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[–] 45 points 3 months ago (8 children)

It's incredible to me that Mississippi somehow didn't make this list.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

    Mississippi in the past 10 years has reformed its education part so its no longer bottom of the barrel in education anymore.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Oh that's awesome! Good to hear.

    Iowa is currently doing the opposite of that and shooting for dead last

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Mississippi actually does deserve a lot of credit for the effort it’s put into literacy. Kids who fall behind get extensive tutoring during school hours (not making it an extra program they have to attend after school was important), emphasis on phonics (a huge problem with reading education for years, everywhere in the US has been deviating from that), etc. if every state did that for kids we’d be a lot better off.

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  • [–] 60 points 3 months ago (14 children)

    No one is melting down. I hate these headlines.

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    Slammed! Duuh duuh duuh, duuh duuh duuh

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Maybe they should try not being dystopian shitholes.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Utah sucks in so many ways. I'm trying to move but it's tough when you're unemployed.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah. I fucking hated every minute I lived there. The only positive is the outdoors, but that too is slowly being polluted and dismantled. Stay strong, I believe that you'll get out of there at some point if that's what you desire.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Clickbait title. "Meltdown", "fuming", this is nonsense tabloid sensationalism

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago

    Yeah if Mississippi isn't in the top 5, or the top 10 even, then I don't find this list to be legitimate.

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    [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    This is why Mississippi is not on the list for all of those wondering
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Miracle

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Live in Texas, can confirm

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    There must be some wild reward system at The Daily Beast for saying that "melted down" or "humiliated". They say these same things in so many headlines.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    All red shithole states that are propped up by blue states' money? Yeah, that tracks.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Really? "Meltdown" and they're "fuming"? This fucking clickbait garbage, dailybeast shouldn't be allowed here. I'd describe my feelings towards people who peddle such gutter tabloid trash, but rule 3 :(

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I would be interested to know who is fuming, but unless they name names, it's all bullshit..

    Their (and by "their" I mean CNBC's) assessment of the shitty states is spot on though....i would have expected Arkansas to be much higher on the list, and why the fuck is MIssissippi not there? That is a seriously shithole country...

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Just link the CNBC article.

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