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Me when a conservative talks about how democrat run cities are “shit holes” but they live in Mississippi
21 upvotes, 22 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "Me when a conservative talks about how democrat run cities are “shit holes” but they live in Mississippi"
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Anonymous 16w

Give Mississippi a break. They just rose to 9th overall in literacy rates among 4th graders, which is a jump from 43rd in 2013 and currently higher than the state of New York

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 16w

Source

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 16w

https://theconversation.com/mississippis-education-miracle-a-model-for-global-literacy-reform-251895#:~:text=In%20a%20surprising%20turnaround%2C%20Mississippi,49th%2Dplace%20ranking%20in%202013.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 16w

https://www.mississippifirst.org/blog/contextualizing-mississippis-2024-naep-scores/

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 16w

https://www.illinoispolicy.org/how-mississippi-ended-its-worst-in-the-nation-early-literacy-epidemic/

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 16w

Want some more? Smartass?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 16w

That’s cool and all, but knowing Mississippians, fourth grade is as high as they’re getting

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 16w

Whatever floats your boat man

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 16w

Apparently wanting to confirm a statistic makes someone a smartass

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 16w

It could’ve just been as easily confirmed by looking up “Mississippi literacy rates 2025”

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 16w

But because it’s so unfathomable to you that it couldn’t be doing well, you had to demand a source

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 16w

Could*

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 16w

A win is a win but that doesn’t change how far they lag behind in so many other socioeconomic categories. Growing in a subset of a category isn’t earth shaking in the larger need to get over the other side of the canyon they’re in.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 16w

Nobody said it’s earth shaking, I just said give them a break lmfao. “A win is a win, but it’s actually not a win” is what you’re saying here.

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Anonymous 16w

source on my nuts soyboy

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 16w

Are you from Mississippi per chance? I just picked a random state I tend to see a lot of people commenting from that say stuff like I mentioned in my post.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 16w

Nah I’m from Colorado

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 16w

Mmmppgh.,,

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 16w

bro's best and only stat pull was 4th grade literacy 💀

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 16w

Yeah…that’s huge for Mississippi…that’s been my entire point

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 16w

Have you SEEN these elementary school scores? These kids are fucking stupid out here

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 16w

As an Alabamian, I’m proud of neighbors in Mississippi. They’ve been eying to improve and it’s caused us to as well (since we can’t be below them duh)

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