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Why so restricted? Why not ALL books? What are YOU afraid of?
Am going to assume you are quite well over 18 yrs old on this forum. As an adult, do you still believe in the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, or the Easter Bunny? That was a rhetorical question. Of course, YOU do not.
However, if YOU believe the insertion of that objectionable book was accidental, then I take back everything in the above paragraph.
Personally, I do not care what CONSENTING adults do. I live my life based on the 'degrees-of-separation' principle. If you punch me, rob my business, or throw trash on my yard, then there are zero degrees-of-separation between us and we will have issues. Whatever you do on the other side of town, with a man or woman, would have multiple degrees-of-separation between us, and therefore none of my business.
If there is a book in the school library that illustrate 'adult' issues, perhaps even borderline criminality, now that is just one degrees-of-separation between my family and whoever put that book there. Now that book and that whoever became my business.
God I wish I could be free from the terrible education system in Virginia and get that good stuff in deep-red Alabama and Mississippi. O wait, the top states in educational rankings are Connecticut and Massachusetts. Both deep blue states. Definitely smart for Virginia to keep voting blue. Look at liberal Virgina's rankings compared to conservative WV's rankings if you want a real geographic side by side comparison.
God I wish I could be free from the terrible education system in Virginia and get that good stuff in deep-red Alabama and Mississippi. O wait, the top states in educational rankings are Connecticut and Massachusetts. Both deep blue states. Definitely smart for Virginia to keep voting blue. Look at liberal Virgina's rankings compared to conservative WV's rankings if you want a real geographic side by side comparison.
Top Public School Systems in the U.S.:
1 Massachusetts
2 Connecticut
3 New Jersey
4 Virginia
5 New Hampshire
God I wish I could be free from the terrible education system in Virginia and get that good stuff in deep-red Alabama and Mississippi. O wait, the top states in educational rankings are Connecticut and Massachusetts. Both deep blue states. Definitely smart for Virginia to keep voting blue. Look at liberal Virgina's rankings compared to conservative WV's rankings if you want a real geographic side by side comparison.
You are just cherry picking. One can say deep blue California (#41) is ranked well below solid red Nebraska (#8) and can draw the conclusion to vote red.
Furthermore, that WalletHub ranking takes into account “funding.” Of course that’s going to help many of those high tax states here in the Northeast like MA, NH, VT, NJ move to the top of rankings. Also, since we know blacks and Latinos score lower than Whites and Asians in test scores, any state with high percentages of blacks are always going to rank lower due to lower average scores, hence the southern states lower rankings. It has nothing to red or blue.
School rankings are skewed. The numbers are fudged for financial and political reasons.
And really, all you have to do is check out any social media platform and you’ll immediately question our educational system. These kids are about as dumb as a cardboard box.
That “no child left behind” crap. Really? Kid ain’t cutting it but we’ll pass him anyway so his feelings aren’t hurt and our graduation rates stay artificially inflated.
I have yet to vote. But of course it will be for Youngkin, who will at the very least preserve our right to make individual health and/or medical choices instead of mandate us to death like some tyrant.
If Youngkin wins, it will be because of the Richmond metro.
And yet only 2 states in the country performed better in reading according to your link for 4th grade its not till 8th grade that we dip some. Of course if we took the kids smart phones away their ability to speak, read and write in complete sentences might improve as well. https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/pr...-2019R3&sfj=NP
School rankings are skewed. The numbers are fudged for financial and political reasons.
And really, all you have to do is check out any social media platform and you’ll immediately question our educational system. These kids are about as dumb as a cardboard box.
That “no child left behind” crap. Really? Kid ain’t cutting it but we’ll pass him anyway so his feelings aren’t hurt and our graduation rates stay artificially inflated.
State tests are useless. States manipulate them to make it look like their students are learning. They're not. If anyone looked at the NAEP (national test, not state test) links I posted for Virginia, the percent of Virginia students proficient or above in Reading (33%, matches the abysmal national average) and Math (38%) are much lower than anyone would expect.
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