack a decent education. That is why Texas is #2 and Arizona as well as New Mexico are near the bottom. The draw of social programs is a big part of it and since these programs are federal in nature the red or blue aspect of the state is not that important.
California is a beautiful place to live. I would never trade my years growing up there for anything.
How does that even happen in the modern era? I've only ever heard of that from older generations who had to quit school to go work on the family farm. My grandfather was the only one in his family that graduated from high school, the other siblings only went to eighth grade. Interestingly, the siblings all were successful, when independent grit and sweat could pay off with rewards in America.
I know kids who dropped out of high school but they were over sixteen - junior or seniors so they at least had two years of high school. I thought there was a minimum age.
No. I was born in California spend more than half my life there. I do not hate California. The education issue is more of a proximity to Mexico than anything else. Lots of people flood across the border lack a decent education. That is why Texas is #2 and Arizona as well as New Mexico are near the bottom. The draw of social programs is a big part of it and since these programs are federal in nature the red or blue aspect of the state is not that important.
California is a beautiful place to live. I would never trade my years growing up there for anything.
I wasn't talking about you specifically. What I'm saying is that I notice a big hatred for California. Some people do wish for it to slide into the ocean from an earthquake.
And guess what's the 2nd-least educated state? Red Texas.
From the OP's article:
Democrats have won the high school drop out vote for years. No wonder Democrats think they can turn Texas blue!
In all seriousness the Democrats are like a bell curve - winning the most and least educated.
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