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Posted on 1/13/16 at 10:48 am to sumtimeitbeslikedat
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THANK YOU!!! I was just coming to post this! Mississippi's stats are bad BC the delta is a horrid, povertous place
I agree with this and avoid it like the plague. Some places make you feel good mentally. Desert mountains, beach, etc.. The Delta makes me feel like shite.
frick the delta
Didn't read whole thread because the OP is a hating bitch of a man.
This post was edited on 1/13/16 at 10:50 am
Posted on 1/13/16 at 10:53 am to Hardy_Har
I'm from the delta and can confirm it is an enormous shite hole. Moving back there for a year and a half after college was fricking depressing.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 10:58 am to Cdawg
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Deep down you know why they don't put more emphasis in the public schools. It's easier to turn your back when your kids go to private school.
Some of the saddest and starkest truths are silent but obvious.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 11:01 am to UMRealist
I know Brandon is no jewel, but I really do feel better around hills and pine trees.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 11:25 am to Hardy_Har
quote:I like the Delta. Before the casinos, Tunica Co was the poorest county in the poorest state. But, there is a lot of rich history and culture that came from the Delta. I wouldn't want to live there but I enjoy driving through there and hunting inside the levee. Inside the levee is a whole different world.
I agree with this and avoid it like the plague.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 11:30 am to Diamondawg
I live in Vicksburg. The delta is beautiful. Of course the small towns in the delta aren't good. But the land is beautiful and has good lakes and a bunch of rich farmers. Kentucky guy must like mountains as views. Mountains don't make much money. Redneck > Hillbilly
Posted on 1/13/16 at 11:31 am to geauxrebs
Love the hire btw
Posted on 1/13/16 at 11:41 am to DawgsFinnaEat
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I live in Vicksburg
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But the land is beautiful and has good lakes and a bunch of rich farmers. Kentucky guy must like mountains as views. Mountains don't make much money. Redneck > Hillbilly
Exactly, some of the largest Cotton and Pecan producers in the country are in the southern delta.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 11:47 am to Tdot_RiverDawg
Y'all are probably aware of this book but John Barry wrote a book about the 1927 flood called Rising Tide. Really interesting look at the years before the flood and how not to do things, the flood itself and the post flood years. Really good book. I hunt occasionally just a few miles South of where the levee broke.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 11:49 am to Diamondawg
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Tunica Co was the poorest county in the poorest state
Tunica County was THE poorest county in the United States before the casinos were built
Posted on 1/13/16 at 11:53 am to lsufball19
quote:That's why I said; "Before the casinos" ????
Tunica County was THE poorest county in the United States before the casinos were built
Posted on 1/13/16 at 11:56 am to Diamondawg
i wasn't disagreeing with you, just pointing out that not only was it the poorest county in the state of misssissippi but also the poorest county in the entire country
Posted on 1/13/16 at 12:30 pm to lsufball19
So let me get this straight, tunica county was poor?
Posted on 1/13/16 at 12:31 pm to Cdawg
quote:Surely you don't mean more money when you say more emphasis; surely. Many of the worst performing school districts in the state are also the highest in cost per child. Obviously, money is not the solution. We pay taxes that go to the public schools whether our children go to private or public. Maybe we should look to the individual homes for emphasis and not turning our backs on these kids. Education should start in the home. If the parent(s) doesn't/don't emphasize the need for education and the importance of making everything with the opportunity in front of you, there is very little and educational system can do.
Deep down you know why they don't put more emphasis in the public schools. It's easier to turn your back when your kids go to private school. They can't bring in industry when the workforce will be comprised of people who can't read past a 6th grade level
I will stand down from my soapbox now.
PS - my kids all went to public school - a good system, BTW.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 12:44 pm to Diamondawg
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Education should start in the home
You just said the magic word. HOME. Destroy the homes, destroy the kids. Destroy the kids, destroy the society.
THANKS DEMOCRATS. You've bought your way into power by driving out industry and buying votes. The Delta is indeed exhibit A.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 12:46 pm to sumtimeitbeslikedat
Personal accountability is a vastly underrated and underused trait......
Posted on 1/13/16 at 1:32 pm to Diamondawg
No, emphasis just doesn't mean money alone. Anybody can throw money in a dumpster. Focus, might be better term, and on how to break the cycle is what I should have conveyed better but at least out of the box thinking at this point should be attempted.
Yes, it should and that's pretty much the problem but when there is zero home or parenting, the burden falls to who? What can be done to pick that absence up? after school mentoring/programs? High schools that teach trades like Computer programming/diesel mechanics/HVAC systems?
So they need new strategies if this isn't working. Just curious, I seriosuly don't know, but what is the cost per child compared to a public school in california or Florida?
in the Delta?
we should start this thread on the grindrant.
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Education should start in the home. If the parent(s) doesn't/don't emphasize the need for education and the importance of making everything with the opportunity in front of you, there is very little and educational system can do.
Yes, it should and that's pretty much the problem but when there is zero home or parenting, the burden falls to who? What can be done to pick that absence up? after school mentoring/programs? High schools that teach trades like Computer programming/diesel mechanics/HVAC systems?
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Many of the worst performing school districts in the state are also the highest in cost per child.
So they need new strategies if this isn't working. Just curious, I seriosuly don't know, but what is the cost per child compared to a public school in california or Florida?
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PS - my kids all went to public school - a good system, BTW.
in the Delta?
we should start this thread on the grindrant.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 1:42 pm to Cdawg
quote:2013 numbers
So they need new strategies if this isn't working. Just curious, I seriosuly don't know, but what is the cost per child compared to a public school in california or Florida?
California about $10,500
Florida about $9,000
Mississippi about $8,700
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