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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: 16% of kids don't speak English
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Interestingly, Mississippi introduced accountability and Magic happened. It’s unlikely that the sources of information utilized by board liberals have made them aware of this.

I mean, I'm aware of it. The New York Times has been run articles on it for the last several years. Here's one from 2023, and they ran a pretty big story about it a month ago.

https://archive.ph/TqN3i
https://archive.ph/etdj0

...while The Argument also had a big feature on it last year:

theargumentmag.com - Illiteracy is a policy choice

Matt Yglesias also had an interesting analysis noting Mississippi's performance, and putting it in the context of what's been happening nationally (which BTW has been terrible, in both Blue States and Red States, sadly):

slowboring.com - Schools are getting worse in most

I'm not sure it's a "sources of information" problem, but as noted by The Argument article above, there's more skepticism on the part of liberals towards how "real" this performance is than is probably warranted.

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