Anonymous #4 17w

Where are you getting that notion from

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Anonymous #3 17w

history

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Anonymous #4 17w

About republicans keeping them uneducated

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Anonymous #3 17w

by reading their policy like what are you even asking lmao

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Anonymous #4 17w

What policies tho

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Anonymous #4 17w

Ive heard people talk about republican states being behind democrat states in schooling but thats not necessarily true so I was wondering what you were referring to

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Anonymous #3 17w

republicans constantly attack the education system politically, financially, ideologically, as part of their core tenets of policy. idk how anyone can look at their policies and legislative actions without seeing the sheer hostility they have for education as a concept. if they had it their way they would turn public schools into mining camps

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Anonymous #4 17w

That sounds nice, but then how are republican states ahead of democrat ones? If that was true im not sure how that could be the case

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Anonymous #3 17w

Some boards of education have a democratic majority that strong arms policies that benefit the education system. From county level up

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Anonymous shield_of_democracy 17w

Which ones

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Anonymous #3 17w

I can’t provide my personal example because it would give away where I live, but that’s what happened here. Our state education board sent down a set of new curriculums that required bible study in public schools and my county overruled it by a slim majority for the fall semester for 2025 and spring 2026

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Anonymous #3 17w

But this is in a red state in the south

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Anonymous #3 17w

in education? on what planet? are there two earths??? are there two internets

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Anonymous #4 17w

The demographically adjusted NAEP scores???

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Anonymous #4 17w

Mississippi leads the country in 8th grade reading, 4th in 8th grade math

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Anonymous #3 17w

mississippi and louisiana are exceptions, not the rule; those districts succeed due to actually good policy, and, vitally, in spite of republican-led federal assault on education at the federal level please do not cherry-pick data

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Anonymous #4 17w

Georgia is 3rd in reading and 9th in math. Indiana 5th in math and 6th in reading

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Anonymous #3 17w

Both are republican strongholds

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Anonymous #3 17w

wow, a couple of states put a bit of effort in prioritizing a couple of core subjects. that has virtually nothing to do with overall education health or post-education outcomes. what do you even think is the point of school?

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Anonymous #4 17w

The adjusted scores show a clear trend of Republican lead schools outperforming Democrat lead schools with the student populations that they serve, the whole “republican state uneducated” is outdated and frankly lazy

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Anonymous #4 17w

“A couple subjects” being the core fundamental ones? The ones that are focused on because they are predictive of later successes?

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Anonymous #3 17w

my guy i am literally from a red state and education is dropping abysmally everywhere in the country and have been since bush jr, red states are just dropping at a slower rate because the bar was already on the floor. republican national policy has been to destroy the education system for decades (which they have been doing) because the data unilaterally shows that republicans perform better when education is worse, and that continues to be reflected almost across the board in election results

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Anonymous #4 17w

If you are saying red states are dropping slower than we actually agree on the point I was making. You keep saying Republicans are tanking education because they benefit from an uneducated voter base, but then how are their states’ education falling more slowly than Democratic ones, is that not counterintuitive? Im responding with data and you seem stuck on political conspiracy, im not sure how this conversation can progress

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