TouchdownAlabama

They would’ve been fine with O, too, had he just kept the steam of 2019 going.

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Ah, there is always that one person. At least list your sources, are the teachers on public record stating this?

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Yes, actually! I can see if I can go back and find it, but they were Mississippi teachers, too. Take with a grain of salt, of course, but also…how else does a dramatic jump without any clear indications of much change happen so fast?

Okay, will have to see if I can find the original commentary I saw that it was mentioned, this isn’t the OP I had read through, but they’re also corroborating what I was referring to.

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These numbers are from 2024 which is 9 years after the state of Mississippi instituted its "3rd grade reading gate". The Miss legislature passed the law in 2013 off of the success of Florida's similar legislation that was proving a success. Mississippi did change some things that they thought would better suit its population. The students are retained in the third grade if unable to read at a proficient level by the end of that school year. They are given additional chances to pass the test and can even be given a waiver in special circumstances. The Seniors from the class of 2024 would have been the first ones to have been under this new law because it began in 2015. I don't know if or how they might be skewing the numbers, but I believe we all would agree that reading proficiently would help theses students in all their classes. Being unable to read at a comprehensive level, would in turn hurt their ability to progress in math or science other than at a basic level.

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This is the 3rd or 4th I've seen this, and the reality doesn't seem nearly as impressive as this graphic implies. In fact, it seems this graphic is intentionally misleading. Based on the source OP provided (LINK here's what I found: We are below the national average on 8th grade math and reading. We are ahead of the national average on 4th grade reading and 4th grade math. On both of those, we are "not significantly different" from 29 other states/jurisdictions. We have no data for MS for science or writing, and no data for math and reading in 12th grade. Best I can tell, "cumulative state ranking" is not described in this source. Happy to be proven wrong...

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Some teachers comments were debunking this recently and pointed out some things contributing to the huge jump, they are not counting alternate testing. So the state is playing the numbers—while it looks good, it is kinda misleading. So basically kids that don’t pass tests or can’t get out of 3rd grade, are given alternate testing —and these national rankings don’t count the alternate testing (which are reserved primarily for kids with learning disabilities) so the state is only acknowledging the numbers of kids that pass, not the ones that fail. The ones that fail are sent to alternate testing or consider to have a learning disability.

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They were just live on SEC Sidlines and said LSU is claiming morality issues, criminal and NCAA violations. They should just pay this man before the whole bag of dirt gets dumped on the floor.

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How does it keep getting worse?

This is what happens when you make executive halfbaked decisions. There was no genius in any of it, all impulsive stupidity and ego.

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What if Florida beats Ole Miss on Saturday?

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If it was me, I might give a million but that's it tops. And I'd tell them to get their shite together before doling out such stupid contracts in the future.

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Yeah, to be honest, as a booster I would be pissed at the whole situation and feel like I’m enabling the problem to continue. You can’t just keep making stupid contractual decisions and expect some boosters to continually bail you out…it just incentivizes the problem if you do.

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The winningest coach in Notre Dame history…

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I’m not the best historian of Notre Dame football, was this stat solely due to the fact he coached longer than the past legendary ND coaches?

You know you’re a top team if there’s a conspiracy that you’re kept at the top primarily by ref magic. UGA is getting this a lot this year as well, lol.

Torn between seeing us as contenders and pretenders simultaneously, a foreign feeling, but the new normal.