I think I'm in shock.

[francoHFW]

Top 10 Poorest States:

1. Mississippi - Republican

2. Arkansas - Republican

3. Tennessee - Republican

4. West Virginia - Republican/Democrat

5. Louisiana - Republican

6. Montana - Republican

7. South Carolina - Republican

8. Kentucky - Republican

9. Alabama - Republican

10. North Carolina - Republican/Democrat - leans more Republican

States facing bankruptcy

California - Democrat
Nevada - Democrat
New York - Democrat.

State with the highest number of municipal bankruptcies - California - Democrat.

Nyys fine, thanks. Many thanks for the real estate meltdown and cutting aid to states, Pubs- great idea if you're trying to stall the recovery...

 

[naturegirl]

Also from the TX GOP 2012 platform:

Early Childhood Development – We believe that parents are best suited to train their children in their early development and oppose mandatory pre-school and Kindergarten. We urge Congress to repeal government-sponsored programs that deal with early childhood development.

Huge mistake. Kids who receive pre-school education have lower rates of crime and higher incomes in adulthood.

Opposing mandatory pre-school and kindergarten isn't bad. Making kids go to preschool is absurd.

 

[bodecea]

Is it a joke? American kids lag behind the rest of the world in almost every subject except self esteem and democrats want to experiment on Texas kids with an unproven teaching agenda designed to alter their thinking process? How about teaching them math and grammar and history?

Are you aware that when such measurements are taken....ALL American students are measured against only the TOP tracked students in other countries?

 

[naturegirl]

Here are the states' rankings for graduate degree holders:

1. Washington, D.C.: 23.6 percent
2. Massachusetts: 14.5 percent
3. Maryland: 14.1 percent
4. Connecticut: 13.7 percent
5. Virginia: 12.9 percent
6. New York: 12.6 percent
7. Vermont: 12.3 percent
8. Colorado: 11.5 percent
8. New Jersey: 11.5 percent
10. New Mexico: 11.0 percent
11. Illinois: 10.6 percent
12. New Hampshire: 10.5 percent
13. Washington: 10.1 percent
13. California: 10.1 percent
15. Rhode Island: 9.9 percent

See any Red States on the list?

Yea and almost 50% of graduates are unemployed. Yea, that degree is working for them.

 

[francoHFW]

Means Pub dupes are stupid tools of the greedy rich.

 

[DontBeStupid]

Typical, you only present half the story.

What's the other half?

 

[Listening]

The Republican culture of ignorance.

American would be so much better without the South.

But you killed a bunch of them to make them stay a part of America.

BTW: The sound used to be very democratic.

Old habits die hard.

 

[francoHFW]

Here are the states' rankings for graduate degree holders:

1. Washington, D.C.: 23.6 percent
2. Massachusetts: 14.5 percent
3. Maryland: 14.1 percent
4. Connecticut: 13.7 percent
5. Virginia: 12.9 percent
6. New York: 12.6 percent
7. Vermont: 12.3 percent
8. Colorado: 11.5 percent
8. New Jersey: 11.5 percent
10. New Mexico: 11.0 percent
11. Illinois: 10.6 percent
12. New Hampshire: 10.5 percent
13. Washington: 10.1 percent
13. California: 10.1 percent
15. Rhode Island: 9.9 percent

See any Red States on the list?

Yea and almost 50% of graduates are unemployed. Yea, that degree is working for them.

Thanks for the Depression, chump. You people seem to have the attention span of an ADD OCD pygmy shrew...

All part of the Pub plan (myopic stupidity) to make us the world's largest banana republic...a disgrace...see sig pp1.

 

[Listening]

Never been happier to be from Minnesota, that's all I'm sayin.

So why do you care about what goes on in Texas again.

Maybe you should focus on Minn. It needs lots of help too.

 

[g5000]

Also from the TX GOP 2012 platform:

Early Childhood Development – We believe that parents are best suited to train their children in their early development and oppose mandatory pre-school and Kindergarten. We urge Congress to repeal government-sponsored programs that deal with early childhood development.

Huge mistake. Kids who receive pre-school education have lower rates of crime and higher incomes in adulthood.

Opposing mandatory pre-school and kindergarten isn't bad. Making kids go to preschool is absurd.

As I said, kids who don't go to preschool end up in prison and with lower incomes at much higher rates than kids who do.

The Case For Preschool : Planet Money : NPR

Take a bunch of 3 year olds from poor families. Randomly divide them into two groups, and give one group free access to preschool. Then follow both groups for 40 years. This is what the researchers in the Perry Preschool Program did, starting in the early 1960s.

The results were astonishing. Kids from the preschool group were less likely to be arrested and more likely to have a job. Among those with jobs, those who went to preschool made more money than those who did not.

 

[tjvh]

Texas GOP rejects ‘critical thinking’ skills. Really. - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

In the you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff department, here’s what the Republican Party of Texas wrote into its 2012 platform as part of the section on education:

Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

Yes, you read that right. The party opposes the teaching of “higher order thinking skills” because it believes the purpose is to challenge a student’s “fixed beliefs” and undermine “parental authority.”

It opposes, among other things, early childhood education, sex education, and multicultural education, but supports “school subjects with emphasis on the Judeo-Christian principles upon which America was founded.”

Never been happier to be from Minnesota, that's all I'm sayin.

The Republican culture of ignorance.

American would be so much better without the South.

How patriotic of you.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Texas GOP rejects ‘critical thinking’ skills. Really. - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

In the you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff department, here’s what the Republican Party of Texas wrote into its 2012 platform as part of the section on education:

Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

Yes, you read that right. The party opposes the teaching of “higher order thinking skills” because it believes the purpose is to challenge a student’s “fixed beliefs” and undermine “parental authority.”

It opposes, among other things, early childhood education, sex education, and multicultural education, but supports “school subjects with emphasis on the Judeo-Christian principles upon which America was founded.”

Never been happier to be from Minnesota, that's all I'm sayin.

They claim they made a mistake in committee. If you have ever been on a committee that does make some sense.

 

[tjvh]

Also from the TX GOP 2012 platform:

Early Childhood Development – We believe that parents are best suited to train their children in their early development and oppose mandatory pre-school and Kindergarten. We urge Congress to repeal government-sponsored programs that deal with early childhood development.

Huge mistake. Kids who receive pre-school education have lower rates of crime and higher incomes in adulthood.

Higher incomes???? Then they must be destroyed.

 

[francoHFW]

The South IS getting better, with Northerners and Dem state money going down there, and now ACA. You're welcome, racist bigot fools. LOL

 

[naturegirl]

Also from the TX GOP 2012 platform:



Huge mistake. Kids who receive pre-school education have lower rates of crime and higher incomes in adulthood.

Opposing mandatory pre-school and kindergarten isn't bad. Making kids go to preschool is absurd.

As I said, kids who don't go to preschool end up in prison and with lower incomes at much higher rates than kids who do.

The Case For Preschool : Planet Money : NPR

Take a bunch of 3 year olds from poor families. Randomly divide them into two groups, and give one group free access to preschool. Then follow both groups for 40 years. This is what the researchers in the Perry Preschool Program did, starting in the early 1960s.

The results were astonishing. Kids from the preschool group were less likely to be arrested and more likely to have a job. Among those with jobs, those who went to preschool made more money than those who did not.

Oh I have nothing against preschool. I have two that went, one that didn't. The one that didn't enlisted in the Navy. All three of them are successful adults that never got in trouble and they each have good paying jobs.

My problem is with MANDATORY preschool.

 

[Listening]

The South IS getting better, with Northerners and Dem state money going down there, and now ACA. You're welcome, racist bigot fools. LOL

Has been for a while.

The south used to be democratic. It really sucked.

Since the south started turning GOP....it has been getting better.

You are welcome....asshole.

 

[LogikAndReazon]

Texas should also make room in their curriculum for teaching the social gospel as well.........

The values of the nanny state and entitlements should not be ignored

Now repeat children, "It Takes a Village......."

 

[Pho_King]

Also from the TX GOP 2012 platform:

Early Childhood Development – We believe that parents are best suited to train their children in their early development and oppose mandatory pre-school and Kindergarten. We urge Congress to repeal government-sponsored programs that deal with early childhood development.

Huge mistake. Kids who receive pre-school education have lower rates of crime and higher incomes in adulthood.

Kids that play organized sports, or participate in drama, or come from two parent households, also tend to do better. Let's mandate such participation. Everything will be great, as long as you don't get to do too much as a parent....

 

[francoHFW]

The South IS getting better, with Northerners and Dem state money going down there, and now ACA. You're welcome, racist bigot fools. LOL

Has been for a while.

The south used to be democratic. It really sucked.

Since the south started turning GOP....it has been getting better.

You are welcome....asshole.

If the South is for it, it's the party of stupid racists. Read something, shyttehead. But it is getting better, no thanks to Pubs.

 

[Zxereus]

Boop n rdean make a cute couple

She wants to have a threesome with Chris.