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Link: https://www.montgomeryindependent.com/news/study-alabama-among-worst-public-school-systems-in-america/article_40172856-2d76-11ee-af42-2ff69cf501f1.html
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You show your biased ignorance. Alabama and Mississippi have public educational problems, but the reality is that most states do. Please provide us the proof of generational inbreeding the educational problem.
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They only had a couple dozen, and the counter protesters drowned them out.
Regardless of whether or not someone is actually going to college (and a lot of people simply shouldn't be going), quite a few states in the area mandate the ACT and / or SAT exams by all high school juniors. Alabama recently mandated the ACT for all juniors, as does Mississippi.
When you factor in places such as Hueytown, Alabama, where the average scores are going to be well below the mean, it's not surprising that the state's scores are going to be lower. Very few of those kids are college-bound, and even if they are, those schools will simply overlook what are some truly terrible scores.
If you compare apples to apples, I could easily say the same about many of the schools in the Baltimore, Maryland's public school system, where often times, not even one student in a class has met the minimum standard for math proficiency, despite that state and city having spent more per capita on education than most places.
I would easily bet dollars to dimes that if those students were required to take the SAT or ACT, that they would do very badly as well, and that their scores would drag down those average scores quite a bit.
Well said. A good friend, a Hueytown native spent three years in the military, graduated from Auburn, retired as a president of a steel company.
He overcame the odds, and made himself into a great man.
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School system isnt particularly good.
Florida state collleges are reasonable tuition .
And terrible grammar. I guess you all are from Alabama and Mississippi?
Saying or implying that you can't get a great education at another school is just silly.
Most of the schools that they/we/me talk trash about are actually really good Universities where a great education/degree can be earned.
The only difference that many muddy up is that a lot of them don't hold their student-athletes (specifically football and basketball) to the same standard as a common student.
Tosu (not a Southern school) is actually one of the worst at this, not because they aren't a good school but because their athletic department values football success over education for that slice of their student body.
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