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Is this a joke of a question?
..Texas outperforms the nation in all instances and basically mirrors Wisconsin's drop-out rate except for Wisconsin's glaring trouble with its African-American students, who have a drop-out rate that is higher than the national mean.
You're from Wisconsin, so let's compare Texas to Wisconsin on educational outcomes:
2009 4th Grade Math
White students: Texas 254, Wisconsin 250 (national average 248)
Black students: Texas 231, Wisconsin 217 (national 222)
Hispanic students: Texas 233, Wisconsin 228 (national 227)
2009 8th Grade Math
White students: Texas 301, Wisconsin 294 (national 294)
Black students: Texas 272, Wisconsin 254 (national 260)
Hispanic students: Texas 277, Wisconsin 268 (national 260)
2009 4th Grade Reading
White students: Texas 232, Wisconsin 227 (national 229)
Black students: Texas 213, Wisconsin 192 (national 204)
Hispanic students: Texas 210, Wisconsin 202 (national 204)
2009 8th Grade Reading
White students: Texas 273, Wisconsin 271 (national 271)
Black students: Texas 249, Wisconsin 238 (national 245)
Hispanic students: Texas 251, Wisconsin 250 (national 248)
2009 4th Grade Science
White students: Texas 168, Wisconsin 164 (national 162)
Black students: Texas 139, Wisconsin 121 (national 127)
Hispanic students: Wisconsin 138, Texas 136 (national 130)
2009 8th Grade Science
White students: Texas 167, Wisconsin 165 (national 161)
Black students: Texas 133, Wisconsin 120 (national 125)
Hispanic students: Texas 141, Wisconsin 134 (national 131)
On every single metric, Texas outperforms the nation. On every single metric but one, Hispanic student 4th grade science education, Texas outperforms Wisconsin.
You wouldn't happen to be a Wisconsin unionized teacher would you? Making bold-faced assertions that directly contravene the evidence is something that teachers are known to do.
No sir. I am from Texas. I'm Texas born, Texas bred and when I die I will be Texas dead, laid to rest in my family cemetary dating back to the early 1800's in deep East Texas. I currently reside in Wisconsin but make no claim to citizenship here. I'm just passin' thru.
I know first hand the ****-shape Texas is in and it does my heart no good having to point it out.
If Obama continues do the wrong thing and not learn from his mistakes and keep going down in the polls a dead hamster could beat Obama.
Texas has seen better days. But I can't help but love the place anyways. It's who I am and where I was born and raised.
But back to topic, Perry is pretty much considered a joke anywhere but Texas. I don't think the GOP will seriously run him for president.
I must say that I enjoy watching Riverdad slap some folks around with the statistics. As far as things I don't care about, yeah Catawba...most of what you just listed. Also, HS drop-out rate. You're blaming a state on a reflection of society? If someone is going to drop out, I'd wager that their address is going to have less to do with it than their upbringing and general state of affairs - neither of which you can blame on the address.
He's pretty much considered a joke in Texas. He didn't even win a majority vote...and he loses Texas to Obama in a head to head match up.
a dead hampster could win the GOP nomination, so you may get your wish.
27 people honestly think Bachmann can be elected president? I have a hard time believing that they really think that... I suspect a lot of them don't actually think she could win, they just want to express that they don't like Obama... Right? Nobody actually believes somebody like Bachmann could actually be president of the United States do they?
Catawba said:You can choose to ignore that Texas is doing much poorer than the national average in many important areas, if you wish. If you do not care about public health, education, and the environment, what do you care about?
With the economy in the state it is right now, I think my cats could beat Obama.
With the economy in the state it is right now, I think my cats could beat Obama.
He's pretty much considered a joke in Texas. He didn't even win a majority vote...and he loses Texas to Obama in a head to head match up.
The economy. Employment. Taxes. All of these rank so much higher than the hippie BS you just listed, it's not even in the same ballpark.
You want a huge oil-producing state to have strict environment laws? You want to force kids that don't want to go to school to do so against their will? You want to force people who can't afford (or don't need) insurance to accept it at gunpoint? Sorry, I have more compassion than to force unwanted things upon people. If the fight against an entitlement nanny state involves some 40 year olds working at Wal-mart for no benefits and a little more coming out of the smoke stack, it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
Perhaps you should get your cats to run then, because the polls show all the current crop of GOP presidential wanna-be's rated lower than Obama in a match up.
..The Reagan got the nomination and started coming after Carter with both barrels. We all know how that election turned out.
you really think 1980 will be repeated with Bachmann????
lol
As much as I like her I don't think Bachmann is going to get the nomination. It's going to be between Obama and Perry and Perry is already putting me in mind of Ronald Reagan.