Some states are deliberately not involved in conversations about quality of living or life expectancy or education. If the US didn't have a handful of blue states holding onto rights it would be like the others that give up and become a sedentary police state where we only do what we are allowed.
I'm not denying that whole word reading or whatever that method is called sucks for initial literacy learning, but like they stopped teaching phonics for maybe a year at the districts out here. Total.
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ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 129d
Some states are deliberately not involved in conversations about quality of living or life expectancy or education. If the US didn't have a handful of blue states holding onto rights it would be like the others that give up and become a sedentary police state where we only do what we are allowed.
moshankey@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 129d
That kind of describes Mississippi. They just sort of gave up.
bagele@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 129d
Mississippi school literacy rates are now near the top in the country, they stuck to phonics instead of that new style
Sc00ter@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 128d
What?
https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/skillsmap/src/PDF/STATE.pdf
Tied for dead last...
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 128d
Don't give them a hard time they learned to read in Mississippi
bagele@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 72d
Your data is a little out of date, this article covers the gist of it. https://www.wrdw.com/2025/12/22/georgia-looks-mississippi-help-children-learn-read/
Bentdreadnot@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 128d
Source:
Bro, Trust Me (2026, April 7). Mississippi can read good [Review of Mississippi can read good]. In Mississippi does good phonics.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 128d
I'm not denying that whole word reading or whatever that method is called sucks for initial literacy learning, but like they stopped teaching phonics for maybe a year at the districts out here. Total.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 129d
Saw someone say the U.S. is 50 third world nations in a first world nation trench coat lol
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 129d
Definitely not 50, but most of the red states would qualify.
Jo4ted@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 128d
As an American, this offends me
You way underestimate how shitty Dems are. They all want the economic divide to grow.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 128d
its actually hillbillies with a gucci belt.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 128d
50 third world shitholes with 600 million guns pointed at New York and Los Angeles so they don’t leave.