I am not sure how many people who visit here have seen the republican debate? But during it DeathSantis was bragging about how since he banned woke and passed the “don’t say gay laws” for Florida schools and the state was forcing kids away from higher education and into trade schools, how improved and better Florida schools / education was. Yet here is proof that bigotry and hate plus regressive policies on tolerance, acceptance, and enjoyment of higher learning can harm the students of Florida! And as the article notes, knowing this result was coming DeathSantis is desperately trying to do away with the tests entirely, preferring to use a home school / religious based test that is not recognized as valid by any schools except religious based ones. Hugs. Scottie
The Orlando Sentinel reports:
New rankings show Florida students are posting some of the lowest SAT scores in America. We’re talking 46th place. Down another 17 points overall to 966, according to the combined reading and math scores shared by the College Board.
Florida trails other Southern states like South Carolina and Georgia. We trail states where more students take the test, like Illinois and Indiana. We somehow now even slightly trail Washington, D.C. — a district long maligned as one of the supposedly worst in America, where all students take the test.
This should be an all-hands-on-deck crisis. Yet what are Florida education officials obsessing over? While other states focus on algebra and reading comprehension, Florida’s top education officials are waging wars with teachers about what kind of pronouns they can use.
Read the full article.
DeSantis, you will recall, wants to do away with the SAT and replace it with a so-called “Classic Learning Test.”
So,
Fifth graders becoming mothers – meh
All kids becoming illiterate – yawn
Insurance collapse – shrug
Thing about football playoffs – OMFG THIS IS VERITABLY AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS, WE WILL FIGHT ON THE BEACHES WE WILL BLAH BLAH BLAH
Be careful with that fight on the beach, the Bahamas might invade, or was it Bermuda?
Bread and Circus are very important to the magabillies.
I presume FL will bomb the Bahamas for this…
Possible responses from Kinky Boots:
1. SAT scores are so woke.
2. Freedom from Education!
3. What’s an SAT?
DeSantis wants to do to the entire United States what he’s done/doing to Florida. Don’t let him.
The damage he’s done will manifest in the years to come. When there’s no employment, no education, no insurance, no tax payers, they’ll realize what a mess he made.
It’s more than an oddity that uber Red states are the lowest in ranking in health care teen pregnancies education and economics well being. Using it as over lay to GOP MAGA types it sort of encompasses all
But they’re Freeeeeeeeee! (To live in poverty and die young.)
And now they can live in poverty, grow up stupid, and die young.
You can’t have Satan without SAT!!!
I’m sure Florida will fix this by suing whoever announced it…
By this time next year, they’ll proudly plunge to 50th in the nation.
Leading the nation!
Too bad it’s in the wrong direction.
Yup. I never imagined we could have a worse governor than Jeb….then along came Rick the 5th, who was & is awful. Then along came this piece of human excrement, nodding to Jeb & Rick….”hold my beer”.
FREEDOM FROM INDOCTRINATION EDUCATION
Fixed that for you, Ronzo.
They’ve already been indoctrinated. Had their critical thinking skills beaten out of them since childhood. What a way to grow up.
In the 50’s, my father was a VP at a Florida college. Before I came along, he moved his family out. He predicted in the 70’s to me Florida would be last in education. He had no idea that it would be this type of republican education that would cause it. He felt it was government not supporting public education, so I guess he was right about Republicans too. He was a new deal democrat.
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Maybe George Soros will spend to push a mass mailing to all Republican run states on how their education sucks.
I was an elementary student for almost five years in the late 50’s early 60’s. When we moved to Ohio I was behind in almost all subjects but, luckily, I caught up quickly. Florida education has never been outstanding as far as I know…but it seems it was better then than now!
Can we just give Florida back to the Native population, maybe throw in a gift basket with an apology note?
Official Florida College text book.
I thought it is this one:
Thanks to Dayglo who posted this pic earlier
And don’t even think of Dick and Dick or off to the camps you go.
Republican and Christian wet dream
DeSantis wants to rig it so that mis-educated Florida students can’t get accepted to any out of state colleges and universities. Keep ‘m stupid and they’ll vote for republicans.
Naturally your SAT scores will plummet when these are the only remaining books in the library.
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