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How about we toss the political bullshit out for a moment.
Good luck with that.
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The report if correct, states third grades will be repeating that grade due to horrible reading skills. Am I the only one on this forum that find that both shocking and sad? Yes, I'm in Massachusetts, why should I give a damn about my fellow citizens in other states? That is a concept that is just to tough for some of you to fathom.
You are absolutely not the only one on here that finds that shocking and sad. I'm with you on that.
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Mississippi ranks #50 of 50 states in education. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts usually ranks in the top three slots, depending on the various reports and studies. How does Massachusetts do so well compared to Mississippi? Many things:
A ) The educators are both skilled and paid well to perform and operator. You pay people a competitive wage, and you will see results. People that put more effort into figuring out how each child learns best, and then shape their learning towards the requirements needed to achieve by the state and federal levels.
Mississippi has the 7th lowest average starting salary for a teacher in the US. Average Teacher salary isn't necessarily a good indicator, though Mississippi is 49th in that category (it could be effected by a higher percentage of less tenured teachers, so their wages would naturally be lower than a state that had a higher percentage of more tenured teachers). The graph of spending vs. achievement (at the HuffPo link) is deceiving, too. There are almost as many "high spending" schools that didn't achieve as well as those that did, and almost as many high achievement schools that weren't high spending.
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B ) Invest in infrastructure. Good quality schools, help children focus better on thier studies. Making sure the facility is clean, orderly, and fully repaired will help improve test scores. But not just that, but improve the child in a number of ways. Creating and maintaining athletic and extra curricular activities go towards enhancing one'sl earning potential.
To a degree, this is true. Athletic and extracurricular activities definitely help kids develop socially, too.
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C ) Require the parents to become involved in the process. If the parents are to busy in their fantasy lives to give a crap about their kid's learning problems; no amount of money, good facilities or enhanced infrastructure will work worth a damn. Children will take after their parent's views on things. If the parents dont give a shit, why should the kids?
All the educators I've ever talked to (from teachers to superintendents) have fingered parental support and involvement as the most key factor in academic achievement. How do we legislate parents being supportive and involved parents, though? That's quite a difficult task (else it would have already been done, no?).
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D ) Nurturing and promoting side and after school activities. Band, chess club, art specials, theater, and even business field trips, expose kids to more things. Challenging them in a safe and controlled enviroment. Many skills caring over into their school work.
I think D is part of B (extracurricular activities). Not that they aren't important, but it's a topic you've already brought up. 
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There are plenty more things. But Mississippi's school system is really in terrible shape. There are third world nations that are doing better than the state! When and if that state can push the bullshit politics out of things, they'll see better results. Since some of those politics appear of 'racist' viewpoints that are dinosaur models from the 1960's. This is 2015....no excuse.
What I find particularly bad is that there are people who are complaining that these kids might be held back and it's going to impact school populations. It's not that the kids aren't able to read at a third grade level, but that it's going to make it more difficult to handle the increased number of students in 3rd grade.
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What I support:
- A Conservative interpretation of the US Constitution
- Personal Responsibility
- Help for the truly needy
- Limited Government
- Consumption Tax (non-profit charities and food exempt)
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